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FEATURES BOYS' OWN STORIES COVER FEATURE In the last decade a talented collection of players — including Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson — have brought their own brand of improvisational comedy and wry humour to the big screen. It's time we threw out the old categories of highbrow and lowbrow and settled down to enjoy what Indiewood — or the Frat Pack — has to offer, says Henry K. Miller 16 WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY Noah Baumbach has followed The Squid and the Wha/ewith Margot at the Wedding, a caustic comedy of family disfunction starring Feat Packer jack Black, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. He talks to Edward Lawrenson about putting intimacy on screen 20 DIY HARD Michel Gondn,''s Be Kind Rewind and Garth Jennings' Son of Rambow reference film-making of the 198os with a mix of nostalgia and humour. But cinema's power to provide a creative outlet and sense of community is just as relevant to the intemet age, says Ben Walters 22 STAND UP AND BE COUNTED The Frat Pack weren't the first offbeat TV comedians to pursue careers in the movies, Kim Newman traces their ancestry back to the r gsos via National Lampoon's Animal House and Saturday Night Live 22 THE KILLER INSIDE Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Conformist is a movie that refuses to court its audience with easy offers of comfort or compassion. David Thomson explores its cold heart 28 THE AMERICAN WAY In Mp Blueberry Nights Wong Kar-Wai parlays his trademark concetn with character and mood to track a woman's journey across the United States. He tells Tony Rayns about the problems and passions that-informed his first English-language movie 32 RUFFS AND FUMBLES The release of The Other Boleyn Girl demonstrates the enduring power of the Tudor costume drama. Is the genre just an excuse for sanctioned sex and savagery or do its characters still resonate, asks David Jays 36 OBITUARIES Bob Mastrangelo recalls the men and women of cinema who died in 2007 PLUS Nick James, David Robinson, Duncan Petrie. Dinette Vincendeau and Guido Bonsaver pay their respects to Norman Mailer, Deborah Kerr, Freddie Francis, Jean-Claude Brialy and Carlo Ponti 41