Sight and Sound

Queen of hearts : Nora Ephron made films that helped define the modern romcom, as well as forging a confessional intimacy that influenced a generation of female comics. By Hannah McGill = 40 REGULARS Editorial : In memoriam = 5 Rushes In the frame: Jez Stewart takes the pulse of the UK’s animation industry = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill listens out for bells in the movies = 8 The Five Key: films about sisters = 9 Online: Simran Hans talks to Cecile Emeke about her singular body of work = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins explores some intriguing parallels between Doctor Who and James Bond = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the low-budget British drama Radiator = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant reports on the box-office success of Brooklyn = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts considers how to get younger viewers to be more adventurous in their cinema choices = 16 Obituary : Penelope Houston = 18 Wide Angle Profile: Ashley Clark on the films of the Ethiopian-born, US-based Haile Gerima = 60 Soundings: Sam Davies looks at the work of Haitian photographer and documentarian Leah Gordon = 62 Primal Screen: Geoff Brown explores the early years of the talkies in Britain = 63 Artists Moving Image: Neil Young celebrates Peter Tscherkassky’s tiny, exquisitely crafted films = 64 Festival: Giovanni Vimercati reports from DocLisboa = 65 Letters = 111 Endings : Adam Batty ponders the enigmatic final exchange in Godard’s Breathless = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Call of the wild : Alejandro González Iñárritu talks to Edward Lawrenson about how his decision to shoot his gripping true-tale revenge waster The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, in sub-zero conditions in the Canadian wilderness turned the film’s production into a feat of Herzogian endurance = 22 Treasures from the deep : A series of tales inspired by lost or abandoned films from cinema history are stitched into an elaborate mosaic in Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson´s ‘ectoplasmic splooge’ of a movie The Forbidden Room. Adam Nayman talks to the film’s directors = 28 Love in a cold climate : Nick James talks to Terence Davies about his lush adaptation of the classic 1930s novel Sunset Song, which tells the story of a farming family’s hardscrabble existence in Scotland in the years leading up to World War I = 32 Fight the power : In a series of taut dramas and combative documentaries the Haitian director Raoul Peck has taken aim at everything from the class system and the iniquities of capitalism to the brutal injustices of history and the bureaucratic failures of international aid. By Ashley Clark = 36 FILMS OF THE YEAR: 2015 : The ballots are in for our poll of the best films od 2015, voted for by 168 critics. Nick James introduces the results and asks what they say about the year’s cinema PLUS Pamela Hutchinson looks at what 2015 had to offer lovers of silent and archive films, Nick Pinkerton surveys the year’s action movies, Nock Roddick examines how new platforms affected the landscape of film distribution this year, and Jemma Desai and David Edgar consider how questions of representation and identity informed much of the year’s most urgent and important critical discourse = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Forbidden Room = 68 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 = 70 Sunset Song = 72 FILMS All About Them = 74 Les Anarchistes = 74 At Any Price = 75 Bound to Vengeance = 76 Burnt = 76 By the Sea = 77 Chemsex = 78 Chic! = 78 Christmas with the Coopers = 79 The Closer We Get = 80 The Danish Girl = 80 Fathers & Daughters = 81 Gradma = 82 Grazing the Sky = 82 Heart like a Hand Grenade = 83 Hector = 83 The Honourable Rebel = 84 Ice and the Sky = 84 The Last Witch Hunter = 85 The Lesson = 86 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension = 87 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict = 87 The Runner = 88 The Russian Woodpecker = 88 Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse = 89 Shaandaar = 89 Shelter = 89 The Show of Shows = 90 Sleeping with Other People = 91 Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie = 91 Soaked in Bleach = 92 Sparks and Embers = 92 The Sweet Escape = 93 HOME CINEMA Abilene Town, Blind Chance, The Captive Hart, Devil in a Blues Dress, The Fallen Idol, The Honeymoon Killers, King of the Hill, The Little Girls Who Lives Down the Lane, On the Beach, The Raging Moon, Seconds, The Black Cats, Wind Across the Everglades = 96 DVD features Graham Fuller on the classic Western Shane = 94 Kevin Jackson welcomes a revival of a rare film of T.S. Eliot’s 1935 play Murder in the Cathedral = 97 Jordan Cronk dives deep into a trove of American avant-garde cinema = 98 Lost and Found : Craig Williams revisits Claude Chabrol’s odd Alice or the Last Escapade = 103 Television : Better Call Saul, Holding On = 100 BOOKS Been Walters welcomes the latest instalment in Simon Callow’s multi-volume Orson Welles biography = 104 Michael Brooke enjoys a slimline study of David Lean’s epic Doctor Zhivago = 105 Dan Callahan on a biography of the legendary Douglas Fairbanks = 106 David Curtis on a survey of experimental film from Los Angeles = 106

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