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1. Bully (Larry Clark) My favorite movie of the year: a dirty true-crime sexploitation picture that dares to be art. Larry Clark invents the “crotch-cam” shot and inspires the most outraged New York Times review of the season.

2. Faithless (Liv Ullmann) Liv Ullmann channels Ingmar Bergman. See it on acid.

3. L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta) A feel-good child molester with a hard-on of gold befriends a confused Long Island teen and his Gacy-bait sidekick.

4. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) Lipstick lesbians never had this much celluloid fun.

5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith) GLAAD was wrong on this one. Jason Mewes can tell me a blow-job joke any day of the week.

6. Our Lady of the Assassins (Barbet Schroeder) The perfect boyfriend: He’s young, cute, and kills whoever gets on your nerves.

7. Lumumba (Raoul Peck) If the distributor of this stylishly realistic biopic about slain Congolese statesman Patrice Lumumba could afford to send out screening videotapes to Academy members, the film’s star, Eriq Ebouaney, would be a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination.

8. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell) Finally, a new kind of hip-punk-gay musical that makes all the old-fashioned show-tune queens run for the exits.

9. Chopper (Andrew Dominik) Eric Bana, as the Australian psycho-murderer who wrote a best-selling autobiography, is as scarily likable as Faye Dunaway was in Mommie Dearest.

10. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat) Anaïs Reboux, dressed in puke green, is perfect as the sullen, overweight child-woman who yearns to be desired. She could play a young Divine.

John Waters is currently at work on a new screenplay, A Dirty Shame.

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Cover, spiral from top left: Luc Tuymans, Absence, 2001. oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 53 1/4. Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Head #23 (detail), 2000. color photograph, 48 x 60". Vik Muniz, Clouds, 2001, skywriting, New York City. Presented by Creative Time. Photo: Charlie Samuels. Thomas Ruff, d.p.b. 08 (detail), 2000, color photograph, 51 1/8 x 70 7/8". Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam—Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001, 12-minute color video. Jeff Mermelstein, September 11th 2001 (detail), color photograph. David Goldblatt, Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, de Villiers Street, 25 October, 1985, black-and-white photograph. Olafur Eliasson, Moss Wall (detail), 1993–2001, wall covered in moss, dimensions variable. Installation view, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Thomas Hirschhorn, Laundrette, 2001, mixed media. Installation view, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Napoleon Bonaparte (detail), 1999, black-and-white photograph, 58 3/4 x 47". Pierre Huyghe, Les Grands ensembles, 1993–200, stills from a color video, 8 minutes. Irving Penn, untitled (detail), 2001, Vogue, July 2001. Condé Nast Publications. Andreas Gursky, Tote Hosen (detail), 2000, color photograph, 6' 10" x 16' 8". Tacita Dean, Berwick Lighthouse (detail), 1996, color photograph, 18 x 24". Jack Goldstein, MGM (detail), 1975, still from a color film in 16 mm, 2 minutes. Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, 1991, color photograph, 51 3/16 x 70 7/8".
Cover, spiral from top left: Luc Tuymans, Absence, 2001. oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 53 1/4. Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Head #23 (detail), 2000. color photograph, 48 x 60". Vik Muniz, Clouds, 2001, skywriting, New York City. Presented by Creative Time. Photo: Charlie Samuels. Thomas Ruff, d.p.b. 08 (detail), 2000, color photograph, 51 1/8 x 70 7/8". Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam—Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001, 12-minute color video. Jeff Mermelstein, September 11th 2001 (detail), color photograph. David Goldblatt, Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, de Villiers Street, 25 October, 1985, black-and-white photograph. Olafur Eliasson, Moss Wall (detail), 1993–2001, wall covered in moss, dimensions variable. Installation view, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Thomas Hirschhorn, Laundrette, 2001, mixed media. Installation view, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Napoleon Bonaparte (detail), 1999, black-and-white photograph, 58 3/4 x 47". Pierre Huyghe, Les Grands ensembles, 1993–200, stills from a color video, 8 minutes. Irving Penn, untitled (detail), 2001, Vogue, July 2001. Condé Nast Publications. Andreas Gursky, Tote Hosen (detail), 2000, color photograph, 6' 10" x 16' 8". Tacita Dean, Berwick Lighthouse (detail), 1996, color photograph, 18 x 24". Jack Goldstein, MGM (detail), 1975, still from a color film in 16 mm, 2 minutes. Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, 1991, color photograph, 51 3/16 x 70 7/8".
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