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General, Mainstream, Monthly magazine from London, United Kingdom published by British Film Institute (BFI),

- First issue in 1991
- 258 issues are listed in the moviemags.com database. (full listing).
- General cinema.
- Took its present form in May 1991 with the incorporation of Monthly Film Bulletin. Prior to that it was published quarterly.
- Half the magazine contains great articles on various topics and the other half has the film reviews for the contemporary releases. I especially like the full synopsis given for every movie: No surprises when you 're watching The Crying Game for the first time.
- Published by the British Film Institute.
- Monthly, 70 colour pages in A4 format.
- Website: www.bfi.org.uk
- From the same publisher: Bfi Films On Offer, Bfi Membership News, Bfi Newsreel, Bfi Southbank Guide, Black Film Bulletin, Contrast, Critics Choice, Eyeline, Framework, Monthly Film Bulletin, Monthly Film Strip Review, News From The British Film Institute, Nft Essential Cinema, Nft Jewish Film Festival, Nft Newsletter, Pix (90s), Screen Guide (bfi), Sight And Sound, Sight And Sound (30s-90s),

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Issue #259
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October 2012
Dated: November 2012"Our November festival special issue brings you the best of Venice, Toronto and the upcoming London film festivals: Ben Walters explores the strain of “British bathetic bucolic” in Ben (Kill List) Wheatley’s cover black comedy Sightseers, Jacques Audiard talks about the mix of Marion Cotillard, sex, disability and orcas in his new drama Rust and Bone, Sally Potter revisits adolescent passions under the shadow of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in Ginger and Rosa and Demetrios Matheou reports from the location shoot of Walter Salles’ Kerouac adaptation On the Road.
Plus a ‘Deep Focus’ on the dark side of Ealing Studios, David Thomson imagines an interview with Jack Nicholson’s mad Randy post-The Shining, Tony Rayns’ guide to Korean master Im Kwontaek, an interview with pure-cinema pioneer Peter Kubelka, New York’s radical renaissance man Aldo Tambellini, reviews of 34 new film releases and 23 DVDs, books on Nicholas Ray and Olivier Assayas, J. Hoberman’s take on 21st Century Cinema, and that last shot of The Searchers.

Issue #258
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September 2012
Dated: October 2012Our October issue kicks off with an illuminating look at Holy Motors, the daring and unclassifiable new film from provocative French maverick Leos Carax. David Thompson decodes the complex web of cinematic homages and references at play in Carax's dazzling and film-literate one-off.
We also remember a French innovator from an earlier age: the great Chris Marker, who died in July this year, and who was always so much more than just a ‘documentary filmmaker'. Catherine Lupton introduces our coverage, which features tributes from directors inspired by Marker's towering example, among them Agnes Varda, Patricio Guzmán, Chris Petit, Jose Luis Guerin, Patrick Keiller and more.
Kim Newman enjoys Dredd, a new take on the helmeted futuristic lawman Judge Dredd, and writer Alex Garland tells David Jenkins how he was committed to staying true to the raw, borderline-psychotic spirit of the 2000AD comic-strip original; Michael Atkinson explores the history of the moonshiner film - a rural and largely disreputable subgenre of the Hollywood gangster movie that's back with a vengeance in its bloodiest incarnation yet courtesy of the Nick Cave-scripted Lawless; and Nick Hasted talks to Christian Petzold, the leading light of the Berlin School of filmmakers, famed for the uneasy gaze they've cast over modern Germany, whose tense and probing new film Barbara turns his attention to communist East Germany in the last decade of its existence.
We also launch our new ‘Sight & Sound Interview' feature this month, as the great American critic and cultural historian Greil Marcus talks to David Thomson about Thomson's latest book The Big Screen, and about a life spent watching movies.
Our comprehensive reviews pages include in-depth looks at Oliver Stone's Savages and Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, and we also review the most interesting books, DVDs and Blu-ray releases. All that, and much more besides…

Issue #257
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August 2012
Dated: September 2012 Cover feature: The 2012 Critics' Poll
Once a decade we ask critics to select the Greatest Films of All Time. This year 846 of them responded. We unveil the Top 100, plus 100 personal top tens from David Thomson, Camille Paglia, J. Hoberman, Mark Kermode and others…
FEATURES
The 2012 Dire?ctors' Poll
?The Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by 358 directors including Woody Allen, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Quentin Tarantino, the Dardenne brothers, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann…
White mischief
Tabu moves from modern-day Lisbon to a rapturous evocation of romance in colonial Africa. But no plot description can do justice to the idiosyncratic poetry of director Miguel Gomes. He talks to Mar Diestro-Dópido.
Hey presto
The 1970s have been seen as a period of frustration for Orson Welles. But, says Welles biographer Simon Callow, the same period saw his invention of the essay film with the brilliant F for Fake.
The art of noise
Director Peter Strickland follows his breakthrough Katalin Varga with a bold step into the world of analogue sound and Italian horror, Berberian Sound Studio. He talks to Jason Wood.
PLUS Geoffrey Macnab talks to Toby Jones about his role as a sound engineer.
Rushes
Hannah McGill on the allure of smoking in the movies.
David Jenkins talks to director David Robert Mitchell about his debut The Myth of the American Sleepover.
Mark Cousins praises Asian cinema.
Catherine Bray pays tribute to screenwriter Nora Ephron.
Jonathan Romney decodes an image from Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.
The Industry
Geoffrey Macnab talks to the new head of the BFI Film Fund, Ben Roberts.
Charles Gant explores the troubled production history of On the Road.
Charles Gant assesses Steven Soderbergh's box-office performance.
David Locke explores how live alternative content is affecting cinemas.
Wide Angle
Sophie Mayer on Tate Modern's new space for live performance and film.
Laura Mulvey pays tribute to experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin.
Gabe Klinger celebrates the depth and breadth of the FIDMarseille film festival.
Frances Morgan reconsiders three Ennio Morricone scores for Dario Argento.
Bryony Dixon assesses the contemporary state of silent cinema.
Kim Newman revisits some classic Mexican sci-fi.
Brad Stevens asks if there's a difference between ‘best' and ‘favourite' films.
Forum
Henry K. Miller and Hannah McGill go head to head over the relevance of cinematic canons.
Reviews
Berberian Sound Studio, The Dark Knight Rises, The Imposter, Tabu and 32 other releases. Plus 16 DVDs, and books on Night and Fog, the Hollywood sign and post-digital boundaries.

Issue #256
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July 2012
Dated: August 2012Features
Cover feature: The genius of Hitchcock: Since his twenties, when he wrote a book about Hitchcock, Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro has returned to his films again and again. He offers a director's POV on what we can learn from the master.
PLUS Bryony Dixon on the restoration of the 'Hitchcock nine'
Escape artist: In the space of just over a decade, Christopher Nolan has shot from promising British indie director to undisputed master of a new brand of intelligent escapism. Joseph Bevan surveys his body of work.
Get Suschitzky: Wolfgang Suschitzky's unforgettable cinematography on Get Carter is just the tip of the iceberg in a career embracing documentary, industrial film and still photography. As the great man turns 100, Patrick Russell looks back over his career.
Showtime: Filmmaker and performance artist Bruce Lacey has been ‘playing silly buggers' for over half a century. To coincide with a BFI retrospective, William Fowler assesses his legacy.
PLUS artist Jeremy Deller and filmmaker Nick Abrahams on how Lacey's anarchic spirit inspired their film portrait of the artist.
Revolutionary road: In the last of our countdowns to next month's ‘Greatest Films of All Time' poll, Mark Le Fanu sings the praises of Boris Barnet's silent contender The House on Trubnaya Street.
Desert of the disappeared: Now 70, the radical Chilean director Patricio Guzmán is back with the wonderful Nostalgia for the Light, which links the hidden history of his homeland to the secrets of the stars. He talks to Chris Darke.
Rushes
David Thomson pays tribute to the late great US critic Andrew Sarris.
Nick Bradshaw on music doc Searching for Sugar Man and how apartheid fostered the legend of a lost 1970s rock prophet.
Charles Gant on how The Angels' Share paid off north of the border.
Nick James joins Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair for a journey into London's Olympic heartlands.
Melanie Williams welcomes the reissue of 1957 kitchen-sink sensation Woman in a Dressing Gown.
Kieron Corless talks to Lola Doillon about kidnap drama In Your Hands.
Nick Roddick ponders the changing nature of film festivals.
Films reviewed in this issue:
Film of the month: A Simple Life
Plus: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, The Chernobyl Diaries, Comes a Bright Day, Detachment, Dr Seuss' The Lorax, Eames: The Architect and the Painter, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, Electrick Children, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, The Giants, God Bless America, Harold's Going Stiff, The Hunter, I Am Bruce Lee, In Your Hands, Lay the Favourite, LOL, Magic Mike, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Nostalgia for the Light, Personal Best, Ping Pong, The Players, Prometheus, Requiem for a Killer, Revenge of the Electric Car, Rock of Ages, Searching for Sugar Man, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, 7 Days in Havana, Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, The Soul of Flies, Storage 24, Strawberry Fields, Swandown, Ted, Tortoise in Love, Undefeated, Wagner's Dream, Where Do We Go Now?, You've Been Trumped, DVDs
DVD features: Michael Brooke welcomes a full-length release for Kenneth Lonergan's thrillingly ambitious Margaret
Tim Lucas revisits Jack Arnold's 1958 classic The Space Children
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The All-American Boy, Bell, Book and Candle, A Bullet for the General, Confidence, Correspondence(s), Films starring Doris Day, The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption, Earth 2, The Execution of Private Slovik, Force of Evil, The House by the Cemetery, Justice - Series 1, King of New York, Lidice, Nightbirds, The Rafi Pitts Collection, The Red House, Three Melodramas by Yasujiro Ozu.
Books
Nick Pinkerton savours the last word on Frank Tashlin
Chris Darke is intrigued by the ‘behavioural codes' of filmgoing
Sophie Mayer is absorbed by an in-depth study of the WhedonVerse

Issue #254
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June 2012Features
Cover feature: An island of his own:Set on an island off the coast of the US in the mid-60s, on the eve of that decade's upheavals, Moonrise Kingdom is the latest of the self-contained worlds created by Wes Anderson. Nick Pinkerton talks to the director
Gone with the wind: The Turin Horse is the last testament of the legendarily uncompromising Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr. He talks to Jonathan Romney
PLUS Geoffrey Macnab on the battle for the soul of Hungarian film
PLUS Turin Horse DP Fred Kelemen analyses his remarkable collaboration with the director
On the side of the angels: In a unique long-term collaboration, Paul Laverty has now written ten features for director Ken Loach. Thomas Dawson talks to the writer on the set of The Angels' Share
Travelling light: Jean-Claude Carriere is famed above all for his six-film collaboration with Luis Buñuel. The veteran French screenwriter discusses the secrets of his craft with Nick James
Life expectancy: Bertrand Tavernier's 1980 sci-fi one-off Death Watch anticipated reality TV, and showed Glasgow as never before. He talks to Pasquale Iannone
Spring awakening: A year on from the Arab Spring, Ali Jaafar examines the implications of political change for the new generation of filmmakers emerging in the Middle East
Listomania: In our countdown to September's 'Greatest Films of All Time' poll, Michael Atkinson anatomises critical obsession with the 'top ten'
The early life of Colonel Blimp: As a new digital print restores Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to its Technicolor glory, we reproduce two key artefacts from its production: a tapestry and Pressburger's original treatment
Island of Lost Souls: The 1935 film of H.G. Wells's Dr Moreau story is disturbing and subtextually explosive, writes Michael Atkinson Reviews in this issue: 2 Days in New York, American Pie: Reunion, The Angels' Share, Arirang, Avengers Assemble, Battleship, Beloved, Cafe de Flore, Casa de mi padre, The Cold Light of Day, Elfie Hopkins, Even the Rain, Faust, Free Mene Harsh Light of Day, Himizu, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Ill Manors, The Innkeepers, Lockout, The Lucky One, Mirror Mirror, Mitsuko Delivers, Monsieur Lazhar, The Pact, The Raid: Redemption, Red Tails, Safe, She Monkeys, Tales of the Night, Transit, The Turin Horse, Victim, Woody Allen: A Documentary, Wrath of the Titans.
DVD: Island of Lost Souls, Michael Brooke salutes Radu Muntean's forensic analysis of an illicit affair, Tim Lucas savours highlights from a golden age for US animation, La Bataille du rail, Black Pond, Braquo - Series 1, The John Cassavetes Collection, Un condamne à mort s'est echappe/A Man Escaped, Conversation Piece, Demons/Demons 2, Dickens on Film, The Golden Bowl, Hit!, I.D., The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Two: Fires Were Started, The Living Wake, Murder Rooms, Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Portuguese Nun, Ruggles of Red Gap, Tales from the Golden Age.
Books: Henry K. Miller admires a well-researched history of the British Film Institute, Andrew Robinson dips into a brilliant compilation of Satyajit Ray's writing on cinema, Maria M. Delgado surveys an ambitious study of New Argentine Cinema.

Issue #253
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May 2012Features
The great escape: La Grande Illusion: In past S&S polls of the greatest films of all time, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion has lost out to his later, allegedly more personal film La Regle du jeu. It's time to reconsider, says Ginette Vincendeau
Blood and sand: Beau Travail: In the latest of our essays making the case for contenders in S&S's poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, Hannah McGill revisits Beau Travail, Claire Denis's rapturous 1998 exploration of male identity in crisis
Lost and found: Group Portrait with Lady: Like so many films by the great Yugoslavian director Aleksandar Petrovic, Group Portrait with Lady is off the radar. By Vlastimir Sudar
Cover feature: Minor quay: Since leaving his native Finland, director Aki Kaurismaki has broadened his canvas with Le Havre, but his deadpan vision remains the same. Michael Brooke talks to him, and surveys his career to date
A man apart: Artist-filmmaker Ben Rivers's feature debut Two Years at Sea is a mesmerising portrait of life on the margins. He talks to Andrea Picard
Whit and whimsy: Fans of Whit Stillman have had a long wait for another taste of his acerbic dialogue and wry social portraiture. He talks to Nick Pinkerton about his first film in 14 years, Damsels in Distress
Revolt into style: From Futurism to Dogme, filmmakers have felt the urge to pronounce new laws of their art. Nick James charts a brief history of the manifesto
Blood and sand: In the first of two pieces on contenders for S&S's upcoming Greatest Film of All Time poll, Hannah McGill revisits Beau Travail, Claire Denis's rapturous 1998 exploration of male identity
Moon kampf: Timo Vuorensola's satirical sci-fi comedy Iron Sky takes Nazi scientific theory to its illogical conclusion. By Kim Newman
A canadian in paris: What is Winnipeg's most famous director Guy Maddin up to in the basement of the Pompidou Centre? Jonathan Romney pays his respects to 'The Seances Project'
Film review: Breathing: Karl Markovics' debut study of an institutionalised teenager finding release in mortuary work takes several leaves from the Dardennes' neorealist playbook. Catherine Wheatley sees muted naturalism turn to the sublime
Film review: The Cabin in the Woods: Drew Goddard and producer Joss Whedon's marvellous meta-monster horror may be smarter (and funnier) than it is scary, says Kim Newman
Film review: Damsels in Distress: The erstwhile laureate of satires of the American preppie heart, Whit Stillman breaks his 13-year silence with a decidedly tongue-in-cheek college comedy. Kate Stables wonders if its frivolity is for real
Film of the month: Goodbye First Love: Girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl meets older man... The new film by Mia Hansen-Løve confirms the promise of Father of My Children with a frank - and very French - look at the pangs of young love, says Philip Kemp Film review: Le Havre: In Aki Kaurismaki's deadpan fairytale of working-class solidarity, quirky flirts with cutesy and bathos with true poignancy. Hannah McGill sees the raw humanity shining through
DVD: The Mizoguchi Collection: The films of Mizoguchi Kenji combine detachment with intense emotional involvement, argues Brad Stevens
Reviews in this issue: Albert Nobbs, Angel & Tony, Beauty, Being Elmo, Blackthorn, Breathing, Buck, The Cabin in the Woods, A Cat in Paris, Cleanskin, Damsels in Distress, Delicacy, The Divide, Elles, Gone, Goodbye First Love, Grave Encounters, Hara-kiri Death of a Samurai, Hard Boiled Sweets, Le Havre, The Hunger Games, Iron Sky, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, John Carter, London Paris New York, Marley, The Monk, Mozart's Sister, Oliver Sherman, The Other Side of Sleep, Payback Season, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, Project X, The Raven, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Silent House, Town of Runners, Two Years at Sea, Wanderlust, We Are Poets
DVD: The Mizoguchi Collection, Geoffrey Macnab revisits a quartet of post-war classics from Poland, Tim Lucas is captivated by a new film that brings Bruegel to life, American Dreams (lost and found)/Landscape Suicide, Il boom, The Doom Generation, Encounters: Four Ground-Breaking Classics of Gay Cinema, Friendly Fire Game of Thrones, Her Private Hell, Italian Crime Collection: Fernando Di Leo, Films by Fritz Lang, Lifeboat, Male of the Species, Miracle in Milan, Films by Edgar Reitz, Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy, Films by Imamura Shohei, Treasure Train, Urbanized.
Book: Nick Pinkerton savours a film-by-film appreciation of Barbara Stanwyck, John Wrathall evaluates tips from yet another guide to the art of screenwriting, Michael Atkinson hails a pioneering survey of the career of Russian director Alexander Sokurov, Jane Giles relishes a good-natured account of Hollywood sexual excess from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Issue #252
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April 2012Features
Light my fire: The Hour of the Furnaces: As S&S counts down to the September issue's once-a-decade poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, French critic Nicole Brenez makes the case for one of the key revolutionary activist films of the 1960s, The Hour of the Furnaces.
Lost and found: Gervaise: Mark Le Fanu pays tribute to 1956's Gervaise, a great example of Zola on film - and of the work of its neglected director, Rene Clement.
The hand that rocked the Kremlin: Jirí Trnka: Born 100 years ago, the Czech artist Jirí Trnka spent his career bringing fairytales magically to life, in book illustrations and puppet animation - until his last film turned his talents to a devastating allegory of Stalinism. Peter Hames surveys his career.
La comedie humaine: The Kid with a Bike is the latest of a series of extraordinary features with which the Dardenne brothers have turned a bleak industrial town in Belgium into a microcosm of all human life. By Jonathan Romney.
Journey to the end of the night: With Once upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan turns his contemplative eye on a murder investigation. The Turkish director talks to Geoff Andrew.
PLUS extracts from Ceylan's diary of the editing process.
The 400 hits: Lena Dunham is one of a new breed of directors who find their first audience on YouTube, but her debut feature Tiny Furniture shows there's more to her than navel-gazing, says Melissa Anderson.
Platz entertainment: A very public battle for the Golden Bear divided this year's Berlin film Festival, says Nick James.
Act of faith: In 1954, a student hung out with Carl Theodor Dreyer on the set of Ordet, and transcribed his conversations with the great Danish director. An extract from the new memoir by Jan Wahl.
The hand that rocked the kremlin: Jirí Trnka brought fairytales to life in spellbinding puppet animation - until his last film took on Stalinism. Peter Hames celebrates the centenary of the great Czech animator.
Cover feature: On the road again: A bold blend of rock-star hip and Holocaust hauntology, Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place is an oddball vehicle for Sean Penn. By Jonathan Romney.
PLUS John Wrathall on what US stars learn from Italian auteurs.
PLUS Paul Mayersberg on the enigma at the heart of Paolo Sorrentino's four Italian films.
Selected reviews:
In Darkness: Agnieszka Holland's third engagement with the terrors of WWII is a hard-hitting portrait of national and class divisions amongst fugitive Jews in the sewers of the Lwów ghetto. By Michael Brooke.
Into the Abyss: Into the Abyss is not just a compelling documentary about a convicted murderer on Death Row, but a further chapter in Werner Herzog's obsessive exploration of the American way of life - and death. By Tony Rayns.
DVD feature: On the Bowery: Nick Bradshaw revisits Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery, a pioneering drama-doc shot on the mean streets of New York.
Reviews in this issue: 21 Jump Street, Act of Valour, Babycall, Bill Cunningham New York, Black Gold, Blank City, Bonsai: A Story of Love, Books and Plants, Chronicle, Contraband, Corman's World Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Corpo celeste, Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance, Headhunters, How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire, ID:A, If Not Us, Who, Film review: In Darkness, Film of the month: Into the Abyss, Intruders, The Island President, Journey 2 The Mysterious Island, The Kid with a Bike, A Man's Story, North Sea Texas, Once upon a Time in Anatolia, One for the Money, Return, Safe House, StreetDance 2, This Is Not a Film, This Means War, This Must Be the Place, Tiny Furniture, Trishna, The Vow, We Bought a Zoo, Wild Bill.
DVD features:
Kim Newman on the closest we can get to the director's cut of The Devils, On the Bowery, Tim Lucas on the one-off collaboration of Nicolas Roeg and Dennis Potter.
DVDs: Chung Kuo - China, The Conformist, Dellamorte Dellamore, Dracula Prince of Darkness, Films by Wojciech Jerzy Has, In a Glass Cage, Leon the Pig Farmer - The Kosher Edition, Letter Never Sent, Liverpool, La Morte Rouge, Moses and Aaron, NCIS - Season, North Square, Outcast of the Islands, Rare Films by Raúl Ruiz, Three Outlaw Samurai, Who Pays the Ferryman?, Zift.
Book: Edward Buscombe finds new revelations in a biography of pioneer producer Thomas Ince, Sonia Mullett weighs up a new critical take on Ozu's Late Spring, Dan Callahan hopes for more from a biography of Loretta Young, Peter Tonguette relishes the memoirs of Orson Welles's love-child.

Issue #251
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March 2012Features
Remain in light: Mulholland Dr. and the cosmogony of David Lynch: As our ten-yearly poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time gets ever closer, B. Kite considers David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. in the light of the Vedanta-inspired spiritual philosophy that underpins all the director's work.
Only a dream: Gene Tierney: More than just one of the most beautiful actresses in movies, Gene Tierney didn't so much act as embody the mysterious heroines of three unforgettable 40s films. By Dan Callahan.
Lost and found: Manuel Mur Oti: Spain's Manuel Mur Oti had huge success under Franco. Since the fall of the regime he's been written out of history. By Mar Diestro-Dópido.
Obituaries: Sight & Sound's comprehensive annual survey of the notable film actors, directors and more who died during the course of 2011. Compiled by Bob Mastrangelo.
PLUS Peter Tonguette on Bert Schneider, Naman Ramachandran on Dev Anand, Michael Brooke on Zdenek Miler, Peter Biskind on Sue Mengers, David Thompson on Yekaterina Golubeva, Philip Kemp on Michael Gough, Kate Stables on Jane Russell and John Wrathall on John Barry.
Cover feature: Anaylse this: Better known for visceral horror, David Cronenberg turns to psychoanalytical costume drama with A Dangerous Method. He talks Freud and Jung with Nick James.
PLUS Brad Stevens on Cronenberg's 1983 classic Videodrome.
Magnificent Obsession: Rereleased to coincide with a major new David Hockney exhibition, the 1974 film A Bigger Splash is a fascinating document of the artist and his circle. By Ian Massey.
PLUS Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey on the collision of painting and film.
Obituaries: Sight & Sound's annual survey of the notable film figures who died last year. Compiled by Bob Mastrangelo.
PLUS Peter Biskind on Sue Mengers, Peter Tonguette on Bert Schneider, Philip Kemp on Michael Gough, Kate Stables on Jane Russell, and Michael Brooke on Zdenek Miler.
California dreaming: Bombay Beach seems like a typical observational documentary about dead-end American lives - until its subjects start to dance. Director Alma Har'el talks to Nick Bradshaw.
Inking the deal: Before Repo Man became Alex Cox's cult 1984 debut, it was a comic strip. S&S reproduces Cox's original artwork for the first time.
Selected reviews:
Blood Car: Anton Bitel hails a belatedly released satire of American car culture surely destined for cult status.
Hadewijch: Militantly uncompromising, Bruno Dumont's portrait of a nun turning to Islam sees the master of enigmatic mysticism himself swap condescension for compassion, says Jonathan Romney.
The Muppets: As the Muppets Studio is under threat from an evil oil billionaire, Kermit rallies his troupers to produce a timely protest against corporate culture, discovers Sophie Mayer.
Film of the month: Young Adult: After their earlier collaboration on the crowd-pleasing Juno, Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have reteamed for an altogether more bracing follow-up, Young Adult, which overturns every romcom cliche. By Lisa Mullen.
DVD: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin: Nick Pinkerton on French director Jean-Pierre Gorin, whose essay films offer us the chance to see the ordinary and the day-to-day with a fresh eye.
Reviews in this issue: The Adopted/Les Adoptes, Bel Ami, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Best Laid Plans, Big Miracle, Film review: Blood Car, Carancho (The Vulture), A Dangerous Method, The Darkest Hour, The Devil Inside, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Girl Model, Goon, The Grey, Film review: Hadewijch, Hunky Dory, If I Were You, Khodorkovsky, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Michael, A Monster in Paris/Un Monstre à Paris, Position Among the Stars, Rampart, Red Dog, The Topp Twins, Underworld Awakening, Untouchable Girls, The Woman in Black, The Woman in the Fifth/La femme du Veme, X Night of Vengeance.
DVD: Ozu's early comedies, Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin.
Book: Nick James is captivated by Geoff Dyer's exploration of Stalker, Henry K. Miller is unimpressed by a study of 1970s British film culture, Brian Dillon enjoys a suitably eccentric book on Harpo Marx, Sukhdev Sandhu appreciates an exploration of the essay film

Issue #250
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February 2012Features:
Theo Angelopoulos: the sweep of history: As his oeuvre is released on DVD, Theo Angelopoulos revisits his career with David Jenkins
Jean Vigo: Artist of the floating world: Vigo's sole full-length feature bridged the surrealism of 1920s French cinema and the poetic realism of the 1930s. Graham Fuller proposes it for S&S's forthcoming 'Greatest Films of All Time' poll
Lost and found: The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short: Tony Rayns welcomes the revival of a forgotten Belgian classic from the 1960s
Cover feature: Sex and the city: Steve McQueen's Shame reinvents the cinematic New York loner as sex addict. He discusses sexism and racism with Nick James
PLUS Shame star Michael Fassbender talks about working off the rails and the cruelty of siblings
The icegirl cometh: Kim Newman questions whether David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo does justice to the Swedish story's icy heroine
PLUS John Wrathall on Hollywood's love affair with all things Nordic
'Tis pity she's a whore: There's more to Bertrand Bonello's brothel-set House of Tolerance than sex, he tells Catherine Wheatley
One from the heart: John Akomfrah, director of Handsworth Songs, is back with The Nine Muses. He tells Kieron Corless about fusing Greek myth and black British experience
Mythomania: Following his death last November, Linda Ruth Williams and Mark Kermode celebrate the maverick exuberance of Ken Russell Lost highway: As Two-Lane Blacktop celebrates its fortieth anniversary, Ian Penman hails Monte Hellman's cult road movie
Artist of the floating world: Graham Fuller proposes Jean Vigo's L'Atalante for consideration in S&S's 'Greatest Films of All Time' poll
The sweep of history: As his oeuvre is released on DVD, Theo Angelopoulos revisits his career with David Jenkins
Charlie's ghost: As Charles Dickens's 200th birthday arrives, Matthew Sweet asks why his work isn't seen more often on today's screens
Film review: Coriolanus: Ralph Fiennes's bold modern adaptation of Shakespeare's caustic late combat drama makes a strong fist of merciless material, says David Jays
Film of the month: The Descendants: Alexander Payne's follow-up to About Schmidt and Sideways is a characteristic mix of funny and painful, with Hawaii lawyer George Clooney struggling with family baggage as his wife lies in a coma. By Philip Kemp
Film review: A Useful Life: A genial homage to a failing cinematheque and its waning artform, Federico Veiroj's comedy also proves an ode to reinvention, says Mar Diestro-Dópido
Film review: The Iron Lady: Thatcher - The Biopic runs shy of politics. Philip Kemp scratches his head
DVD: The Conversation: A tale of surveillance and hacking, The Conversation is uncannily relevant to our times, writes Michael Brooke
Reviews in this issue: A Useful Life, Acts of Godfrey, Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked, Bombay Beach, Carnage, Coriolanus, Film review: Coriolanus, Film of the month: The Descendants, Happy Feet Two, Haywire, House of Tolernace, Hugo, The Iron Lady, J.Edgar, Jack and Jill, Like Crazy, Man on Ledge, Margaret, Margin Call, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Mother and Child, New Year's Eve, Patience (After Sebald), Red Light Revolution, Shame, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, Tatsumi, The Big Year, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Lady, The Nine Muses, The Sitter, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1, Film review: A Useful Life, W.E., War Horse.
DVD: The Conversation, Kate Stables reassesses the charms of popular child star Sabu, Tim Lucas revisits Depardieu's sexually charged breakthrough, Children of the Stones, Community - Season 1, The Cranes are Flying, Delitto d'amore, A Farewell to Arms, The Four Feathers, Happy People A Year in the Taiga, Kurosawa Classic Collection, Little Big Man, Meda, Films by Oshima Nagisa, The Overcoat, The Red and the White, Shoestring - Series 1, The Tree of Life.
Books: Philip Horne delves into a new book of conversations with Scorsese, ichael Brooke commends a whistle-stop tour of the GPO Film Unit, Kim Newman asks whether on-screen boxers lose even when they win, Maria M. Delgado on the wide-reaching influence of Elías Querejeta.

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Lost and found: Spring Night, Summer Night: J.L. Anderson's backwoods Appalachian love story is a forgotten classic of 1960s indie neorealism, says Ross Lipman
2011: The year in review: In a strong year for arthouse cinema, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life emerged as the clear winner of the S&S poll of international critics' best films of 2011, says Nick James
In a lonely place: North Korea's Pyongyang International Film Festival: What films are you allowed to see in North Korea, the world's most secretive country? James Bell hands in his mobile phone and reports from the Pyongyang International Film Festival
Review of the year: Nick James introduces the results of Sight & Sound's annual poll for best film of the year
PLUS 60 contributors from around the world on their top-five films and other highlights of 2011
Cover feature: The sound of silents: Michel Hazanavicius tells James Bell why his affectionate tribute to early Hollywood, The Artist, had to be a silent movie
PLUS Bryony Dixon on the myth of the silent-movie stars whose careers were scuppered by sound
The illusionist: Martin Scorsese's Hugo is not just a 3D adaptation of a hit children's novel, but a magical tribute to Georges Melies and the early days of cinema. By Ian Christie
Peach perfect: The most glorious of MGM musicals, Meet Me in St. Louis has hidden depths, says Richard Dyer
PLUS Kay Dickinson on Ken Russell's The Boy Friend, an MGM musical with a very British twist
Forget me not: The case of a Londoner who lay dead and undiscovered in her flat inspired Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life. The director talks to Nick Bradshaw
A nose for the grey areas: British documentarist Molly Dineen has turned her camera on everyone from prime ministers to zookeepers. She talks to Poppy Simpson
God's lonely man: After lampooning Berlusconi in his last satire, Nanni Moretti takes on the Vatican with We Have a Pope. He talks to Nick James
Zones of conflict: In documentary, drama and his distinctive blend of the two, director Peter Kosminsky has never shied away from controversy. He talks to Mark Duguid on the eve of a BFI retrospective of his work
Fellow travellers: The prizewinning road movie Las acacias announces the arrival of the latest new directing talent from Argentina. Pablo Giorgelli talks to Mar Diestro-Dópido
Film review: The Artist: Moving on from his OSS 117 James Bond spoofs, French entertainer Michel Hazanavicius has found novelty magic in the style and lore of silent Hollywood. Tony Rayns finds resonances in unexpected places
Film of the month: Mysteries of Lisbon: Raúl Ruiz, who died in August, has left behind a magisterial four-hour saga set in 19th-century Portugal that serves as a fittingly elegant summation of his life's work. Jonathan Romney explores the Mysteries of Lisbon
Film review: We Have a Pope: Nanni Moretti's tragi-comic story of a newly elected pope on the run is no toothless satire of organised religion, says Catherine Wheatley, but a bittersweet portrait of age, fate and fallibility
DVD: Miklós Jancsó - cinema's lost language: Miklós Jancsó's 'musicals' use songs, crowds and landscape to express social struggle, writes Jonathan Romney
Reviews in this issue: Las acacias, Another Earth, Arthur Christmas, The Artist, Film review: The Artist, Dreams of a Life, DVD: Miklós Jancsó - cinema's lost language, Ghett'a Life, How to Stop Being a Loser, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), Immortals, In Time, Justice, Machine Gun Preacher, My Week with Marilyn, Film of the month: Mysteries of Lisbon, Film of the month: Mysteries of Lisbon, Paranormal Activity 3, Puss in Boots, Revenge A Love Story, Romantics Anonymous, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Surviving Life, Texas Killing Fields, The Thing, Tower Heist, Trespass, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, We Have a Pope, Welcome to the Rileys, The Well Digger's Daughter, Wreckers
DVD features: Jonathan Romney on music and social struggle in the films of Hungary's Miklós Jancsó Kim Newman revisits 1970s student satire Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, Tim Lucas celebrates Maria Montez, 'Queen of Technicolor', Cannibal Holocaust, Daytime Drinking, French Cancan, Hammett, Hawaii Five-O: Season 1, Films by Imamura Shohei, Aki Kaurismaki's Leningrad Cowboys, The Last Run, The Nickel Ride/99 and 44/100% Dead, No Blade of Grass, Poetry, Films by Ken Russell, Silent Running, 12 Angry Men, A Very Peculiar Practice, DVD: West Side Story
Books: Nick Pinkerton assesses the critical legacy of Pauline Kael, the subject of a new biography and collection, Michael Atkinson is mystified why anyone would want to read an autobiography by Roger Ebert, Nick Roddick is stimulated and baffled by an unclassifiable study of director Vincent Ward

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Michael Shannon: trouble in mind: For years Michael Shannon has been building a reputation as an intense, risk-taking actor on stage and in supporting roles. But his compelling turn as the dream-haunted everyman in Take Shelter proves he can carry a movie. Nick Pinkerton talks to him
Lost and found: Odds Against Tomorrow: Less interested in its heist than its characters' psyches, Odds Against Tomorrow was a favourite of Jean-Pierre Melville - and Paul Tickell
Faust and furious: Alexandr Sokurov: A surprise winner of the top prize at the recent Venice Film Festival, Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust has divided critics, leaving some groping for superlatives. Here Ian Christie places the film in the context of European high culture's previous tellings of the tale - and of the Russian director's other, varied works, now showing in a BFI retrospective
Cover feature: Reckless moment: Adapted from Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, The Deep Blue Sea represents a triumphant return to filmmaking for writer-director Terence Davies. He talks to Geoff Andrew
PLUS set report by Nick James
PLUS Rising star Tom Hiddleston tells Nick James what attracted him to working with Terence Davies
PLUS DP Florian Hoffmeister on the film's distinctive look
Enter the void:Snowtown dramatises the real-life serial killings uncovered in the eponymous South Australian small town. But far from true-crime sensationalism, it's a gruelling psychological study from first-time director Justin Kurzel. He talks to James Bell
Love will tear us apart: Leaving the council-estate setting of her earlier films for the moors of Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold has put her own stamp on Emily Brontë's classic, says Amy Raphael
PLUS David Jenkins surveys other screen versions
Trouble in mind: For years Michael Shannon has been building a reputation as an intense, risk-taking actor on stage and in supporting roles. But his compelling turn as the dream-haunted everyman in Take Shelter proves he can carry a movie. Nick Pinkerton talks to him
Faust and furious: A surprise winner of the top prize at the recent Venice Film Festival, Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust has divided critics, leaving some groping for superlatives. Ian Christie places the film in the context of European high culture's previous tellings of the tale - and of the Russian director's other, varied works, now showing in a BFI retrospective
Little voice: Restored scenes omitted from the original 1979 cut have added a new dimension to Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum - as have revelations about the novelist's wartime past. Geoffrey Macnab reports
Passing fancies: It was a one-off collision between George Gershwin's music, Gene Kelly's dancing, French art history, Red Shoes-inspired film ballet - and America's enduring love affair with the French capital. David Thomson revisits An American in Paris
Selected reviews
Film review: The Deep Blue Sea: A love-triangle drama set in a tattered post-war England, Terence Davies' adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play may still not be Sophocles, but does play like a cinematic opera, says Jonathan Romney
Film of the month: This Our Still Life: Evoking his family's life in their Pyrenean hideaway, This Our Still Life is a mesmerising blend of lyrical intensity and freewheeling impressions from unclassifiable British filmmaker Andrew Kötting. By Iain Sinclair
Film review: Weekend: A one-night stand matures into a deeply romantic and revelatory weekend in Andrew Haigh's wonderful second feature. Samuel Wigley is utterly convinced
Film review: Wuthering Heights: Stripping away the literary, romantic and supernatural trappings of Emily Brontë's famous novel, Andrea Arnold's elemental new reading is powerful if lop-sided, says Kate Stables
DVD: Touch of Evil: Touch of Evil has been described as the last film noir. More like the first last film noir, reckons Brad Stevens
Reviews in this issue: 50/50, Abduction, The Adventures of Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn, An African Election, The Awakening, Battle of Warsaw 1920, The British Guide to Showing Off, Film review: The Deep Blue Sea, Demons Never Die, Dream House, Everything Must Go, First Night, Footloose, Force, Four, The Future, Jack Goes Boating, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, Junkhearts, Killer Elite, Moneyball, Oslo, August 31st, Real Steel, Resistance, Reuniting the Rubins, The Rum Diary, Shark Night 3D, The Silence/Das letzte Schweigen, Sket, Snowtown, Sound It Out, Straw Dogs, Tabloid, Take Shelter, This Our Still Life, Film of the month: This Our Still Life, The Three Musketeers, We Were Here, Film review: Weekend, What's Your Number?, Film review: Wuthering Heights
DVD: Touch of Evil
DVD feature: Tim Lucas eyes a pre-Velvet Undeground Nico in Strip-Tease
DVD: Ashes & Diamonds
DVD: Blue Bloods - Season 1
DVD: The Cheerleaders/Revenge of the Cheerleaders
DVD: Max Davidson Comedies
DVD: Identification of a Woman
DVD: The Iron Horse
DVD: Ken Loach at the BBC
DVD: Films by Grigori Kozintsev
DVD: Landmarks of Early Soviet Film
DVD: Mimic - The Director's Cut
DVD: The Modern City
DVD: Nightmare
DVD: Our Beloved Month of August
DVD: The Outsiders
DVD: The Phantom Carriage
DVD: Le quattro volte
DVD: Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher
DVD: The Suicide Room
DVD: This Boy's Life
DVD: Voice Over
DVD: Films from Zoetrope Studios
Book: Sophie Mayer on a new study of Maya Deren's avant-garde classic Meshes of the Afternoon
Book: John Wrathall welcomes The Whole Story of cinema in one volume
Book: David Jays applauds a light-footed new selection of 100 key musicals
Book: Chris Fujiwara finds a new collection of Clint Eastwood interviews from the late 1970s and early 80s to be a fascinatin

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Tarnished angel: Miss Bala: The story of a would-be beauty queen who falls foul of Mexico's drug gangs, Miss Bala is more than just another document of Latin America's social ills, says Paul Julian Smith
Cover feature: BFI London Film Festival 2011: Nick James introduces our in-depth coverage of this year's Festival
Director Lynne Ramsay talks to Hannah McGill about her adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin
Outgoing LFF artistic director Sandra Hebron talks to Nick James
Bryony Dixon on the BFI's restoration of The First Born, a 1928 silent rich in Hitchcock resonances
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne talk to Geoff Andrew about taking a step in a (slightly) sunnier direction with The Kid with a Bike
Paul Julian Smith on why Mexican drug-gang pic Miss Bala is more than just another document of Latin America's social ills
Nick Bradshaw rounds up the festival's documentary contingent
Isabel Stevens on the ambitious, three-part Dreileben project
Tony Rayns heralds the flowering of an ethnically Tibetan cinema
PLUS Our top 20 unmissable picks of this year's festival
Angry bastards: Tyrannosaur, about a reformed alcoholic's relationship with a victim of domestic violence, is the directing debut of actor Paddy Considine. Just don't call it social realism, Considine and his leading man Peter Mullan tell Nick Bradshaw
Clash of the wonderlands: Two years on from Avatar, audience fatigue and critical scepticism may be peaking just as genuinely adventurous 3D work is coming our way. Don't write off 3D yet, says Ian Christie
Do look now: The top award may have gone to a Russian, but British films made a remarkably strong showing at this year's Venice Film Festival. Kieron Corless reports
Beneath the tinsel: Some of the big-name premieres disappointed, but the sheer scale of this year's Toronto International Film Festival guaranteed some interesting discoveries, says Tom Charity
Selected reviews
Film of the month: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: Having discovered a goldmine of original footage of the Black Power movement in the archives of Swedish television, documentarist Göran Olsson has crafted it into a remarkable document of the times, says Mark Sinker
Film review: Sleeping Beauty: A young woman sells her sleeping body for sex in Australian novelist Julia Leigh's first film. Sophie Mayer pines for the expressivity of the film's mentor Jane Campion
Film review: Tyrannosaur: Boasting vivid performances from Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine's sober, composed treatment of masculine violence and self-destruction marks an auspicious debut feature, says Trevor Johnston
Film review: We Need to Talk About Kevin: Lynne Ramsay's long-awaited return to filmmaking expresses a mother's nightmare of raising a hell-child through a splatter of flashbacks and teasing use of the colour red. Tim Robey is impressed
DVD: Harakiri: A fierce and thrilling critique of notions of honour, Harakiri is, says Michael Brooke, one of the greatest of all Japanese films
Reviews in this issue: African Cats, Albatross, Anonymous, Apollo 18, Film of the month: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Film of the month: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blood in the Mobile, Cane Toads: The Conquest, Children of the Revolution, Colombiana, Contagion, The Dead, Dolphin Tale, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Four Days Inside Guantanamo, Hell and Back Again, The Help, I Don't Know How She Does It, The Ides of March, Johnny English Reborn, Midnight in Paris, Miss Bala, Monte Carlo, Newsreel 1, Parked, Perfect Sense, POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Red State, Restless, Sleeping Beauty, Soul Surfer, The Story of Lover's Rock, Film review: Tyrannosaur, Ultrasuede In Search of Halston, Warrior, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Film review: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Weekender, When China Met Africa, Will, The Woman, The Yellow Sea/Hwanghae
DVD: Harakiri, Philip Kemp takes a fresh look at the early work of Humphrey Jennings, Tim Lucas explores the erotic universe of Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet, Films by Claude Chabrol, The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom, Colossal Youth, The Molly Dineen Collection: Volume 2 - The Ark, Films by Xavier Dolan, Golden Sixties, The Good Soldier, Heavenly Creatures, The Last American Hero, Macbeth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Nostalgia for the Light, Philo Vance, Quatermass and the Pit, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The Soviet Inuence from Turksib to Night Mail, Tagore Stories on Film, Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938, Visions of Eight
Book: Alexander Jacoby immerses himself in an account of radical Japanese cinema
Book: Michael Brooke applauds an in-depth new study of Ken Loach
Book: Edward Buscombe welcomes an exhaustive examination of Italian westerns

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Lost and found: Across the Bridge: A model of adaptation, Across the Bridge cleverly expands Graham Greene's original short story, says the screenwriter Paul Mayersberg
The old soldier: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme: More than half a century after Breathless first catapulted him on to the world stage, Jean-Luc Godard is still challenging cinematic norms with his politically charged, poetic essay Film Socialisme. Gabe Klinger jump-cuts through key moments in the director's life
Listen to Britain: British folk cinema: A new DVD collection of films documenting British folk culture evokes a vanishing world for Philip Hoare
Cover feature: All she desires: With Todd Haynes's five-part miniseries of James M. Cain's novel Mildred Pierce - already the inspiration for a 1945 film - HBO has produced a work of truly cinematic ambition, says Paul Julian Smith
PLUS Haynes tells Isabel Stevens how HBO gave him space to explore female experience in a way today's Hollywood would never allow
Sculpting in time: Perhaps more than any other film, Alain Resnais's Last Year in Marienbad lays itself open to esoteric interpretation. To celebrate its rerelease, Brian Dillon maps the film's relationship to sculpture
PLUS Keith Reader uncovers the SM subtext beneath the elegance
Flesh, blood, passion: Director Bertrand Tavernier has a flair for turning historical research into vivid drama, as he shows once again with The Princess of Montpensier. He talks to Demetrios Matheou
Listen to Britain: A new DVD collection of films documenting British folk culture evokes a lost world for Philip Hoare
PLUS Folk singer Shirley Collins remembers the pioneering field work of Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy
Between thought and expression: Poetry is the first of Lee Chang-Dong's films to secure big-screen release in the UK. But since his debut 15 years ago, the writer-director has played a crucial role in South Korea's cultural and political life, says Tony Rayns
Great wide open: Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura is now more influential than ever, argues Robert Koehler in the latest of our series on 'top ten' contenders for next year's Sight & Sound poll
Art for art's sake: When the Japanese distributor Art Theatre Guild turned to production in the late 1960s, it unleashed a wave of extraordinary work from Japan's boldest filmmakers - Oshima, Imamura, Terayama and many more. Alexander Jacoby surveys its legacy
Film review: Poetry: Poetry is the first of Lee Chang-Dong's films to secure big-screen release in the UK. But since his debut 15 years ago, the writer-director has played a crucial role in South Korea's cultural and political life, says Tony Rayns
Film of the month: Treacle, Jr.: Only the third film Jamie Thraves has managed to get made in over a decade, Treacle, Jr. confirms him as a British filmmaker with a distinctive comic touch and a sympathy for oddball outsiders, says Trevor Johnston
Film review: The Tree of Life: Intimate childhood memoir? Absurd sacred bluster? Michael Atkinson parses Terrence Malick's ambitious Rorschach blot
DVD: Szindbad: Michael Atkinson marvels at the swoonsome beauty of a revived gem of 1970s Hungarian cinema
Film review: Beginners: Sweet but terminally meandering, Mike Mills' coming-to-terms-with-life story leans heavily on an ebullient sideshow from Christopher Plummer, says Kate Stables
Reviews in this issue: Bad Teacher, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Film review: Beginners, Bobby Fischer against the World, Born to Be Wild 3D, Break My Fall, Breath Made Visible, Cell 211, Dancing Dreams, Film Socialisme, The Flaw, Green Lantern, Hobo with a Shotgun, Holy Rollers, Honey/Bal, Huge, Kung Fu Panda 2, Larry Crowne, Last Night, The Light Thief, Poetry, The Princess of Montpensier, The Round Up, Sawako Decides, Screwed, Super, Swinging with the Finkels, Trust, Viva Riva!, X-Men First Class, Zookeeper
DVD: Szindbád , Nick Pinkerton on Fassbinder's flawed but fascinating Despair , Tim Lucas revists Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman , L'Age d'or , Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 , Beyond a Reasonable Doubt , Cross of Iron , Faccia a faccia , The Halfway House , A High Wind in Jamaica , Java Head / Tiger Bay , Jemima Shore Investigates , The Kingdom I & II , The Kremlin Letter , Laila , The Miners' Hymns , Night Flight , People on Sunday , Rififi , Skidoo , Stressed Eric , Taking Off , Who Can Kill a Child?
Books: Kim Newman hails a definitive biography of Boris Karloff , Sophie Mayer welcomes the reappearance of Born in Flames as a hybrid graphic novel , Paolo Cherchi Usai samples a revealing selection of 100 Silent Films , Brad Stevens is surprised by a re-evaluation of the films of unsung 1970s/80s director James Bridges

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May 2011Features
Bernardo Bertolucci: Just like starting over
To mark a comprehensive Bertolucci retrospective, Tony Rayns looks back at the early 1960s, when the great Italian director hit his stride and emerged from the shadow of his mentors, Pasolini and Godard
Cover feature: Motion pictures
Wim Wenders's new film Pina marks not just the culmination of a 20-year quest to film the work of choreographer Pina Bausch, but also a bold leap into the world of 3D. He talks to Nick James
PLUS Nick Roddick on Wenders's career in documentary
The Oregon trail
After honing a minimalist style on the Oregon-set Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt turns her gaze on the state's pioneer past in Meek's Cutoff, a novel female angle on the old West. Graham Fuller talks to her and writer Jon Raymond
PLUS Ed Buscombe charts women's role in the western
North by northeast
How I Ended This Summer, a gripping Arctic-set two-hander, is the latest festival hit to emerge from Russia. Nick Hasted talks to its director Alexei Popogrebsky
PLUS Leslie Felperin surveys the recent Russian wave
What time is it where?
A 24-hour montage of film clips showing the measurement of time, Christian Marclay's The Clock has hooked viewers in London and New York. He talks to Jonathan Romney
PLUS Leslie Felperin surveys the recent Russian wave
Forever falling
In the second of our series on possible contenders for the 'greatest film of all time' in next year's Sight & Sound poll, the renowned Spanish critic Miguel Marías finds himself falling for the fathomless mysteries of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
PLUS Leslie Felperin surveys the recent Russian wave
Selected reviews
Film review: The Silent House: Newcomer Gustavo Hernandez's ingenious low-budget, single-shot horror film is a remarkable exercise in atmosphere and suspense, says Mar Diestro-Dopido
Reviews in this issue: A Small Act, The Adjustment Bureau, Battle Los Angeles, Beastly, Cold Fish, Cold Weather, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, Farewell, Hall Pass, How I Ended This Summer, I Saw the Devil, Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer, Little White Lies, Louise - Michel, Mars Needs Moms, Meek's Cutoff, Passenger Side, Pina, Rango, Red Riding Hood, Redemption, The Resident, The Silent House, Sparrow, Film of the month: Sweetgrass, Tomorrow, When the War Began, Tracker, The Way, Young Hearts Run Free, Your Highness
DVD: Michael Brooke admires two early 'women's pictures' by Antonioni
DVD: Kieron Corless on the masterpiece of left-leaning radical Robert Kramer
DVD: Tim Lucas examines the drama offered by PBS talk show Firing Line
DVD: The Beyond
DVD: Blood Simple
DVD: Dark Star
DVD: A Day in the Life
DVD: Empire State
DVD: The Goodies... At Last the 40th Anniversary
DVD: Hazell - The Complete Series
DVD: The Kartemquin Films Collection: The Early Years Volumes 1 & 2
DVD: Larks on a String
DVD: The Long, Hot Summer
DVD: Man of Aran
DVD: Films by Otto Preminger
DVD: Promised Lands
DVD: Slingshot
DVD: The Unflinching Eye: The Films of Richard Woolley
DVD: The Virginian - Season 1
DVD: Warner Archive Collection
Book: Michael Atkinson salutes J. Hoberman's masterly look at cold-war cinema in its historical context
Book: James Bell immerses himself in an exhaustive tribute to Kubrick's unmade Napoleon
Book: Kim Newman appreciates a study of 1950's Night and the City
Book: Nick James enjoys an anthology of Philip French's essays on film

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April 2011Features
The pride and the passion: 25 years of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
After a groundbreaking quarter of a century, the LLGFF is still relevant, says programmer Brian Robinson
Lost and found: The Red House
Filmmaker Charles Burnett remembers the thrills, disturbances and subdued rage of The Red House
Out of the darkness: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
As his first 3D film Cave of Forgotten Dreams reaches our screens, Werner Herzog talks to Samuel Wigley about primitive man, albino crocodiles and the ethics of 3D
Cover feature: Woody Allen in the 21st century
The received opinion may be that Woody Allen is past his best as a director, but Brad Stevens finds intriguing patterns in his European-set films of the last decade
PLUS Woody Allen talks to James Bell about his latest London-set film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Berlin report: horse latitudes
All the sound and fury of this year's Berlin festival - from Shakespeare to terrorism to 3D - was left in the shade by Bela Tarr's minimalist The Turin Horse, says Nick James
PLUS Carmen Gray scours the Forum for hidden gems
Sensual sensibility
Famously protective of his novels, Haruki Murakami has entrusted his 1987 bestseller Norwegian Wood to the Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, who tells James Bell about capturing the author's distinctive narrative voice
Under the sign of saturn
The new film Patience (After Sebald) and a recent symposium in Suffolk celebrate the cult of W.G. Sebald, inspiring Mark Fisher to revisit the German-born writer's East Anglian odyssey The Rings of Saturn
The fugitive
After 30 years of making films in exile in the West, Jerzy Skolimowski is back working in his native Poland - appropriately enough, on the story of a man on the run in a foreign land. The director talks to David Thompson about his new film Essential Killing
Selected reviews
Film review: Essential Killing: Jerzy Skolimowski's visceral study of an escaped jihadi's struggle for survival in the Polish wilds makes a deft mix of involvement and estrangement, says Tony Rayns
Film of the month: Submarine: Unlike so many other British TV comedians who have made the transition to film directing, Richard Ayoade reveals a distinctive cinematic talent with his debut, the skewed teen romance Submarine. By Isabel Stevens
DVD: A Blonde in Love: Geoffrey Macnab relishes the humour and humanity of Milos Forman's film about love in a Cold War climate
Film review: His & Hers: Ken Wardrup's elegantly composed portrait of 70 Irish women of all ages - in age order - puts Samuel Wigley in mind of Alan Bennett and Ozu Yasujiro
Film review: Country Strong: Gwyneth Paltrow battles drink and demons as a foundering honky-tonk singer in Shana Feste's mostly glib country-music square dance. Nick Pinkerton picks out the positives
Reviews in this issue: Age of the Dragons, All American Orgy, Anuvahood, Arthur and the Great Adventure, Ballast, Barney's Version, Benda Bilili!, Big Mommas Like Father like Son, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Chalet Girl, Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, The Company Men, Country Strong, The Dilemma, Drive Angry, The Eagle, Eleanor's Secret, Essential Killing, Faster, Gnomeo & Juliet, Film review: His & Hers, I Am Number Four, Ironclad, Just Go with It, Justin Bieber Never Say Never, Killing Bono, A Little Bit of Heaven, No Strings Attached, Norwegian Wood, Oranges and Sunshine, Patagonia, Paul, Route Irish, Sanctum, Submarine, The Rite, A Turtle's Tale Sammy's Adventures, Unknown, The Ward, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
DVD: A Blonde in Love
DVD: William Ivory hails a quintet of BBC dramas by Jack Rosenthal
DVD: Tim Lucas gets Stuart Rosenberg's WUSA under his skin
DVD: The Boy with Green Hair
DVD: Brighton Rock (1947)
DVD: Broadcast News
DVD: The Crowded Day/Song of Paris
DVD: Films by Peter Greenaway
DVD: Justified - Season 1
DVD: The Locket
DVD: The Magician
DVD: The Man Who Fell to Earth
DVD: One Continuous Take: The Kay Mander Film Book
DVD: Riot
DVD: Senso
DVD: The Social Network
DVD: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - The Complete Series
DVD: Szamanka
DVD: Trouble in Mind
DVD: The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)
DVD: The War You Don't See
Book: David Jays finds Busby Berkeley's onscreen precision matched by offscreen personal turmoil
Book: Nick Bradshaw enjoys a Chaplin quest by Kevin Brownlow
Book: Brad Stevens wishes for more from a new biography of Arthur Penn
Book: Kieron Corless is stimulated by a study of "post cinematic affect"

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March 2011Features
Lost and found: The Watcher in the Woods: What's the missing link between Tron, The Legend of Hell House and a big blue alien? For Joseph Stannard, it's Disney's cult 1980 fantasy The Watcher in the Woods
Jafar Panahi: the green badge of courage: Following the Iranian government's imprisonment of leading filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, their colleague and compatriot Rafi Pitts has responded with an open letter to President Ahmadinejad. Gabe Klinger talks to Pitts about the case
Obituaries: Sight & Sound's comprehensive annual survey of the notable film actors, directors and more who died during the course of 2010. Compiled by Bob Mastrangelo
PLUS James Bell on Takamine Hideko, John Gianvito on Werner Schroeter, Philip Kemp on Jean Simmons, Kieron Corless on William Lubtchansky, and Isabel Stevens on Robert F. Boyle
Cover feature: Truffaut: The British connection
François Truffaut famously commented on the incompatibility between the words 'British' and 'cinema'. But how did that apply to his own brand of cinema in particular? Catherine Wheatley charts the director's changing critical fortunes on these shores
PLUS David Thomson reassesses the most English of Truffaut's films, 1971's neglected Anne and Muriel
Blow by blow
Based on the true story of American welterweight 'Irish' Micky Ward, David O. Russell's The Fighter drags the boxing movie out of the shadow of Raging Bull and into the age of HBO, says Kim Newman
PLUS Russell talks to James Bell about capturing the rawness of the ring
PLUS David Thomson reassesses the most English of Truffaut's films, 1971's neglected Anne and Muriel
Remaining days
In envisioning the alternate England of Never Let Me Go, American music-video veteran Mark Romanek finds his aesthetic match in Anglo-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. By Henry K. Miller
PLUS Ishiguro talks to Nick James
The green badge of courage: Following the Iranian government's imprisonment of leading filmmaker Jafar Panahi, his colleague and compatriot Rafi Pitts has responded with an open letter to President Ahmadinejad. Gabe Klinger talks to Pitts about the case, and about the struggle to make films in Iran
PLUS Ishiguro talks to Nick James
Roeg: the last British romantic: Emerging from an era of hedonistic experiment, no director better epitomised the risk-taking mood of 1970s British cinema than Nicolas Roeg. Nick James looks back at the impact of Roeg's extraordinary run of early films
PLUS Ishiguro talks to Nick James
Film review: Animal Kingdom: An exploration of Australia's criminal underbelly, David Michod's debut is on the whole an ambitious and effective thriller, argues Wally Hammond
Film of the month: Archipelago: Following Unrelated with another tale of a tightly wound English family on holiday - this time in the Scilly Isles - Archipelago confirms Joanna Hogg as one of our subtlest and most probing filmmakers. By Jonathan Romney
DVD: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment: Paul Tickell on a decade of counterculture and class change - and the Karel Reisz movie that defined it
Film review: Inside Job: Charles Ferguson's slick, smug explication of the root causes of the current global recession offers a useful primer for the incredibly ill-informed, says Vadim Rizov
Reviews in this issue: Animal Kingdom, Animals United, Archipelago, Civic Life, Confessions, Fair Game, The Fighter, The Green Hornet, Gulliver's Travels, Henry's Crime, Honeymooner, How Do You Know, Howl, Film review: Inside Job, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Legend of the fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, Lemmy, Little Fockers, Living on Love Alone, The Mechanic, Never Let Me Go, Ride, Rise, Roar, Season of the Witch, Son of Babylon, The Tempest, The Insatiable Moon, Two in the Wave, Waste Land, West Is West, Yogi Bear
DVD: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
DVD: Michael Atkinson celebrates a box-set tribute to new-wave pioneers BBS
DVD: Tim Lucas revels in the final feature by horror's surrealist, Jean Rollin
DVD: Black Orpheus
DVD: Films by Luis Bunuel
DVD: Decision Before Dawn
DVD: Films by Alexander Dovzhenko
DVD: Duffer / Moon over the Alley
DVD: Edan's 'Echo Party' Movie
DVD: The Fish Child
DVD: Flying Scotsman
DVD: Freud
DVD: films by Samuel Fuller
DVD: Johnny Staccato
DVD: Films by Grzegorz Krolikiewicz
DVD: Once upon a Time in America
DVD: Private Road
DVD: Walter
Book: Lee Server enjoys a smart but slim addition to the growing pile of Humphrey Bogart biographies
Book: Ian Christie applauds a comprehensive survey of the field of post-war British documentary
Book: Bryony Dixon welcomes the rehabilitation of cinema pioneer Alice Guy Blache.

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February 2011Features
Howard Hawks: Slim and the silver fox: The years Howard Hawks spent with his second wife Nancy - aka 'Slim' - were the richest of his film-directing career, as her style and influence inspired him to live out a recurring dream of their relationship on film. By David Thomson
Lost and found: Little Murders: Jim O'Rourke lauds Alan Arkin's 1971 directorial debut, a quintessentially New York story of existential angst.
Peter Mullan: Glasgow belongs to me: Peter Mullan is already well known as one of Britain's most intense screen actors. But with Neds he cements his reputation as a director whose commitment to emotional truth transcends social realism. By Demetrios Matheou.
Cover feature: In the dark: Darren Aronofsky has followed The Wrestler with Black Swan, this time finding his trademark obsession, restlessness and bone-crunching self-harm in the formal world of ballet. Nick James talks to the director.
PLUS six classic female doppelgangers on film.
No country for young girls: It's the western's turn to get the Coens treatment, but their makeover of the John Wayne Oscar-winner True Grit is free of their usual self-consciousness, says Graham Fuller.
Grace in the hole: Never one to repeat himself, Danny Boyle follows his exuberant Slumdog Millionaire with the bare-bones one-man show of 127 Hours. He talks to James Mottram.
Slim and the silver fox: The years Howard Hawks spent with his second wife Nancy - aka Slim - were the richest of his career, as her style inspired him to live out a recurring dream of their relationship on film. By David Thomson.
PLUS Michael Mann on why he loves Howard Hawks, and in particular the 1932 gangster classic Scarface.
Disney after disney: As Disney's 50th animated feature Tangled is released, Andrew Osmond examines how the studio whose name was once synonymous with animation lost its edge.
Film of the month: The Portuguese Nun: The Bressonian style and metaphysical concerns of Eugene Green may be an acquired taste, but they achieve their most perfect expression in his new film The Portuguese Nun. Peter Matthews finds himself ripe for conversion.
DVD: The Elia Kazan Collection: Elia Kazan's explorations of post-war society reveal him to be one of America's greats, argues Graham Fuller.
Film review: The King's Speech: Mystique and mischief: Tom Hooper's film about the stammering future King George neatly has its royalty both ways, says Philip Kemp.
Film review: Gasland: Improbably riveting, Josh Fox's investigative doc about unregulated US hydraulic fracture mining is all the more powerful for its quiet meticulousness, says Sam Davies.
Reviews in this issue: Bathory, Abel, Amer, 127 Hours, Biutiful, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Brighton Rock, Burlesque, The Chronicles of Narnia, Conviction, Freakonomics, Film review: Gasland, Genius Within, Get Low, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Hereafter, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster, I Spit on Your Grave, The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, Film review: The King's Speech, Life Goes On, London Boulevard, Men on the Bridge, Midgets vs Mascots, Morning Glory, Neds, Nenette, The Next Three Days, The Portuguese Nun, Rabbit Hole, Road to Las Vegas, The Scar Crow, A Serbian Film, Tangled, The Tourist, Travellers, Tron Legacy, True Grit, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Warrior's Way, The Way Back.
DVD: The Elia Kazan Collection
DVD: Tom Charity sees The Night of the Hunter get the DVD release it deserves
DVD: Tim Lucas revisits del Toro's Cronos in the light of a fascinating new director's commentary
DVD: A Bay of Blood
DVD: La cienaga
DVD: A Dance to the Music of Time
DVD: Deep Red
DVD: Ellery Queen
DVD: Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor & Other Fantastic Films by Koji Yamamura
DVD: Hammer & Tongs
DVD: I Am a Camera
DVD: The Quintessential Guy Maddin
DVD: Man Hunt
DVD: Middletown
DVD: Pinter's Progress & The Homecoming
DVD: Shed Your Tears and Walk Away
DVD: La signora di tutti
DVD: Films by Jacques Tati
Book: Philip Kemp welcomes two contrasting studies of Satyajit Ray
Book: Nick Bradshaw enjoys a populist survey of animated features
Book: Jonathan Romney is stimulated by a new collection of criticism by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Book: Ginette Vincendeau wants more from The Faber Book of French Cinema.

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January 20112010: The year in review: Nick James introduces the results of this year's annual S&S poll, in which 85 contributors from around the world pick the top five films they saw in 2010, and their other movie highlights of the past 12 months
Memento mori: Of Gods and Men: Based on the true story of a group of monks in Algeria, Of Gods and Men is one of several recent films to examine links between French and Islamic culture. But it's the film's evocation of the monks' inner state that really resonates, says Jonathan Romney.
Review of the year - online from 7 December: Nick James introduces the results of this year's annual S&S poll, in which 85 contributors from around the world pick the top five films they saw in 2010, and their other movie highlights of the past 12 months.
The mark of Kane: With Sight & Sound's once-in-a decade Greatest Film of All Time poll looming in 2012, David Thomson launches an occasional series of debates about the canon, wondering whether Citizen Kane will - or should - retain its top spot.
Cover feature: Hotel California: Like much of her past work, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is set in the rarefied world of the rich and unhappy. What do her films - and reactions to them - tell us about the perils of fame, asks Hannah McGill.
PLUS Isabel Stevens talks to the director about capturing the mood and light of Los Angeles.
Free radical: Famous for his experiments scratching directly on to celluloid, New Zealander Len Lye was a trailblazer who moved between the cinema and the art gallery. As a major new exhibition opens, Ian Francis surveys Lye's legacy.
Counter culture: Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 classic The Shop Around the Corner fills out its romantic-comedy confection with a moving portrayal of economic desperation. As the film is rereleased in UK cinemas, Nick James dissects the 'Lubitsch touch'.
Film of the month: Monsters: Blending road-movie and sci-fi, the fantastic and the everyday, Monsters is an astonishingly assured feature debut for its young British writer, director and special-effects designer Gareth Edwards, says Nick Roddick.
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue: * Aftershock, * The Be All and End All, * Broken Sun, * Burke & Hare, * Catfish, * Chatroom, * Cuckoo, * Due Date, * Easier with Practice, * Enemies of the People, * Fathers of Girls, * Fezeka's Voice, * For Colored Girls, * Fred The Movie, * In Our Name, * Loose Cannons, * Love & Other Drugs, * Love Life, * Mammoth, * Megamind, * Miral, * Film of the month: Monsters, * Of Gods and Men, * On Tour, * Outcast, * Paranormal Activity 2, * Rare Exports A Christmas Tale, * Saw 3D, * Secretariat, * Skyline, * Slackistan, * Somewhere, * Spiderhole, * The Thorn in the Heart, * Unstoppable, * Waiting for "Superman", * DVD: Marcel Ophuls's indelible Hotel Terminus.

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December 2010Features
Capra before he became 'Capraesque': Celebrated each Christmas for the 'Capracorn' of It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra deserves reappraisal as a director in the light of the restoration of his 1920s silents and his luminous talkies of the early 1930s. By Joseph McBride
PLUS Kate Stables revisits Capra's It Happened One Night, not just the urtext of the romcom, but also a document of the Depression
Lost and found: Penn & Teller Get Killed: Barely seen in this country, Penn & Teller Get Killed more than earns its place in the oeuvre of its director, the late Arthur Penn, says Brad Stevens
Cover feature: Extraordinary Joe: With the Palme d'Or awarded to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives marking a new level of recognition for Apichatpong Weerasethakul aka Joe, Adrian Martin probes the syndromes and mysteries of the Thai director's universe
PLUS Kieron Corless talks to Apichatpong about Buddhism, Fellini and the joys of working with non-professionals
Fear in the mirror: Michael Powell's Peeping Tom was reviled on its 1960 release but subsequently canonised for its analysis of voyeurism. Fifty years on, Graham Fuller takes stock
Shadow of a gunman: Like Bourne and Ripley before him, George Clooney's antihero in The American is a well-travelled killer who finds Europe a fitting backdrop for existential dilemma. Nick James follows the tracks
A boom of one's own: A new collection of British documentary shorts from the 1950s to the 1970s offers glimpses of a vanished world, says John Wyver
Mod man out: Updating Graham Greene's classic Brighton Rock to the mod era is a shrewd move for writer-director Rowan Joffe, but not one he took lightly, he tells Quentin Falk on set
Film of the month: We Are What We Are: Following a family of flesh eaters as they struggle to make ends meet in modern Mexico, Jorge Michel Grau's debut We Are What We Are spices its horror with a bracing dash of social comment, says Paul Julian Smith
DVD: The Thin Red Line: Michael Atkinson hails Terrence Malick's elegiac, mainstream-defying war epic, now given the Criterion treatment with extras that clear up a little of the mystery - and add to the mythology
Film review: Let Me In: Kim Newman explores Matt Reeves' Anglophone version of Let the Right One In and finds that it makes for even grimmer viewing than the original
Film review: The American: Anton Corbijn's fastidious, retro-ish Euro-espionage thriller is written, acted and directed as if it were still 1974. Only George Clooney could have got it made, says Michael Atkinson
Reviews in this issue: Adrift, The American, Film review: The American, An Ordinary Execution, Another Year, brilliantlove, Chico & Rita, Collapse, Devil, Dream Home, The Edge of Dreaming, The First Movie, Freight, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Into Eternity, Jackass 3D, Leap year, Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Let Me In, Life as We Know It, Machete, My Afternoons with Margueritte, Out of the Ashes, RED, Red & White, Robinson in Ruins, The Stoning of Soraya M., This Prison Where I Live, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, We Are What We Are, You Again
DVD: The Thin Red Line

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November 2010Features
Carlos: five hours of the Jackal: An epic biopic of legendary terrorist Carlos marks a change of pace for Olivier Assayas. By David Thompson
English pastoral: Robinson in Ruins: 'Robinson in Ruins' marks the return of director Patrick Keiller - and a new green sensibility in his work. By Mark Fisher
Cover feature: London Film Festival: British Invention: If this month's London Film Festival is anything to go by, UK cinema is currently at a peak of creativity and diversity:
Richard Ayoade's Submarine is just one of a string of striking feature debuts showcased at the festival, says Tom Charity
Nick James tries to fathom the secret of Mike Leigh's "so-called process" in conversation with the director and one of his most regular performers, Lesley Manville
Nick James talks to Clio Barnard about The Arbor, her complex excursion into the world of the late playwright Andrea Dunbar
Lucy Reynolds on Self Made, the feature debut of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing
Jonathan Romney on Archipelago, Joanna Hogg's Scilly-set follow-up to Unrelated
Sight & Sound's pick of the must-see films at this year's festival.
Bryony Dixon on the restoration of The Great White Silence
The Social Network: only connect: In his latest film David Fincher depicts the founding of Facebook as a tale of distrust, loneliness and betrayal that defines our age, says Kent Jones
Venice Film Festival: Over the rainbow: Sofia Coppola's Somewhere may not be the most deserving Golden Lion winner ever, but love triangles, revisionist histories, Far Eastern swordplay and meditations on cinema helped make this year's Venice Film Festival the most vibrant Nick James can remember
PLUS Guido Bonsaver gauges the health of the Italian film industry from the selection of local product on show at Venice this year
PLUS Jonathan Romney on a strand of films that raised questions about the nature of movie acting Make Way for Tomorrow: killing with kindness
Leo McCarey is best remembered for his comic work with Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers and Cary Grant. But his tragic 1937 family drama influenced Tokyo Story. By Nick Bradshaw
Film of the month: The Kids Are All Right: Lisa Cholodenko's 'The Kids Are All Right' puts the complications of the 'alternative family' under the microscope with a rare mixture of wit, intelligence, laidback naturalism and sexual frankness, says Sophie Mayer
DVD: Andrzej Zulawski's Possession: Michael Brooke on one of the most viscerally vivid portraits of a disintegrating relationship ever committed to film
Film review: Mary and Max: Oscar-winner Adam Elliot's latest mordant claymation comedy considers correspondence and its lack through a sad story of a 1970s pen-friendship. Mark Fisher harks back to an age before the internet
Film review: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: Is this a film about art, or about film as art? That's the question asked by Sophie Fiennes' ravishing, hypnotic record of the work of Anselm Kiefer.
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue: Africa United, Alpha and Omega, The Arbor, Bella, Carlos, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, Despicable Me, Easy A, F, Going the Distance, The Hunter, Involuntary, I'm Still Here, Jackboots on Whitehall, Just Wright, Film of the month: The Kids Are All Right, Life as We Know It, Little Big Soldier, Film review: Mary and Max, Mr Nice, New York, I Love You, Night of the Demons, Film review: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Piranha, Ramona and Beezus, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Restrepo, The Secret of Kells, The Social Network, Takers, The Town, A Town Called Panic, True Legend, Vampires Suck, Wah Do Dem, DVD: Andrzej Zulawski's Possession.

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October 2010The life and death of the UK Film Council
From 'Cool Britannia' to coalition cold comfort, Geoffrey Macnab unravels the circumstances surrounding the recently announced demise of the UK Film Council
PLUS Palme d'Or-winning producer Keith Griffiths gives a personal response to the UKFC's demise
PLUS Dylan Cave on the UKFC's unsung commitment to preserving Britain's film culture
Joe Dante: serious mischief
Always one to go his own way, Joe Dante combines 3D technology with a return to a subtler, more family-oriented brand of horror in his new film The Hole. Tom Charity tracks Dante's anarchic streak through a 40-year career of filmmaking
PLUS James Mottram talks to the director
Cover feature: Remake remodel
Restored (almost) to its complete glory after over 80 years following the discovery of lost footage in Argentina, Fritz Lang's dystopian 1927 classic Metropolis is now more fascinating than ever, says Kim Newman
PLUS Directors Terry Gilliam and Oshii Mamoru reveal the impact Lang's vision had on the films they went on to direct themselves
Meth and the maiden
An award winner at Sundance this year, Winter's Bone stands out from the current crop of American indies thanks to its unflinching evocation of the drug-addled yet resilient culture of the Ozark Mountains of south Missouri. James Bell talks to director Debra Granik
Lexicon of the law
Police, Adjective redefines the policier in the distinctively bleak and absurdist style of new Romanian cinema. Kieron Corless talks to its director, Corneliu Porumboiu
One more for the road
Unjustly overlooked by British distributors, Hong Sangsoo's films offer wry and very personal insights into life and love in South Korea. As a retrospective brings Hong's work to the UK, Tony Rayns celebrates the director's unique way of working
Film of the month: Perestroika
A journey into both the snowy wastes of Siberia and the fractured mind of its grieving narrator, Sarah Turner's hypnotic 'Perestroika' is an immersive excursion into "extreme psychogeography", says Chris Darke
Film review: Police, Adjective
This dry-humoured follow-up to 12:08 East of Bucharest may be the most undramatic cop movie ever filmed, writes Philip Kemp. But beneath its games with language lies a vision of the gaping moral quagmire of police work
In the magic hour: 3 silent classics by Josef von Sternberg
Before talkies, before Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg was a master of silent film-making, writes Michael Atkinson
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
Alamar, Bonded by Blood, Budrus, Buried, Cats & Dogs The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Cyrus, Dinner for Schmucks, Eat Pray Love, Enter the Void, The Final, Frozen, The Hole, The Horde, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), In the magic hour: 3 silent classics by Josef von Sternberg, The Kid, The Last Exorcism, The Last Seven, Made in Dagenham, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, The Other Guys, Our Family Wedding, Peepli [Live], Film of the month: Perestroika, Pianomania, Film review: Police, Adjective, Release, Salt, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Step Up 3D, The Switch, Tamara Drewe, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, 22 Bullets, Why Did I Get Married Too?, The Wildest Dream, Winter's Bone

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September 2010Out of the past: Frantisek Vlacil: Less celebrated internationally than his near contemporaries Forman and Menzel, the late Czech director Frantisek Vlacil's visionary medieval epics have recently been rediscovered in the West. But there was more to him than that, finds Michael Brooke.
Restoration comedy: Abbas Kiarostami's 'Certified Copy': Both a romantic comedy and a vehicle for Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy seems a departure for Abbas Kiarostami, but its playful ambiguity makes it very much his work. Geoff Andrew talks to the Iranian director and his star.
PLUS The wind will carry him: Adrian Martin compares the two halves of Kiarostami's career.
Cover feature: Latin American Cinema:Over the past decade high-profile Latin American successes such as The Motorcycle Diaries and City of God have broken out internationally beyond the arthouse circuit. But they are only the tip of the iceberg as an astonishing new wave of daring yet vividily real film-making has swept from Mexico to Chile. Sight & Sound highlights the key Latin American films since the start of the renaissance in 1998.
PLUS No turning back: Leading Argentine critic Sergio Wolf surveys the extraordinary recent Latin American cinema explosion.
PLUS The view from downstairs: Mar Diestro-Dopido asks director Sebastian Silva why he used his parents' own home as location for his hothouse drama The Maid.
PLUS Beyond law and order: Demetrios Matheou talks to Juan Jose Campanella about Oscar-winner The Secret in Their Eyes.
In the name of love:The fourth film from the remarkable South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, Mother is both a crime thriller and an exploration of the mysterious bond between mother and son. He talks to James Bell, and talks us through the original storyboards for five key scenes in the film.
One for the road: Forty years ago, Five Easy Pieces made Jack Nicholson a star and seemed to promise a new era of thoughtful US film-making. David Thomson looks back at a masterpiece, and talks to its director, Bob Rafelson.
Film of the Month: The Illusionist: An unproduced 1950s script by Jacques Tati proves the perfect match for Sylvain Chomet's exquisitely melancholic animation style in The Illusionist, his follow-up to Belleville Rendez-vous. By Anton Bitel.
DVD review: Walkabout + Picnic at Hanging Rock: Unfathomably old and vast, the Outback offers the perfect setting for film as fable or allegory, writes James Bell.
Film review: Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl: Manoel de Oliveira's latest eccentric gem mixes moral tale with courtly romance in a present-day setting. Jonathan Romney is strangely charmed.
Film review: The Secret in Their Eyes: Ricardo Darin is a model of minimalist acting in this investigative probe of a 1970s Argentina on the brink of dictatorship, says Maria Delgado.
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue: Black Dynamite, Baaria, Certified Copy, Cherry Tree Lane, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, CrimeFighters, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Pound, Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl, Exhibit A, The Expendables, Frownland, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Grown Ups, Film of the Month: The Illusionist, Inception, Jasper Penguin Explorer, Jonah Hex, Knight and Day, The Last Airbender, The Maid, Marmaduke, Mother, No Impact Man, Predators, Raavan, Rapt, Le Refuge, Rough Aunties, The Runaways, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Seventh Dimension, SoulBoy, South of the Border, Splintered, The Twilight Saga Eclipse, Undertow, World's Greatest Dad.

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August 2010Britain's secret Brazilian: More than any other director bar Hitchcock, the Brazilian Alberto Cavalcanti had a profound influence on British film-making in the 1930s and 40s. But he remains an unjustly overlooked figure, says Nick James.
Cover feature: The pattern under the plough: The rhythms and rituals of rural life have seldom been conspicious in British cinema. But in feature films of the 1960s and 70s and documentaries across the decades, tantalising traces of the 'old, weird Britain' can still be unearthed. By Rob Young.
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Absent authors: Folk in artist film: William Fowler maps the enduring links between British folk culture and artists' film-making.
The last maverick: Dennis Hopper, who died on 29 May 2010, is best remembered as a no-holds-barred movie actor and offscreen personality. But in one of his last in-depth interviews, he reminisced to Nick Roddick about his extraordinary parallel careers as director, painter and photographer.
PLUS Michael Atkinson surveys Hopper's boundary-pushing life and work in movies.
Behind the door: With her new film Bluebeard, director Catherine Breillat returns to the realm of female adolescent sexuality she has made her own - but this time through the prism of fairytale. Catherine Wheatley talks to her, and charts cinema's long preoccupation with the Bluebeard myth.
#Film of the month: Gainsbourg: French 'bande dessinee' artist Joann Sfar injects a bold poetic dimension into the musical biopic with his inspired account of the life of singer, songwriter and hellraiser Serge Gainsbourg. By Ginette Vincendeau.
#DVD review: Antonio das Mortes: Michael Chanan on the extraordinary films of Glauber Rocha, shooting star of the Latin American new wave.
#DVD review: Girly + Goodbye Gemini: Tim Lucas finds more than a touch of Tennessee Williams' southern gothic in two tales of familial decadence.
#Film review: Ivul: Andrew Gallivant Kötting takes to the trees in his first film from Swiss exile. Nick Bradshaw admires a tone poem of landscape, bodies and madness.
#Film review: Toy Story 3: Pixar's latest mixes valedictory and renewal. Jonathan Romney agrees that it's better to reuse than to throw away old material, old toys, old ideas.
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* The A-Team, * The Ballroom, * Beautiful Kate, * Bluebeard, * City Island, * The Concert, * Down Terrace, * Frontier Blues, * Film of the month: Gainsbourg, * Gangster's Paradise Jerusalema, * Get Him to the Greek, * Goemon, * H2Oil, * Heartbreaker, * Hierro, * Ivul, * The Karate Kid, * Killers, * Kites, * Leaving, * London River, * MacGruber, * Mega Piranha, * The Rebound, * Separado!, * Sex and the City 2, * Shrek Forever After, * Skeletons, * Space Chimps 2, * Splice, * The Tournament, * Film review: Toy Story 3, * Villa Amalia, * Whatever Works, * Wild Target (2009), * Zartog Strikes Back.

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July 2010Features
Kurosawa on Kurosawa: The director whom Steven Spielberg once described as "the pictorial Shakespeare of our time" was famously reluctant to discuss his films, but he opened up to Donald Richie in an interview first published in Sight & Sound in 1964, extracts of which we reprint here.
Lost and forgotten: British cinema of the 70s: In British film as in pop music, the late 1960s and 1970s marked a watershed of shifting cultures and identities, as Mark Sinker discovers in a selection of the era's 'forgotten' films.
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor: Extracts from an interview with Kurosawa conducted by Tony Rayns in Tokyo in 1981, at the time of the release of Kagemusha.
Disputed territories: What do two striking late 1940s films - Drunken Angel and Stray Dog - tell us about Kurosawa's attitude to the post-war Allied Occupation of Japan? asks Alexander Jacoby.
Misadventures in Hollywood: Kurosawa's attempt to broaden his horizons in the 1960s led to a tale of drama and betrayal worthy of his own films. By Stuart Galbraith IV.
The misfit: For the West, he was the archetypal Japanese director. But at home Kurosawa was something of an anomaly, argues Tony Rayns.
Cannes 2010: With Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee setting an otherworldy tone, this year's festival saw some big names back on top from - while others lost the plot. By Nick James.
PLUS Lee Marshall on new talent in the Directors' Fortnight.
PLUS Geoff Andrew on the pick of the festival's documentaries.
PLUS Jonathan Romney on My Joy, Ukraine's answer to Deliverance.
Back to basics: At 71, Francis Ford Coppola has turned his back on big-budget epics to concentrate on intimate dramas like Tetro that he can fund himself. But one thing remains the same, says Nick Roddick: it's all about family.
The enigma of Alain Resnais: The veteran French auteur has just turned 88, but nearly half a century after Last Year at Marienbad, he's back with Wild Grass, his most playfully audacious film in years. He talks to Jonathan Romney.
#Film of the month: White Material: Claire Denis' new film blends her ensemble-driven style with an unashamed star vehicle for Isabelle Huppert, as a plantation owner adrift in a civil war in an unnamed African country. By Adrian Martin.
#DVD: The Fugitive K Brando lights the emotional touchpaper in Sidney Lumet's Tennessee Williams adaptation. By Tim Lucas.
#Film review: Greenberg: Ben Stiller's New York narcissist rides out a nervous breakdown in the California sun in Noah Baumbach's knotty character study. Nicolas Rapold admires its toxic spectacle.
#Film review: 4.3.2.1.: Noel Clarke's four-girl British heist caper may be mix-and-match derivative, but Catherine Wheatley admires its cheeky, cheerful charm.
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* Ajami, * Film review: 4.3.2.1., * Brooklyn's Finest, * Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff, * The Collector, * Death at a Funeral, * Fish Story, * Good Hair, * Greenberg, * Iron Man 2, * Journey to Mecca, * Letters to Juliet, * Lymelife, * A Nightmare on Elm Street, * Paradise, * Pimp, * Please Give, * Prince of Persia The Sands of Time, * [Rec] 2, * Robin Hood, * Shed Your Tears and Walk Away, * She's out of My League, * Shrink, * Streetdance, * SUS, * Tetro, * The Losers, * Trash Humpers, * Triomf, * When in Rome, * When You're Strange, * Film of the month: White Material, * Wild Grass, * Women without Men, * DVD: The Fugitive Kind.

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June 2010Features
The Film Book poll: Writing about the art of cinema can be an art in itself. Having polled a wide range of leading international critics, we reveal our survey of the best film books ever published. Nick James browses the results.
That was then, this is now: You might not have noticed, but the past ten years saw the advent of a new 'golden generation' of British television-drama writers. So says Mark Duguid, looking back at the decade's key works.
Cover feature: Hearts of darkness: Werner Herzog partners with actor Nicolas Cage for oddball cop film The Bad Lieutenant. It's the latest in a mini-genre of pictures, where the police are as, if not more, corrupt than the villains they pursue. Inspecting a line-up of suspects, Nick James identifies the prime offenders.
PLUS Peter Keough interviews Nicolas Cage and Mark Greenleaf interviews Werner Herzog.
Inside out: In Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's Texas-set noir The Killer Inside Me, the violence is shocking and misogynistic. That's the point, the director tells Hannah McGill.
PLUS Joseph Bevan on Thompson's unhappy experiences in Hollywood.
Dangerous liaisons: Beneath the cool and steely surfaces of Austrian director Götz Spielmann's gripping thriller Revanche is a film of affecting tenderness and muted soulfulness. Spielmann talks to Catherine Wheatley Selected reviews.
#DVD review: Ride with the Devil: Ang Lee's film about the American Civil War is an understated, undervalued classic, writes Graham Fuller.
#Film of the month: Four Lions: Bomb-making pratfalls and meathead jihadis abound as controversy-courting satirist Chris Morris tackles Islamic fundamentalism in his debut feature Four Lions, but tragedy lurks beneath the farce, says Ben Walters.
#Film review: The Happiest Girl in the World: A small-town teenager finds winning a fruit-juice competition the road to calamity in this acerbic portrait of consumer culture. Michael Brooke admires another dispatch from the Romanian new wave.
#Film review: Lebanon: Samuel Maoz's Venice Golden Lion-winner depicts the 1982 Israeli-Lebanon war entirely from the Stygian interior of an Israeli tank. Roger Clarke feels the brutalisation of the tank's four young occupants Cinema releases reviewed in this issue: * Agora, * American The Bill Hicks Story, * The Back-up Plan, * The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans, * Beeswax, * Black Death, * The Brothers Bloom, * The Calling, * City of War, * Clash of the Titans, * Cop Out, * Erasing David, * Eyes Wide Open, * Film of the month: Four Lions, * Furry Vengeance, * Gentlemen Broncos, * The Girl on the Train, * Give Me Your Hand * The Happiest Girl in the World, * Heartless, * Hot Tub Time Machine, * It's a Wonderful Afterlife, * The Joneses, * The Killer Inside Me, * The Last Song, * Film review: Lebanon, * Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang, * Petropolis Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, * Repo Men, * Room and a Half, * Salvage, * Shelter, * The Story of John Rabe, * The Time That Remains, * Tooth Fairy, * Videocracy, * Vincere.
* DVD review: Ride with the Devil

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May 2010Features
Italian Cinema: Maestros and mobsters: Cinematic nostalgia, endemic corruption and the deadening hand of Silvio Berlusconi have prevented Italy's real story from being told on film for 30 years, says Nick Hasted. But now a new generation of film-makers is finding its voice
The man who wasn't there: Roman Polanski's thriller about an ex-prime minister haunted by past crimes has acquired an extra twist of intrigue in the light of the director's own arrest. Philip Horne unravels the tangled web of The Ghost
Cover feature: Italian Cinema: Fifty years after La dolce vita capped the golden age of Italian movies, things are stirring again in the land of Berlusconi, with new talents emerging fully formed, while old maestros rediscover lost form. Sight & Sound surveys the field
Italian Cinema: The food of love
It's 11 years since Luca Guadagnino and Tilda Swinton started talking about working together on the film that would become I Am Love. Jonathan Romney talks to Guadagnino, and savours the director's unique blend of opulence and passion
PLUS Nick James talks to Swinton about her new role as producer
Italian Cinema: Vicious appetites: Half a century after its controversial domestic release, Lee Marshall revisits the decadence and decay of Fellini's masterpiece La dolce vita
Italian Cinema: The great seducer: With Vincere, Marco Bellocchio ventures where other Italian film-makers fear to tread, showing us the life of Mussolini through the eyes of his rejected lover. The result is a disturbing portrait of power and madness. By Guido Bonsaver
Bad education: A subtle blend of black comedy and horror, Dogtooth depicts a Greek couple who keep their children imprisoned in the family home. Jonathan Romney traces the film lineage of dysfunctional families
PLUS Kieron Corless talks to Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos
#Film of the month: 24 City: An unclassifiable hybrid of documentary and fiction, Jia Zhangke's 24 City finds a telling microcosm of the transformation of China in the story of a factory relocated to make way for a shopping mall. By Tony Rayns
#DVD review: Valley of the Bees: Marketa Lazarova director Frantisek Vlacil was much more than a one-work wonder, says Michael Brooke
#Film review: La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet: Frederick Wiseman's documentary dissects both an institution and an artform with extraordinary skill and beauty, says Kate Stables
#Film review: Cherrybomb: Three rebellious Northern Irish teens form an increasingly dark love triangle in this spirited first-time feature. The acting's the thing, says Lisa Mullen
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* Alice in Wonderland, * The Ape, * Bananas!, * Boogie Woogie, * The Bounty Hunter, * A Boy Called Dad, * Cemetery Junction, * Centurion, * Film review: Cherrybomb, * City of Life and Death, * Crying with Laughter, * Dance with Me, * Film review: La Danse The Paris Opera Ballet, * Date Night, * Dear John, * The Disappearance of Alice Creed, * Dogtooth, * Exit through the Gift Shop, * Freestyle, * The Ghost, * Hachi A Dog's Tale, * Happy Ever Afters, * How to Train Your Dragon, * I Am Love, * I Know You Know, * The Infidel, * Kick-Ass, * Kicks, * Life during Wartime, * The Market A Tale of Trade, * The Milk of Sorrow, * My Name Is Khan, * No Greater Love, * Old Dogs, * Remember Me, * Revanche, * The Sky Crawlers, * Sons of Cuba, * The House of the Devil, * Film of the month: 24 City, * Whip It, * The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, * DVD review: Valley of the Bees

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April 2010Features
Alice through the lens
Mark Sinker compares the various artistic visionaries - from John Tenniel to Dennis Potter to Jan Svankmajer - who have put their stamp on Alice since 1865
PLUS (in the magazine) Go ask Alice: Tim Burton is only the latest film-maker to reinvent Alice in Wonderland in his own image. Kim Newman unpicks the interface of Burton and Lewis Carroll's imaginary worlds.
Island of lost souls
Scorsese's 'Shutter Island' may be a faithful adaptation of a bestseller, but it's also his deeply felt homage to the cinema of the 1940s and 50s, says Graham Fuller, and a return to the paranoid interior world of 'Taxi Driver'
The Berlin crawl
With too many major film-makers saving their wares for Cannes, this year's Berlin Film Festival offered slim pickings. Nick James finds solace in genre thrillers and US indies.
PLUS Tony Rayns on the dire state of the Berlin Forum
PLUS Jonathan Romney on two very different minimalist masterpieces
The ties that bind
Samson & Delilah captures both the harsh realities of Aboriginal life and a vivid sense of desert light and silence. Sophie Mayer talks to debut director Warwick Thornton
'M': murder in the city
Freshly released on DVD in a restored version, Fritz Lang's seminal serial-killer thriller M endures both as a compelling document of its time - Berlin, 1931 - and as a harbinger of mass murders and psychosis to come. By Iain Sinclair Selected reviews
#DVD review: Mad Dog Morgan
The tale of Mad Dog Morgan pushes all the right buttons (except the anamorphic one), writes Tim Lucas
#Film of the month: Double Take
More than just a homage, Johan Grimonprez's extraordinary montage uses Hitch's mischievous TV appearances as the launch pad for a brilliant riff on Cold War politics and the idea of the double. By Jonathan Romney #Film review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This adaptation of the first part of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is an ultraviolent and devastating whodunit with an unsettling political undertow, says Lisa Mullen
#Film review: Lourdes
Sylvie Testud plays a wheelchair-bound miracle hunter in Jessica Hausner's wry comedy of manners. Michael Brooke finds the results beguilingly odd
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* 1234, * The Blind Side, * A Closed Book, * Dirty Oil, * Film of the month: Double Take, * Extract, * Extraordinary Measures, * From Paris with Love, * Film review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, * Green Zone, * I Love You Phillip Morris, * In the Land of the Free..., * Kakera A Piece of Our Life, * Lion's Den, * Film review: Lourdes, * My Last Five Girlfriends, * Nightwatching, * No One Knows about Persian Cats, * Ondine, * Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief, * Perrier's Bounty, * Samson & Delilah, * The Scouting Book for Boys, * Shank, * Shutter Island, * Solomon Kane, * The Spy Next Door, * Storm/Sturm/Hannahs valg/The Tribunal, * The Crazies, * The Kreutzer Sonata, * Valentine's Day, * Valhalla Rising, * The Wolfman, * DVD review: Mad Dog Morgan

Issue #227
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March 2010Features
Obituaries
Sight & Sound's comprehensive survey of the actors, directors, writers, producers and technicians who died during the course of 2009, compiled by Bob Mastrangelo. PLUS:
Betsy Blair by Kieron Corless (online exclusive)
Nika Bohinc and Alexis A. Tioseco by Kieron Corless and Nick Bradshaw
Kathleen Byron by Philip Kemp
Jack Cardiff by Ian Christie
David Carradine by Jane Giles
John Hughes by Isabel Stevens
Maurice Jarre by Johnny Trunk (online exclusive)
Troy Kennedy-Martin by Lez Cooke (online exclusive)
Patrick McGoohan by Nick James (online exclusive)
Keith Waterhouse by Nick James (online exclusive)
Robin Wood by Brad Stevens
Muraki Yoshiro by Stuart Galbraith IV
Ivan Zulueta by Belen Vidal (online exclusive)
Out of the shadows (online from March 1)
Sergei Parajanov was imprisoned by the Soviets and his films were suppressed, but his magical vision and his bold championing of folk tradition endure long after the fall of the USSR. Ian Christie celebrates a unique film-maker, and looks at the banned Russian film-makers who survived to resume their careers
His dark material: Tom Ford has defied the sceptics with his feature-directing debut, a sombre and haunting adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel A Single Man, with a standout performance by Colin Firth (and very good clothes). Roger Clarke talks to the fashion guru turned auteur
Vanishing point: The Headless Woman is the latest of three films in which Lucrecia Martel, the key talent of the new Argentine cinema, turns her ominous gaze on the haute bourgeoisie among whom she grew up. Demetrios Matheou asks the director about nightmares, medical instruments and memories of dictatorship
Under pressure: Not yet 30, actress-turned-director Mia Hansen-Løve has established herself as a distinctive new voice with her second film Father of My Children, inspired by the life of the film producer who was her early mentor. She talks to Jonathan Romney
Selected reviews: #Film of the month: Breathless: An astonishing debut for writer-director Yang Ik-june, who also stars, 'Breathless' confronts the violence in Korean society via the story of a brutal debt collector who strikes up a friendship with a schoolgirl. By Tony Rayns
#Film review: Father of My Children: Life goes on in Mia Hansen-Løve?s snappy yet slow-burning portrait of a film family?s schism, says Ryan Gilbey
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* Armored, * Avatar, * Battle for Terra, * Beyond the Pole, * The Book of Eli, * Breathless, * Burlesque Undressed, * Capitalism: A Love Story, * Case 39, * Chloe, * Crazy Heart, * Daybreakers, * Did You Hear about the Morgans?, * Edge of Darkness, * Everybody's Fine, * Film review: Father of My Children, * Food Inc., * The Headless Woman, * Holy Water, * Horses, * It Might Get Loud, * It's Complicated, * The Last Station, * Leap Year, * Motherhood, * Mugabe and the White African, * Nine, * No Distance Left to Run, * Oil City Confidential, * Ponyo, * Psych:9, * She, a Chinese, * A Single Man, * St Trinian's The Legend of Fritton's Gold, * Takeshis', * The Unloved, * Winter in Wartime, * Youth in Revolt.

Issue #226
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February 2010Features
Syndromes of a new century
How have the first ten years of the 21st century changed cinema? From Argentina to Romania, from AlmodOvar to Weerasethakul, Nick James introduces Sight & Sound's selection of the 30 key films of the past decade
PLUS Shane Danielsen on the hot national cinemas of the past ten years
PLUS Mark Cousins on the new culture of instant availability
PLUS Michael Atkinson on reports of the death of American cinema
PLUS Hannah McGill on the decline and fall of star power
PLUS Jonathan Romney on the subtle spread of 'Slow Cinema'
PLUS Nick Roddick on how digital technology has transformed film
PLUS six of the decade's directing talents - Pedro Costa, the Dardennes, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Jia Zhang-ke and Apichatpong Weerasethakul - describe their own distinctive approaches to film-making
#Sight & Sound's films of the decade
Not a 'top 30', but the films that in our opinion best represent the decade's most distinctive oeuvres and movements - with annotations from the Sight & Sound archives
#Ozu Yasujiro, tofu maker
Ozu is often perceived to be a uniquely Japanese director with a fascination for the domestic, but in fact he was a wide-ranging movie fan who started out aping US films and rarely had real experiences to parallel the lives of his protagonists. By Tony Rayns
Between the walls
A Prophet is an uncompromising and brutal French prison movie with an unknown lead. But Jacques Audiard's fifth film as director is rooted in his earlier, seductive reinventions of the male hero and the French crime genre, argues Ginette Vincendeau
The waste land
Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road has been considered unfilmable. But John Hillcoat tells Jonathan Romney that his film version is all about fidelity to the original
No place like home
The new George Clooney vehicle Up in the Air combines smart comedy with an unexpectedly tart and timely critique of US corporate thinking. Nick James talks to its writer-director Jason Reitman, of Juno fame
Selected reviews
#DVD review: Tarzan after Johnny Weissmuller
Two actors ruled the jungle after Johnny Weissmuller handed in his loincloth. Tim Lucas on the ape men #Film of the Month: Still Walking
Trevor Johnston is wowed by a supremely subtle portrayal of the tensions within a Japanese family that puts director Kore-eda Hirokazu in the same league as his country's masters of domestic drama, Ozu and Naruse
#Film review: Our Beloved Month of August
#Film review: Invictus
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* 44 Inch Chest, * Adoration, * All about Steve, * Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakquel, * Anonyma A Woman in Berlin, * Astro Boy, * The Boys Are Back, * Brothers, * Carriers (credits only), * Christmas in Wonderland, * Crude, * Humpday, * Film review: Invictus, * The Island/Ostrov, * Law Abiding Citizen (credits only), * The Lovely Bones, * Masquerades, * The Men Who Stare at Goats (credits only), * New Moon, * Ninja Assassin, * Only When I Dance, * OSS 117 Lost in Rio, * Film review: Our Beloved Month of August, * Precious, * The Princess and the Frog, * A Prophet, * The Road, * Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, * Sherlock Holmes, * Southern Softies, * Spread, * Film of the Month: Still Walking, * DVD review: Tarzan after Johnny Weissmuller, * Tony, * Treeless Mountain, * Up in the Air.

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January 2010Features
Von Sternberg - six chapters in search of an auteur: The six films Josef von Sternberg made with the star he 'created', Marlene Dietrich, are a triumph of pure style and sensual excess over novelettish plots. To welcome a new season, David Thompson celebrates the master of light
Review of the year: A French resurgence and an unprecedentedly strong showing by women directors helped make 2009 an exceptional year, says Jonathan Romney as he surveys the results of Sight & Sound's annual Top Ten poll
PLUS 60 critics from around the world pick the five best films they saw in the last 12 months
Mystery training: Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control pushes his customary droll cool to a new fractured abstraction - and has lost him fans in the process. But Nick James goes with the flow
PLUS The director tells James Mottram why the music comes first - and why he loves bad reviews
Ambition's debt: Richard Linklater's long-awaited new film Me and Orson Welles celebrates the great director's early glory days. But, as Linklater tells Rob Stone, seismic shifts in film distribution are now threatening the independent spirit that Welles embodied
PLUS Geoffrey Macnab talks to Norman Lloyd, survivor of Welles' 1937 production of Julius Caesar
Across the great divide: Sally Potter's films cross the boundaries between artforms, nationalities and genders. As the director turns 60, her biographer Sophie Mayer surveys her career
DVD review: Messiah of Evil: Tim Lucas welcomes the impeccably restored return of 1970s horror masterpiece 'Messiah of Evil'
Film of the month: Nowhere Boy: Sam Taylor-Wood's debut 'Nowhere Boy' ultimately says less about the young John Lennon's evolution as a musician, and more about the two women who loomed large in his teenage years. By Trevor Johnston
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* 2012, * Amelia, * The Box, * Carriers, * Cirque du Freak The Vampire's Assistant, * Departures/Okuribito, * Disney's A Christmas Carol, * Exam, * Film review: Harry Brown, * Law Abiding Citizen, * The Limits of Control, * Love Happens, * Love the Beast, * Machan, * The Magic Hour, * Film review: Me and Orson Welles, * The Men Who Stare at Goats, * Michael Jackson's This Is It, * Micmacs, * Mr. Right, * My Father My Lord, * Nativity!, * Film of the month: Nowhere Boy, * Paranormal Activity, * Planet 51, * Post Grad, * Saw VI, * Starsuckers, * The Stepfather, * Unmade Beds/London Nights, * Where the Wild Things Are, * DVD review: Messiah of Evil.

Issue #224
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December 2009Features
Unexpected tenderness: Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winner The White Ribbon is a tale of cruelty set in a north German village in 1913. Despite its monochrome austerity, Catherine Wheatley sees hints of a new softness in the director's work
PLUS: The Revenge of Children: Geoff Andrew asks the director about the evolution of this disturbing film Romantic setting
Jane Campion tells Nick James why she didn't want to make just another 19th-century costume drama with Bright Star, her portrait of Keats in love
PLUS: Too Late for Antique Vows: Bright Star may be based on Andrew Motion's Keats biography, but it is less the poet's biopic than a dreamy evocation of the spirit of his poetry, says Graham Fuller
The devil of detail: As Henri-Georges Clouzot's extraordinary unfinished L'Enfer (Inferno) is resurrected after 40 years, David Thompson surveys the career of the French master of suspense
PLUS Ginette Vincendeau profiles Clouzot's star Romy Schneider
PLUS James Bell talks to director Serge Bromberg about his new film Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno In a strange land
Last year, Sergey Dvortsevoy beat Steve McQueen to the best debut feature award at the London Film Festival with his steppe saga Tulpan. Kieron Corless meets him
The greatest film-makers you've never heard of: Their groundbreaking movies have struggled to find distribution in the UK, yet the films of husband-and-wife partnership Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet show an unparalleled commitment to intense human experience, says Tag Gallagher
#DVD review: Brigitte Bardot 5-Film Collection: Tim Lucas on an overlooked Brigitte Bardot box-set showcasing some of the French screen icon's less familiar films
#Film of the Month: A Serious Man: While true to the Coens' absurdist spirit, 'A Serious Man' - unusually for them - features a realistic, empathetic character in a realistic setting, the suburban Midwest in the 1960s. It's a fascinating mix, says Michael Atkinson
#Film review: Johnny Mad Dog: Trevor Johnston admires a vivid, terrifying portrait of African child soldiers that challenges its viewers' wits and bearings
#Film review: The Informant!: Matt Damon is at his elusive best in Steven Soderbergh's discombobulating corporate-crime thriller. Take Michael Atkinson's word for it
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
* Bright Star, * Bunny & the Bull, * Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, * Cold Souls * Couples Retreat, * Cracks, * The Crimson Wing, * The Descent: Part 2, * Disgrace, * Examined Life, * Fame, * The Girlfriend Experience, * Glorious 39, * Halloween II, * The Horseman, * Film review: The Informant!, * The Invention of Lying, * Jennifer's Body, * Film review: Johnny Mad Dog, * Lala Pipo - A Lot of People, * Made in Jamaica, * The Merry Gentleman, * Morris: A Life with Bells On, * Pandorum, * Paper Heart, * Rage, * Reckoning Day, * The Sea Wall, * Seraphine, * Film of the Month: A Serious Man, * Surrogates, * Surviving Evil, * Taking Woodstock, * Tulpan, * Vanishing of the Bees, * We Live in Public, * The White Ribbon, * wmd., * Zombieland, * DVD review: Brigitte Bardot 5-Film Collection.

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November 2009Features
Within a closed world: Jacques Audiard talks to Ginette Vincendeau about his follow-up to 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped', prison drama 'A Prophet'
#Electric 'Underground': Director Anthony Asquith has long been dismissed as a lightweight. But his restored 1928 silent is a revelation, says Jay Weissberg
Cover feature: London Film Festival: As Wes Anderson's anarchic fairytale Fantastic Mr Fox opens the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival, Sam Davies interviews the director about how he used stop-motion animation to bring Roald Dahl's much-loved children's classic to the screen.
PLUS Austria's Jessica Hausner talks to Geoffrey Macnab about the pitfalls of filming Lourdes
PLUS Veteran documentarist Frederick Wiseman turns his all-seeing camera on the Paris Opera Ballet. By Nicolas Rapold
Autumn almanac: Venice & Toronto: Overlapping as they do every September, the two festivals have often been seens as rivals. But with so many films appearing on both programmes - including bold new works from Herzog, Solondz and Denis - they are coming to seem like complementary partners, though each creates a different mood. Jonathan Romney reports from the Lido, and Nick James from Toronto.
The vampire next door: Park Chan-wook's Thirst is just the latest in a recent ?urry of vampire films and TV shows from around the world that shun the old gothic trappings. Kevin Jackson asks what else this new breed have in common.
PLUS Park Chan-wook tells James Bell how he laid the cliches to rest.
The sound of silence: Transcending the new genre of western-produced 'African atrocity film', Johnny Mad Dog takes an un?inching look at child soldiers in West Africa. By Linda Ruth Williams
PLUS Director Jean-Stephane Sauvaire talks to Jonathan Romney
#Film of the Month: An Education: Nick Hornby's adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of teenage seduction shows his trademark understated wit. But it's the nuanced touch of director Lone Scherfig that really makes it special, says Kate Stables #DVD: L'important c'est d'aimer.
Tim Lucas on Romy Schneider, giving the performance of her life in Andrzej Zulawski's tale of broken hearts and lost dreams, 'L'important c'est d'aimer'
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue: * 9, * Army of Crime, * Baabarr, * Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, * Colin, * The Cove, * Dead Man Running, * Died Young Stayed Pretty, * District 13 Ultimatum, * Driving Aphrodite / My Life in Ruins, * Film of the Month: An Education, * Fantastic Mr Fox, * The Final Destination, * The First Day of the Rest of Your Life, * G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra, * Gamer, * Greek Pete, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, * The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, * DVD: L'important c'est d'aimer, * Ip Man, * Jack Said / Paul Tanter's Jack Said, * Katalin Varga, * Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee, Love Exposure / Ai no mukidashi, * Ong Bak The Beginning / Ong Bak 2, * Passchendaele, * Pontypool, * Shooting Robert King, * Sorority Row, * Tales from the Golden Age, * The Goods Live Hard Sell Hard, * The Red Baron/Der Rote Baron , * Thirst / Bakjwi, * Triangle, * Welcome, * Whiteout/Whiteout Enfer blanc.

Issue #222
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October 2009Features
Going underground: Billy Elliot screenwriter Lee Hall digs into the BFI National Archive's extraordinary collection of films about the mining industry, which offer a provocative and often moving celebration of everyday labour
Crossing the threshold: On the eve of a retrospective of his films in London, Colossal Youth director Pedro Costa discusses his career with Kieron Corless, while (in the magazine) critic Quintin explains why the Portuguese film-maker's process is key to understanding his work.
Also in the magazine, Argentinian critic Quintin charts the development of Costa's unique filming style.
Cover feature: Estate of mind
Red Road director Andrea Arnold tells Lisa Mullen why thinking is the enemy of creativity - and why it's only the middle classes who are likely to find her acclaimed new council-estate drama Fish Tank 'grim'.
PLUS Nick Roddick explains why the director fits a tradition of British film-makers who refuse to be constrained by the social-realist label
In the line of beauty
R.J. Cutler tells Nick James how he gained the trust of Anna Wintour, the famously icy editor of American Vogue, for his fascinating documentary The September Issue
Phoning it in: Sally Potter talks to Nick Bradshaw about her experimental fashion drama Rage, and explains why it's impossible to resist change
Reality check: Jonathan Romney reports from the Tuscan set of Abbas Kiarostami's enigmatic Juliette Binoche vehicle Certified Copy
Film of the Month: The Beaches of Agnes: Eighty-one this year, Agnes Varda looks back on a life that took her from the French New Wave to hippie-era Los Angeles and beyond, in a self-portrait that's as rich and full as any autobiography, says Jonathan Romney
DVD review: The Howl: Tim Lucas admires the revolutionary electricity and formal adandon of Tinto Brass' 1968 The Howl
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue:
31 North 62 East, The Agent, Aliens in the Attic, Away We Go, Film of the Month: The Beaches of Agnes, Film review: BirdWatchers, Blind Dating, Born in 68/Nes on 68 Nous nous aimerons jusqu'a la mort, Bustin' Down the Door, Chevolution, Coffin Rock, Creation, District 9, Dorian Gray, The Firm, Fish Tank, Funny People, G-Force, Goodbye Solo, Heart of Fire/Feuerherz, DVD: The Howl, DVD review: The Howl, Je veux voir, Jetsam, Julie & Julia, The Meerkats, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, Morning Light, Orphan/Orphan Das Waisenkind/ Esther/L'Orpheline, A Perfect Getaway, The September Issue, Shank, Shorts, The Soloist, The Spell, The Time Traveler's Wife/Die Frau des Zeitreisenden, Film review: Tricks, Up, Vinyan, White Lightnin'.

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September 2009The wild bunch: They make films that are uncategorisable, in which cinematic language, taste and even reality itself are bent to their will. Mark Cousins hails the 50 revolutionary auteurs from around the world whom we have dubbed the 'Wild Bunch'.
PLUS (in the magazine) 50 directors - from Anger to Zulawski via Breillat, Lynch, Suzuki, Tsui and Verhoeven - profiled by our panel of contributors.
PLUS (in the magazine) Kim Newman on one-hit wonders, Amy Taubin on 'wild' women and Michael Brooke on the eastern European visionaries who managed to fool the censors.
Days of Gloury: After S&S covered the Cannes premiere of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino took exception to our accusation of pastiche. He tells Ryan Gilbey why his new film is really all about language.
In the realm of Oshima: Best known in the west for the period co-productions In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Oshima's finest works are the fiercely modern Japanese films he made in the '60s, says Alexander Jacoby.
Sensory perception: Pedro Almod?var's Broken Embraces sees the director taking a sidestep away from melodrama towards noir. Via the story of a blind screenwriter, he explores his - and his native country's - relationship to the past. By Maria Delgado.
The big switch: Over the past two years, digital projection has begun to transform cinemagoing in the UK. But reports of the death of celluloid may be premature, says Geoffrey Macnab.
Film of the month: Afterschool: Focused on a loner who can only relate to 'real life' through DIY video footage, Antonio Campos' cool, brave directing debut Afterschool is a high-school movie for the alienated YouTube generation, says Lisa Mullen.
DVD review: Woodstock: On the 40th anniversary of the festival, 'Woodstock' returns in fine remastered form, writes Tim Lucas.
Cinema releases reviewed in this issue: Adventureland, Film of the month: Afterschool, Beautiful Losers, Big River Man, Broken Embraces / Los abrazos rotos, Br?no, Crossing Over, Dance Flick, (500) Days of Summer, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Home, Film review: The Hurt Locker, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Imagine That / Imagine That Die Kraft der Fantasie, The Informers, Inglourious Basterds, Lake Tahoe, Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 / L'ennemi public no1, Film review: Mid-August Lunch, My Sister's Keeper, 1 Day, Red Mist, Sin nombre, The Ugly Truth.

Issue #220
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August 2009Features
Gangsters special, part 3: Thunder roads Since the 1960s, independent-minded US film-makers have been revisiting the Great Depression. Michael Atkinson explores the era's enduring appeal
Seeing red: restoring The Red Shoes With a little help from its greatest fan Martin Scorsese, Powell and Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece The Red Shoes returns to the screen in full Technicolor glory. But what does a restoration project on this scale really involve, asks Ian Christie
Making the waves After the maelstrom of Cannes, where his extraordinary new horror film Antichrist earned a Best Actress award for Charlotte Gainsbourg - and a chorus of critical outrage - Lars von Trier talks to Stig Bj?rkman in the calm of his writer's cabin outside Copenhagen
Give 'em enough rope Like Sacha Baron Cohen's previous comic creations Ali G and Borat, Br?no forces us to confront our prejudices. But is the formula wearing thin, asks Kim Newman
Gangsters special, part 1: Johnny too bad With Public Enemies, Michael Mann reinvents the gangster legends of his home city Chicago as his own distinctive brand of alpha-male head-to-head. But it's the look as much as the psychology that seems to fascinate him, says Nick James
Gangsters special, part 2: Bad company For a few thrilling years in 1930s America, the real-life crime wave transformed both the kind of films made in Hollywood and the kind of writers and actors making them - and the gangster movie was born. By Lee Server
Steady as she goes A tender portrait of the relationship between a father and his daughter, 35 Shots of Rum reveals a gentler side to risk-taking director Claire Denis. By Catherine Wheatley. PLUS James Bell talks to Claire Denis about trains, Ozu and the perfect father
Selected reviews
Film of the month: Frozen River A bleak tale of people-smuggling in the icy terrain of the US/Canadian border, Courtney Hunt's Oscar-nominated Frozen River exemplifies US indies' new concern with the lives of the poor, argues Ryan Gilbey
DVD review: In Treatment In Treatment makes gripping drama out of the conversations of a therapist and his patients. Tim Lucas analyses its success
Film review: Moon In Duncan Jones' sci-fi chamber drama, Sam Rockwell meets a multiplicity of himself on the dark side of the moon. Reviewed by Philip Kemp
Film review: Rumba Francophone mime duo Abel and Gordon revive the art of silent physical screen comedy in their elegantly absurdist second feature. Reviewed by Kate Stables
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue:
35 Shots of Rum Adam Alice Neel Antichrist/Antychryst Bandslam Blood The Last Vampire Burma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country/Burma VJ Reporter i et lukket land Charles Dickens's England Coco before Chanel/Coco avant Chanel Dogging A Love Story Doghouse Echoes of Home/Heimatkl?nge Embodiment of Evil/Encarna?ao do dem?nio Fired Up! Film of the month: Frozen River Ichi DVD review: In Treatment Land of the Lost Louise Bourgeois The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine Mad, Sad & Bad Mesrine: Killer Instinct/L'instinct de mort/Nemico pubblico N?1 L'istincto di morte Film review: Moon Objectified Public Enemies Revenge of the Fallen Film review: Rumba Skin The Hangover/Hangover The Heavy The Proposal The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 The Yes Men Fix the World Three Miles North of Molkom... Transformers Year One

Issue #219
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July 2009Features
Stars in his eyes: David Lynch's new music collaboration sees him use singing and photography in his continued exposing of the dark psyche of suburbia. He talks to James Bell
Inflammable desires: As Kenneth Anger's legendary 'Magick Lantern Cycle' rises again on DVD, Tony Rayns unpicks the hidden themes and influences that made his work so groundbreaking.
Cannes 2009: Carve his name with pride: Tarantino has thrown everything into the mix for Inglourious Basterds, from complex wordplay to extreme violence, but it leaves Nick James wondering where the drama went.
Cannes Report: Backing the future: It was billed as the best auteur list in years, with fewer American films than usual, so how come money shots rather than great films were the talk of the Croisette, asks Nick James? PLUS J. Hoberman on the two most loathed films at the festival. Lizzie Francke admires the Camera d'Or-winning Samson and Delilah.Amy Taubin is impressed by the range of performances from actresses.Geoff Andrew extols the virtues of Marco Bellocchio's moving Vincere, and Corneliu Porumboiu's superb Police, Adjective. Jonathan Romney enjoys Alain Resnais' flamboyant Les Herbes folles. And Wendy Ide samples films directed by women shown in the less trumpeted strands of Cannes.
Latin Massive: Challengingly radical and completely vital, Buenos Aires' BAFICI film festival continues to conjure its magic, despite funding cuts, says Kieron Corless.
The arthouse diaspora: Why are sharp British talents like Thomas Clay jumping ship to work outside the UK? Jonathan Romney admires Clay's new film Soi Cowboy, while John Wrathall looks at the history of Brits abroad and S&S talks to some key expat talents.
DVD: I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar/Emergency Kisses: Tim Lucas on Philippe Garrel's surprisingly tender films about his heroin-fuelled relationship with legendary chanteuse Nico.
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: Am I Black Enough for You, Angels & Demons, Beyond the Fire, Blind Loves/Slep? l?sky, The Blue Tower, City Rats, Cloud 9/Wolke 9, Crank High Voltage, The Disappeared, Drag Me to Hell, Dummy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Gigantic, The Girl Cut in Two/La Fille coup?e en deux/Die zweigeteilte Frau, The Hide, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode/Voy a explotar, The Last House on the Left, The Last Thakur, Looking for Eric, Max Manus Man of War/Max Manus, Night at the Museum 2/Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian, Obsessed, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Red Cliff/Chi Bi, Rudo y Cursi, Shadows in the Sun, Shirin, Soi Cowboy, Soul Power, Star Trek, Summer Scars, Sunshine Cleaning, Telstar, Tenderness, Terminator Salvation, The Uninvited/Der Fluch der zwei Schwestern, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Issue #218
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June 2009Features
Joseph Losey & Harold Pinter: In search of poshlust times: From Venetian decadence and British class war to Proustian time games, the collaborations of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter in the 1960s and 1970s introduced a new, high-culture kind of art film, says Nick James
Losey/Pinter special: The go-between: In-between dissecting the British class system in his films with Pinter, Losey was busy shooting ads for Ford and Horlicks. By Dylan Cave
Cannes preview: With brand new features from Michael Haneke, Quentin Tarantino, Jane Campion, Andrea Arnold, Gaspar Noe, Ang Lee and Lars von Trier, this year's Cannes film festival looks set to be a cinephile's treat
Airless love: As Pedro Almod?var nears 60, does his latest Cannes contender Broken Embraces reveal a director cannibalising his own past triumphs, asks Paul Julian Smith, or a master at the peak of his powers?
Fantasy football: A fantasy sequence, little social or political comment and a starring role for football legend Eric Cantona. Can Looking for Eric really be a film by Ken Loach, asks Nick Roddick?
Gone in 60 years: Charlie Kaufman's first film as a director, Synecdoche, New York is about - you guessed - a director; one who turns his life into theatre. But is there more to Kaufman than the Kaufmanesque blurring of art and life, asks Edward Lawrenson
Losey/Pinter special: The caretaker: As a playwright, Pinter had a unique and unmistakable voice. But as a screenwriter, argues Ian Christie, he was a meticulous and sensitive adaptor of other writers, including Fitzgerald, Kafka - and himself
Losey/Pinter special: Losey and 'Accident': In 1966, James Leahy visited the set of what many consider Losey's greatest film. We reprint his report
Losey/Pinter special: The infiltrator: Exiled from his native America by McCarthy's witch-hunt, Losey used his outsider's eye to keep probing beneath the surface. Brad Stevens finds hidden depths in one of the director's most neglected films, 1972's The Assassination of Trotsky
Selected reviews
sleep furiously: As an honest and moving portrait of a year in the life of a small rural community in mid Wales, Gideon Koppel's charming and naturalistic film beats its inspiration Dylan Thomas hands down, says John Banville
DVD: The She Beast: Tim Lucas rediscovers the flawed but fascinating debut of 'Witchfinder General' director Michael Reeves
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue:
12 Rounds 17 Again Anything for Her Awaydays Before I Forget Chiko Dragonball Evolution The End of the Line/El ?nal de la l?nea Fast & Furious Fighting Fire?ies in the Garden French Film Fugitive Pieces Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!/ Funukedomo, kanashimi no ai misero Hannah Montana The Movie The Haunting in Connecticut In Search of Beethoven Jonas Brothers The 3D Concert Experience Just Another Love Story Kisses Last Chance Harvey Madagascar Escape 2 Africa Management The Mark of an Angel Miss March Monsters vs Aliens New Town Killers Outlander DVD: The She Beast sleep furiously State of Play Sugar Synecdoche, New York Tormented Viva

Issue #217
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May 2009Features
The New Wave at 50: The star reborn Half a century after a group of young French directors changed forever the way films are made, we assess the legacy of the nouvelle vague. The movement also transformed film acting, introducing a new kind of star, says Ginette Vincendeau
The New Wave at 50: Riding the wave Directors Jacques Audiard, Catherine Breillat, Charles Burnett, Claude Chabrol, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Christophe Honore on what the New Wave means to them now
The New Wave at 50: A priest and his flock
The critic Andre Bazin was a father figure for the New Wave directors, writes Nick James, but they didn't always practise what he preached
The New Wave at 50: Journey to the end of the beach
As Godard's Pierrot le fou is rereleased, David Thomson looks at how the breakdown of a love affair was played out both on and off the camera
The New Wave at 50: All the world's a stage
Jonathan Romney unearths the Alain Resnais 1963 classic Muriel, a film whose formal experimentation still seems daring today
The New Wave at 50: The ones that got away
The critical focus on a handful of big-name New Wave auteurs has obscured the wider explosion of French film-making at the time, says Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
That was the war that was
Armando Iannucci's television work has exposed the uselessness of British politicians, not least in The Thick of It. So where did he go to broaden the scope of its sister film In the Loop, asks Lisa Mullen? America, of course
The new horror
Breaking the mould of the vampire film and the coming-of-age story - and what's expected of Swedish cinema - Let the Right One In is one of those uncategorisable masterpieces best described in terms of what it isn't, says Mark Kermode PLUS Kim Newman surveys the contemporary horror scene, and concludes that what's missing is a sense of meaning
Body language
When John Wrathall's screenplay Good was filmed, it gave him the chance to watch Viggo Mortensen at work, and to see how a film actor makes a role his own
Selected reviews
Tony Manero A disturbing portrait of a Travolta-obsessed sociopath in Pinochet's Chile, Pablo Larra?n's 'Tony Manero' is less about the dreams of the disco era than about the realities of life under dictatorship, says Jonathan Romney
DVD review: Exposed The 1970s Swedish sex movie 'Exposed' is, says Tim Lucas, unexpectedly subversive and full of almost Bu?uelian ruses
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue:
Afghan Star Alone Blue Eyelids The Boat That Rocked Bottle Shock The Burning Plain Cheri Coraline The Damned United Delta Diminished Capacity Duplicity Encounters at the End of the World The End Everlasting Moments DVD review: Exposed Good The Grocer's Son Helen In the Loop Is Anybody There? King of the Hill Knowing Lesbian Vampire Killers Let the Right One In The Life before Her Eyes Little Ashes Martyrs Momma's Man My Name Is Bruce Not Easily Broken Observe and Report O'Horten Race to Witch Mountain Shifty Sounds like Teen Spirit Tony Manero Watchmen The World Unseen

Issue #216
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April 2009Features
A brief history of cinematography Barry Salt charts the technical and artistic developments in lighting that have transformed the look of cinema over the past century
Prince of darkness Il Divo's portrait of former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti sees Paolo Sorrentino going against expectations to magnificent effect, finds Guido Bonsaver.
Talking Shop Poland's Camerimage festival gave Sight & Sound the chance to canvass international cinematographers about the state of their craft. Interviews by Roger Clarke and Edward Lawrenson
Dante's Paradiso Cinematographer Dante Spinotti turned to digital cameras to penetrate the darkness of his fifth collaboration with director Michael Mann, the gangster epic Public Enemies. He talks to Roger Clarke
City of lost souls Women go off the rails in the Berlinale's taboo-busting films this year, as Nick James discovers. PLUS Jonathan Romney picks his best and worst of the festival and Tony Rayns highlights a few peaks.
Still got no strings As Disney looks to the future, Andrew Osmond looks back at the soon-to-be-reissued Pinocchio with its lead voiceover artist Dickie Jones to see what made it such a memorable and groundbreaking animation.
Anatomy of a director Otto Preminger was frequently seen as an auteur striving for objectivity. A more detailed look at his early output suggests a more subtle truth, argues Richard Combs.
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Wonderful Town An engrossing and poetic debut from Thai director Aditya Assarat, Wonderful Town coolly sets the progress of a doomed love affair against the backdrop of a community devastated by the 2004 tsunami. By Tony Rayns
DVD Review: The Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert Two new Bu?uel releases shed light on the maestro's Mexican sojourn. Tim Lucas on surrealism's sly old devil.
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue:
20th Century Boys/20-seiki sh?nen/Twentieth Century Boys The Age of Stupid Bronson Chandni Chowk to China/RameshSippy's Chandni Chowk to China Cherry Blossoms/Kirschbl?ten Hanami Confessions of a Shopaholic Crossed Tracks/Roman de gare Il Divo/Il Divo La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti DVD Review: The Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert Fifty Dead Men Walking Flash of Genius Friday the 13th Genova He's Just Not That into You/Er steht einfach nicht auf Dich! Hotel for Dogs/Das Hundehotel Hush I Can't Think Straight In the City of Sylvia/En la ciudad de Sylvia/Dans la ville de Sylvia Katyn LOL (Laughing Out Loud) Modern Life/La Vie moderne New in Town Not Quite Hollywood Obscene Paul Blart Mall Cop Peter Beard 'Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond...'/Peter Beard Carnets d'Afrique et d'ailleurs Push Timecrimes/Los cronocr?menes Traitor Two Lovers Tyson Under the Sea 3D Underworld Rise of the Lycans The Universe of Keith Haring/L'universo di Keith Haring/Keith Haring Le Petit Prince de la rue Waveriders Who's Camus Anyway?/Kamyu nante shiranai Film of the Month: Wonderful Town

Issue #215
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March 2009Features
From romance to ritual Barry Lyndon takes its inspiration from Thackeray's source novel. But in Kubrick's hands the tone - and the hero - are transformed. By Kim Newman
Hall of mirrors Kubrick's unmade 1990s project Aryan Papers has now inspired an intriguing installation by the Wilson Twins that finally gives its star her moment. By Brian Dillon
Bloody Yorkshire David Peace's Red Riding novels have been adapted into three films, 1974, 1980 and 1983. Nick James enters their terrorised, haunted landscape, and talks to screenwriter Tony Grisoni
Mister Strangelove Stanley Kubrick's films, from Lolita to Eyes Wide Shut, often revolve around sexual relationships. So why, asks Linda Ruth Williams, are they so unsexy?
Up the hill backwards David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a bizarre memoir of a reverse-ageing drifter who falls for a growing child. By Graham Fuller PLUS Nick James talks to the director about the technical challenge of ageing Brad Pitt
The rules of the game Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class has crystallised debate in France about the current crisis in education. But it also belongs to a venerable tradition of French school films. By Ginette Vincendeau
The great leap forward After a craze in the 1950s, 3D was dismissed as a gimmick. But with so many new possibilities in digital production and exhibition, its time may have come. By Ben Walters PLUS Nick Roddick talks to 3D proselytiser Jeffrey Katzenberg and Tom Charity talks to Joe Dante on the set of his 3D film The Hole
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: The International With blistering action set pieces and a downbeat hero in the shape of Clive Owen, Tom Tykwer's new espionage thriller ,'The International' plays like a deglamorised, back-to-basics Bond. By Samuel Wigley
DVD Review: Magnificent Obsession Directors John M. Stahl and Douglas Sirk both filmed the same bestselling tearjerker. Tim Lucas spots the difference
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue:
American Teen Anvil! The Story of Anvil Bedtime Stories Bride Wars A Bunch of Amateurs Cadillac Records Che Part Two The Class The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Fermat's Room Flame & Citron Franklyn Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel Fuck The Good, the Bad, the Weird Gran Torino Hamlet 2 Film of the Month: The International JCVD The Lost City DVD Review: Magnificent Obsession Marley & Me Milk (credits only) My Bloody Valentine Notorious The Pink Panther 2 Punisher War Zone Reverb Revolutionary Road (credits only) The Secret of Moonacre Sex Drive (credits only) The Spirit Stuck The Tale of Despereaux (credits only) Three Monkeys Twilight (credits only) The Unborn Valkyrie The Wrestler (credits only) Yes Man

Issue #214
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February 2009Features
Sam Peckinpah Taking a walk through the director's bloody flick Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, David Thomson explores Peckinpah's love/hate relationship with Mexico. PLUS David Weddle on his influential television work
Mumbai rising Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle talks to Alkarim Jivani about fleeing from the Indian authorities, working with children, and why he'll be avoiding big budgets
Web Exclusive: Amazonas Film Festival report In the footsteps of Fitzcarraldo, James Bell heads deep into the Brazilian jungle for the Amazonas Festival
Web Exclusive: East meets Western Sight & Sound talks to South Korean director Kim Jee-woon about his latest film, the sci-fi western The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Web Exclusive: Obituaries January to December 2008 In our annual obituaries round-up, Bob Mastrangelo mourns the passing of the men and women of cinema who died in 2008.
All that Hollywood allows Richard Yates has been rediscovered as one of the great American writers, and Revolutionary Road is his masterpiece. Nick James asks why, in that case, Sam Mendes focuses on acting at the expense of period in his new adaptation
No city for old men Woody Allen is once again under fire with Vicky Cristina Barcelona for his interest in attractive young actresses including Scarlett Johansson. This time, however, argues Graham Fuller, the critics are failing to take the film in its own female-driven context
Come with us Gus Van Sant makes an apparent return to the mainstream with Milk, his scrupulously accurate biopic of gay activist Harvey Milk, starring Sean Penn - but at its heart, says Nicolas Rapold, the film is surprisingly political
Selected reviews
Film of the Month: Better Things Duane Hopkins' first feature is an inventive, uncliched example of British realism which shines a light into rarely explored social territory and the unexamined lives of its characters. By Jonathan Romney
DVD: White Dog Tim Lucas on a controversial 1982 film now held by many to be director Samuel Fuller's last great American movie
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue:
Australia Film of the Month: Better Things Beverly Hills Chihuahua La boh?me Bolt Boogie The Broken The Children A Christmas Tale Clubbed The Day the Earth Stood Still Doubt Four Christmases Frost/Nixon Hannah Takes the Stairs Hansel and Gretel Inkheart Milk Moscow, Belgium My Best Friend's Girl Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Paris 36 Rachel Getting Married The Reader Revolutionary Road Role Models Seven Pounds Sex Drive Shoot on Sight The Sisterhood of Travelling Pants 2 Slumdog Millionaire The Tale of Despereaux Tokyo Sonata Transporter 3 Twilight Vicky Cristina Barcelona Wendy and Lucy DVD: White Dog Who Killed Nancy? The True Story... The Wrestler

Issue #213
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January 2009Films of 2008: Sight & Sound asked 50 critics to choose their films of the year. The lists that they came up with reveal a surprising panoply of titles. And the top ten films are...PLUS Nick James on how 2008 has been better than expected and Ali Jaafar on the year ahead.
In a lonely place: What films are you allowed to see in North Korea, the world's most secretive country? James Bell hands in his mobile phone and reports from the Pyongyang International Film Festival.
The impossible dream: Benicio del Toro talks to Kieron Corless about playing Che Guevara and how Steven Soderbergh's biopic came together in a unique two-part fashion PLUS Michael Chanan on the realities of the Cuban revolution.
The dualist: Robert Louis Stevenson's writing anticipated cinematic techniques but most film adaptations of his work have been disappointing. By Graham Fuller. PLUS Philip Kemp on the career of Rouben Mamoulian, director of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Round and round the garden: The anarchic Georgian/French director Otar Iosseliani makes absurdist films for our times. Here Jonathan Romney takes us on a tour of the director's extensive but little-known filmography with its dedication to drink and talk.
DVD Review: The Quare Fellow: Tim Lucas on an unlikely screen adaptation of Brendan Behan's behind-bars drama 'The Quare Fellow'.
The Man from London: Bela Tarr's latest film may initially appear to be his most conventional work to date, but the Hungarian director hasn't softened his uncompromising worldview in 'The Man from London'. By Michael Brooke.
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: Blessed Changeling Che Part One The Class Dean Spanley Defiance The Express Far North Fine, Totally Fine Gardens in Autumn The Girl in the Park Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson How Ohio Pulled It Off I.O.U.S.A. In Prison My Whole Life Julia Kidnap Lemon Tree Love and Honour The Man from London Max Payne The Midnight Meat Train Mum & Dad The North Face/Nordwand Pride and Glory/Das Gesetz der Ehre Quarantine DVD Review: The Quare Fellow Religulous Saw V The Secret Life of Bees Summer Surveillance Trouble the Water W. The Warlords/Tau ming chong Trade Zack and Miri Make a Porno

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December 2008Radical Chic: Is The Baader Meinhof Complex a thoughtful examination of Germany's recent past or does it glamorise terrorism? By Andrea Dittgen. PLUS James Bell talks to producer Bernd Eichinger.
Game for a century: As the great Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira turns 100, Jonathan Romney celebrates his life and champions his work.
The DVDs of 2008: Our critics choose their personal favourite DVDs from 2008.
The greatest story of our time: Oliver Stone talks to Nick James about W., his portrait of the most destructive American president in history. PLUS Michael Atkinson on the cinema of the Bush era.
A soldier's tale: Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir, Israel's first animated feature, is a hallucinatory account of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Here Folman describes his unusually haunting imagery in detail to Ali Jaafar.
Emotional rescue: The Dardenne brothers take a surprising new plot-driven direction in their immigration drama The Silence of Lorna explains Geoff Andrew.
Sketches of the ghost: What ever happened to Abel Ferrara, the director who made Bad Lieutenant and The King of New York, and why are his recent films so hard to see? By Brad Stevens.
Film of the Month: To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die: The Tajik director Djamshed Usmonov's latest film, 'To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die', is a darker work than its predecessors but confirms its creator as a bright talent of post-Soviet cinema, says Michael Brooke.
DVD Review: How the West Was Won: It packed movie theatres in the 1950s and now it's back: Tim Lucas on the panoramic Cinerama effect.
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: A?o u?a Appaloosa The Baader Meinhof Complex Belle toujours Blindness Body of Lies Chocolate Choke Choking Man City of Ember Conversations with My Gardener Death Race Eagle Eye Easy Virtue Fly Me to the Moon Ghost Town High School Musical 3 Senior Year DVD Review: How the West Was Won Igor Incendiary Lakeview Terrace Let's Talk about the Rain Mutant Chronicles Nights in Rodanthe OSS 117 Cairo, Nest of Spies Patti Smith Dream of Life Quantum of Solace Redbelt Righteous Kill Rivals Saas bahu aur Sensex Scar The Silence of Lorna Sisterhood Special People Film of the Month: To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die Waltz with Bashir Zombie Strippers! 'Tis Autumn The Search for Jackie Paris

Issue #211
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November 2008The London Film Festival: Liverpool - A trilogy of closely observed characters: In his latest film the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso varies and expands on his unique realist vision, argues Quint?n.
The London Film Festival: Liverpool - Interview: Lisandro Alonso talks to Maria Delgado about his unusual working methods and his new film 'Liverpool'.
The London Film Festival: Quiet Chaos - No sex please, we're Italian comedians: Geoffrey Macnab examines the effects on Italian filmgoers of Nanni Moretti's latest starring role and a controversial sex scene.
The London Film Festival: The Class - Interview: Ginette Vincendeau talks to director Laurent Cantet, whose 'Entre les murs' ('The Class') was the surprise winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes festival.
The London Film Festival: Rachael Getting Married - Ensemble stars shine Robert Altman meets 'My Best Friend's Wedding' in Jonathan Demme's fun yet insightful drama, says Nick James.
The London Film Festival: Ah, Liberty! - Ben Rivers at the Edge of the World: A programme of six shorts showcases the work of Ben Rivers and his investigations of Britain's hinterlands, says Kieron Corless.
The London Film Festival: 'S&S' 20 Further Recommendations: There's plenty more to see at the London Film Festival, says Nick James. Here are some more highlights of the programme.
That's camorra: The Camorra network rules Naplesin Gomorrah but Silvia Angrisani delves deeper into reality. PLUS Guido Bonsaver on Mafia films.
Lagoon Blues: There were few stars and fewer great films at this year's Venice Film Festival. By Nick James.
Film of the Month: Of Time and the City: Terence Davies takes a fresh look at his home city and himself in 'Of Time and the City', his elegiac yet prickly documentary, a hymn to the culture of Liverpool's past and a critique of its development. By Ryan Gilbey.
DVD review: Sweden, Heaven and Hell: Tim Lucas looks back on a fascinatingly twisted investigation into Sweden's supposedly permissive society.
Love Letters and Live Wires Highlights from the GPO Film Unit.
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: 88 Minutes Afro Saxons Bangkok Dangerous Bigga than Ben A Russians' Guide to Ripping Off London A Bloody Aria The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Burn After Reading CJ7 Disaster Movie El Cantante Fear(s) of the Dark Flawless Gomorrah Gunnin' for That #1 Spot The House Bunny How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Hunger Love Letters and Live Wires Highlights from the GPO Film Unit Mirrors Film of the Month: Of Time and the City Outlanders Pineapple Express Quiet Chaos Rock On!! Stone of Destiny The Strangers DVD review: Sweden, Heaven and Hell Sweet Land Sydney White Taken Tropic Thunder Tu£sday The Wave What Just Happened? The Women Young@Heart Zero An Investigation into 9-11 La Zona

Issue #210
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October 2008Who needs critics?: Critics need to show more passion and conviction if they're still to matter in the internet age, argues Nick James PLUS our panel of leading critics select examples of the great writing that inspires them; Mark Fisher on the vital role of the blogger; Mark Cousins on the necessity of critical advocacy; and Amy Taubin celebrates the life of the great critic and artist Manny Farber.
Critics On Critics: Sight & Sound asked leading critics to choose the works of criticism which have had the greatest impact on them, inspiring them to become critics themselves, and which make a case for criticism as a minor art form in itself.
Late liberty: Eric Rohmer's The Romance of Astrea and Celadon may be the last film in a remarkable career that stretches back to the origins of the French New Wave. He's been very lucky, he tells Geoff Andrew.
Brideshead reloaded: Evelyn Waugh and his peers at Oxford in the 1920s were among the first British intellectuals to take cinema seriously as an artform, writes Henry K. Miller PLUS Philip Kemp talks to director Julian Jarrold about his new film adaptation of Waugh's great novel Brideshead Revisited.
Grandmother's russia: Alexander Sokurov's latest film Alexandra tells of a grandmother's journey into war-torn Chechnya, but is it politically sensitive, Ian Christie asks its director?
Diamonds are forever: As the British Film Institute celebrates its 75th birthday, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith looks back at its history, and what it reveals about the challenges of public arts funding in Britain PLUS Charles Whitehouse selects ten classic films from the now defunct BFI Production Board.
Europa europa: Ulrich Seidl has been accused of exploiting the amateur actors in Import Export, his brilliant and unsettling vision of a troubled contemporary Europe. Not true, he tells Catherine Wheatley.
Ashes of Time Redux: The definitive new version of Wong Kar-Wai's complex and visually stunning martial-arts epic in which east meets Western sees the film at last fulfilling its sizeable creative and commercial potential, says Mark Sinker.
DVD Review: The Garden of Earthly Delights: Polish director Lech Majewski uses modest means and big ideas to create a camcorder masterpiece, writes Tim Lucas.
The complete list of films reviewed in this issue: Alexandra Ashes of Time Redux Babylon A.D. Black White + Gray Brideshead Revisited The Chaser The Cool School The Dark Knight Face Addict Faintheart The Fall The Foot Fist Way Free Jimmy Garden of Earthly Delights DVD Review: The Garden of Earthly Delights The Girl who Leapt through Time Good Dick Heavy Load Heavy Metal in Baghdad Import Export I've Loved You So Long Jar City Linha de passe Little Box of Sweets Live! Love Story 2050 Make It Happen The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Partition The Putin System The Romance of Astrea and Celadon Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic Star Wars The Clone Wars Steep Step Brothers Swing Vote Then She Found Me Triangle Unrelated A Walk into the Sea The X Files I Want to Believe

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