Sight and Sound

Cover feature The 2012 Critics’ Poll : Once a decade we ask critics to select the Greatest Films of All Time. This year 846 of them responded. We unveil the Top 100, plus 100 personal top tens from David Thomson, Camille Paglia, J. Hoberman, Mark Kermode and others... = 39 FEATURES White mischief : Tabu moves from modern-day Lisbon to a rapturous evocation of romance in colonial Africa. But no plot description can do justice to the idiosyncratic poetry of director Miguel Gomes. He talks to Mar Diestro-Dopido = 24 Hey presto : The 1970s have been seen as a period of frustration for Orson Welles. But, says Welles biographer Simon Callow, the same period saw his invention of the essay film with the brilliant F for Fake = 28 The art of noise : Director Peter Strickland follows his breakthrough Katalin Varga with abold step into the world of analogue sound and Italian horror, Berberian Sound Studio. He talks to Jason Wood PLUS Geoffrey Macnab talks to Toby Jones about his role as a sound engineer = 32 The 2012 Directors’ Poll : The Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by 358 directors including Woody Allen, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Quentin Tarantino, the Dardenne brothers, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Samantha Morton... = 62 REGULARS Editorial : What’s new? = 7 Reader Offers = 22 Rushes Hannah McGill on the allure of smoking in the movies = 8 David Jenkins talks to director David Robert Mitchell about his debut The Myth of the American Sleepover = 11 Mark Cousins praises Asian cinema = 12 Catherine Bray pays tribute to screenwriter Nora Ephron = 13 Jonathan Romney decodes an image from Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol = 15 The Industry Charles Gant explores the troubled production history of On the Road = 16 Charles Gant assesses Steven Soderbergh’s box-office performance = 17 David Locke explores how live alternative content is affecting cinemas = 18 Geoffrey Macnab talks to the new head of the BFl Film Fund, Ben Roberts = 21 Wide Angle Sophie Mayer on Tate Modern’s new space for live performance and film = 72 Laura Mulvey pays tribute to experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin = 74 Gabe Klinger celebrates the depth and breadth of the FlDMarseille film festival = 75 Frances Morgan reconsiders three Ennio Morricone scores for Dario Argento = 76 Bryony Dixon assesses the contemporary state of silent cinema = 77 Kim Newman revisits some classic Mexican sci-fi = 78 Brad Stevens asks if there’s a difference between ‘best’ films and ‘favourite’ ones = 79 Forum Heniy K. Miller and Hannah McGill go head to head over the relevance of cinematic canons = 80 Letters : Reading The Dark Knight, the genius of Death Watch, and music in Moonrise Kingdom = 82 FILMS OF THE MONTH Berberian Sound Studio = 86 The Dark Knight Rises = 88 The Imposter = 90 Tabu = 92 FILMS Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry = 94 The Amazing Spider-Man = 94 The Bird/L’Oiseau = 95 Bol Bachchan = 96 Brave = 97 Circumstance = 97 The Devil’s Business = 98 The Dinosaur Project = 99 A Few Best Men = 99 The Forgiveness of Blood/La faida = 100 Ice Age: Continental Drift = 101 In The Dark Half = 101 Jackpot/Arme Riddere = 102 Lawless = 103 Leave It on the Floor = 104 Lola Versus = 104 Love = 106 The Man Inside = 107 Offender = 107 Petit Nicolas/Le Petit Nicolas = 108 The Queen of Versailles = 108 Salute = 109 Samsara = 110 Shadow Dancer = 111 Step Up: Miami Heat/Step Up: Revolution = 112 Take This Waltz = 112 That’s My Boy = 113 The Three Stooges = 114 360 = 114 Truth or Dare = 115 The Wedding Video = 115 The Women on the 6th Floor/Les Femmes du 6eme etage = 116 HOME CINEMA Amicus Films = 122 The Big Trail = 122 The Children’s Film Foundation Collection: Volume I - London Tales = 122 Dixon of Dock Green = 128 Jean Gremillon During the Occupation = 124 Jaws = 125 Lost Empires = 128 The Most Dangerous Game/Gow the Headhunter (Cannibal Island) = 125 Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini = 125 They Made Me a Fugitive = 126 Things to Come = 126 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mutter Museum) = 127 Undermind = 128 Wonderful London = 127 DVD features Tony Earnshaw is thrilled by a collection of BBC ghost stories from the 1970s = 120 Tim Lucas unearths a camped-up curio about a small-town sex addict = 123 BOOKS Edward Buscombe charts the history of the BFI Film Classics series = 130 Sue Vice welcomes an anthology of essays about Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog = 132 Nick Roddick salutes an attempt to map the boundaries of cinema in the aftermath of the digital revolution = 133 Philip Kemp enjoys a witty history of the Hollywood sign = 133

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