NYFF VIDEORAMA
By Nicholas Nicastro
A festival addendum
STRICTLY BALLROOM
By Robert Horton
A bravely nice new Australian comedy
BURT LANCASTER
By Kate Buford
Noir icon, Fifties Fairbanks, Sinclair Lewis charlatan, Cold War crazy, philosopher-king of doomed aristocrats—he played them all, and set the standard for independent production in postwar Hollywood. The life and career appraised
THE BEST OF ’92
Ten Bests, “Moments out of Time,” and more
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
By David Ehrenstein
In defense of Francis Ford Coppola and, just incidentally, cinema
MARGUERITE DURAS
By Molly Haskell
On The Lover—and The Lover, and The North China Lover
THE CARRY ON COMEDIES
By Harlan Kennedy
Keep your pecker up, mate—the most un-PC series in film history has been sanctified
WALON GREEN
By Nat Segaloff
The inside, straight from a working screenwriter who’s been there; an interview
ITALIAN HORROR
Andrew Mangravite on Sixties gothics; Dario Argento by Maitland McDonagh; plus Alan Upchurch on Barbara Steele
VIVE POSITIF
By Patrick McGilligan
Forty years young and feisty as ever, France’s “little magazine that could” goes on shaping world (film) opinion
HAL HARTLEY
By Andrew Sarris and Peter Hogue
The long and the short of the rising star of American independents
LIFE WITH VIDEO
By George Mannes
Two top cinematographers talk about the joys and sorrows of film-to-video transfer
DICK THORPE, ALL-AMERICAN
By Shawn Levy
The prolific and definitively undistinguished career of MGM’s busiest director
