Features:
The Provocation and Interrogation of Andrzej Wajda on the Matter of Danton as Performed by Marcel Ophuls - The director of The Sorrow and the Pity questions Poland's foremost director about his new film.
Hunk? Moi? - Gerard Depardieu interviewed.
Is This Face Funny? - Sigourney Weaver is searching for red-blooded roles to replace that blue-blooded image. Can she laugh it off in The Deal of the Century? Includes pic of Weaver with Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously.
You Can't Get There From Here - The spirit of the sixties has escaped the camera as cruelly as it eluded the fading flower children. With The Big Chill, Lawrence Kasdan hopes to tell it like it is.
Ordinary People - Ever since John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan, fans have gotten a bum rap. But most fans aren't that different from the rest of us - they're just more honest.
The Poetry of Precision - At seventy-six, Robert Bresson muses on light, sound, color, and his thirteenth film, L'Argent. Includes pic of Caroline Lang. |
Departments:
Flashback: Roman Holiday - An encounter with Fritz Lang the man who made the novel The Big Heat into a minor classic (by the author, William P. McGivern).
Dialogue on Film: Stewart Stern inteviewed. Includes pic of James Dean.
VideoFile: Look for the Union Label - Labor Unions are creating working-class heroes on television.
Collector's Choice: Hitchcock - Ten mysteries from the master of suspense. Pix include: Janet Leigh & John Gavin in Psycho. Ivor Novello in The Lodger. Tippi Hedren in The Birds.
Trailers: Pix include: Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again. Mickey Rourke in Rumble Fish. Rutger Hauer in The Osterman Weekend.
The Video Scene: Late developments in recorders, discs and cable.
From the Director: A Wise Man. Jean Firstenberg talks about Robert Wise. |
