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2002 Stories by Jessica Winter

• Modesty Blaze

  published December 24, 2002

  One of a rare hybrid breed that might be termed Star Character Actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman has, in the space of just a few years, amassed an... More >>

• The Good Son

  published December 24, 2002

  Charles Dickens's third full-fledged novel once occasioned a Royal Shakespeare Company production that ran nine and a half hours long, owing not... More >>

• Road Scholar

  published December 17, 2002

  LONDON—Mad traveler and secret historian, Iain Sinclair maps the forgotten and forsaken corners of England most flaneurs would either... More >>

• Save the Last Trance

  published December 17, 2002

  LONDON—As fragmentary, elusive, and brilliantly hued as a kaleidoscope's pattern, Lynne Ramsay's More >>

• High-Water Mark

  published November 12, 2002

  I. Repetition Singin' in the Rain, I've seen that thing a million zillion . . . it's uncountable how many times I've seen that.... More >>

• Luminous Motion

  published November 5, 2002

  In cinema's purported Age of Democracy, the herky-jerky aesthetic of the faux-verité drama forgives and even embraces technical... More >>

• The Pope Says 'Dope'

  published October 22, 2002

  Peter Mullan and Carlos Carrera might be on the Catholic Church's blacklist now, but when it comes to impious directors, the pontiff's crew... More >>

• Mass Hysteria

  published October 22, 2002

  Growing up, I was a very idealistic young Catholic," says Peter Mullan, director of The Magdalene Sisters. "I wanted to be Spencer Tracy in... More >>

• Troubles Every Day

  published September 24, 2002

  "It's unquestionably the most difficult, the most contentious, the most controversial single day of the whole Troubles," says More >>

• Body Blows

  published September 17, 2002

  TORONTO—Soaked through with every variety of bodily fluid, Ken Park revels in adolescent bumping and bloodletting, the sticky... More >>

• Ten Years After

  published September 3, 2002

  SARAJEVO—A decade after the beginning of the Serbian attack that leveled the cityscape and killed more than 10,000 civilians, Bosnia... More >>

• Take the Long Way Home

  published August 20, 2002

  "They're all so happy to hear that I've done wrong," Neko Case once sang about nosy neighbors titillated by rumors of scandalous extracurriculars,... More >>

• Chimp Change

  published August 6, 2002

  When Marc Jurnove first visited the Long Island Game Farm Park and Zoo in the spring of 1995, he found Barney, a chimpanzee, living in bleak... More >>

• Keep It Together

  published August 6, 2002

  In a glassy-eyed season of franchise bloat and blockbusters-by-committee, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams pulls off a dual identity... More >>

• Truth and Consequences

  published July 30, 2002

  Ken Loach studied law at Oxford, and though he claims to have been an indifferent pupil, he went on to answer his calling as a public advocate... More >>

• The Underneath

  published July 30, 2002

  Trapped in ice for the 2582nd day running, the puzzlingly portly captain of a hapless north pole expedition in Voyage of the Carcass (HERE)... More >>

• Flesh + Blood

  published July 23, 2002

  As is proper for a series about transgression, AMMI's "Carnal Knowledge" program includes a pair of veritable outlaws from the year of the Summer... More >>

• Lost and Found

  published July 23, 2002

  Just as grumbling about Warner/Reprise's abandonment of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot elevated a serviceable psychedelic-folk record into a... More >>

• The Road to Mecha

  published July 23, 2002

  Scientists at the World Economic Forum predicted on Friday a grim future replete with unprecedented biological threats, global warming and the... More >>

• Vive L'Amour

  published July 16, 2002

  The copious epigraphs in Tadpole come courtesy of Voltaire, beginning with "Love shows signs that cannot be mistaken." Fitting, then, that... More >>

• Hot Thespian Action

  published July 9, 2002

  Write what you know: In his debut film, writer-director Yvan Attal plays Yvan, whose wife is an actress named Charlotte, played by Attal's wife,... More >>

• Losing His Religion

  published July 2, 2002

  Dotted with amateur martyrs, home to a malpracticing magician, and site of a well-attended human sacrifice, the unnamed pre-apocalyptic city of More >>

• Denis Johnson's Ukiah Heap

  published July 2, 2002

  A nine-year-old girl's voice, clear and fragile as cut glass and accompanied by a lonely piano, intones a prologue of sorts to Denis Johnson's new... More >>

• State of Confusion

  published June 18, 2002

  Prefab promised land for snowbirds, retirees, exiles, and carpetbaggers, not to mention tabloid devotees, Florida is most often a destination (or... More >>

• Behind the Barricades

  published June 18, 2002

  Rich with documentary reportage from all over the globe, this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (through June 27 at the Walter... More >>