Sight and Sound

FEATURES DAZE OF HEAVEN : COVER FEATURE Terrence Malick's first film in six years, The Tree of Life lived up to expectations at Cannes, winning the Palme d'Or - a first for the legendarily reclusive director. Nick James unravels the film's mysteries = 18 PLUS Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on his unique three-film collaboration with Malick = 22 SHELTER FROM THE STORM Recurring themes of apocalypse and sexual abuse made Cannes 2011 a sobering but ultimately inspiring experience for Nick James = 24 PLUS Jonathan Romney is mesmerised by Lars von Trier's Melancholia = 27 PLUS Amy Taubin applauds a 'non-film' from imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi = 29 PLUS Geoff Andrew on the pick of the non-competition films = 30 SPANISH SPRING : The end of Franco's dictatorship spawned a remarkable flowering of Spanish cinema at the end of the 1970s. With the revival of Carlos Saura's Cria cuervos, Paul Julian Smith looks back at key films of the era = 34 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE : Viewing Iran's social problems through the prism of a troubled marriage, director Asghar Farhadi's A Separation won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival. He talks to James Bell = 38 BREAKING THE VASE : With trademark iconoclasm, director Francois Ozon has turned a 30-year-Old farce into a riot of 1970s kitsch - with very contemporary political resonance. Ginette Vincendeau savours Potiche, and looks back over the love - hate relationship between French cinema and boulevard theatre = 40 RED SKIES : From propagandist tales of space exploration to post-apocalyptic dystopias of the Chernobyl era, the history of Soviet science fiction mirrors that of the USSR itself, says James Blackford = 44 CLOSE TO THE BONE : Buried on its original release in 1981, Cutter's Way now looks like the last blast of the American New Wave of the 1970s. Michael Atkinson welcomes its rerelease = 50 REGULARS EDITORIAL : The Future's back = 5 RUSHES Dylan Cave on the resurrection of Michael Anderson's Pope Joan = 8 James Bell reports from South Korea's Jeonju festival = 9 Charles Gant considers the box-office success of Attack the Block = 9 John Wyver rediscovers a lost world of British TV drama = 11 Michele Brooke revisits an early work by one-time arthouse darlings the Taviani brothers = 12 James Bell talks to Asif Kapadia about his documentary Senna = 14 Brian Dillon probes Kerry Tribe's explorations of memory loss = 15 Nick Roddick remembers a money man behind the movies = 17 LETTERS : Multiplex memories, in praise of TV movies, the great credits debate = 96 READER OFFERS = 32 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Incendies = 54 FILMS After the Apocalypse = 56 The Beaver = 56 The Big Picture／L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie = 57 Bridesmaids = 58 Checkpoint／Territoires = 59 The Conspirator = 59 Countdown to Zero = 60 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules = 61 Donor Unknown = 62 Dum Maaro Dum = 63 Fast Five = 63 The First Grader = 64 The Hangover PartⅡ = 66 HatchetⅡ = 66 Honey 2 = 67 Incendies (credits) = 67 Kaboom = 68 Life in a Day = 69 Mammuth = 69 Mother's Day = 70 Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides = 71 Planeat = 71 Point Blank／A bout pourtant = 72 Potiche = 73 Priest = 74 Prom = 74 Putty Hill = 75 Scre4m = 75 Senna = 76 A Separation／Jodaeiye Nader az Simin = 77 Something Borrowed = 78 Stake Land = 78 Take Me Home Tonight = 79 Thor = 80 TT3D Closer to the Edge = 81 Upside Down The Creation Records Story = 81 Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds beyond Time／Gekijo-Ban Yu-Gi-Oh!-Cho Yugo! Jiku o Koeta Kizuna = 82 DVDs Adua and Her Friends = 84 Apocalypse Now = 85 Araya = 85 Bicycle Thieves = 85 The Bridge on the River Kwai = 85 The Clowns = 86 Civilisation = 91 Les Diaboliques = 86 Gaumont Treasures Volume 2 1908-1916 = 86 Go Go Tales = 87 Kiss Me Deadly = 87 Ogro = 87 Films by Ozu Yasujiro = 88 Pale Flower = 89 Prostitute = 89 Raffaello Matarazzo's Runaway Melodramas = 89 Requiem for a Vampire = 90 Spyder's Web = 91 Taxi Driver = 90 Taxi zum Klo = 90 The Theo van Gogh Collection = 90 Treme: The Complete First Season = 91 DVD FEATURES Kim Newman wonders at Alice in Svankmajer land = 84 Tim Lucas finds there was more than horror to Jacques Tourneur = 88 BOOKS Michael Atkinson appreciates Bold but doomed attempt to decode the work of the Quay Brothers = 92 James MacDowell is intrigued by a study of moments in film = 92 Michael Brooke admires an examination of Czechoslovakian cinema's surrealist links = 93 Adrian Martin enjoys the online loosening up of David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson = 93

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