Sight and sound April 1993

Features: 'Accidental auteur' (James Saynor analyses the films of Stephen Frears); 'Juke box and Johnny Boy' (Ian Penman writes about Scorsese's 'Mean Streets'); 'Federico Fellini' (Geoffrey Nowell-Smith on Fellini and the popular & the director in conversation with Anna Muzzarelli); 'Dark side' (Alison MacLean, director of 'Crush', talks to Lizzie Francke; 'Fire and ice' (Ginette Vincendeau on Catherine Deneuve as a representative of French cinema and culture & Anne Jackel and Xavier Michel Duverger on the French view of Vietnam); 'Philosophical extras' (Michael O'Pray on Derek Jarman's film 'Wittgenstein'); 'Victor Erice: painting the sun' (Rikki Morgan talks to the director & Paul Julian Smith writes about politics and art in the films of Erice); 'No particular place to go' (Steve Beard reflects on low-class movie monsters). Film reviews: 'Accidental Hero'; 'Blue Black Permanent'; 'A Brighter Summer Day'/'Guling Jie Shaonian Sha Ren Shijian'; 'Crush'; 'The Distinguished Gentleman'; 'Hoffa'; 'Indochine'; 'Leap of Faith'; 'Mediterraneo'; 'A Midnight Clear'; ' Night of the Living Dead'; 'One False Move'; 'The Ox'/'Oxen'; 'Paris is Burning'; ' The Quince Tree Sun'/'El Sol de Membrillo'; ' Romper Stomper'; ' Shadows and Fog'; ' The Silent Touch'; ' Sniper'; 'Trespass'; ' Used People'; ' Wind'; 'Wittgenstein.' Re-release: 'Mean Streets.' Shorts: 'The Attendant'; 'Now that it's morning.'