FEATURES
RUN LOLA RUN
By Crissa-Jean Chappell
Movie maid
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
By Chris Chang
Head wide open
ON APPROVAL
By Phillip Kemp
Cry Ho! The eccentricities of On Approval
CATHERINE BREILLAT
By Kathleen Murphy
Catherine Breillat’s metaphysics of film and flesh
EYES WIDE SHUT
Imperfect Love
By Amy Taubin
Ghost Sonata
By Richard T. Jameson
THE THIRD MAN BEGETS TOUCH OF EVIL
By Harlan Kennedy
For Orson, and our Spanish times at midnight
STEVEN SODERBERGH
By Dave Kehr
The film world according to Steven Soderbergh
HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
By Kent Jones
Cinema with a roof over its head
THE HALFLIFERS
By Jim Supaniak
Locating the HalfLifers in the video badlands
SUGAR TOWN
By Mark Olsen
Kur Voss and Allison Anders’ Sugar Town is big enough to hold two directors just fine
DAVID FINCHER
Interviewed by Gavin Smith
Inside out
DEPARTMENTS
Critics Choice
BOOKS
Richard Schickel’s Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies and Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week: 52 Classic Films for a Full Year reviewed by Dale Thomajan
QUICKIES
Late August, Early September by Robert Horton, Outside Providence by John Anderson, Plunkett and Macleane by Justine Elias, Stir of Echoes by Andrew Lewis Conn, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train by Kristin M. Jones
VIDI VIDI VIDI
Harun Farocki x 4 by Gavin Smith