Sight and Sound

Once upon a time in the west : Tomm Moore’s animated fantasy Song of the Sea taps into the spirit of Studio Ghibli, while seeking to reclaim Irish folklore from tourist-tat leprechauniana. By Trevor Johnston = 28 REGULARS Editorial : Holding the centre = 7 Rushes Isabel Stevens on Ben Rivers = 8 Object Lesson : Hannah McGill sees what a swimming costume can expose = 10 The Five = Key…: King Hu films = 11 Interview: Pasquale Iannone talks to The Wonders director Alice Rohrwacher = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins celebrates the profusion of female film editors = 13 The Industry Development Tale : Charles Gant charts the journey to the screen of Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant does the maths on live events at the arthouse = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on claims of unconscious bias at the BFI Film Fund = 16 Wide Angle Michael Brooke looks back at the Polish filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s remarkable career = 52 Soundings: Geeta Dayal on the man who created the terrifying sound of The Birds = 54 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon explains why colour is returning to silent cinema = 55 Tony Rayns slutes Craig Baldwin, the gonzo Adam Curtis = 56 Sukhdev Sandhu tunes in to the industrial music and post-industrial images of Test Dept = 57 Letters = 111 Endings : Thomas Doherty unlocks the secrets of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Tales of ordinary sadness : Jonathan Romney unravels Pixar’s Inside Out, which explores a young girl’s growing pains from the perspective of the animated emotions inside her mind = 18 A life in pictures : Jez Stewart salutes the longevity and creative tenacity of the much missed animation outfit Halas and Batchelor = 24 Black like us = Dear White People joins a slim tradition of black American satirical films asking crucial questions about race. By Ashley Clark = 32 Stuck in the groove : In Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve brings a musical sophistication to an exploration of the French club scene. By Frances Morgan = 36 Farewell, Leicester Square : New cinemas, mostly of the upmarket kind, are appearing across London. Is this enriches yet often expensive experience the way to go? By Edward Lawrenson PLUS Kevin Sampson visits the HOME arts complex in Manchester = 40 Dirty old town : As gentrification alters the fabric of old London, Danny Leigh revisits the city through the films that were shot there = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH Love & Mercy = 60 P’tit Quinquin = 62 The Wonders = 64 FILMS Best of Enemies = 66 Beyond the Reach = 66 Born of War = 67 The Burning = 67 The Choir = 68 Cub = 69 Dear White People = 69 Eden = 70 Entourage =71 Everyone’s Going to Die = 72 Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief = 73 Hippocrates = 74 Hot Pursuit = 74 The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) = 75 Inside Out = 76 Insidious: Chapter 3 = 77 Iris = 77 Jurassic World = 78 The Legend of Barney Thomson = 79 Maggie = 79 Minions = 80 Natural Resistance = 80 1971 = 81 The Overnight = 82 Poltergeist = 82 The Reunion = 83 Ruth & Alex = 84 The Salt of the Earth = 84 San Andreas = 85 Search Party = 86 Song of the Sea = 86 Spy = 87 Still the Water = 88 Ted 2= 89 That Sugar Film = 89 13 Minutes = 90 The Wrecking Crew = 91 Wyrmwood = 91 Zarafa = 92 HOME CINEMA The Boys in the Band; Films by Costa-Gavras; La danza de la realidad; Drowning by Numbers; Films by Jess Franco; Germany, Pale Mother; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Out of the Clouds; Polish Cinema Classics Volume III; Society; Tell Me Lies; Thunder Road = 96 DVD features Tony Rayns is entranced by the phantasmagoria of Bill Morrison = 94 Alexander Jacoby watches the early films of Kurosawa’s contemporary Kinoshita Keisuke = 98 Los and Found: Nablen Ruthnum looks at life among the pimps and prostitute in Street Smart = 102 Television : The Wire: The Complete Series, Your Cheatin’ Heart = 100 BOOKS Henry K. Miller peruses the illumination diaries of Billy Wilder’s writing partner Charles Brackett = 104 Trevor Johnston reassesses Cy Endfield, one of the Hollywood blacklist’s gifts to British film = 105 Pamela Hutchison welcomes a study of silent film pioneer Lois Weber = 106

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