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September-October 1994

Ken Burn’s Baseball, Mitchell Leisen, Federico Fellini, the Brothers Quay, Gregg Araki, Allison Ander, Mike Leigh’s BBC films

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CABLE MOVIES
Genre and Caste in Cableland
By Donald Lyons

MITCHELL LEISEN
Swing High, Swing Low: Mitchell Leisen in Perspective
By Dennis Drabelle

KEN BURNS’S BASEBALL
The Best Interests of the Game
By David Thomson

FEDERICO FELLINI
Send in the Clowns: An Aspect of Fellini
By Richard Schickel

THE BROTHERS QUAY
The Night Countries of the Brothers Quay
By Michael Atkinson

GREGG ARAKI
Absorbing Alternative
By Chris Chang

MICHAEL TOLKIN
‘We Fabricate Our Lives’
Interviewed by Gavin Smith

MY FAVORITE YEAR: 1959
By Donald Chase

ALLISON ANDERS
Sad Girls
By Maitland McDonagh

MIKE LEIGH’S BBC FILMS
Worlds Apart: Mike Leigh on Video
By Gavin Smith

BOOKS: DEPARDIEU
La Vie de Gerard
By Mark Harris

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