Sight and Sound

Deep Focus: The Golden Age of Mexican cinema : During the middle decades of the las century, Mexico became a powerhouse for film production in Latin America, with directors and stars who created a cinema so vivid that it helps to define Mexican identity to a population struggling to adapt in an era of rapid modernisation. By Chloë Roddick = 40 REGULARS Editorial : Kicking Cannes = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: This month’s highlights, from an exhibition of David Lynch’s paintings to new Blue-ray releases = 6 Interview: Trevor Johnston talks to DP Anthony Richmond about filming Don’t Look Now = 8 Dream Palaces: Wanuri Kahiu recalls Nairobi’s Fox Drive-In Theatre = 9 Industry: Charles Gant on activism at the box office = 11 Wide Angles Profile: Anne Morra celebrates the feminist schlock of Stephanie Rothman = 12 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson on a newly restored Clarence Brown film = 15 Preview: Henry K. Miller revisits a night at London’s Film Society in 1934 = 16 Letters = 95 Endings : Andrew Roberts hails the dark twist at the end of Kin Hearts and Coronets = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Grave situation : Jim Jarmusch’s zombie movie the Dead Don’t Die has fun playing with genre conventions without ever losing sight of its deadly serious them of environmental destruction. He talks to Geoff Andrew = 18 Cannes: pulp fictions : With Bong Joonho’s darkly comic satire Parasite picking up the Palme d’Or and a marauding horde of zombies, crime thrillers, sci-fi films and quasi westerns following up the rear, this year’s festival saw a culture shift toward genre cinema – and a simultaneous boost in the quality and range of films on offer. By Nick James PLUS Isabel Stevens reports on the most exciting discoveries from new directors on the Croisette = 22 Serving time : A comic portrait of the friendship between female staff at a Hooters-style restaurant, Andre Bujalski’s Support the Girls should finally provide the breakthrough he deserves. He talks to Jamie Dunn = 30 Looking sharp: the legacy of Pauline Kael : On the centenary of her birth we look back at a peerless film critic who still inspires loyal adulation and bitter enmity like no other. By Farran Smith Nehme PLUS a previously unpublished transcript of a discussion event with Kael at London’s National Film Theatre in 1982 = 34 FILMS OF THE MONTH Apollo 11 = 50 Diego Maradona = 52 In Fabric = 54 Knife+Heart = 56 FILMS Aladdin = 58 Ama-San = 58 Amin = 59 Avengers: Endgame = 60 Booksmart = 61 Brightburn = 62 The Captor = 63 The Corrupted = 63 The Curse of La Llorona = 64 Division 19 = 65 Ferrante Fever = 65 The Flood = 66 Halston = 68 The Hustle = 68 Ibiza: The Silent Movie = 69 I Love My Mum = 70 In Safe Hands = 70 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum = 71 Mari = 72 Never Look Away = 73 Pokémon: Detective Pikachu = 74 Prisoners of the Moon = 74 Prophecy = 75 Rocketman = 76 A Season in France = 76 The Secret Life of Pets 2 = 77 Support the Gilrs = 78 Vita & Virginia = 79 We the Animals = 79 Yesterday = 80 HOME CINEMA Bellman and True; Everybody in Our Family; A Face in the Crowd; The Heiress; The Holy Mountain; How I Won the War; the Landlord; The Last Warning; Nightfall; No Orchids for Miss Blandish; One Two, Three; Track 29; Under Fire = 83 DVD features : Robert Hanks relishes the adult romance of Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top = 82 Revival: Tony Rayns on noir classic The Big Clock, by the underrated John Farrow = 85 Television: Robert hanks reviews the long lost Orson Welles Great Mysteries = 86 Lost and Found: Erica Eisen makes the case for Giorgi Shengelaia’s dreamlike portrait of the artist Pirosmani = 89 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton is gripped by J. Hoberman’s smart, ambitious movie history of the Reagan years = 90 Dan Callahan is Exhausted and exhilarated by the definitive life of singer and actor Bing Crosby = 91 Pamela Hutchinson applauds two revisionist histories of women in Hollywood = 92

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