Sight and Sound

Features AMERICAN VOYEUR : Velvet Goldmine is a Kaleidoscopic glam-rock fantasia that celebrates artifice and blurs boundaries. Director Todd Haynes talks to Nick James about Oscar Wilde and working-class heroes Plus Mark Sinker traces glam's roots in Mod culture and Hammer horror = 8 ELECTRA TAKES A TRAIN : What goes through a novice assassin's head? Jonathan Romney salutes Jacques Rivette's Greek tragedy for the 90s, Secret défense = 14 ALAN CLARKE: IN IT FOR LIFE : From the skinheads of Made in Britain to The soldiers of Contact, Alan Clarke gave British TV its most disturbing images of our culture. Howard Schuman pays tribute = 18 A RAGE IN HARLESDEN : Stuart Hall celebrates Babymother, a vibrant dancehall musical-cum-melodrama that gives girl power a new twist = 24 GENIUS IS JUST A WORD : Julien Duvivier, director of Pépé le Moko, was a master of European noir and psychological realism. Lenny Borger reappraises his career = 28 Regulars EDITORIAL : New worlds, old problems = 3 RUSHES : Ken Loach in America; Jirí Menzel's big stick; Adrian Searle on film in the galleries = 4 TELEVISION : Revamping the BBC; wooing German youth; the war Thatcher refused to fight = 32 LETTERS : Eisenstein's video nasty; The Kingdom; DVD versus laserdisc = 64 COVER : Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine photographed by Peter Mountain Film Reviews Ai no Akuma／Love Is the Devil Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon = 47 All the Little Animals = 36 Armageddon = 36 Babymother = 38 Bossu, Le／On Guard! = 39 Character／Karakter = 40 Cousin Bette = 41 Hands／Ladoni = 42 Horse Whisperer, The = 42 Karakter／Character = 40 Ladoni／Hands = 42 Land Girls, The = 44 Last Days of Disco, The = 44 Lethal Weapon 4 = 45 Life of Jesus, The／La Vie de Jésus = 55 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels = 46 Love Is the Devil Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon／Ai no Akuma = 47 Men with Guns = 48 Mr. Nice Guy／Yige Hao Ren = 49 Nephew, The = 50 On Guard!／Le Bossu = 39 Paulie = 51 Saving Private Ryan = 34, 52 Spanish Prisoner, The = 53 SpeciesⅡ = 53 Vie de Jésus, La／The Life of Jesus = 55 X Files, The = 55 Yige Hao Ren／Mr. Nice Guy = 49 Zero Effect = 57 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 58 PRIVATE VIEW : Director John Hillcoat on Jacques Audiard's See How They Fall = 61

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