TITLE: FILM COMMENT Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: September-October 1988; Volume 24, Number 5
CONDITION: Standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean,  VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Croneberg and Irons in Dead Ringers. Scorsese Speaks, Last Temptation. Cover Photo: courtesy 20th Century-Fox.

Published Bimonthly By The Film Society Of Lincoln Center.
IN THIS ISSUE.
`VOICES' IN TIME: The past is tense in Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives--an elegy to family rapt with emotion and disillusionment at finding Life ain't like the Movies. Harlan Kennedy meets the man with the memories and the director's chair.

MY BROTHER, MY SELF: David Cronenberg has a thing about warped minds and bod-ies--but his new Dead Ringers is a case of body doubles (twins to you). Karen Jaehne meets the Creepy Canadian and talks to altered ego Jeremy Irons (26).

LET'S PARTY: Two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. was recruited to the communist party, worked for Selznick, wrote Woman of the Year, then joined the Beverly Hills club, the Hollywood Ten. He talks to Barry Strugatz about before and after the Blacklist.

MIDSECTION: CROSS PURPOSES: Cinematic sacrilege? Don't hold your breath waiting for all that juicy blasphemy in The Last Temptation of Christ: that crazy Martin Scorsese swears on the bible he's made an authentically religious film about the nature of divinity, and gives Richard Corliss The Word (page 36). And the aforesaid writer reflects upon the theological implications, charts Scorsese's transubstantiation of true faith into film and comes up with a devotion picture for our times (34). Harlan Jacobson traces the lineage of Scorsese's tortured visionary from the mean streets of Little Italy upwards and onwards, and argues that it's all just a question of sacred-secular semiotics (32). And Michael Singer rounds things off with an exhaustive investigation of film Christs past and present, proving the church hasn't got the copyright on J.C. (44). But has he got an agent?.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Journals: Movies are a labor of love, quoth novelist John Nichols, author of The Wizard of Loneliness; he went to the film's Vermont set and witnessed the labor pains first hand. Barbara Osborn talks to filmmaker Mira Nair about Salaam Bombay!, her crossover from documentary to drama. Art addition to the undiminished cycle of street kids stories, this time the searing images are Indian. And Pat Aufderheide traces the progress of African cinema from Third World film to world class art movie, as seen at the F i I mfest D.C.
Not So Little Dorrit: Once was not enough, so here's two helpings of the same story, told from two points of view. Long is an understatement, but Christine Edzard's Dickensian epic is the epitome of faithful, detailed narrative construction. Graham Fuller reports.
(Big) Body of Work: Orson Welles--the incredibly expanding genius? Armond White attended the NYU/Public Theater retrospective and considers the unfinished works. Did Welles deliver on his talent or disappoint?.
Books: French Letters: Richard Round welcomes a volume of Francx)is Trutiaut's letters and remembers a filmmaker who could read and write.
Back Page: Quiz #33.


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