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Bright Lights Film Journal
Issue 29 | July 2000
features
Go Forth and Multiply: Abortion in Hollywood Movies of the ‘90s — In spite of what you’ve heard, abortion is not an option in the past decade’s mainstream Hollywood cinema
Paris in Recent French Cinema — How Paris was presented — or presented itself, perhaps — in French cinema as the twentieth century drew to a close
Dubbing and the Manipulation of the Cinematic Experience — European dubbing gives Hong Kong subtitling a run for its money in the Utter Weirdness department
Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour — The 1960s brought back Hellman’s lesbian who vanished three decades earlier in These Three. But why is she dead?
Some
Mother’s Son: Post-Colonial, Post-National … Post-Historical? — A
crash course in Anglo/Irish politics and America/Hollywood’s transformation
of "the Troubles" for its own dubious purposes
revivals
Aventurera — The unquestioned masterpiece of the cabaretera genre, a bizarre amalgam of music and melodrama and noir, with liberal doses of sex and high camp
Out of the Past — A noir classic revisited
Fritz Lang’s M — A textbook classic restored to perfection
Roberta — One of the least known, and one of the very best, of the films that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers did together
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interview
Russ Meyer — Russ Meyer talks about The Supervixens in this 1974 interview from the Bright Lights archives
experimental
Ian Kerkhof in Brief — Underground cinema's baddest bad boy
Jack Smith in Retrospect — New York’s pioneering campmeister
The Films of Luther Price — The master of Super-8 cinema takes us into the cave of the unknown, with extraordinary results
Lawrence Brose’s De Profundis — Oscar Wilde’s infamous letter from prison becomes a springboard for a surreal queer experience
video reviews
Carl Dreyer on VHS: Ordet, Day of Wrath, Gertrud
san francisco international lesbian and gay film festival
The Documentaries — Friendly Christians, bitter rent boys, and South Africa’s liberated queens are part of this year’s queer reality parade
Penisspotting 2000 — Our spongy-tissued li’l pal is a bit shy this year
book review
Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film, by Greg Merritt
