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September-October 1998

Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires, Galway Film Fleadh, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Lolita, Godard in the Nineties, Todd Solondz

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FEATURES

LES VAMPIRES
By Frank Thompson

GALWAY FILM FLEADH
By Kathleen Murphy
Plus: Jimmy Smallhorne’s 2by4

MEMORY TRIPPING
By Richard Schickel
The AFI 100 and other ephemera

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
By Richard T. Jameson

FULL METAL JACKET
By Robert Castle and Stephen Donatelli

COME AND SEE
By Elliott Stein

CHERISHING LOLITA
By Richard Corliss

TO EACH HIS OWN
By Jack Shadoian

GODARD IN THE NINETIES
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

RECLAIMING THE SEVENTIES
By Kent Jones

TODD SOLONDZ
By Chris Chang

DEPARTMENTS

CRITIC’S CHOICE

QUICKIES
The Eel by Dave Kehr, Snake Eyes by John Anderson, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries by David Sterritt, Love is the Devil by Kent Jones

VIDI VIDI VIDI
Passion and Detective by Gavin Smith