Spring 2005



Reviews in this Issue

The Aviator
Hotel Rwanda
The Sea Inside
Notre Musique
Unforgivable Blackness:
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Merchant of Venice

Also in this Issue

Too Darn Hot: Kinsey and the Culture Wars
by Roy Grundmann

From Stellato Iphigenia:The Woman-Centered Films of Michael Cacoyannis
by Dan Georgakas

Sex, Science, and the Biopic: An Interview with Bill Condon
by Roy Grundmann

Dramatizing Issues That Historians Don’t Address: An Interview with Oliver Stone
by Gary Crowdus

One Idea Every Fifteen Seconds:
An Interview with Arnaud Desplechin
by Jared Rapfogel

Featured Excerpts

The Testaments of Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang's Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse) has led a troubled life. Banned in its native Germany right after its completion in early 1933, the film circulated for many years mainly in an inferior French-language version. The German version resurfaced in 1951 in a print missing about twelve minutes; the following year, Testament emerged in ...... Read the Full Article

The Films of Orson Welles &
Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life

Orson Welles was a highly literate and literary filmmaker, an artist of the word and the story as well as the image, cut, sequence, and sound. Somewhat less than a scholar but far more than a dilettante—critics often take him to task for not being the former and accuse him of being the latter—he was deeply saturated in and respectful of literature, and was a dedicated reader and prolific writer throughout his life .......Read the Full Review

 
 

 

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