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January-February 1996

Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility, Olivier Assayas, Billy Wilder's Double IndemnityAeon Flux, Wong Kar-Wai, Jean Renoir, Benjamin Ross's The Young Poisoner's Handbook, 1995 in review, Terence Davies's Guilty Pleasures

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A LUST
By Nicholas Nicastro
Actress and Ambition

YOUNG POISONERS HANDBOOK
By Harlan Kennedy
Kind Hearts and Coronaries

WONG KAR-WAI
By Chuck Stephens
Time Pieces: Wong Kar-Wai and the Persistence of Memory

AEON FLUX
By Michael Atkinson
Inside Aeon

DOUBLE INDEMNITY
By James Naremore
Straight Down the Line: Making and Remaking Double Indemnity

TERENCE DAVIES’S GUILTY PLEASURES
By Terence Davies

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
By Donald Lyons
Passionate Precision

1995 IN REVIEW
Images, Lines, Gestures, Looks, Moods, from film year 1995

OLIVIER ASSAYAS
By Kent Jones
Tangled Up in Blue: The Cinema of Olivier Assayas

CASINO
By Gavin Smith
Two Thousand Light Years from Home

JEAN RENOIR
By Tag Gallagher
The Dancers and the Dance

LA CHIENNE
By Donald Phelps
Legrand’s Illusion

IMAX/Cinema
By Paul Arthur
In the Realm of the Senses: IMAX 3-D and the Myth of Total Cinema

DOING BRANDO
By Lyall Bush