MAKING BOOK
Is Christian Vincent “the new Rohmer”? La Discrète
By Molly Haskell
OUR PROCESS (OUR SHOW)
Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and certainly Biden/Simpson/Hatch needed a better director—Otto Preminger, for instance
By David Thomson
LUBRICATING THE MUSE
Writers writing: sweat, blood, and sundry unmentionable fluids in Naked Lunch, Kafka, Barton Fink, et al.
By Donald Lyons
THE RAIN PEOPLE
Blade Runner is back, semi-“restored”, more accessible and worthier of accessing. How it looks from the city it’s about
By Michael Wilmington
BRANDED TO THRILL
Vancouver showcases Seijun Suzuki’s “fractured pop-art yakuza thrillers of the Sixties”
By David Chute
FRANK CAPRA (1897-1991)
Mille grazie
By Richard T. Jameson
A QUESTION OF CONTROL
“The creation of art in a hostile environment.” Warren Beatty interviewed
By Gavin Smith
HILLBILLY WITH ATTITUDE
West Virginia filmmaker Danny Boyd
By J.W. Williamson
1991 AND ALL THAT
Ten Bests, New Faces, Moments out of Time
PROSPERO’S FLICKS
Tempest-tossed time and again
By Harlan Kennedy
WELLES, LOST AND FOUND
Jonathan Rosenbaum on the seven Arkadins; The Fountain of Youth discovered by Henry Sheehan; Othello restored
FIGUEROA IN A LANDSCAPE
A tribute to one of the world’s premier cinematographers, Gabriel Figueroa; with notes
By Armond White
LA TIGRESA
The campaigns of Irma Serrano
By Andrew Coe
Plus: “a tour guide” by Dale Thomajan
THE LYRE OF LIGHT
Composer biopix
By John C. Tibbetts
WIM WENDERS’S GUILTY PLEASURES
Emphatically excluding horror movies
AN ORDINARY STORY
A Russian movie in New York
By Felix Andreev
