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SHORT
SUCCESS
Ericka Frederick
and Jack Campbell hit the big time with a small film, the Oscar-nominated
"By Courier"
A
MARCH VALENTINE
Kasi Lemmons migrates
from the Southern Gothic of "Eve's Bayou" to the urban angst of
"The Caveman's Valentine"
HEROINE
ADDICTION
A new cultural
archetype is creeping into modern cinema: women who can knock the
daylights out of their foes
HONG
KONG HEROINE
Maggie Cheung loses
her chop-socky reputation with "In the Mood for Love"
OUT
OF THE ARTIST'S SHADOW
Marcia Gay Harden
takes command of "Pollock"
JUMPIN'
JACK SPLASH
After spending
10 years getting the film made, it's no wonder Ed Harris seems to
be channeling "Pollock"
MACBETH
& MCDONALD'S
Connecticut filmmaker
Billy Morrissette makes an indie splash with "Scotland, PA"
TREASURED
TRASH
"The Gleaners and
I" director Agnes Varda talks about the art of whimsical documentary
TOUGH
TALK
"Wild at Heart"
author Barry Gifford sneers at wimpy Brad Pitt film "The Mexican"
CREATING
THE CAVEMAN
Kasi Lemmons on
cooking up "The Caveman's Valentine"
THE
PRICE OF TRUTH
South Africa unearthed
its past in the name of the future. "Long Night's Journey Into Day"
documents the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
THE
REEL ME
Call it "The Blair
Witch Blessing"--or maybe "Curse"--but more and more indie filmmakers
are making themselves the subjects of their movies
A
MATTER OF FAITH
Upon completing
"Faithless," Liv Ullmann looks back on her 40-year friendship with
Ingmar Bergman
TOUGH
GUY TO TOUGH GUY
Ed Harris talks
about taking on Jackson Pollock
MEET
JOE BLOW
Brad Pitt talks
about playing the chump in "The Mexican"
CHAIN
LETTER QUEEN
Miranda July's
mission: Get more grrls on film
CROUCHING
PRODUCER, HIDDEN EGO
A few words with
super-producer James Schamus
PILLOW
TALK
A reporter gets
into bed with Julian Schnabel to discuss "Before Night Falls"
LOSING
LECTER'S LUNCH
A horrified brain
expert dissects America's favorite cannibal
KNOWING
DICK
Jessica Villines
and rock-cock artist Cynthia Plaster Caster take a hard look at
their documentary, "Plaster Caster"
THE
POET & THE PAINTER
Julian Schnabel
on turning Reinaldo Arenas' life into art for "Before Night Falls"
MOOD
VERTIGO
"In the Mood for
Love" takes viewers through Wong Kar-wai's looking glass
ROCK,
STAR
Chris Rock talks
about his transition to leading man in "Down to Earth"
A
MUSE IN CUBA
"Before Night Falls"
portrays the struggles of exiled poet Reinaldo Arenas
LIKE
A ROCK
"Down to Earth"
star Chris Rock brings the analogies
WIZARD
OF AWE
Meet the man behind
IMAX's curtain
BOOGIE
DYKES
How San Francisco
underground dyke porn ate Hollywood
WATERY,
GRAVE
A few bold strokes
with "Before Night Falls" director Julian Schnabel
PLAYING
DUMB
The cast and director
of "Saving Silverman" defend their lowbrow comedy
BLOCKBUSTER
MAKEOVER
With "Hannibal,"
Julianne Moore shifts from cult actress to 21st-century scream queen
SPINNING
IMAGES
Behind the scenes
with the people who put our favorite films onto DVD
NUCLEAR
REACTION
An atom-savvy trio
talks nuclear porn and "Thirteen Days"
WRITE
TURN
Poet Terry Ehret
critiques "Finding Forrester"
SWEET
JESUS
Comic Reed Martin
on God, vinegar and "Chocolat"
LET'S
PRETEND
Willem Dafoe talks
about acting like a child in "Shadow of the Vampire"
DEAL
OF A LIFETIME
Hollywood insider
Miguel Ferrer on getting busted in Steven Soderbergh's drug-war
drama, "Traffic"
FARINA
WAY
An ex-cop turned
actor, "Snatch" star Dennis Farina doesn't let reality interfere
with his acting
SHADOW
OF A FAMOUS VAMPIRE
Willem Dafoe remains
American film's ultimate Method actor
ALMOST
A LEADING MAN
After a career
playing outcasts, Philip Seymour Hoffman earned a leading-man role
with "State and Main"
WELL
GROOMED
Choreographer-turned-director
Adam Shankman staged every movement in "The Wedding Planner" in
hopes of creating an old-school romantic comedy
BRUTALLY
FUNNY
In "Snatch," Guy
Ritchie shows that a hard man is good to find
HOLLYWOOD
HIGH
Filmgoers are buzzing
about the drug war, but the nation's former drug czar resents the
big screen's spin
CAMELOT
CRISIS
Roger Donaldson's
"13 Days" is a white-knuckle thriller featuring the biggest ticking
bomb plot of them all
LIFE'S
WORK
Edward Yang's "Yi
Yi" is a soap opera. Watching the film is like seeing an entire
season of a television show compressed in time.
GUY
STUFF
Taking the piss
with "Snatch" director Guy Ritchie
WE
ALMOST LOST IT ALL
Global politics
as epic thriller in Roger Donaldson's "Thirteen Days"
TWO-STEP
PROGRAM
Cutting a rug with
"Save the Last Dance" star Sean Patrick Thomas
WOMAN
SCORNED
Giuseppe Tornatore's
"Malena" is a minor masterpiece on the tangled web of unrequited
love
KENNEDY'S
CENTER
Bruce Greenwood
on playing JFK in "Thirteen Days" and the film's sense of mission
WRITING
KICKS
On "Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon," martial-arts-film outsider James Schamus was faced
with adapting a novel written in a language he doesn't know
MACY'S
PARADE
William H. Macy
discusses the trials, tribulations and fun of collaborating with
David Mamet on "State and Main"
HIGH
TIMES
A mountaineering
doc dissects "Vertical Limit"
OLIN
THE FAMILY
Lena Olin on "Chocolat,"
working with her husband and playing un-sexy
HUMANE
TRAFFIC
Somewhere over
the borderline with Steven Soderbergh
PSYCHIC
FRIEND
The Amazing Randi
trains his B.S. detector on "Unbreakable"
ENTER
THE DRAGON
Soft-spoken director
Ang Lee comes out swinging with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
THE
DANCING PRINCE
Like the character
he portrays in "Billy Elliot," 13-year-old Jamie Bell trained as
a classical ballet dancer
REWINDING
2000
A wretched year
in film, 2000 revealed two trends: an increasing reliance on CGI,
and plain ol' racism
TOUCH
DOWN
William Shatner
boldly goes to Bisbee, Arizona, to shoot his science-fiction love
story, "Groom Lake"
GLITZ
& GLAMOR GALORE
The CineVegas film
fest put on the Vegas shine, but was it enough?
FINDING
ROB BROWN
The 16-year-old
star of "Finding Forrester" seems completely unfazed, having never
acted before, to find himself in a lead role opposite Sean Connery
SEA
OF EMOTIONS
In "Cast Away,"
Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis landed on an uncharted desert isle
called elegance and simplicity
LÉOS
THE LION
With "POLA X,"
a modern take on Herman Melville's "Pierre," director Léos
Carax proves he's a fearsome force
DOGGY
POSITION
A renowned dog
doc discusses inbreeding, high-strung puppies and "102 Dalmatians"
UP
IN SMOKE
Former role-playing
geeks slay "Dungeons & Dragons"
MARQUIS
MARK
Director Philip
Kaufman dips his "Quills" into the life of the Marquis de Sade
TALKING
IN THE THEATER
Replaying 2000
with filmmakers, programmers, exhibitors and critics
SPECIALS
DELIVERY
James Gunn, writer
of "Tromeo & Juliet," takes flight with a low-budget superhero spoof
called "The Specials"
BUSTING
THE BUBBLE
Ed Radtke struggles
to get "The Dream Catcher" seen beyond festival audiences
MONEY
FOR NOTHING
Investing the time
to chat with Lisa Gildehaus, director of "Oracle of Omaha: The Story
of William Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway"
LISTENING
TO THE WIND
"The Wind Will
Carry Us" director Abbas Kiarostami speaks of his work with the
reflective character of a philosopher, but also the matter-of-factness
of a craftsman
DRIFTERS,
TOGETHER
"The Dream Catcher"
filmmaker Ed Radtke catches his dreams on the big screen
BABY'S
FIRST PORNO
Wherein one columnist
and her pals venture downtown for their first skin flick
RETURN
TO THE HOLOCAUST
Documentarian Deborah
Oppenheimer has one more tale to tell with "Into the Arms of Strangers:
Stories of the Kindertransport"
A
LITTLE GENIUS
A famed psychologist
and Gifted Persons Advocate analyzes "Pay It Forward"
OLYMPIC
TRIALS
The director of
the gripping documentary "One Day in September" talks about his
agenda: entertainment
SINGING
WHOVILLE'S PRAISES
The man behind
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" enjoys another weird holiday
treat, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
GIMME
PROVIDENCE
"Gimme Shelter"
is an exemplar of documentary opening its eyes to life as the stuff
of drama
THE
COWBOY WAY
Jeff Lester's short
"The Last Real Cowboys" could make him Hollywood's next directing
star
TUNNEL
OF LOVE
Marc Singer takes
the underground on a ride with "Dark Days"
MULTIPLEXMAS
To hell and back
with the holiday film
ROLL
CREDITS
Underground filmmaker
Martha Colburn takes off
RUSH
HOUR
Todd Phillips calls
his "Frat House" a documentary version of "Animal House"
AFTER
THE FALL
"Gimme Shelter"
director Albert Maysles looks back at Altamont
DROOPY
DOG
"You Can Count
On Me" director Kenneth Lonergan isn't the happy-go-lucky type
WRITINGS
ON THE WALLS
"Urban Scrawls:
A Work in Progress" exposes what we say when we've got our pants
down
DAMN
THE CENSORS
It's still full
speed ahead for the exhibitor who took a film censorship law all
the way to the Supreme Court
A
FEW WORDS FROM ROBERT DENIRO
Tightlipped insight
from one of our greatest actors as he promotes "Men of Honor"
GETTING
THEIR FIX
"Requiem for a
Dream"'s Ellen Burstyn and Darren Aronofsky on the sweet rush of
moviemaking
BETTING
ON RED
Screenwriter Chuck
Pfarrer leaves Hollywood only to hammer out another blockbuster,
"Red Planet"
HANDS-ON
HEROINES
The filmmakers
and actors of "Charlie's Angels" debate: Why shouldn't men love
women who can kick their asses?
IN
THE RING
A female boxer
goes a few rounds with "Girlfight"
INTIMATE
LIGHTNING
Malingering in
the burnished rooms of "The Yards" with James Gray
TINY
DANCER
"Billy Elliot"
star Julie Walters and director Stephen Daldry on making the new
"Full Monty"
AMERICAN
POP
Uncorking the champagne
kicks of "Charlie's Angels" with director McG
FIGHTING
THE LEGACY
With "Bamboozled,"
Spike Lee takes aim at Hollywood racism, past and present
PREZ
CONFERENCE
A political writing
team talks about women in politics, the mysteries of PMS and "The
Contender"
EXCITABLE
BOY
Joaquin Phoenix
plays in "The Yards"
MAD
ABOUT HELEN
Helen Hunt says
"Pay It Forward" is the first project she's taken on in years when
she didn't feel exhausted while the cameras rolled
WHICH
WITCH IS WHICH?
The director of
"Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" on the difference between reality
and fiction
DOC
WITH SOCK
In "The Life and
Times of Hank Greenberg," Aviva Kempner shows how baseball's first
Jewish superstar transcended ethnic and religious prejudice
TICKLE
ME DEADLY
Analyzing Harold
Ramis' sinfully funny "Bedazzled"
TAKING
ON THE TUBE
Director Spike
Lee talks about fighting TV stereotypes in "Bamboozled"
DIRTY
LOOKS & SMILES
A look back at
"Backlash," the first feature by Australian Bill Bennett
WEB
ZINGERS
Makers of short
films find a new home on the Internet
BONE
OF CONTENTION
Joan Allen, Jeff
Bridges and Rod Lurie discuss their button-pushing political thriller,
"The Contender"
TOXIC
AVENGER LLOYD KAUFMAN
The head of Troma
Studios strives to create "adventure in the cinema"
ALL
TOGETHER NOW
Improvising "Best
in Show," and trying to make Christopher Guest laugh
COMES
A HORSEMAN
"The Contender"
offers cowboy actor Sam Elliott the role of a lifetime
LAND
OF 100 CAMERAS
Veteran choreographer
Vincent Paterson found himself in charge of the 100 cameras that
recorded musical numbers in lifelike fashion for "Dancer in the
Dark"
MADAME
CANDIDATE
Writer-director
Rod Lurie takes on sexual McCarthyism in "The Contender"
BOUND
FOR GLORY?
Mari Kornhauser,
director of the "sex noir" thriller "Housebound," has a passion
for the daunting world of independent filmmaking
REVVED-UP
ROMEO
Indie film "The
Poor and Hungry" tells the painfully funny story of a reluctant
car thief who falls in love with one of his victims
CRAZY
DAYS
The real Ben Fong-Torres
on "Almost Famous" and the death of rock 'n' roll
FIGHTING
WORDS
Going one-on-one with "Girlfight" director Karyn Kusama
RIGHT
IN THE KISSER
Love and power
deck viewers with a one-two punch in "Girlfight"
BAD
BOYS ON FILM
Roger Corman collaborator
Beverly Gray critiques John Waters' "Cecil B. Demented"
THE
ULTIMATE STEVE
"Tao of Steve"
actor Donal Logue reveals his Zen and the art of getting laid
SOAP
BOX
Author Paula Sharp
on soap operas, romantic love and "Nurse Betty"
PUNCH
IT UP
"Girlfight"'s Karyn
Kusama steps into the ring
SCARY
NOTES
Composer John Ottman
steps up to directing with "Urban Legends: Final Cut"
BAND
AID
Cameron Crowe looks
to his own life to produce a loving cinematic homage to rock
INSIDE
THE CINEMATIC BUBBLE
The Toronto Film
Festival celebrates movies outside the mainstream
STUDENT
OF SHAKESPEARE
Kenneth Branagh
on being silly with the Bard
MUSIC
TO HIS EARS
Cameron Crowe's
"Almost Famous" is a personal movie on a grand scale
BOY
ON THE BUS
"Almost Famous"
writer-director Cameron Crowe fondly rewinds his music-journalism
past
CRIMINAL
CONVERSATION
In "The Way of
the Gun," writer-director Christopher McQuarrie finally calls the
shots
ALMOST
THERE
From high school
thespian to movie star, "Almost Famous" Patrick Fugit's career is
the stuff dreams are made of
THE
WHITE ALBUM
Cameron Crowe's
"Almost Famous" has got a nice heartbeat; you can sway to it
IN
THE COMPANY OF RENEE
Neil LaBute softens
up with "Nurse Betty," if you don't count that scalping
SECOND
SHOT
Christopher McQuarrie
and Ryan Phillippe unload their thoughts about "The Way of the Gun"
LUCK
BE A LIMEY
"Saving Grace"
keeps the spotlight on British actress Brenda Blethyn
TAO
OF DONAL
With a promising
career, a new family and an unusual name, "Tao of Steve" star Donal
Logue fights perception
WRITE
AND WRONG
Chris McQuarrie
won an Oscar for "The Usual Suspects," but he still had to fight
to make "The Way of the Gun"
IN
THE COMPANY OF BETTY
Director Neil LaBute
veers "dangerously close" to screwball comedy with "Nurse Betty"
HEART
TO HEART
World War II drama
"Aimée & Jaguar" goes beyond lesbian love
THE
MAN WHO SAVED GRACE
It's high times
for "Saving Grace" writer/producer/actor Craig Ferguson
AN
EFFECTIVE REBEL
A friend and fellow
activist discusses Abbie Hoffman and why he liked "Steal This Movie"
LABOUR'S
PAINS
Novelist Frank
Baxter sticks up for love and romance--but isn't so sure about "Love's
Labour's Lost"
PARSING
THE PORN
Can a college kid
make a million off a searchable adult-film Internet database?
GRAY
MATTER
Milkshake Media
puts the brain in "The Cell"
TROUBLING
WATERS
Mirror, mirror
on the wall, who's the strangest filmmaker of them all?
LOGUE
JAM
"Tao of Steve"
star Donal Logue is up against success--and not so sure he likes
it
LIFE
GOES ON
Tammy Faye Messner
is back and "The Eyes" has her
BREAKING
TRADITION
John Waters recalls
his salad days of voter fraud and anarchy
THE
EYES HAVE IT
Tammy Faye Messner
completes a radical makeover
GRUNT
WORK
When he's not making
movies, Russell Crowe is likely playing with his folk band, Thirty
Odd Foot of Grunts
DIVINE
COMEDY
John Waters on
Hollywood's new wave of gross-out films
WILL
WORK FOR... NOTHING
"Intern" skewers
the pretensions of the magazine and fashion industries, but it doesn't
really deal with what it means to be an intern at a glossy
GETTING
TO KNOW HER
Despite earning critical praise, Lisanne Skyler had to distribute
"Getting to Know You" on a DIY basis
ADVENTURES
IN EXTREME CINEMA
Paul Verhoeven pushes and stretches the limits each time out
SHUE
FETISH
The "Hollow Man" star talks about being Internet gossip, a mother
and a sexy actress
OFF
THE BENCH
Blessed with Meg Ryan-like charm and plenty of savvy, Caroline Keenan
hopes to parlay her role in "The Replacements" into much bigger
things
HOLLYWOOD
SCUFFLE
John Waters on the hard birth of "Cecil B. Demented"
DEAD
ON ARRIVAL
An oral history of the night the Sex Pistols invaded Memphis--plus
a review of "The Filth and The Fury"
LIGHTS!
ACTION! TYRANNY!
Does more censorship create better movies?
GROOVE
IS IN HIS ART
DJ Wade Hampton mixes life behind the turntables with life behind
the camera
SMELLING
LOVE, TASTING PAIN
"The Five Senses" opens eyes to new sounds and feelings
FOREVER
LIESL
At 21, Charmian Carr couldn't have known that the character she
was portraying--Liesl von Trapp in "The Sound of Music"--would follow
her the rest of her life
PORN
TO SELL
Product placement comes to adult videos... hey, watch where you
put that thing!
SENSE
& SENSIBILITY
"The Five Senses"' Jeremy Podeswa counts it down
CAMPING
OUT
Jamie Babbit's "But I'm a Cheerleader" mocks antigay "re-education"
centers
HEAD
LOSER
Director Amy Heckerling on life, love and other high-school explosives
IT
CAME FROM BEYOND
Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror
film director
BEING
OR NOT BEING
Michael Almereyda's Manhattan-based "Hamlet" tweaks the Shakespeare
canon
OUT
AT THE MOVIES
"The Daily Show"'s boisterously gay film critic Frank DeCaro is
a quietly serious writer as well
JUST
FIENNES
In a season of action blockbusters, Ralph Fiennes makes an unexpected
appearance as an anti-hero in "Sunshine"
UNDERGROUND
VIBE
"Groove" writer-director
Greg Harrison raves about life below the mainstream
ISN'T
IT ROMANTIC?
Amy Irving's "Bossa
Nova" is a love story with a Latin beat
WIN,
LOSE OR DRAW
"X-Men" director
Bryan Singer discusses how to bring a comic book to life without
killing a superhero
NIGHT
VISIONS
Director Alison
Maclean and author Denis Johnson on "Jesus' Son," a darkly comic
take on life and death as a junkie
HOLLYWOOD'S
LONELY MAN
Writer of such
milestone scripts as "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull," Paul Schrader
discusses how serious, smart and dark play in today's filmmaking
scene
LURKING
IN THE SHADOWS
Legendary B-movie
producer Richard Gordon explores the dark side of the screen
UNBREAKABLE
CUISINE
Why lunch is sometimes
the best part of making a movie
MEN
WITH A PLAN
John Singleton
and Samuel L. Jackson discuss updating "Shaft"
LIFE
OF THE PARTY
How writer/director
Greg Harrison found his "Groove"
MAKING
WAVES
Screenwriter Bill
Wittliff discusses riding "The Perfect Storm"
PROJECTING
AN IMAGE
Reeling through
the mind-bending film art of Luke Savisky
GONE
BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Allegra Burke misses
her brother, H.B. Halicki, and still loves his cult classic, "Gone
in 60 Seconds"
AMERICAN
GUERRILLAS
"The Patriot" sets
off into the underbrush of historical fiction
THE
FINAL FRONTIER
Sci-fi conventions
are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time
SALT
& SEASICKNESS
Talking with George
Clooney and Mark Wahlberg about "The Perfect Storm"
LOVE
THY NEIGHBOR
Porn star Stacy
Valentine comes clean about the documentary of her rise to stardom,
"The Girl Next Door"
WAR
IS MEL
Gibson discusses
the lethal revolutionaries of "The Patriot"
TOY
STORY
The creators of
"Chicken Run" find soul in lumps of clay
WATERWORLD
On board with undersea
filmmaker Stan Waterman
GREAT
ESCAPE
"Chicken Run" is
the cock of the animated walk
WRITING
REBEL
Screenwriter Stewart
Stern remembers crafting "Rebel Without a Cause"
THIS
FILM SUCKS
Uncovering the
blood, fangs and tears that went into the creation of the indie
short "Traditional Family Vampires"
HERO
ZERO
Historian Jeff
Shaara looks at heroism, racial slurs and "Battlefield Earth"
SHAKING
A LEG
Kenneth Branagh
cuts a rug in a musical "Love's Labour's Lost"
WOO
HOO
To cinema connoisseurs,
"M:I2" director John Woo is a legend, whose Hong Kong gangster epics
influenced film more than even Spielberg over the last decade
CON
JOB
Before Danny Trejo
became an actor, he spent nearly 15 years in prison on charges ranging
from drug trafficking to robbery
WHEELS
OF FORTUNE
Coming of age in
film school means making your own movie on the cheap. Aspiring filmmaker
Kirk Diaz is determined to "Keep Driving."
HAUNTED
HILL
A demon's curse
lives on in the indie horror film "Saint Lucifer's"
BAD
TRIP
Philosopher Alain
de Botton uncovers the secret cruelty of "feel-good" films while
watching "Road Trip"
HOT
FACE
Chloe Sevigny tackles
movies with her own sense of style
STAR
STUDDED
Oral historian
Studs Terkel goes to the movies with "The Spectator"
CANNES
GOODS
The French really
hate Hollywood, as once again evidenced by the Cannes winners
LAST
PICTURE SHOW
Patrons wax nostalgic
on a historic theater's final night
BOLLYWOOD
MEETS HOLLYWOOD
"East Is East"
puts India's Om Puri in an American spotlight
SWING
SET
They live in the
suburbs, they vote Republican and they like group sex. "The Lifestyle"
explains.
COWBOYS
& CENTURIONS
From English accents
to the meaning of "cohort," Riders in the Sky take on "Gladiator"
MEL
MADNESS
Women can't give
away their apartment keys fast enough when Mel Gibson comes to their
neighborhood for a movie shoot
THE
GREAT AND TERRIBLE GAROFALO
In a perfect world,
Janeane Garofalo would be one of our biggest movie stars
WHY
LAURA DERN IS SO DAMN HOT
The actress has
made a career out of smoldering sexuality
SNEAKING
INTO THE MOVIES
Time-tested advice
for theater-hopping in a multiplex environment
MOVIE-MUSIC
ODYSSEY
The Coen brothers
recall raiding Nashville for musicians for "O Brother, Where Art
Thou?"
STARK
RAVING NORMAL
"Human Traffic"
creator Justin Kerrigan discusses his film about rave kids
CASTING
ABOUT
The 411 for anybody
who really wants to direct casting
BIG
TROUBLE IN LITTLE DENMARK
Michael Almereyda's
"Hamlet" transforms royal intrigue into corporate power struggles
HAVING
A LOW BALL
Woody Allen insists
he's "a low-culture person" with "a tendency because of the glasses
and because I'm slight, to look like I'm more literate than I really
am"
OUTSIDE
THE BOX
Mike Figgis' four-films-in-one
"Time Code" breaks the rules and gets away with it
WHO'S
THE KING?
Peter Gallagher
plays the jerk of ballet in "Center Stage"
CRYING
GAME
Author Jane Smiley
on horse hearts, weeping at movies and "Return to Me"
LIKE
A HOLE IN THE HEAD
The "Phantasm"
horror series has evolved into a genuine cult phenomenon
SHORTS
STORIES
Charting the rise
and rise of short films online
ROMAN
CHARGES
The revival of
the gladiator epic says as much about American politics as it does
about ancient history
CODE
WORDS
Exhausted author
Donald Antrim on the nature of ambivalence, psychopathic samurai,
and Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog"
BEAUTIFUL
DREAMER
Like her characters
in "Committed," Lisa Krueger is learning to balance principles and
pragmatism
LIGHTING
UP
Jose Luis Valenzuela's
urgently needed romantic comedy, "Luminarias," isn't waiting to
exhale
FIRST-TIME
CHARMED
Sofia Coppola discusses
losing her directorial cherry on "The Virgin Suicides"
TOP
OF THE MOUNTAIN
How the Taos film
fest came to offer the most unique prize on the circuit--five acres
of New Mexico mountaintop land
THE
BIG HIT
How did a quartet
of ex-wrestlers and boxers score $2 million to make a movie imagining
a Kennedy assassination in Chicago?
CULTURE
CLUBBING
"American Psycho"
author Bret Easton Ellis on guilty pleasures, illogical musical
tastes and "High Fidelity"
HAPPILY
DERAILING
Fiona Shaw throws
herself curveballs in "The Last September"
GOOD
COPPOLA
Sofia Coppola follows
in her father's big footsteps with "The Virgin Suicides"
STUNTING
GROWTH
Film stuntpeople
face an explosive combination of old dangers and new pressures to
perform
CULTURE
CLASHING
Om Puri's tough
love shines through the often-hilarious and occasionally moving
"East Is East"
SHUNNING
STARDOM
Up-and-comer Omar
Epps stays eclectic with "Love and Basketball"
PARTY
GIRL, INTERRUPTED
Noshing with Sandra
on the publicity junket for "28 Days"
HE
SHOOTS, HE SCORES
Omar Epps goes
to the line in "Love & Basketball"
POMO
BOHO HOBO
Stanley Tucci deciphers
"Joe Gould's Secret"
THE
MERCHANT OF INDIA
Ismail Merchant
explores colonialism on the Subcontinent in "Cotton Mary"
REHAB
ROMP
Sandra Bullock
lets her hair down to discuss "28 Days"
WHERE
THE MAGIC IS
Paul Newman seeks
a swan song
PIE-EYED
A renowned vino
expert matches wits and wines with "Titus"
MONTANA
GOES HOLLYWOOD
Behind the scenes
at a big-time film shoot in the not-so-wild West
LIVING
THE DREAM
"American Movie"
peeks at a low-budget world of celluloid fantasies
NOT
BOXED IN
"There's an idea
that only social activist dramas are our genre," says "Price of
Glory" director Carlos Avila. "But there are other stories to tell."
MAKING
CONCESSIONS
Get in line for
bigger, better, faster movie food
STREETWISE
David E. Simpson's
"Halsted Street, U.S.A." selects one teeming morsel of America and
makes it available to everyone
THE
GORY DETAILS
Movie make-up master
Tom Savini keeps bringing our nightmares to life
HAMMERIN'
HANK
"The Life and Times
of Hank Greenberg" swings through the life of baseball's great Jewish
slugger
AMONGST
FIENDS
"My Best Fiend"
details Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski's colorful relationship
THE
HORROR, THE HORROR
"The Exorcist"
author and screenwriter William Peter Blatty coughs up insight on
the cultural phenomenon he created
LIFE
OF REILLY
For "A Confederacy
of Dunces," the road to Hollywood has taken some mighty strange
turns
FISTFUL
OF FREAKS
Get down with Albert
and Allen Hughes' "American Pimp"
ACTIVIST
AUTEUR
With "Waking the
Dead," Keith Gordon makes yet another provocative movie based on
an intricate novel
SHATTERED
MIRRORS
Flying saucers,
TV tyrants, Disney spy satellites--welcome to Craig Baldwin's America
MELTING
POT
Director Jim Jarmusch
describes "Ghost Dog" as "a gangster samurai hip-hop Eastern Western"
LIFE
OVER ART
One-time bad boy
Lewis Nordan on the mathematics of writerly failure, the myth of
the tortured artist and "Wonder Boys"
ZEN
HIT MAN
"Ghost Dog," Jim
Jarmusch's urban samurai, follows an ancient order
SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE
Comedian Steven
Wright stands up on the festival circuit for his film "One Soldier"
BANKING
ON BROCKOVICH
"Erin Brockovich"
offers director Steven Soderbergh another chance at commercial success
LONG
ROAD TO DAMASCUS
"George Wallace:
Settin' the Woods on Fire" tracks the troubled arc of a controversial
politician's life
DECONSTRUCTING
VIOLENCE
Filmmaker Kimberly
Peirce defends the brutality in "Boys Don't Cry"
SILENT
SAMURAI
Jim Jarmusch discusses
"Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," his latest trip to exile in
guyville
WONDERING
EYE
Taking a second
look at "Wonder Boys"--and its odd release time and marketing campaign--with
director Curtis Hanson
ROMAN
CHANDLER
Polanski serves
up the supernatural with a dash of noir in "The Ninth Gate"
ANIMATING
FAMILY
Mother/daughter
team Faith and Emily Hubley have been animating films together for
20 years
CARTER'S
COUNTY
Rubin Carter screens
"The Hurricane" for inmates at the infamous Cook County Jail
SMOKE
& MIRRORS
Jonestown survivor
Deborah Layton discusses cults, courage and "Holy Smoke"
WONDER
BUOYED
Michael Douglas
and director Curtis Hanson discuss the joy of chaos in "Wonder Boys"
HE'LL
GO DOWN IN HISTORY
With "Reindeer
Games," John Frankenheimer marks nearly 50 years of directing films
ON
DEATH & DENIAL
Director Errol
Morris confronts the controversy over "Mr. Death"
TECHNICAL
KNOCKOUT
Lorenzo Doumani
discusses "Knockout," his tale of a female boxer in East LA
MIRACLE
MAN
Actor Eddie Bracken
holds court on Preston Sturges, Hollywood and hitchhiking
REINDEER
GAMER
After four decades
in the biz, director John Frankenheimer knows how to get what he
wants out of a film
POIGNANT
CRY
"Boys Don't Cry"
director Kimberly Peirc | 
