Sight and Sound

FEATURES REVIEW OF THE YEAR Nick James introduces the results of Sight & Sound’s annual poll for best film of the year = 16 PLUS 60 contributors from around the world on their top-five films and other highlights of 2011 = 18 THE SOUND OF SILENTS COVER FEATURE Michel Hazanavicius tells James Bell why his affectionate tribute to early Hollywood, The Artist, had to be a silent movie = 30 PLUS Bryony Dixon on the myth of the silent-movie stars whose careers were scuppered by sound =34 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 lan Christie = 36 PEACH PERFECT The most glorious of MGM musicals, Meet Me in St. Louis has hidden depths, says Richard Dyer = 40 PLUS Kay Dickinson on Ken Russell’s The Boy Friend, an MGM musical with a very British twist = 43 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 = 44 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 = 46 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 = 50 ZONES OF CONFLINT : 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 = 52 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-Dopido = 56 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Resisting the irresistible = 5 RUSHES Kieron Corless relishes the Viennale = 8 Vadim Rizov on the stange case of Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret = 9 Charles Gant on some good box-office weekends for Weekend = 9 Ross Lipman discovers J.L. Anderson’s Spring Night, Summer Night = 11 Peter von Bagh welcomes a season of Finnish dramas by Teuvo Tulio = 12 Nik Poddick on how little of the box office take a filmmaker gets to see = 15 LETTERS : Sleeping Beauty, Yorkshire matters, Tintin, joys of the small screen = 96 READER OFFERS = 28 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Mysteries of Lisbon = 60 FILMS Las acacias = 62 Another Earth = 62 Arthur Chrismas = 63 The Artist = 63 Dreams of a Life = 64 Ghett’s Life = 65 How to Stop Being a Loser = 66 The Human CentipedeⅡ (Full Sequence) = 66 Immortals = 67 In Time = 68 Justice = 68 Machine Gun Preacher = 70 Mysteries of Liston/Misterios de Lisboa (credits only) = 70 My Week with Marilyn = 71 Paranormal Activity 3 = 72 Puss in Boots 72 Revenge A Love Story/Fuk sau che chi sei = 73 Romantics Anonymous/Les Emotifs anonymes = 73 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan = 74 Surviving Life/Prezit svuj zivoit (teorie a praxe) = 75 Texas Killing Fields = 76 The Thing = 76 Tower Heist = 78 Trespass = 79 A very Harold & Kumer 3D Christmas = 79 We Have a Pope/Habemus Papam = 80 Welcome to the Rileys = 80 The Well Digger’s Daughter = 81 Wreckers = 82 DVDs Cannibal holocaust = 85 Daytime Drinking = 85 French Cancan = 85 Hammett = 85 Hawaii Five=O:SeasonⅠ = 91 Films by Imamura Shohei = 86 Aki Kaurismaki’s Leningrad Cowboys = 86 The Last Run = 87 The Nickel Ride/99 and 44/100% Dead = 88 No Blade of Grass = 89 Poetry = 89 Films by Jen Russell = 89 Silent Running = 90 12 Angry Men = 90 A Very Peculiar Practice = 91 West Side Story = 90 DVD FEATURES Jonathan Romney on music and social struggle in the films of Hungary’s Miklos Jancso = 84 Kim Newman revisits 1970s student satire Little Malcolm and His Strugggle Aggainst the Eunuchs = 87 Tim Lucas celebrates Maria Montez, ‘Queen of Technicolor’ = 88 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton assesses the critical legacy of Pauline Kael, the subject of a new biography and collection =92 Michael Atkinson is mystified why anyone would want to read an autobiography by Roger Ebert = 93 Nick Roddick is stimulated and baffled by an unclassifiable study of director Vincent Ward = 93

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