Sight and Sound

Tales of ordinary madness : Bruno Dumont’s austere evocation of the life of a troubled artist in a French asylum, Camille Claudel 1915, is driven by a complex performance by Juliette Binoche. By Jonathan Romney = 42 REGULARS Editorial :Small wonders = 5 Rushes Charlie Fox surveys a selection of ‘lost’ Dennis Hopper photographs = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on time passing in the movies = 8 The Five Key,..: Gordon Willis films = 9 Kaleem Aftab meets the director of docudrama Fruitvale Station = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins analyses his movie memories = 13 Anton Bitel explores the Philippines’ broad and bustling film industry = 15 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the slow evolution of Lilting = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant unpacks the success of The Lunchbox = 17 Brewster: Ben Roberts reflects on the Brit experience at Cannes = 18 Anton Bitel on the classification blues of niche distributors = 20 Nick Roddick reports on the likely impact of Netflix’s arrival in France = 21 Wide Angle Michael Chanan salutes Israeli gadfly documentarist Avi Mograbi = 52 Soundings: Frances Morgan hears the movies being rewritten in music = 54 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson at the British Silent Film Festival = 55 Richard Porton explores Straub-Huillet’s little-seen Fortini/Cani = 56 Kieron Corless reports from Cinema du Reel in Paris = 57 Letters = 111 Endings : Trevor Johnston on Bob Hoskins’s long goodbye in The Long Good Friday = 112 FEATURES Cannes: let there be light : For all the talk about the festival becoming a closed shop for a select group of directors, 2014 produced one of the best programmes in years. By Nick James and Isabel Stevens = 22 COVER FEATURE Portrait of a lady : Amma Asante’s presents a fictionalised account of the true tale of a mixed-race aristocrat in 18th-century England, a delicate portrait of the complexities of race and racism that strives to show that nothing in life is ever simply black and white. By Ashley Clark = 30 Angels and devils: the dark dreams of Dennis Potter : Britain’s pre-eminent television dramatist produced a body of work unmatched for the range of its polemical concerns. His barbed, darkly comic work laid bare his own demons as he sought to shine a light on the nation’s spiritual longings, sexual anxiety and political malaise. By Graham Fuller = 34 Love among the ruins : Director Fei Mu emerged with China’s Second Generation in the 1930s but rejected their leftist political agendas. His cinematic voice found full flower in 1948’s Spring in a Small Town, the tale of a love triangle set amid the post-war devastation of the Yangtze Delta. By Noah Cowan = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH Cold in July = 60 Fmitvale Station = 62 The Golden Dream = 64 Venus in Fur = 66 FILMS Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys = 68 The Art of the Steal = 68 Bastards = 69 Battle Company: Korenqal = 69 Belle = 70 Blended = 71 Brick Mansions = 71 Camille Claudel 1915 = 72 Chef = 73 Chinese Puzzle = 74 Common People = 74 Cycling with Molière = 75 Devir's Knot = 76 The Fault in Our Stars = 76 Godzilla = 77 Grace of Monaco = 78 The Hooligan Factory = 78 In Secret = 78 Leave to Remain = 79 Mariachi Gringo = 80 Miss Violence = 80 Mistaken for Strangers = 81 Oculus = 82 Of Horses and Men = 82 112 Weddings = 83 The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared = 84 The Other Woman = 84 Plastic = 86 Return to Homs = 86 Road = 87 Secret Sharer = 87 Seven Streets, Two Markets and a Wedding: Glimpses of Lost London1930-1980 = 88 3 Days to Kill = 88 Touchy Feely = 90 When I Saw You = 91 X-Men Days of Future Past = 91 The Young and Prodigious TS. Spivet = 92 HOME CINEMA The Bamboo Saucer, Drake of England, Four Men and a Prayer, Frankenstein and The Monsterfrom Hell, Lucio Fulci Collection, Nashville, Performance, Riot in Cell Block 11, II Sorpasso, The Strange Woman, Theatre of Blood, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot = 96 DVD features Ian Penman celebrates Alain Robbe-Grillet’s dark, subversive - and surprisingly fun - cinema = 94 Nick Pinkerton rediscovers Richard Fleischer’s noir- steeped Violent Saturday = 97 Kim Newman on Roger Vadim’s vampire art movie ...Ft mourir de plaisir (AKA Blood and Roses) = 98 Michael Brooke reappraises three of Elia Kazan’s early films = 100 BOOKS Philip French delves into a celebratory study of John Wayne = 104 Ginette Vincendeau on a sensitive biography of Simone Signoret = 105 Pamela Hutchinson welcomes a long-overdue survey of Polish screen legend Pola Negri = 106 Henry K. Miller explores the life of Iris Barry, pioneering film curator = 107

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