Sight and Sound

Militant tendencies : Isabel Stevens talks to Carey Mulligan about her role as a radical advocate of women’s rights in Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette Plus Pamela Hutchinson on an anthology of suffragette newsreels = 32 REGULARS Editorial : Precious cargo = 5 Rushes Jane Giles celebrates horror posters = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill dials H for hamburger = 8 The Five Key…: solo survival dramas = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins in transition = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Listen to Me Marlon = 12 The Numbers: Charles Gant wonders whether Tom Hardy can open a film = 13 Brewster: Ben Roberts drinks in the wisdom of John Waters = 14 Festivals Nick James on the luck of the draw at the Toronto International Film Festival = 16 Jonathan Romney is puzzled by the jury’s choices at Venice = 18 Kim Newman visits FrightFest = 20 Wide Angle Ian Christie talks to the Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento = 54 Soundings: Colm McAuliffe watches the pioneers of industrial music = 56 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon on Anthony Asquith’s Shooting Stars = 57 Stewart Lee worships at the shrine of Andrew Kötting = 58 Sukhdev Sandhu samples the Beijing Independent Film Festival in New York = 59 Letter = 111 Endings : David Thomson on The Thin Red Line = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Ghost hunter : Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is an ornate, carnal gothic tale about a young American woman in the early 20th century looking to lay her childhood fears to rest. Mar Diestro-Dópido talks to the director = 22 Animal instincts : Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster explores a fantasy world in which singletons are forced to pair up or face being turned into animals. By Trevor Johnston = 28 The way we were : A selection of little-known documentaries from the 1950s and 60s reveal how personal and experimental nonfiction television of the time could be. By John Wyver = 36 Line in the sand : Denis Villeneueve’s drug cartel drama Sicario is the latest in a long line of films to exploit the mythic potential of the US Mexico borderlands. By Michael Atkinson = 40 DEEP FOCUS : The Tarkovsky legacy : Andrei Tarkovsky helped redefine the possibilities of arthouse cinema and his enduring influence can be seen in the array of filmmakers whose work, in very different ways, owes him a debt – from Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick to Béla Tarr and Claire Denis. By Nick James = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH By Our Selves = 62 Fidelio: Alice’s Journey = 64 Letters to Max = 66 Taxi Tehran = 68 FILMS Addicted to Fresno = 70 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution = 70 Captive = 71 Censored Voices = 72 Convenience = 72 The Death and Resurrection Show = 73 A Dozen Summers = 74 The D Train = 74 Everest = 76 Fresh Dresses = 77 A Haunting in Cawdor = 77 Hellions = 78 Hitman: Agent 47 = 79 The Intern = 79 Lessons in Love = 80 Life = 80 Listen to Me Marlon = 81 The Lobster = 81 Made You Look = 82 Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film = 83 The Martian = 83 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials = 84 McFarland, USA = 85 Miss You Already = 86 Mississippi Grind = 86 The Nightmare = 87 The program = 88 Red Army = 89 Sicario = 89 Sinister 2 = 90 The Sound of Fury = 91 Suffragette = 91 SuperBob = 92 They Will Have to Kill Us First = 93 The Transporter Refuelled = 94 The Visit = 94 We Are Your Friends = 95 HOME CINEMA Angst, Dragon’s Return, L’eclisse, Emperor of the North, Fat City, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Films by Wojciech Has, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, Rashomon, Robbery, 3 Women = 97 DVD features Philip Kemp on the blarney and the poetry of My Darling Clementine = 96 Kim Newman relishes the seediness and cruelty of Night and the City = 99 Lost and Found: Philip Concannon rediscovers the screwball, rapturous romance of Emilio Fernández’s Enamorada = 103 Television : The Green Man, The Knick, Microbes and Men = 100 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton welcomes a study of David Lynch, populist experimentalist = 104 Kim Newman tries to pin down American neo-noir = 105 Ian Christie on the spaces where films were made before the studio system = 106

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