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January-February 1998

Martin Scorsese interviewed, 1997 wrap-up, features on Edgar Kennedy, Atom Egoyan, Michael Winterbottom, tabloid documentaries, Titanic films, and coverage of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival

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CRITICS’ CHOICE

HOME GROUND
Ron Havilio’s Fragments *Jerusalem
By J. Hoberman

DEATH WARMED OVER
Carine Adler’s Under the Skin
By Kathleen Murphy

MAKING TIME
The Avant-Garde in ’97
By Paul Arthur

EDGAR KENNEDY
The Bull of the Woods
By Donald Phelps

THE ART OF VISION 
Martin Scorsese interviewed about Kundun
By Gavin Smith

BODY AND SOUL
The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
By Kent Jones

COMING LAST WEEK
Notes from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival
By Richard Koszarski

MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM
Cinema as Heart Attack
By Michael Atkinson

MOMENTS OUT OF TIME
1997 Wrap-up and Ten Best Lists

ODD MAN OUT
Edmond T. Gréville
By Bertrand Tavernier

Plus: excerpts from Gréville’s memoirs

SONGE DE TITANIC
Titanic
 films
By Frank Thompson

ROMANCING THE STONES
Jack Clayton’s The Innocents
By Donald Chase

MEDIA SPECTACLE AND THE TABLOID DOCUMENTARY
By Paul Arthur