Cover: Alec Guinness Profiled by Harlan Kennedy
Features: MTV by Richard Corliss, J. Hoberman, Richard Gehr, David Ehrenstein, Arlene Zeichner, Elliot Schulman, Mary Billard
The Big Fix by David Thomson
Iran: Cinema in Flames by John Motavalli
Also:
Cannes by Mary Corliss; New York by Enrique Fernandez
Jean-Jacques Beineix by Dan Yakir
John Waters’ Guilty Pleasures
Dan O’Bannon’s Thunder by Marc Mancini
Edgar G. Ulmer by Bill Krohn
Dan Yakir interviews Diane Kurys and Miou-Miou
Books: David Thomson on Irene Selznick’s The Private View, Carrie Rickey on Marsha McCreadie’s Women on Film: The Critical Eye
Independents: Philippe Garrel’s L’enfant secret by Amos Vogel
People We Like: Richard Farnsworth by David Thomson
Back Page: Margareta Akermark by Joanne Koch