Sight and Sound

FEATURES CANNES 2008 : COVER FEATURE A ROYAL RUMPUS : British cinema held its head high at this year's Cannes, with remarkable debuts from Steve McQueen and Duane Hopkins, and a moving return from Terence Davies. By Nick James = 16 HE WHO DARES : If Cannes 2008 failed to match the brilliance of last year's festival it was still full of promising works-in-progress, shifts in direction for name auteurs and a handful of films of rare quality. By Nick James PLUS Rose Pastille's hot gossip = 19 CANNED HEAT : Kieron Corless celebrates the continuing tradition of radicalism of the Directors' Fortnight = 23 HEART OF THE MATTER : Geoff Andrew finds himself moved by a selection of films designed to make the watcher weep = 25 YOUNG GUSNS : Jonathan Romney is shaken by the intense Johnny Mad Dog, a brutal and brilliant account of child soldiers in war-torn Africa = 26 BLUES BEOPLE : Charles Burnett's 1977 debut film Killer of Sheep is a landmark of American independent cinema directed by one of black cinema's most visionary talents. As a BFI Southbank retrospective arrives, Burnett talks to James Bell = 30 BEYOND THE FRAME : Much of Errol Morris' documentary output probes the nature of photographic 'truth' - a theme with profound political resonance in new film Standard Operating Procedure, about the infamous images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The director talks to Howard Feinstein = 34 DAVID LEAN : To many he is the embodiment of British cinema. In this issue's two-part celebration of David Lean, Charles Drazin looks at how the director learned his trade in the editing room and Sonia Genaitay explains the processes used to restore some of his earliest films = 38 REGULARS EDITORIAL : The Specialist = 5 RUSHES Nick James travels to Istanbul to see the Latest film from Turkey = 8 Mar Diestro-Dópido lauds the verve of Lisbon's fresh-thinking festival = 8 Piotr Cieplak heads out on the road with the Rwandan film festival = 9 James Bell talks to Tom McCarthy about his film The Visitor = 10 Charles Gant reviews the release strategy behind Happy-Go-Lucky = 10 Michael Brooke talks to Guy Maddin about My Winnipeg = 12 Nick Roddick asks if Hollywood can compete with Grand Theft Auto = 14 LETTERS : Unhappy with Mike Leigh; Hitchcock's family affairs = 96 READER OFFERS = 28 COVER : Cover design by Mark Swan www.markswan.net REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Couscous = 46 FILMS Adulthood／AdULTHOOD = 48 The Banquet／Ye yan = 49 Cassandra's Dream／Le Rêve de Cassandre = 49 The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian = 50 A Complete History of My Sexual Failures = 51 Couscous／Le Graine et le Mulet = 52 Deception = 52 Doomsday／Doomsday Tag der Rache = 53 The Edge of Love = 54 Female Agents／Les Femmes de l'ombre = 56 The Forbidden Kingdom／Gong fu zhi wang = 57 Her Name Is Sabine／Elle s'appelle Sabine = 58 In Memory of My Father = 59 Iron Man = 60 Made of Honour／Made of Honor = 62 Married Life = 63 The Mist = 64 Mouth to Mouth = 66 My Winnipeg = 66 Nim's Island = 67 Numb = 68 The Oxford Murders／Los crímenes de Oxford／Crimes à Oxford = 69 Pathology = 70 Prom Night = 70 Rebellion The Litvinenko Case／Bunt. Delo Litvinenko／Poisoned by Polonium The Litvinenko File = 71 RFK Must Die The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy = 72 The Ruins／Ruinen = 72 Shutter = 73 Speed Racer = 74 Superhero Movie = 76 Taxi to the Dark Side = 77 Teeth = 78 TImber Falls = 79 21 = 80 The Visitor = 81 What Happens in Vegas = 82 DVDs Angles One Five = 85 Films by Michelangelo Antonioni = 85 Bandit Queen = 85 Les Chansons d'amour = 85 Death of a Cyclist = 88 Department S = 90 Don't Touch the Axe = 85 The Films of Morris Engel = 88 Friend = 85 The Guatemalan Handshake = 89 Holy Lola = 89 Hopscotch = 86 I, Pierre Rivière = 86 Jade Warrior = 86 Kurt Cobain - About a Son = 86 Law and Order = 90 The Lost World of Tibet = 90 A Midsummer Night's Dream = 89 Films by Mizoguchi Kenji = 86 Mushishi = 87 O Lucky Man! = 87 Le Roman d'un tricheur = 89 Silent Ozu: Three Family Comedies = 89 A Time to Love and a Time to Die = 90 Youth without Youth = 87 DVD FEATURES Michael Brooke on three superb releases of film from the early years of cinema = 84 Danny Birchall on lectures on the web = 87 Tim Lucas on Jacques Demy's The Pied Piper = 88 BOOKS Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood Edited by Michael Atkinson = 92 Scenes from a Revolution By Mark Harris = 93 What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting By Marc Norman = 93

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