Sight and Sound

Features CHEMICAL WARFARE : Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas turns Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism into a manic drugs-and-desperation saga. Bob McCabe talks to the director about shooting fast and cheap = 6 RETURN TO ZERO : With The General, his new Dublin gangster film, John Boorman returns to his black-and-white, quasi-documentary roots. Philip Kemp talks to him about colour, myth and Lee Marvin in Point Blank = 10 AS I LAY DYING : David Thomson ponders the avenging angel that is Lee Marvin's Walker in John Boorman's Point Blank. Is he just the incarnate wish of a dead man? = 14 THE BULB'S GOT TO BLOW : After Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Alan Rudolph was "greylisted". But his new Afterglow is a return to form, defiantly a "movie about people," argues John Wrathall = 18 KIAROSTAMI'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE : More avant-garde than art-house, Iranian director Abbas kiarostami's Cannes-winner A Taste of Cherry is rigorous, beautiful and designed to puzzle. By Laura Mulvey = 24 Y FOR YOUTH : Mark Sinker picks the pin-ups in movies of all ages, from Mary Pickford to Leonardo DiCaprio = 28 Regulars EDITORIAL : Critical condition = 3 THE DEAL : French letters; Kubrick cranks again; Cameron bullied = 4 TELEVISION : Invasion: Earth; back to nature; cable violence = 34 LETTERS : 'Lolita' and lust; Fuller figures; 'War' wounds = 68 COVER : Lee Marvin／Photograph from the Ronald Grant Collection Film Reviews Afterglow = 38 Apostle, The = 38 Big Swap, The = 39 Body Count = 40 Dark City = 43 General, The = 44 Girl with Brains in Her Feet, The = 45 Gravesend = 45 Hurricane Streets = 46 James Gang, The = 47 Killer Tongue／La lengua asesina = 48 Last Time I Committed Suicide, The = 48 lengua asesina, La／Killer Tongue = 48 Liar = 49 Man Who Knew Too Little, The = 50 Most Wanted = 51 Nowhere = 52, 36 Real Blonde, The = 52 Red Corner = 53 Replacement Killers, The = 54 Sliding Doors = 55 Star Kid = 56 Ta'ame-gilas／A Taste of Cherry = 57 Taste of Cherry, A／Ta'ame-gilas = 57 Touch = 58 U.S. Marshals = 58 Washington Square = 59 Wishmaster = 61 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 62 PRIVATE VIEW : Screenwriter Jo Hodges on discovering Lindsay Anderson = 65

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