Sight and Sound

Park life : In Aardman’s Early Man, caveman in a remote forest challenge invaders to a football match to win their freedom. It’s Nick Park’s first directing job in almost a decade. By Nick Bradshaw = 26 REGULARS Editorial : Category error = 5 Rushes 2018 Preview: Nick James picks highlights of the year come = 6 Interview: Philip Concannon talks to Pat Collins, director of Song Granite = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant tots up 2017’s box office = 9 Interview: Philip Home meets Richard Linklater, whose Last Flag Flying is a sort of sequel to The Flag Detail = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins imagines a sublime 24-hour movie made of clips = 13 Wide Angle Point of view: Thomas McMullan is living in the season of the glitch = 14 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson reports on a new approach to lost films: making them again = 16 Festival: Tony Rayns at Tokyo FILMex = 19 Letters = 95 Endings : Adam Scovell basks in the rare optimism that closes Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The needle and the damage done : Paul Thomas Anderson’s first movie outside the US is a gothic romance set in 50s London. Here he talks about the rigid world of haute couture, the English class system and working with Daniel Day-Lewis on the actor’s last film. By James Bell = 20 Small wonder : Alexander Payne’s ingenious Downsizing imagines a world where people can opt to be shrunk to help tackle overpopulation. He explains the film’s slow gestation and why he’s so gloomy about the future of the planet. By Philip Horne = 32 Bergman: keeping the faith : As a major London retrospective launches to mark Ingmar Bergman’s centenary, is our new age of uncertainty a fitting moment for audiences to reconnect with the fearsome visions of spiritual longing and loss found in the director’s Faith Trilogy? By Catherine Wheatley PLUS from the S&S archive, Peter Cowie visits the set of Fanny and Alexander = 36 The awful truth : Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which explores the Pentagon Papers exposé of US government duplicity in Vietnam, tries hard to stir the democratic impulse in the era of Trump – but the track record of crusading true-story sagas leaving a mark in the national consciousness has never been great. By Michael Atkinson = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH Love for a Day = 48 The Nothing Factory = 50 A Woman’s Life = 52 FILMS The Bachelors = 54 Brad’s Status = 54 Brigsby Bear = 55 Coco = 56 The Commuter = 56 Darkest Hour = 57 Downsizing = 58 Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars = 59 Ferdinand = 60 The Final Year = 60 Glory = 61 The Greatest Showman = 62 Journey’s End = 63 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle = 63 Jupiter’s Moon = 64 Last Flag Flying = 66 Lies We Tell = 66 Love Is Thicker than Water = 67 Makala = 68 Phantom Thread = 69 The Post = 70 Renegades = 71 Rey = 71 Roman J. Israel, Esq. = 72 Song of Granite = 73 Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi = 74 Tempestad = 75 Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri = 76 The Unseen = 77 Walk with Me = 77 Youth = 78 HOME CINEMA The Apartment, The Champion: A Story of America’s First Film Town, Guns at Batasi, Hammer Volume One: Fear Warning!, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Pulp, The Pumpkin Eater, The Sword of Doom, When the Wind Blows, Will It Snow for Christmas?, The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen, Vol 2 = 81 DVD features : Andrew Male finds the grey areas in the idea of noir = 80 Revival: Michael Blyth raves about Dario Argento’s delirious Suspiria = 83 Rediscovery: Nick Pinkerton on Jean Rouch’s African documentaries = 84 Television: Robert Hanks squeals at Hammer House of Horror, Crime and Punishment and Pipkins = 86 Lost and Found: Geoff Andrew on Arthur Penn’s Four Friends = 88 BOOKS David Thompson opens Pandora’s Box = 90 Thom Charity reads a jaw-dropping story of the real life war against Nazis in Hollywood = 91 Nick Pinkerton gets down to the nuts and bolts with critic Dave Kehr = 92 Jonathan Rigby finds a volume on Terence Fisher horrifying for the wrong reasons = 92 Tim Hayes is kept captive by a study of The Prisoner = 93

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