Sight and Sound

The S&S Interview: Agnès Varda : Chris Darke talks to the veteran French Director, one of the driving spirits of the nouvelle vague. PLUS Gilberto Perez pays tribute to Varda’s rich visual clarity and moral sensitivity = 46 REGULARS Editorial : Look back in candour = 9 Rushes Ben Walters previews BFI Flare 2015 = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill gets ready for bed = 8 The Five Key…: mother and son films = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins suffers slippage at Sundance = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on how Suite française made it into cinemas = 12 The Numbers: Charles Gant on box-office dominatrix 50 Shakes of Grey = 13 Brewster: Ben Roberts cracks the festival code = 14 Festivals : Nick James reports from the Berlinale = 16 Wide Angle Nick Pinkerton hails Thom Andersen, ornery master of the essay film = 54 Soundings: Frances Morgan listens to Joanna Bruzdowicz’s soundtracks for the films of Agnès Varda = 56 Primal Scree: Bryony Dixon explores the unjustly neglected career of the Soviet director Esfir Shub = 57 Soundings: Jason Anderson on John Carpenter’s hidden musical depths = 59 Artist’s Moving Image: Charlie Fox ventures into the tangles world of Lindsay Seer’s remarkable films = 61 Letters = 111 Endings : Paul Cronin on the self-referential denouement of Medium Cool = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Remake/remodel : All films exist in slightly different versions, but some director’s cuts and alternative versions are fascinating in their own right. James Bell introduces our pick of 50 of the most intriguing examples = 18 All about my mother : Xavier Dolan’s first film, I Killed My Mother, was a cri de coeur against the woman who had borne him. His fifth feature Mommy offers the mother figure the chance to gain her revenge. By Ben Walter = 32 Slow on the draw : The Tale of the Princess Kaguya confirms Studio Ghibli co-founder Takahata Isao’s reputation as an implacable perfectionist. By Nick Bradshaw = 36 Nothing is valid : It wasn’t just the communist authorities who found the films of Czech director Vera Chytilová challenging – her work pushed the very boundaries of cinema itself. By Michael Brooke = 40 The Great Game : Bitter Lake, Adam Curti’s film about the tangles history of Afghanistan, offers some welcome insights – but in his bid to counteract the lazy fables beloved of some politicians, is the director in danger of oversimplification too? By Jason Burke = 44 FILMS OF THE MOTNH Fifty Shades of Grey = 64 My Name Is Salt = 66 While We’re Young = 68 FILMS Altman = 70 BAFTA Shorts 2015 = 70 Blind = 71 The Boy Next Door = 72 Cinderella = 72 The Dark Horse = 73 Difret = 74 Dior and I = 74 Elle l’adore = 75 The Face of an Angel = 76 Fairytale: Story of Seven Dwarves = 76 High Tide = 78 The Interview = 78 Jupiter Ascending = 79 The Little Death = 79 Lou! = 80 Mommy = 81 Project Almanac = 82 Rigor Mortis = 82 Robot Overlords = 83 Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends = 84 Sea Without Shore = 84 A Second Chance = 85 Seventh Son = 86 The Signal = 87 Sixteen = 87 Something Mus Break = 88 The Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water = 89 Suit française = 89 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya = 90 The Voices = 91 The Water Diviner = 92 When Animals Dream = 92 Wild Tales = 93 X + Y = 94 HOME CINEMA Films by Robert Aldrich, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Drum, The Fortune, He Ran All the Way, 1930s Hitchcock films, Love Streams, Man of the West, Night Will Fall, Le Plaisir, La Reine Margot, Universal monster movies, Wild River = 98 DVD features : Ashley Clark welcomes the recognition finally being granted to Shirley Clarke, a key figure of the American avant garde = 96 elevision : Vanity Fair, The Rainbow, Girls Season 3 = 100 Lost and Found : Imogen Sara Smith on El vampire negro, a superior Argentinian remake of Fritz Lang’s M = 104 BOOK Nick Pinkerton dissects the meanings of mise en scène = 106 Neil Brand on films music’s pioneering years = 107

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