Sight and Sound

Gods and monsters : Only God Forgives reunites director Nicolas Winding Refn with Ryan Gosling, but it’s more than just a rehash of Drive, says Kim Newman. PLUS Hannah McGill on the star’s unique appeal = 32 REGULARS Editorial Children of the evolution = 5 Rushes Danny Leigh on the history of television’s coverage of film = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on mobile phones in the movies = 8 The Five Key...: William Wyler films = 9 Obituaiy: Tom Whittaker pays tribute to Basque producer Elfas Querejeta = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins explores the links between summer and cinema = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Iain Softley’s quest to film Trap for Cinderella = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on big screen success for Behind the Candelabra = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on a bold new way to select documentary projects = 16 Michael Brooke on UK video labels’ beef with the BBFC = 18 1 9 Ashley Clark talks to Gimme the Loot producer Dominic Buchanan = 19 Festivals : Nick James reports from Edinburgh = 20 Wide Angle Mar Diestro-Dopido on a season of work by Iranian actor-director Mania Akbari = 54 Olaf Moller discovers the ‘northern’ at the Festival of Finnish Cinema = 57 Soundings: Frances Moigan tunes in to hippie-era doc The Source Familp = 58 Primal Screen: Celine Ruivo on the art of digital restoration = 59 Barbara Wurm explores the radical work of Israeli video artist Roee Rosen = 61 Letters = 111 Endings : Thirza Wakefield on Being There = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE GirL Interrupted : Directed by Noah Baumbach from a script written with his lead actor Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha blends NY indie cinema with an affection for the nouvelle vague. The pair talk to Trevor Johnston = 22 Kid on a Bike : Wadjda director Haifaa al Mansour talks to Isabel Stevens about the responsibilities of being Saudi Arabia’s first female director = 28 A world apart : The Alps make an unusual backdrop for post-apocalyptic sci-fi in the new Austrian film The Wall Director Julian Polsler talks to Jonathan Romney = 36 Reach for the sky : Less celebrated than his contemporaries Renoir and Carné director Jean Grémillon helped define the ‘poetic realism’ of 1930s French cinema. By Ginette Vincendeau = 40 DEEP FOCUS: The essay film : To coincide with a major season at London’s BFI Southbank, S&S explores the characteristics that have come to define the genre and looks in detail at a dozen influential milestone essay films, from Jean Vigo to Ghris Marker. By Andrew Tracy, Geoff Andrew, Nick Bradshaw, Chris Darke, Sophie Mayer, Catherine McGahan, Olaf Möller, Nina Power, Ginette Vincendeau and Sergio Wolf = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH Blancanieves = 64 Paradise: Hope = 66 Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer = 68 FILMS Admission = 70 After Earth = 70 The Battle of the Sexes = 71 Blaclfish = 71 Black Rock = 72 Blood = 72 Breathe In = 73 The Conjuring = 74 Days of Grace/Diás de gracia = 74 The Deep = 75 Despicable Me 2 = 76 Eden = 76 Eire in the Night = 77 ErancesHa = 77 Erom up on Poppy Hill/Kokurikozaka kora = 78 The Erozen Ground = 79 Girl Most Likely = 80 The Heat = 80 The Internship = 81 Les Invisibles = 81 The Last Exorcism Part II = 82 Man of Steel = 82 Monsters University = 83 The Moo Man = 84 My Lather and the Man in Black = 84 Night ofSilence/Lal Gece = 85 Now You See Me = 86 Paris-Manhattan = 87 Play = 87 The Purge = 88 Trap for Cinderella = 88 Venus and Serena = 89 Viramundo: A Musical Journey with Gilberto Gil/Viramundo: Un voyage musical avec Gilberto Gil = 90 Wadjda = 90 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks = 91 World War Z = 92 HOME CINEMA Chronicle of a Summer, Cleopatra: 50th Anniversary Edition, Dr Who and the Daleks/DaleksUnvasion Earth 2150AD, Eoxy Brown, Eilms by Hal Hartley, Here Then, The Long Riders, The Naked Eace, The Only Game in Town, Opening Night, Perfect Understanding, Pere Portabella - Complete Works, A Portrait of James Dean - Joshua Tree 1951 Spider Baby, Tabu, Theorem, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Twixt, Underground, Weird Adventure = 96 DVD features Graham Fuller revisits Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust documentary Shoah Television = 94 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Bedtime -The Complete Series, The Newsroom - Season 1 = 103 BOOKS Edward Lawrenson enjoys the unconventional memoirs of Nicolas Roeg = 104 Philip French welcomes an analysis of Hollywood’s repsonse to Hitler’s rise = 105 Ryan Gilbey wants slightly more from a study of director Todd Haynes = 106 Henry K. Miller samples a celebration of lOO years of Oxford’s Phoenix cinema = 106

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