Contents include: 

No Smoking Gun: Michael Mann's THE INSIDER turns a true story of one man's fight to expose the lethal policies of the tobacco industry into an intense conspiracy thriller. Nick James ponders its thematic links with HEAT, MANHUNTER and the rest.

Boy Wonder: When Teena Brandon became Brandon Teena and started picking up girls in Midwestern bars, s/he was raped and then murdered. Director Kimberly Peirce talks to Danny Leigh about casting for cocksure tragedy in BOYS DON'T CRY.

Queer and Present Danger: What's happened to Queer Cinema since POISON, SWOON, EDWARD II, THE LIVING END and others made it 'New' in '92? B. Ruby Rich wonders if its success, hipness, imitation and appropriation by the mainstream have left anything to chew on.

Singing in the Rain: With 11 main characters, nine storylines and Tom Cruise's best performance yet, MAGNOLIA is even more spectacularly ambitious than director P.T. Anderson's last film BOOGIE NIGHTS. Mark Olsen thinks it's a marvellous mess.

Obituaries: Bringing out the dead of 1999, plus celebrations of Betty Box, Edward Dmytryk, Stanley Durwood, Sylvia Sidney and Ling Zifeng.

Rushes: Being John Malkovich; hailing Jack Cardiff; Godard's return; US television roundup; The Wyvern Mystery; Rotterdam notes; Evolva. TV & film book reviews and more. 

The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: * Anjelica Huston's Agnes Browne * Danny Boyle's The Beach * Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich * Chris Columbus' Bicentennial Man * Phillip Noyce's The Bone Collector * From The Edge Of The City * Frank Darabont's The Green Mile * William Malone's House On Haunted Hill * Michael Mann's The Insider * Julian Po * Jang Sun-woo's Lies * Mela * Alejandro Amenabar's Open Your Eyes * Rancid Aluminium * Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne's Rosetta * Lukas Moodysson's Show Me Love * Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley * David O. Russell's Three Kings * Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy * John Lasseter's Toy Story 2 * Gavin O'Connor's Tumbleweeds * Peter Hewtt's Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? * Jia Zhangke's Xiao Wu * 

Capsule  DVD and Blu-ray reviews of: * 10 Things I Hate About You * The 13th Warrior * Affliction * All the Little Animals * Bend of the River * Blond Venus * Cookie's Fortune * Dead Ringers * Destry Rides Again * For Whom the Bells Toll * Ghost * Girl * Going My Way * Goodbye Lover * Gregory's Two Girls * Jet Pilot * Late August, Early September * The Lives of a Bengal Lancer * The Man Who Knew Too Much * Never Been Kissed * The Only Thrill * Parting Shots * Pirates of Silicon Valley * Pittsburgh * Raining Stones * Rear Window * Riff-Raff * Romance * Rushmore * The Scarlet Empress * Shanghai Express * The Thomas Crown Affair * This Sporting Life * The War Zone * Wild Wild West *    

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