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We have even included some excerpts for you to check out. As you read through the Table of Contents, click on the gold links to catch a glimpse of what this issue holds for you. FEATURES
Russell Banks NO,
BUT I SAW THE MOVIETales of adaptation: Is American filmmaking entering a brave new world? David Gates NABOKOV
AND HITCHCOCKThe collaboration that never was. Bruce Wagner and William Eggleston LET
US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MENA celebration of celebrity look-alikes, in words and photographs. Mia Taylor SYMPATHY
FOR THE DEVILThe ill-fated attempts of Polanski, Fellini, Manzarak, and a host of others to bring Bulgakov's MASTER AND MARGARITA to the big screen. THE WALK OF SHAME Comments from writers past and present, famous and not-so-famous, about the writing life, Hollywood style. Jonathan Lethem DEFENDING
THE SEARCHERSThe slings and arrows suffered for loving this classic John Wayne/John Ford Western. Victoria Price HENRY
MILLER IN LOTOS LANDContemptuous of Hollywood, the uncompromising writer turned to watercolors for solace and money. FIVE QUESTIONS Carrie Fisher, Eric Bogosian, Michael Tolkin, and others dis and praise good, bad, and ugly books, films, and adaptations. Christopher Merrill THE
FELLOWSHIP OF THE CRAFTHow artists give thanks to the muse. Philippe Garnier THEY
MADE ME A SCREENWRITERThe 1930s screenwriters' haven known as San Quentin. David Leavitt LOST
AMONG THE PINAFORESThis critic thinks that more than music has been lost in the film adaptaion of HOWARDS END. Deanne Stillman STUDIO
OPTIONS DESERT, THEN DISAPPEARSDoes Tina Brown exist? Was there really a TriStar? Truth, storytelling, and the brutal murder of two girls in Twentynine Palms. Annette Insdorf AN
EYE FOR AN I: FROM NOVELS TO FILMSThe film historian makes her case for Philip Kaufman's THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING. FICTION
Fred G. LeebronWE
ARE NOT FRIENDS"You sit back in your seats, marveling at how hard it must be to be them." F. Scott Fitzgerald THE
NICKEL"Granted your dialogue is more graceful than what these hacks can write—that's why we brought you out here." Katherine Vaz THE
MAN WHO WAS MADE OF NETTING"Every family was in an uproar about this Hollywood lottery, but Manny was calmly assured of winning." POETRY
David St. JohnABOVE
SUNSETOgden Nash VIVA
VAMP, VALE VAMPXavier Villaurrutia L.A.
NOCTURNE: THE ANGELSFrank O'Hara TO
THE FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISISDaniel Halpern CINEMA
VERITÉDavid Lehman JANUARY
25 AUGUST
13 DECEMBER
12 DECEMBER
21Rafael Alberti BUSTER
KEATON LOOKS IN THE WOODS FOR HIS LOVE WHO IS A REAL COWINTERVIEWS/PROFILES
András Hamori, Interviewed by Rachel ResnickThe producer of CRASH and THE SWEET HEREAFTER on the naked truth of literary adaptions. Jerry Stahl, Interviewed by Ann Magnuson (with an assist from an old friend) The acclaimed writer and former junkie talks about having his own life fictionalized. Alex Cox, Interviewed by Lou Mathews The exiled Hollywood director of REPO MAN and SID AND NANCY is turning out his best work ever, in Mexico. Todd Haynes, Interviewed by Jon Raymond The director of SAFE and VELVET GOLDMINE gets melodramatic. EPISTLE
F. Scott FitzgeraldThree previously unpublished letters from his days in Hollywood. SCREENPLAY
Diane ArbusTWO
TREATMENTSAn excerpt from Patricia Bosworth's DIANE ARBUS: A BIOGRAPHY, with matching excerpt from Tamara Jenkins's script-in-progress. LOST & FOUND
Barney RossetThe founder of The Evergreen Review and the former publisher of Grove Press, on how he persuaded Samuel Beckett to make FILM. David Trinidad On BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S—the book, remember? Chris Solomine On Nikita Mikhalkov's Chekhov adaption AN UNFINISHED PIECE FOR A PLAYER PIANO. Kera Bolonik On William Boyd's sprawling epic of filmmaking. THE NEW CONFESSIONS. Christopher Merill On Xavier Villaurrutia's NOSTALGIA FOR DEATH. Steven Katz On deeply weird British cult classic film THE WICKER MAN. Mark Caldwell On THE EGG AND I's author, Betty McDonald, whose book has been over-shadowed by the saccharine film adaptation. Ron Carlson On MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, the zine that made him want to be a writer. THE LAST WORD
Anne BeattsSAY
IT AGAIN, SAMThe philosophy of everything according to the movies. |
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