Sight and Sound

FEATURES 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 = 16 PLUS John Wrathall on Hollywood’s love affair with all things Nordic = 19 MYTHOMANIA : Following his death last Novenmber, Linda Ruth Williams and Mark Kermode celebrate the maverick exuberance of Ken Russell = 22 LOST HIGHWAY : As Two-Lane Blacktop celebrates its fortieth annivery, lan Penman hails Monte Hellman’s cult road movie 26 ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE : There’s more to Bertrand Bonello’s brothel-set House of Terance than sex, he tells Catherine Wheatley =30 SEX AND THE CITY : COVER FEATURE Steve McQueen’s Shame reinvents the cinematic New York loner as sex addict. He discusses sexism and racism with Nick James = 34 PLUS Shame star Michael Fassbender talks about working off the rails and the cruelty of siblings = 37 ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD : Graham Fuller proposes Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante for consideration in S&S’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’s poll = 40 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 Bristish experience = 44 CHARLIE’S GHOST : As Dickens’s 200th birthday arrives, Mattew Sweet asks why his work isn’t seen more often on today’s screens = 48 THE SWEEP OF HISTORY : As his oeuvre is released on DVD, Theo Angelopoulos revisits his career with David Jenkins = 52 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Foregrounding everything = 5 RUSHES David Thompson pays extended tribute to the late critic, novelist and screenwriter Gilbert Adair = 8 Roger Clarke reports from a ghostly post-Berlusconi Turin = 9 Charles Gant considers the year’s highest-earning prestige pictures = 9 Tony Rayns hails the rediscovery of a 1960s Belgian landmark = 11 Edward Lawrenson celebrates an off-beat portrait of a Uruguyan movie obsessive = 12 Nick Roddick smells something fishy in the notion of festivals as a new model of distribution = 15 LETTER : The joys of DIY distribution, the respective vagaries of Straw Dogs and digital projection, the trouble with The Thing = 96 READER OFFERS = 20 REVIEWS FILMS OF THE MONTH : The Descendants = 58 FILMS Acts of Godfrey = 60 Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked = 60 The Big Year = 61 Bombay Beach = 61 Carnage = 62 Coriolanus = 62 The Descendants (credits) = 63 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo = 64 Happy Feet Two = 64 Haywire = 65 House of Tolernace/L’Apollonide Souverenirs de la maison close = 66 Hugo = 66 The Iron Lady = 67 Jack an Jill = 68 J.Edgar =68 The Lady = 70 Like Crazy = 71 Man on Ledge = 71 Margaret = 72 Margin Call = 71 Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol = 73 Mother and Child = 74 New Year’s Eve = 75 The Nine Muses = 75 Patience(After Sebald) = 76 Red Light Revolution = 76 Shame = 77 Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows = 77 The Sitter = 78 Tatsumi = 79 The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn PartⅠ = 80 A Useful Life/La vida util = 80 War Horse = 81 W.E = 82 DVDs Children of the Stones = 90 Community – SeasonⅠ = 90 The cranes are Flying = 85 Delitto d’amore =85 A Farewell to Arms = 85 The Four Feathers = 86 Happy People A Year in the Taiga = 86 Kurosawa Classic Collection = 86 Little Big Man = 87 Meda = 88 Films by Oshima Nagisa = 89 The Overcoat = 89 The Red and the White = 89 Shoestring – SeriesⅠ = 90 The Tree of Life = 90 DVD FEATURES Michael Brooke reappraises Coppola’s surveillance tale The Converation = 84 Kate Stables reassess the charms of popular child star Sabu = 87 Tim Lucas revisits Depardieu’s sexually charged breakthrough = 88 BOOKS Philip Horne delves into a new book of conversations with Scorsese = 92 Michael Brooke commends a whistle-stop tour of the GPO Film Unit = 92 Kim Newman asks whether on-screen boxers lose even when they win = 93 Maria M. Degado on the wide-reaching influence of Elias Querejeta = 93

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