Sight and Sound

Path of glory: Kirk Douglas : As the actor approaches his 100th birthday, we celebrate his extraordinary career, which saw him play a host of classic roles from ruthless villains to ambiguous mavericks, By Philip Kemp = 26 REGULARS Editorial : Poll position = 5 In the frame: Nathalie Morris on an exhibition of Ealing’s film posters = 6 Object Lessons: Hannah McGill discusses manuscripts in the movies = 8 Interview: Isabel Stevens talks to Baden Baden director Rachel Lang = 9 Interview: Olivia Howe meets Babak Anvari, the director of acclaimed Farsi-language horror film Under the Shadow = 10 Preview: Nick James looks ahead to this year’s BFI London Film Festival = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins gets under the skin of Scarlett Johansson’s fame = 15 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on The Girl with All the Gifts = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant listens to independent cinema’s summertime blues = 17 Wide Angle Preview: Sophie Mayer celebrates feminist renegade Lizzie Borden = 50 Soundings: Sam Davies un ravels the mysteries of Italian dubbing = 52 Primal Screen: Geoff Brown curls up with Kitty, the first British ‘goat-glander’ = 53 Festival: Kieron Corless reports on the highlight of this year’s Locarno = 54 Letters = 111 Endings : Martyn Conterio explores the melancholy final moments of New Hollywood epic Heaven’s Gate = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Wandering star : Andre Arnold’s new film American Honey follows the adventures of a young woman who takes a road trip into the poverty-stricken hinterlands of the US Midwest. By Simran Hans PLUS Kim Morgan surveys cinema’s other tales of women on the road = 18 Boys in the hood : The burgeoning friendship between a pair of 13-year-old boys is threatened when a bitter feud develops between their parents, in Ira Sachs’s Little Men. By Graham Fuller = 32 My father the hero : Víctor Erice’s incomplete 1983 film El sur, the tale of a young girl’s relationship with her distant father, is regarded by many as a masterpiece. By Mar Diestro-Dópido = 36 Blood on the tracks : John Carpenter, one-time powerhouse of genre cinema from Halloween to Escape from New York, talks about growing up in the Jim Crow south, and his love of Hammer and Howard Hawks. By Geoffrey Macnab = 40 Desert rats : In a far cry from the bleak satirical brilliance of the best Hollywood war films, a recent quartet of limp studio titles shamelessly exploits the instability in the Middle East for stories of white Americans findings themselves. By Violeta Lucca = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Baden Baden = 58 The Girl with All the Gifts = 60 Swiss Army Man = 62 Théo and Hugo = 64 FILMS Aloys = 66 Ambulance = 67 Bad Moms = 67 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years = 68 Ben-Hur = 68 Blair Witch = 69 The Blue Room = 70 The Brother = 71 Captain Fantastic = 71 The Clan = 72 Courted = 73 Dare to Be Wild = 74 The Fencer = 74 The First Monday in May = 75 Free State of Jones = 75 Gary Numan: Android in La La Land = 76 The Greasy Strangler = 78 Hell or High Water = 78 Hunt for the Wilderpeople = 79 Imperium = 80 The Infiltrator = 81 Kubo and the Two Strings = 81 League of Gods = 82 Life on the Road = 83 Little Men = 84 The Lovers & the Despot = 85 Nine Lives = 85 The 9th Life of louis Drax = 86 Sausage Party = 88 Sour Grapes = 88 Southside with You = 89 Suicide Squad = 90 Supersonic = 90 Tharlo = 91 Two Women = 92 Under the Shadow = 92 War Dogs = 93 War on Everyone = 94 HOME CINEMA Around China with a Movie Camera, Conversation Piece, Cry of the City, The Early Works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gorilla Bathes at Noon, Hangmen Also Die!, Horace & Pete, The Immortal Story, Kiss of Death, Suture, Lee Tracy RKO 4-Film Collection, The World of Kanako = 97 DVD features : Trevor Johnston applauds a release of Czech New Wave masterpiece The Shop on the High Street = 96 Revival: Philip Kemp on the hand-grenade that was The Ox-Box Incident = 99 Lost and found: Fintan McDonagh rediscovers Edward Dmytryk’s British film Give Us This Day = 103 Television: Robert Hanks watches Shakespeare’s history plays televised, then and now = 100 BOOKS Christina Newland wonders what James Dean was really like = 104 Isabel Stevens is spaced out by the design of 2001: A Space Odyssey = 105 Nick Pinkerton salutes Hasse Ekman, once Bergman’s great rival = 106 Michael Atkinson digs into the world of lost films = 106

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