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2001 Stories by Jessica Winter

• Edged Out

  published August 14, 2001

  O is hardly the first film about youth unrest to be waylaid by terrible timing and nervous studio executives with political profiles to... More >>

• City Sickness

  published August 7, 2001

  Encapsulating the moviemaking energies of an entire continent in 30 films, the Walter Reade's biennial Latin American series warrants the... More >>

• One-Trick Ponies

  published July 31, 2001

  Turns out the French haven't completely cornered the market on art-house hardcore—the otherwise somnolent Swedish import Under the Sun... More >>

• Camera Obscura

  published July 31, 2001

  Though his eclectic oeuvre was consistent only in its awfulness, there was something of the quixotic hero about the late Allen Smithee. Time and... More >>

• Shock the Monkey

  published July 24, 2001

  Moviegoers who were born after, say, 1970 and/or have seen too many episodes of The Simpsons have most likely absorbed the Planet of the... More >>

• Flight Path

  published July 24, 2001

  All but ignored by her mistress-accessorized husband and aging out of her role as full-time mother to two late-teen sons, Rosalba (Licia... More >>

• After the Last Call

  published July 24, 2001

  If you're a congenitally morose urban troubadour who spends his afternoons in dank cafés rereading The Diary of a Seducer and your... More >>

• Who Let the Underdogs Out?

  published July 10, 2001

  Swingers popularized ballroom dancing, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and the adjectival use of money, but scribe-star Jon Favreau's baby was... More >>

• Legal Tender Is the Night

  published July 10, 2001

  Marriage is a high-interest loan and payback's a bitch. Or so contends Where's My Money?, John Patrick Shanley's frayed web of entangling... More >>

• Ruff Ryders

  published July 3, 2001

  Devotees may blanch at the sight of Jet Li outfitted with a gun early in Kiss of the Dragon, but not to fear—he's promptly divested of... More >>

• Repeat Offenders

  published June 26, 2001

  The public-relations pitch for Mathieu Kassovitz's grisly policier The Crimson Rivers is "Seven meets The Silence of the... More >>

• Mad for Sadness

  published June 19, 2001

  "Try living life instead of hiding in the bedroom," a frustrated girlfriend snaps on the early Red House Painters song "Medicine Bottle," but the... More >>

• Not for Ourselves Alone

  published May 29, 2001

  Equal parts documentarian and melodramatist of the disenfranchised, Ken Loach protests the political and socioeconomic forces behind personal... More >>

• What It Feels Like for a Girl

  published May 22, 2001

  Our Song is an exemplary coming-of-age tale not least because it so gracefully transcends its genre—for all its verité... More >>

• Cities of Lost Children

  published May 15, 2001

  Jacques Doillon is best known for Ponette, a lacerating passion play in which a preschooler simply, stubbornly refuses to believe that her... More >>

• Seventeen Liar Bodies

  published May 15, 2001

  Devout popular-music scholar and anything-goes sociologist, Greil Marcus only connects—and when that fails, only projects. For him, one... More >>

• Garden 'Hos

  published May 8, 2001

  Anyone would envy the title character of About Adam his seductive talents and adaptable charm, not to mention his copious free time. The... More >>

• The Land That Time Forgot

  published May 1, 2001

  A hugely empathic study of sorrow and reckoning, Shinji Aoyama's epic Eureka maps the aftermath of a bus hijacking in southwest Japan that... More >>

• Beyoncé Good and Evil

  published May 1, 2001

  As the name suggests, there's only one infant messiah in Destiny's Child, and Survivor (note singular) is for all purposes the inevitable... More >>

• Mondo Trasho and Desperate Living

  published April 24, 2001

  The Tom Green Cancer Special was a genuinely startling piece of surreality TV, a gallows parody of disease-of-the-week programs that just... More >>

• Natural Porn Killers

  published April 17, 2001

  Wayne Wang's first foray into digital video offers two interpretations of its title. "The thing about computers is you're connected to everyone... More >>

• New Haven Vice

  published April 10, 2001

  Madonna and whore, house of the holy and den of iniquity, Sterling Memorial Library has been entangled for a lifetime in a luxurious struggle... More >>

• The Choices They Made

  published April 3, 2001

  Barnett Slepian wasn't the first American doctor killed for the anti-abortion cause, but his murder in October 1998 did signal a ghastly point of... More >>

• Family Trees

  published March 27, 2001

  Fascinating combination of hippie dreamer and determined pragmatist, Julia Butterfly Hill became an unlikely celebrity when she clambered 180 feet... More >>

• Bipolar Ex

  published March 20, 2001

  Sometime in the last 10 years, the spiked punch of Hollywood romantic banter fermented into throat-scouring moonshine. In teen flicks lately, most... More >>