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July/August 1997
FEATURES
CANNES AT 50
By Mary Corliss
Ghosts: As Cannes Celebrates its Fiftieth Anniversary, Mary Corliss Takes the Opportunity to Review the Present, and Reflect on Festivals Past
The Brits at Cannes
By Harlan Kennedy
THE LOST WORLD
By Chuck Stephens
Spielberg’s Lost World: Franchise, Fatherhood, a World Without Dung
TSUI HARK AND CHING SIU-TUNG
By Howard Hampton
Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
HONG KONG HANDOVER
By Bérénice Reynaud
High Noon in Hong Kong
THE SEARCHERS
By David Thomson
Open and Shut: A Fresh Look at The Searchers
RED MUSICALS
By J. Hoberman
Tomorrow There Will be Dancing Everywhere: The Communist Musical
JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY
By Dale Thomajan
Enchanted Summer
TOP 150 UNRELEASED FOREIGN FILMS OF THE NINETIES
Foreign Affairs
LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
By Richard Combs
The Choirmaster and the Slavedriver: Howard Hawks and Land of the Pharaohs
SIDNEY LUMET
By Phillip Lopate
Sidney Lumet, or the Necessity for Compromise
FILM AND/OR VIDEO
By Gavin Smith
Straight to Film
LUC BESSON
By Chris Chang
Escape From New York
MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF
By Godfrey Cheshire
Makhmalbaf: The Figure in the Carpet
FRAMES
By Kathleen Murphy
Summer Surfing
BOOKS
By Donald Lyons
Lean, Ophuls, et al
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN
By Ray Privett
Business Men
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