Midlife Crises
Cannes at 45 (more or less)
By Mary Corliss and Harlan Kennedy
‘We don’t murder, we kill’
Samuel Fuller’s no-man’s-land in The Big Red One
By Donald Lyons
The Last Temptation of Sigourney Weaver
What’s at stake in Alien, Aliens, and now Alien3
By Kathleen Murphy
Outing the Past
Swoon cops a plea; Rock Hudson doesn’t
By Armond White
Love in the Afternoon
Savoring The Hours and Times
By Thomas Beller
plus Christopher Münch on hotel rooms and other ephemera
By Robert Horton
Mitchum & Russell
She was his kind of woman. He had the smoothest moves from here to Macao. Both have grand stories to tell
By Harlan Kennedy and Gerald Peary
The Long Way Home
Chen Kaige is one of China’s foremost filmmakers. If only China could see his films
By Godfrey Cheshire
Legion of the Lost Genre
A meditation on the pain, power, and poetry of the aviation movie; with an honor roll of the genre’s aces and a note on a lost all-star classic
By Peter Hogue
Beyond-the-Pale Riders
Making Westerns for the Nineties
By Anne Thompson
Out There on a Visit
Talking funny, playing with guns, and Robert De Niro’s three little moves. Christopher Walken interviewed
By Gavin Smith
Spielberg II
Concluding a career assessment that finds the director an artist for always
By Henry Sheehan
Noyce’s On
From the crest of the Aussie New Wave to Hollywood’s big-budget summer games—Patriot Games, that is—Phillip Noyce’s motto remains: ‘Make a film!’
Interviewed by Jim Emerson
The Best High School Movie
On Henry King’s Margie: from a delightful new book
By Dale Thomajan
