Sight and Sound

Features BLIND DATE : Elmore Leonard's laid-back pulp is a hard nut for movie-makers to crack, but Steven Soderbergh's understated Out of Sight succeeds where others fail, argues Peter Matthews Plus Screenwriter Scott Frank talks to Leslie Felperin = 8 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CHRIST : Andrzej Zulawski is known in Britain for only one film - Possession - but his extraordinary Polish and French works are the essence of cinema, argues David Thompson = 14 MANAGING THE MINI BOOM : Has the British confidence bubble burst before the mini-studios are even up and running? Geoffrey Macnab talks to four key figures influencing the industry's futrue = 18 SUSPICION : David Mamet swaps America's mean streets for Edwardian England in The Winslow Boy. Nick James vistis the set and asks the director about tough talk and Terence Rattigan = 22 MUD IN YOUR EYE : Kuhle Wampe was Bertolt Brecht's response to what he calle d the "miserable botch-up" of his The Threepenny Opera. Phillp Kemp examines Brecht's troubled relationship with cinema = 26 HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? : Why is humiliation comedy so successful? As the Farrelly brothers' There's Something about Mary garners high praise for low laughs, Paul Spinrad surveys the genre from Aristophanes to Dumb & Dumber = 30 Regulars OBITUARY : Akira Kurosawa = 3 RUSHES : Peter Greenaway and the numbers' game; Jonathan Romney endures Fred Kelemen's long winter; war films from Locarno = 4 TELEVISION : Tony Garnett's The Cops; Victoria Wood's Dinner Ladies; Elisabeth Murdoch's blueprint for British television = 34 LETTERS : a gayer glam; what's in the attic; in praise of world cinema = 68 Film Reviews April Story／Shigatsu Monogatari = 38 Avengers, The = 38 Buffalo '66 = 39 Caresses／Carícies = 40 Carícies／Caresses = 40 Déjà Vu = 41 Divorcing Jack = 41 East Side Story = 42 Ever After = 43 He Got Game = 44 Kissing a Fool = 45 Mercur Rising = 46 Mulan = 47 perfect Murder, A = 48 Players Club, The = 49 Primary Colors = 50 Real Howard Spitz, The = 52 Safe Men = 53 Secret Défense = 53 Shigatsu Monogatari／April Story = 38 Sixth Happiness = 54 Small Soldiers = 55 Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, A = 56 There's Something about Mary = 57 Truman Show, The = 36, 58 Unⓒut = 59 Woo = 60 Your Friends & Neighbors = 61 Video Reviews Tom Tunney and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases = 62 PRIVATE VIEW : Camille Paglia on glamour and nature in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds = 65

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