Sight and Sound

Cover feature : Psycho Geography : A black comedy about a murderous north-country caravan trip, Ben Wheatley's Sightseers taps into a tradition of urban couples coming horribly unstuck in the English countryside. The director and his two writer-stars talk to Ben Walters = 30 FEATURES Bomb culture : Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, writer-director Sally Potter revisits 1962 in Ginger & Rosa. She talks to Sophie Mayer = 34 Breaking the waves : Best known for intense crime dramas, Jacques Audiard has gone for a more offbeat, lyrical approach with his new film Rust and Bone. He talks to Thomas Dawson = 36 Seoul survivor : Im Kwontaek Has directed more than 100 films in his career, holding up a mirror to the changes in his country since the Korean War. By Tony Rayns = 40 The Beat goes on : It's taken 50 years for Jack Kerouac's Beat classic On the Road to reach the screen. Demetrios Matheou talks to director Walter Salles and his cast on set in Montreal = 44 Things overlooked : The Shining is back in a longer print, its secrets probed in the new decumentary Room 237. By Michael Atkinson = 48 Plus: 'A Little Touch of Amber', a Shining-inspired short story by David Thomson = 48 REGULARS Editorial Cinema’s fall = 9 Reader Offers = 28 Rushes Nick James talks to Clare Stewart, new director of the BFI London Film Festival, about this year’s edition = 10 Hannah McGill explores the significance of the typewriter in film = 12 Mark Cousins asks what makes a great building for a film museum = 13 Jonathan Romney examines John Malkovich’s portrayal of the Duke of Wellington = 15 The Industry Charles Gant investigates why a remake of a Michael Caine film took 15 years to reach the screen = 16 Charles Gant assesses the performance of Polish films at the UK box office = 17 David Locke on how film festivals can help give a leg-up to niche titles = 18 Nick Roddick talks to veteran film-festival programmer Marco Muller = 21 Festivals Nick James rounds up the best of Venice and Tom Charity reports from Toronto = 22 Deep Focus Mark Duguid explores the darker currents running through the diverse 1940s and 50s output of Ealing Studios, ually best known for its comedies = 54 PLUS: Josephine Dotting on studio head Michael Balcon = 54 Wide Angle Michael Brooke explores this year’s LFF Experimenta strand on Peter Kubelka = 66 Paul Mayersberg charts the links between Lang’s The Woman in the Window and Kubrick’s Epes Wide Shut = 68 Brad Stevens takes a fresh look at a pair of 1 970s gems starring Tuesday Weld = 69 Frances Morgan tunes in to a new film that travels Ireland in search of silence = 70 Bryony Dixon looks at silent-era censors = 71 Agnieszka Gratza on radical 1960s New York renaissance man Aldo Tambellini = 72 David Cairns revisits Closed Circuit = 74 Forum Letters The meaning of giallo, S&Spoll = 76 James Bell queries the notion of truth in Bart Layton’s The Imposter = 78 FILMS OF THE MONTH Beasts of the Southern Wild = 82 Five Broken Cameras = 84 Frankenweenie = 86 Ginger & Rosa = 88 FILMS CallMeKuchu = 90 The Campaign = 90 Elena = 91 For a Good Time, Gall... = 92 Hit & Run = 93 Hotel Transylvania = 93 House at the End of the Street = 94 Inbred = 94 Keep the Lights On = 95 Keith Lemon: The Film = 96 Looper = 96 Madagascar 3 : Europe’s Most Wanted = 97 On the Road/Sur la route = 97 The Penguin King 3D = 98 Pitch Perfect = 99 The Possession = 99 Private Peaceful = 100 Pusher = 100 Raaz 3: The Third Dimension = 101 Resident Evil: Retribution = 101 Room 237: Being an Inquiry into The Shining in 9 Parts = 102 Ruby Sparks = 103 Rust and Bone/De rouille et d’os = 103 Sinister = 104 Sister/L’enfantd’enhaut = 105 Sparkle = 106 St. George’s Day = 106 Stitches = 107 Taken 2 = 107 Tempest = 108 HOME CINEMA Gasa de Lava, Grime Does Not Pay: the Complete Shorts Collection (1935-1947), Dying Room Only, Hell Is a ity, Isn’t Anyone Alive?, Korczak, Lady Snowblood/Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance, Lawrence of rabia, edipus Rex, Pursued, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Das Testament des Dr Mabuse, Tetsuo: the Iron Man/ Tetsuo II: ody Hammer, Wings, A Woman Under the Influence = 112 DVD features David Jenkins salutes the immediacy and energy of Samuel Fuller’s Park Row = 110 Graham Fuller unpicks the pre-feminist agenda of a trio of films from Gainsborough Pictures = 113 Lee Hill revisits one of the lesser-known films of the American New Wave, End of the Road Television = 116 Hatfields & McGoys, Prisoners of War, Star Trek: The next cegeracion-Season 1 = 120 BOOKS Henry K. Miller enjoys an overview of the films of Olivier Assayas and a memoir by the director himself = 122 Paul Mayersberg surveys a critically acute exploration of troubled Hollywood director Nicholas Ray = 124 Nick James takes issue with a political analysis of 21st-century cinema = 125

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