AUDREY HEPBURN
By Richard Corliss
Portrait of a lady
JACK LEMMON
Interviewed by Michael Wilmington
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Film Comment salute Ensign Pulver, C.C. Baxter, Professor Fate, Harry Hinkle, Felix Unger, Wendell Armbruster, Hildy Johnson, Jack Godell, and by all means Jerry/Geraldine/Daphne
SADIE BENNING
By Chris Chang
Life With—and on—Video
HAROLD LLOYD
By Kevin Brownlow
On his centenary, the “third genius” of silent-era comedy is remembered and praised
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
By Molly Haskell
Her brilliant career continues, and the latest high tide is The Last Days of Chez Nous
IRANIAN CINEMA
By Godfrey Cheshire
Notes on the newest New Wave
SUSAN SARANDON
Interviewed by Gavin Smith
Her powerhouse portrait of fierce maternity in Lorenzo’s Oil has made her a top Oscar contender. But then, she’s been giving impeccable performances for a decade and a half
HUMPHREY JENNINGS
By David Thomson
The truest poet of the golden age of British documentary might have been another Powell…or another Hitchcock
PETER BOGDANOVICH
By Armond White
He’s been counted out almost as often as Francis Coppola, but that hasn’t stopped him from being one of America’s most serious and most accomplished filmmakers
THE CLINTON INAUGURAL
By Richard Corliss
The aesthetics of power
SECONDS
By Donald Phelps
Neglected in the ’60s, still haunting in the ’90s; if “Kafkaesque” hadn’t been invoked in support of so many wrong movies, that would be le mot juste
OSCAR PREDIX
Plus: Donald Lyons on the history of the East Coast alternative Oscars
THE NEW YORK FILM CRITICS AWARDS
THE 18TH ANNUAL “GROSSES GLOSS”
By Anne Thompson
Hollywood’s bottom line
STEPHEN HARVEY
By Carrie Rickey
The long day closes