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May-June 1994

Special section on Irish cinema, Alexander Mackendrick interview, Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven, Kevin Smith's Clerks, Pedro Almodóvar's Kika, Léos Carax, the making of The Wild Bunch

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Issue Details

NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS
Fresh; Clerks; Pool Days; et al.
By Donald Lyons

Clean, Shaven
By Chris Chang

LÉOS CARAX
Can (should) the best young director in France get Miramaxed?
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

IRISH CINEMA
Idyll & ideology by Harlan Kennedy
History by Kevin Rockett
Herstory by Kathleen Murphy

ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK
The last interview
By Kate Buford

MAKING OF THE WILD BUNCH
By David Weddle

ALMODÓVAR’S KIKA
By Shawn Levy

GENE EVANS
A veteran of Sam Fuller’s battlefields
Interviewed by Lee Server

FESTIVALS
Berlin by Harlan Kennedy

GUT RESPONSES
Forever Young and other mysteries
By William Johnson

BOOK REVIEWS
Projections of War by Donald Lyons

LETTERS

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