STARR TIME

Robert Siegel interviews agent-turned-director Steven Starr

THE COMEBACK OF ALEX COX

Peter Broderick interviews the director of Highway Patrolman

VICE SQUAD

Scott Macaulay talks with Abel Ferrara, Zo‘ Lund, and Paul Cohen about Bad Lieutenant

SUBWAY RIDER

Beth Coleman on Leslie Harris' Just Another Girl on the IRT

RECKLESS, GREEDY, AND DANGEROUS

Holly Willis on Flaming Ears

BAND OF OUTSIDERS

A dialogue between directors Alexandre Rockwell and Quentin Tarantino

WHICH MOON IS FULLER

Vivian Huang on New Hong Kong Cinema

A FILM FOR A SONG

Peter Broderick on Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi. Plus sidebar: A Song for a Film

THE ABC'S OF NO-BUDGET FILMMAKING

Peter Broderick uncovers the secrets - and the budgets - of The Living End, Laws of Gravity, and El Mariachi

FROM AMERICAN GRAFFITI TO PHYSICAL GRAFFITI

Paul Cullum visits the set of Rick Linklater's new movie Dazed and Confused

F-STOP TROOP

Marc Schiller on today's hottest cinematographers; Len McLure on how to choose and deal with your DP

INDUSTRY BEAT

Scott Macaulay visits October Films

FESTIVAL ROUNDUP

The Toronto Festival of Festivals, L.A. Freewaves, and Short Films at Venice, Rimini, and Locarno covered by Peter Broderick, Holly Willis, and Howard Feinstein

PRODUCTION UPDATE

by Mary Glucksman

LEGAL AFFAIRS

John Sloss and David Schmerler on rights and clearance issues

TECHNOLOGY

Anne Bergman talks to the Voyager Company's Michael Nash

WORDS

Auteur Alley - Books on directors reviewed by John Peavoy, Phillip Sherrod, Anne Bergman, and Jesse Lerner

GUEST ESSAY

Theodore Thomas reconsiders the documentary format

SHORT ENDS