Sight and Sound

FEATURES FLESH AND THE DEVIL : COVER FEATURE Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In marks both a bold excursion into horror and a return to old obsessions. He talks to Maria Delgado = 18 PLUS Kim Newman charts horror's tradition of mad plastic surgeons = 21 PLUS Paul Julian Smith untangles Almodovar's dense web of references to his past oeuvre = 23 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE : With its unsettling blend of visceral genre and everyday realism, Kill List more than confirms the promise displayed in Down Terrace by up-and-coming director Ben Wheatley. He talks to Nick Hasted = 28 PARIS BY NIGHT : After an unhappy interlude in Hollywood, 1955's French Cancan was a triumphant return home for the great Jean Renoir, David Thempson celebrates the film's rerelease = 32 PLAYMATES AND PRIMATES : Charting an experiment in which a chimpanzee was raised by humans, James Marsh's Project Nim tells us less about the science than about the ethos of the 1970s. By Nick Roddick = 34 THE LAST OF ENGLAND : David Gladwell worked with Lindsay Anderson's on If.... before directing Requiem for a Village, his haunting 1975 evocation of English country life under threat. Michael Bracewell welcomes its reissue = 38 DIRK BOGARDE A CLASS ACT : A lightweight British comedy star in the 1950s, Dirk Bogarde reinvented himself as an icon of European arthouse. By Nick James = 40 GREEN SCREEN : The economy may be devastated, but Ireland's filmmakers continue to come up with the goods. Trevor Johnston surveys the scene, and talks to John Michael McDonagh, writer-director of The Guard = 46 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Endgames = 5 RUSHES Pasquale Iannone talks to Italian director Gianni Di Gregorio about his new feature The Salt of Life = 8 Nick James is intrigued by the findings of a new statistical overview of the British film industry = 9 Charles Gant on the surprise UK box-office success of The Tree of Life = 9 David Thompson revisits the over-heated world of Station Six Sahara = 10 Helen de Witt interviews Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing about her debut feature Self Made = 12 Geoffrey Macnab talks to legendary 'Godfather of Gore' Herschell Gordon Lewis about the business of horror = 13 Nick Bradshaw welcomes a new DVD collection of the work of British film and video artist John Smith = 15 Nick Roddick on how Hollywood is now a slave to the marketing men = 17 LETTERS : Shedding light on digital, mid-week box office, Whales in Japan = 96 READER OFFERS = 26 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : The Interrupters = 52 FILMS Arrietty／Karigurashi no Arrietty = 54 The Art of Getting By = 54 As If I Am Not There = 55 Beautiful Lies／De vrais mensonges = 56 A Better Life = 57 Cars 2 = 57 Delhi Belly = 58 The Devil's Double = 60 Fright Night = 60 Got to Run = 61 The Guard = 61 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 = 62 The Hedgehog = 63 Horrible Bosses = 63 Horrid Henry The Movie = 64 In a Better World／Haevnen = 66 The Interrupters (credits) = 66 Just Do It A Tale of Modern - day Outlaws = 67 Kill List = 67 Knuckle = 68 Mother's Day (credits) = 80 Mr. Popper's Penguins = 70 One Day = 70 One Life = 71 Our Day Will Come = 72 Powder = 72 Project Nim = 73 The Referees／Les Arbitres = 73 The Salt of Life／Gianni e le donne = 74 Sarah's Key／Elle s'appelait Sarah = 76 The Skin I Live In／La piel que habito = 76 Super 8 = 77 The Taqwacores = 78 Transformers Dark of the Moon = 78 The Tree／L'Arbre = 79 Villain／Akunin = 80 DVDs Carmen = 83 Chelsea on the Rocks = 83 Coeur fidele = 83 The Colossus of New York = 83 Dark of the Sun = 84 The Great White Silence = 84 Korkoro = 84 The Makioka Sisters = 85 No Surrender = 87 Obsession = 87 Pigs & Battleships／Stolen Desire87 Resurrected = 87 Tales Out of School: 4 Films by David Leland = 89 The Terence Rattigan Collection = 89 They Went into Space = 88 Went the Day Well? = 88 Wind Across the Everglades = 88 DVD FEATURES Tim Lucas checks out Louis Malle's Zazie dans le metro and Black Moon = 82 Nick Pinkerton dives into the absurd comic universe of Ernie Kovacs = 85 Chris Fujiwara admires work from one of Japan's great documentary-makers, Tsuchimoto Noriaki = 86 BOOKS David Thomson wants more from the first English-language biography of director Raoul Walsh = 90 Philip French celebrates the collected reviews of one of America's most gifted critics, Dave Kehr = 91 Clair Monk wishes a study of modern English cinema went further = 92 James Bell salutes an authoritative study of Claude Lanzmann's holocaust documentary Shoah = 92

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