February 2003 | Issue 39
Editorial
Articles
By Alan Vanneman
New DVD also includes Ezio Pinza, Lena Horne, and Duke Ellington
By Robert Castle
Andy Kaufman, Tony Clifton, Mr. Ripley, and the elisions of identity
By Rob Bridgett
Those crazy "cut ups" Burroughs, Gysin, and Balch restored to their rightful place in avant garde film history
By Gary Morris
Wooden bottom boyz, teensy teens, and a Satanic blackface Charley McCarthy — these are just a few of the offerings from le cinema puppet
Movies
By Robert Castle
Civilization and its discontents
By Mark Dellar
Ken Russell's bizarre cold war thriller features Harry Palmer, the anti-Bond
By Gary Morris
These brothers may be a little too close
By Gary Morris
A landmark work in the queer film canon arrives on DVD
By Matthew Kennedy
It's little wonder this yawner didn't get a theatrical release
By Gabrielle Wenig
This "sensitive" film prefers its women dead — metaphorically or literally
By Robert Ecksel
Robin Williams morphs again, and still nobody's laughing
About Schmidt
By Tony Macklin
Payne capsized an actor and a novel in this misfire
By Joanne Bealy
Estela Bravo's documentary offers an affectionate, in-depth portrait of the enduring world leader who stood up to the U.S.
By Robert Ecksel
Cinema meets the sweet science at the multiplex, and nobody gets knocked out
By Alan Vanneman
No one can steal like America can steal
By Robert Keser
They spit! They swear! They smoke in bed!
By Alan Vanneman
Show us the way to the next pretty boy
By Scott Thill
"The 'key' to the 'chamber' of immortality looks like a glowing white penis"
By Scott Thill
Of mole-rats and topiary, animal training and AI
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