Sight and Sound

Frances McDormand: the power of saying no : The actor’s superb performance as grieving mother powers Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. By Dan Callahan PLUS Kelli Weston talks to the film’s director, Martin McDonagh = 42 REGULARS Editorial : The long and the short of it = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: forthcoming film highlights across the UK = 6 Preview: Jason Burke admires Sonia Kronlund’s The Prince of Nothingwood, a documentary about filmmaking in Afghanistan = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds audiences loving Loving Vincent = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins can’t find the words – but may have come up with a solution = 11 Wide Angle Profile: Quintín celebrates the intimate, marginal art of the French critic and director Pierre Léon = 12 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon keeps on taking the tableaux = 14 Festival: Kieron Corless finds the Viennale as rigorous and bold as ever = 17 Letters = 111 Endings : Mark Cousins relishes the fabulous last line of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The films of 2017 : Nick James introduces our review of the yea, and we print a selection of 40 critics’ responses from the 118 taking part in the poll. PLUS Michael Ewins on the genius of Twin Peaks: The Return, and Kelli Weston on Jordan Peele’s timely social thriller Get Out = 18 The skin game : Recent revelations of sexual misconduct in the film industry can’t help but inflect our view of The Deuce, a TV series that tracks the sex workers and smut peddlers of 1970s New York through the early days of the porn industry. By Hannah McGill = 48 Trail of blood : Miike Takashi’s supernatural samurai drama Blade of the Immortal is the latest brilliant addition to a career that has always resisted easy categorization. By Tom Mes = 52 Mad dogs and Englishmen : From his early roles as punks, skins and dreadlocked criminals to his remarkable portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour, Gray Oldman has shown a chameleon-like ability to inhabit his characters. By Graham Fuller = 56 Another dimension : As a new stage version of Rod Serling’s classic sci-fi/fantasy series The Twilight Zone opens in London its influence feels more pervasive than ever. By Dick Fiddy = 62 FILM OF THE MONTH The Disaster Artist = 68 Hostiles = 70 Mountains May Depart = 72 FILMS A Bad Moms Christmas = 74 Battle of Soho = 74 Better Watch Out = 75 Bingo: The King of the Mornings = 76 Blade of the Immortal = 76 Brawl in Cell Block 99 = 77 A Caribbean Dream = 78 Daddy’s Home 2 = 79 The Dinner = 80 Dolores = 80 Happy Death Day = 81 Hi-Lo Joe = 82 Human Flow = 83 Jigsaw = 83 Justice League = 84 Love, Cecil = 85 Lu over the Wall = 85 The Man with the Iron Heart = 86 Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge = 87 Menashe = 87 Molly’s Game = 88 Mountain = 89 Mudbound = 89 Murder on the Orient Express = 90 Paddington 2 = 91 The Prince of Nothingwood = 92 Sanctuar = 93 Secret Superstar = 93 Shot Caller = 94 Stronger = 95 Thank You for the Rain = 95 Wonder = 96 HOME CINEMA The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks; Lon Chaney – Before the Thousand Faces: A Mother’s Atonement/If My Country Should Call/The Place Beyond the Wind; Fragment of Fear; Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask; George A. Romero – Between Night and Dawn: There’s Always Vanilla/Season of the Witch/The Crazies; Montparnasse 19; The Philadelphia Story, Play Dirty; See No Evil = 99 DVD features : Philip Kemp revisits Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky = 98 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson falls under the spell of Otakar Vávra’s Witchhammer = 101 Television: Robert Hanks gets out of town with John Betjeman, Jack Hargreaves and Eddie Shoestring = 102 Lost and Found: Adam Batty recalls a masterpiece of the nouvelle vague = 105 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton is bitten by Norman Mailer’s films = 106 Mark Webber feasts his eyes on Jonas Mekas’s ‘visual autobiography’ = 107 Jasper Sharp on Honda Ishiro – far more than the man behind Godzilla = 108 Tara Judah reviews a soaring life of the great Paul Robeson =108 Philip Kemp welcomes a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Satyajit Ray = 109 Kim Newman faces up to the horror of America = 109

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