Loop # One

This month's issue uses classic cover art from the first paperback edition of R.A. Lafferty's novel Fourth Mansions. Illustration by Leo & Dianne Dillon.

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Avant Garde '03: What Rules?
by Daniel A.

Walking out of an overdose of experimental film screenings, one enjoys free and often much more radical reactions, which would be difficult to reproduce on a studio test-audience questionnaire.

Back to the Front: Speaking with the Rintama Filmmakers
Interviewed by Warren Tessler

If we had shot the film in the USA for example, it could just as well have been a western; two cowboys trying to make their way through hostile terrain...

The Vermont Manifesto
by Thomas H. Naylor

Many Vermonters view the so-called American Way of Life through a jaundiced eye—corporate greed, homeland security, the denial of basic civil liberties, the militarization of space, pandering to the rich and powerful, and global hegemony.

Linda and Me
by Julianne Flynn

Hollywood was a place that revered Winona Ryder for jacking everything she could fit in her purse from Sacks Fifth Avenue. Do what you feel, do what you feel, this town begged. And don’t apologize. Ever. That’s how you get your name on a t-shirt.

Is America Becoming Fascist?
by Anis Shivani

Several of the apparent contradictions in the Bush administration's governance make perfect sense if the fascist prism is applied, but not with the usual perspective. Fascism is home, it is here to stay, and it better be countered with all the resources at our disposal.

 

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