Sight and Sound

The Anderson touch : The spirit of Ernst Lubitsch lives on in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel a screwball set over several decades in a fictional Eastern European country. He talks to Isabel Stevens = 30 REGULARS Editorial : Actors’ ark = 5 Rushes Simon Fowler on the films of China’s box-office king, Feng Xiaogang = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on motor scooters in the movies 8 The Five Key...: film poster scandals = 8 First Sight: Sam Davies talks to Terence Nance, director and star of An Oversimplification ofHerBeautp = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on steps and stumbles in the creative process = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Starred Up = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on this year’s Oscar hopefuls = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on how the UK film industry needs a benefactor with deep pockets = 16 Profile: Geoffrey Macnab talks to Nira Park, producer of Cuban Fury = 19 Justin Johnson on changes at the BBFC = 19 Festivals Eric Kohn on the hits and misses at this year’s Sundance = 20 1 Edward Lawrenson reports from this year’s Rotterdam = 21 Wide Angle Olaf Möller on the little-seen films of Gonzalo García Pelayo = 64 Soundings: Daniel Barrow on Derek Jarman’s use of music = 66 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon reports on a programme of silent-era colour films = 67 Melissa Gronlund examines the beguiling installations of Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost = 68 Letters = 111 Endings : Pasquale lannone on the liberating finale to Claire Denis’s Beau Travail = 112 FEATURES The story of ( ) : Lars von Trier’s Nymph()maniac channels the Marquis de Sade in a complex odyssey of sexual desire. But is its central character any more than an empty vessel for the director to offload his often provocative ideas about women? By Nick James = 22 Dead calm : French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie has revamped the sullied reputation of erotic thrillers with Stranger by the Lake, a tense tale of obsession that boasts one of the most memorable screen murders in years. By Catherine Bray = 28 Intruder in the dust : Ted Kotcheff’s cult classic Wake in Fright is a brutal exploration of masculinity and violence in the Australian outback. He talks to Clare Stewart about bringing it back for a new generation = 36 English magus: the many faces of Derek Jarman : Part punk prophet, part English traditionalist, Jarman was a man whose occult interests sat side by side with an earthy political engagement. Twenty years after his death, we reappraise his legacy. By William Fowler = 40 Dark matters : Glaire Denis’s latest film. Bastards, is a harrowing journey into the heart of darkness. She talks to Nick Roddick = 48 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Jim Jarmusch : Nick Pinkerton talks to the American director about the joys of music, books and travelling - and about his latest film. Only Lovers Left Alive, a characteristically unconventional take on the vampire myth, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton = 50 Obituaries : Bob Mastrangelo’s survey of the film greats and lesser-knowns who left us during 2013 = 58 FILMS OF THE MONTH Stranger by the Lake/LInconnu du lac = 70 Bastards/Les Salauds = 72 An Oversimplification of Her Beautp = 74 FILMS Bounty Killer = 78 Cuban Fury = 78 Devil’s Due = 79 Fonzy = 79 47Ronin = 80 The Grand Budapest Hotel = 81 Grudge Match = 82 The Harry Hill Movie = 82 I, Frankenstein = 83 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit = 83 Love Is in the Air/Amour & turbulences = 84 Nymph()maniac Volume 1 = 86 Nymph()maniac Volume 2 = 87 1/1: Life on the Limit = 88 Only Lovers Left Alive = 88 Paranormal Activity : The Marked Ones = 89 Ride Along = 90 The Square/Al Midan = 90 Stalingrad = 91 That Awkward Moment = 92 Tim’s Vermeer = 93 Walking with Dinosaurs = 93 HOME CINEMA Battle for Music, Films by James Penning, Betty Blue, II bidone. Big Trouble in Little China, Films by Charles Chaplin, Cinerama Travelogues, The Epic of Everest, Eyes Without a Face, The Other, Perestroika/Perestroika Reconstructed, The Stuart Hall Project, La Vie de Bohème, The Year of the Cannibals = 96 DVD features : Kim Newman revisits Sidney Lumet’s Pacino- starring cop drama Serpico = 94 Television : Civvies, Elementary - Season 1. The Tunnel = 97 Lost and Found : Philip Horne on Gavin Millar and Dennis Potter’s magical Dreamchild = 100 BOOKS John Wyver on a fascinating social history of British television = 104 PaulJulian Smith on a study of the golden age of Mexican cinema = 105 Brad Stevens enjoys a monograph on Murnau’s classic Nosferatu = 106 Sue Vice reviews a groundbreaking study of Soviet cinema and the Holocaust = 106

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