Sight and Sound

Behind the lines: women and WWII British film : Producer Stephen Woolley describes the real-life background of Their Finest, which tells the story of a female screenwriter in WWII. PLUS Isabel Stevens talks to its director Long Scherfig = 38 REGULARS Editorial : The world is not enought = 5 Rushes In the Frame: Geoffrey Macnab watches the Netflix doc Five Came Back = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill unpicks the knotty truth of ties in films = 9 Interview: Pamela Hutchinson meets Cynthia Nixon, star of A Quiet Passion = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins considers the speed at which filmmakers work = 12 Obituary: Tony Rayns on Suzuki Seijun = 14 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the R.D. Laing biopic Mad to Be Normal = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant unravels the success of Paul Verhoeven's Elle = 17 Profile: Geoffrey Macnab encounters the man behind 'Walter Presents' = 18 Wied Angle Forum: Adrian Martin asks what books can-and should-take from film = 56 Soundings: Yusef Sayed marvels at the slow-burn rigour of Phill Niblock = 58 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson visits Toute la memoire du monde = 59 Profile: Neil Young welcomes Liu Yu, standard-bearer of China's dGeneration = 60 Preview: Tony Rayns anticipates London's Chinese Visual Festival = 61 Letters = 111 Endings : Andrew Male on Fassbinder's grim riff on Douglas Sirk in Fear Eats the Soul = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Magnificent obsessions: the explosive genius of Rainer Werner Fassbinder : As a major BFI retrospective opens, eight writers consider aspects of the director's astonishing output. PLUS a 1974 interview with the director by Tony Rayns PLUS Nick Pinkerton on Fassbinder's restored early 70s TV series Eight Hours Don't Make a Day = 20 Making a murderer : A teenage bride in Victorian England refuses to settle for the loveless marriage that has been chosen for her, in William Oldroyd's outstanding feature debut Lady Macbeth, a powerful portrait of a woman pushed to her very limits. By Killi Weston = 34 Going to meet the man : I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck's timely documentary about the writer James Baldwin, offers and exhilarating reminder of the power of his oratorical and literary talent, but does it show the full complexity and contradictions of his place within the civil rights movement? By Thomas Chatterton Williams = 48 Fresh meat : A woman discovers a tast for human flesh in Julia Ducournau's gory allegorical horror Raw. The director discusses bodily transformations, shifting identities and her fascination with the animal that live inside us all. By virginie Selavy PLUS Kim Newman on cannibals in the movies = 52 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Handmaiden = 64 The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki = 66 Neruda = 68 A Quiet Passion = 70 FLIMS Aftermath = 72 Beauty and the Beast = 72 The Belko Experiment = 73 Bunch of Kunst = 74 Chosen = 74 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City = 75 City of Tiny Lights = 76 Clash = 77 A Dark Song = 77 Gleason = 78 The Hatton Garden Job = 79 Heal the Living = 79 I Am Not Your Negro = 80 Kong: Skull Island = 81 Lady Macbeth = 82 Letters from Baghdad = 84 Mad to Be Normal = 85 A moving Image = 85 The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood = 86 The Promise = 87 Rangoon = 88 Raw = 88 The Sense of an Ending = 89 Smurfs: The Lost Village = 90 Suntan = 90 Table 19 = 91 Tanna = 92 Their Finest = 93 The Time of Their Lives = 93 The Transfiguration = 94 The Void = 95 Who's Gonna Love Me Now? = 95 Wolves at the Door = 96 Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang = 96 HOME CINEMA The Anderson Tapes, Being There, The Boy Friend, Chilly Scenes of winter, The Creeping Garden, Deluge, The Last Detail, The Life of Oharu, My Twentieth Century, Police, S.O.B., Story of Sin, Strange Cargo, Two Rode Together, = 98 DVD features Kate Stables admires the fearlessness of the young Scorsese in Who's That Knocking at My Door and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore = 94 Revival: Ben Walters relishes the transgressive thrill of John Waters's Multiple Maniacs = 101 Television: Robert Hanks on The Hanged Man & Turtle's Progress and Rock Follies: The Whole Story = 104 BOOKS Trevor Johnston finds illumination in Molly Haskell's take on Spielberg = 106 Time Hayes dips into a study of Ben Wheatley = 107 Jonathan Rosenbaum enjoys a volume on Sam Fuller's war movies = 108 Adrian Martin on a moving investigation into the murder of critics Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc = 108

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