Sight and Sound

Features THE CAGE OF REASON : Tim Burton is not the only creative force behind Sleepy Hollow, which may be why it's pitched between horror and the spoofery that made his name, argues Kim Newman = 14 FRITZ LANG THE ILLUSION OF MASTERY : Fritz Lang's visionary German films have been wrongly vilified by some as proto-Nazi. Here Thomas Elsaesser celebrates the Dr Mabuse cycle in which Lang's themes find their clearest distillation = 18 THE NICE MAN COMETH : Director Sam Mendes thought he was making a whimsical Coen-style romp, but American BEauty turned out to be darker, sharper and more poetic than anyone expected. By Philip Kemp = 24 CHASING DOWN THE R.E.A.L. : The making of classic cop thriller The French Connection involved traffic violations, visits to drugs dens and gangsters demanding a say in the casting. Mark Kermode reports = 28 MASQUE OF THE LIVING DEAD : Raúl Ruiz's Time Regained, a masterly adaptation of the final volume of A la recherche du temps perdu, is closer than anyone could have hoped to the holy grail of Proustian cinema. Jonathan Romney doffs his hat = 30 THE INNOVATORS 1990-2000 : Tony Rayns examines the career so far of Wong Kar-Wai, director of Ashes of Time, Chungking Express and Happy Together, whose much imitated style reshaped 90s cinema = 34 Regulars EDITORIAL : Bone to pick = 3 RUSHES : Chicken crazy; games get emotional; the making of Kane = 4 LETTERS : Trans fans; Disney and nipples; the legal drill = 68 COVER : Kevin Spacey by Valletoux／Retna Film Reviews Angela's Ashes = 40, 42 Anywhere But Here = 42 Big Tease, The = 43 Blue Streak = 44 Bringing Out the Dead = 45 Cotton Mary = 46 Dogma = 47 8½Women = 48 Five Senses, The = 49 Guest House Paradiso = 50 Happy, Texas = 51 Hold Back the Night = 52 Inspector Gadget = 52 Iron Giant, The = 54 Janice Beard 45 WPM = 55 Last Yellow, The = 55 Legend of 1900, The／La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano = 56 leggenda del pianista sull'oceano, La／The Legend of 1900 = 56 Limey, The = 57 Muppets from Space = 58 Muse, The = 58 October Sky = 59 Secret Laughter of Women, The = 60 Temps retrouvé, Le／Time Regained = 61 Time Regained／Le Temps retrouvé = 61 Wonderland = 62 World Is Not Enough, The = 62 Video reviews : Danny Leigh and Geoffrey Macnab on this month's video releases; plus the latest DVD titles = 64

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