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January-February 2000

Jim Carrey, Werner Herzog, Jane Campion's Holy Smoke, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, Kevin Bacon, best movies of the Nineties, avant-garde films, Clara Bow, Cornell Woolrich and Black Angel

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FEATURES

JIM CARREY
By Dave Kehr
The many lives of Jim Carrey

WERNER HERZOG
By Michael Atkinson
The wanderings of Werner Herzog

20 BEST OF ’99
Moments Out of Time, etc.

AVANT-GARDE ’99
By Kristin M. Jones
Closing the American Century

JANE CAMPION
By Kathleen Murphy
Passage to India

MAGNOLIA
By Kent Jones
A tour of P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia

OLIVER TWIST
By Al McKee
Art or outrage? Oliver Twist and the flap over Fagin

KEVIN BACON
By Chris Chang
Being Kevin Bacon

DECADE POLL
Part one, part two, part three, part four

CLARA BOW
By Peter Hogue
Sweet and lowdown

CORNELL WOOLRICH AND BLACK ANGEL
By Donald Phelps
Cinema gris

INTERZONE
By Jim Emerson
Auteurs online: websites on film

DEPARTMENTS

CRITICS CHOICE

UNSOLD FILMS
Julian Goldberger’s trans by Robert Horton, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher by Harlan Kennedy, Lodge Kerrigan’s Claire Dolan by Mark Olsen

QUICKIES
End of the Affair by David Steritt, Ghost Dog by Chuck Stephens, RKO 281 by J. Hoberman, The Green Mile by Dave Kehr, Judy Berlin by Harlan Jacobson

VIDI VIDI VIDI
Face by Gavin Smith, Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby by Nicole Armour