Sight and Sound

Cover feature Hearts and minds : TheMastermdLY be loosely inspired by L. Ron Hubbard, but Paul Thomas Anderson’s film also draws on rich strands of philosophy, period recreation and psychological excavation, says Graham Fuller. PLUS James Bell talks to the director = 28 FEATURES The Jezebel swagger of Miriam Hopkins Dan Callahan tips his hat to a Hollywood star whose verbal fireworks, nabashed sexuality and willingness to push the boundaries still fascinate 8o years on = 36 Murder in mind : Romanian writer-director Cristi Puiu tells Nick James about Aurora, his powerful follow-up to The Death of Mr. Lazarescu = 40 The Maid remade : Voted the ninth greatest film of all time in the recent S&Spoll, The Passion of Joan of Arc can at last be seen as director Carl Dreyer intended, says Michael Brooke = 44 PLUS Mark Cousins on why movies need close-ups = 44 Dead ringers : Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps uses a stylised exploration of human hierarchies to cast light on the state of Greek society By Olga Kourelou = 52 The S&S interview: Michael Haneke : With Amour, his most personal film to date, out this month, the Austrian master discusses his career with Geoff Andrew = 54 REGULARS Editorial The props of fiction = 9 Reader Offers = 26 Rushes Isabel Stevens on a season of films by maverick photographer William Klein = 10 Hannah McGill chews over the meaning of the live octopus eaten in Old Bop = 12 Kieron Corless talks to LFF Best Newcomer Sally El Hosaini = 15 Matthew Taylor interviews Thomas Vinterberg about The Hunt = 16 Mark Cousins on the power of three = 17 The Industry Charles Gant traces the long gestation of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi = 18 Charles Gant on how German films fare at the UK box office = 19 David Locke wonders if press critics are losing their influence on the public = 20 Geoffrey Macnab talks to prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney = 23 Festivals David Jenkins reports from Busan = 24 Simon Merle rediscovers the films of Valerio Zurlini in Trieste = 25 Wide Angle Olaf Möller explores the observational films of German director Peter Nestler = 60 Michael Brooke talks to Mila Turajlic about her documentary on cinema in Tito’s Yugoslavia = 63 Melissa Gronlund talks to Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler = 64 Brad Stevens asks if the tension between performance and identity is the secret heart of cinematic storytelling = 66 Frances Moig;an explains why details are better than sweeping narratives in music documentaries = 68 Geoff Brown reports from Pordenone’s silent film festival = 69 Nick Pinkerton resurrects Thierry Zéno’s death documentary DesMorts = 70 Forum Nick Wrigley examines the detrimental effects of digital restoration = 72 Letters A forgotten moonshine classic, misreading Nostalgia for the Light = 74 Endings Alexander Jacoby on Sansho Dapu = 128 FILMS OF THE MONTH Argo = 78 The Hunt/ Jagten = 80 The Master = 82 Silver Linings Playbook = 84 FILMS Alex Cross = 86 Alps = 86 Amour = 87 Aurora = 88 Cinema Komunisto = 89 Crossfire Hurricane = 90 End of Watch = 91 Everything or Nothing: 007/Every thing or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 = 92 Excision = 92 Grassroots = 93 Great Expectations = 94 The House I Live In = 94 Laurence Anyways = 95 Mother's Milk = 96 My Brother the Devil = 96 Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! = 97 Not Dead Yet = 98 Paranormal Activity 4 = 98 People like Us = 99 The Pool = 99 The Prophet = 100 Radioman = 101 Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan = 101 The Sapphires = 102 Sightseers = 103 Skyfall = 104 Some Guy Who Kills People = 105 Starhuck = 105 Trouble with the Curve = 106 Up There = 106 Yossi/Ha-sippur shel Yossi = 107 You Are God/Jestes Bogiem = 108 HOME CINEMA Films by Boris Barnet, Casque d'or, The Castle, Cesar et Rosalie, Eating Raoul, Hammer on Blu-ray, London: the Modem Babylon, Mundane History, The Penalty, Private Hell 3 6 , The Alexander okurov Collection, The Sound and thePury, The Sterile Cuckoo, Trouble in Paradise, The Uninvited, Uptight = 112 DVD features Nick Wrigley laments the flawed Blu-ray release of a compendium of some of Hitchcock’s finest work = 112 Kim Newman explores a selection of Universal’s 1 930s horror flicks = 113 Ryan Gilbey revisits Hal Ashby’s complex study of race relations The Landlord = 116 Television Alphas -Season i. The Areata Promise, Malcolm in the Middle -Season i PLUS Nick Pinkerton on 1990s series Get a Life = 120 BOOKS Philip Kemp savours a biography of enigmatic 1940s star Dana Andrews = 122 Thomas Elsaesser enjoys a smart overview of Michael Haneke’s Hidden = 123 Nick Roddick gets to grips with a study of modern film distribution = 124 Nick Pinkerton delights in the life and antics of movie-palace impresario Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel = 124

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