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March-April 1999

Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Julia Sweeney, Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, the Gay Nineties, Ben-Hur, Eddie Romero, Warren Sonbert, Rotterdam and Sundance 1999 coverage

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FEATURES

BESIEGED
By Dave Kehr

JULIA SWEENEY
By Andrew Sarris

IN DREAMS
By Kathleen Murphy

THE GAY NINETIES
By Christopher Kelly

CUTTING NOTORIOUS
By Leonard J. Leff

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE
By Lisa Katzman

BEN-HUR
By Peter Richards

EDDIE ROMERO
By Lee Server

24th ANNUAL GROSSES GLOSS
By Jeffrey Spaulding

WARREN SONBERT
By Paul Arthur

THE FULL MONARCHY
By Nicholas Nicastro

SILVER MEMORIES
By Frank Holland

DEPARTMENTS

CRITIC’S CHOICE

OSCAR PREDIX

FESTIVALS
Rotterdam by Dave Kehr and Sundance by Gavin Smith and Rachel Rosen

QUICKIES
Cookie’s Fortune by Dave Kehr, The Winslow Boy by Kent Jones, Hideous Kinky by Jonathan Romney, School of Flesh by Robert Horton, Get Real by Michael Wilmington

VIDI VIDI VIDI
Volumen by Gavin Smith