Sight and Sound

FEATURES 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 Björkman in the calm of his writer's cabin outside Copenhagen = 16 GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE : Like Sacha Baron Cohen's previous comic creations Ali G and Borat, Brüno forces us to confront our prejudices. But is the formula wearing thin, asks Kim Newman = 22 GANGSTERS SPECIAL : COVER FEATURE : 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, syas Nick James = 24 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 = 28 THUNDER ROADS : Since the 1960s, independent-minded US film-makers have been revisiting the Great Depression. Michael Atkinson explores the era's enduring appeal = 32 SEEING RED : 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 = 36 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 = 40 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Aiming for gold = 5 RUSHES Nick James hears fighting talk at the Edinburgh Film Festival = 8 Verena von Stackelberg sees film return from the dead in Transylvania = 9 Charles Gant asks why Looking for Eric failed to score at the box office = 9 James Bell talks to the director of a pulsing 1970s music documentary = 11 Clair Monk greets the reissue of 'lost' films by Jane Arden and Jack Bond = 12 Michele Robecchi sees Steve McQueen conquer the Venice Biennale = 13 Nick Roddick wonders why everyone loves a pirate = 14 LETTERS : Strangers on a Train; when is a director an auteur? = 96 READER OFFERS = 20 COVER : Cover design by Mark Swan www.markswan.net REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Frozen River = 48 FILMS Adam = 50 Alice Neel = 50 Antichrist／Antychryst = 51 Bandslam = 52 Blood The Last Vampire = 53 Bujrma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country／Burma VJ Reporter i et lukket land = 54 Charles Dickens's England = 56 Coco before Chanel／Coco avant Chanel = 56 Dogging A Love Story = 57 Doghouse = 58 Echoes of Home／Heimatklange = 60 Embodiment of Evil／Encarnacao do demonio = 61 Fired Up! = 62 Frozen River = 63 The Hangover／Hangover = 63 The Heavy = 64 Ichi = 66 Land of the Lost = 66 Louise Bourgeois The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine = 68 Mad, Sad & Bad = 68 Mesrinea: Killer Instinct／L'instinct de mort／Nemico pubblico N˚1 L'istincto di morte = 69 Moon = 71 Objectified = 71 The Proposal = 72 Public Enemies = 74 Rumba = 75 Skin = 76 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 = 77 35 Shots of Rum = 78 Three Miles North of Molkom... = 80 Transformers Revenge of the Fallen = 80 Year One = 81 The Yes Men Fix the World = 82 DVDs Aria = 85 Bloody Mama = 85 Central Bazaar = 85 A Child Is Waiting = 85 Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! = 85 Escape into Night = 90 Evergreen = 86 Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts = 86 High Art = 86 An Ideal Husband = 86 The Importance of Being Earnest = 86 Last Year at Marienbad = 86 The London Collection: Box-Set = 87 Man Hunt = 88 Marlene = 89 Moon Phase-Complete Series = 90 Nothing But the Truth = 89 Paul Temple = 90 Profit motive and the whispering wind = 89 A Rage in Harlem = 89 The Seventh Veil = 89 Spare the Rod = 90 Tokyo Sonata = 90 DVD FEATURES Ian Christie on Anchoress, Comrades and Winstanley, three British films that sidestep period cliche = 84 Michael Brooke relishes Daisies, a Czech one-off frm the 1960s = 87 Tim Lucas analyses HBO's absorbing therapy series In Treatment = 88 BOOKS Philip Kemp enjoys a 'biography' of The Night of the Hunter = 92 Kim Newman looks back at the art of the video nasty = 92 Glen Creeber welcomes a study of Jimmy McGovern's Cracker = 93 Michael Brooke remembers the great days of Channel 4 animation = 93

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