Sight and Sound

’There’s a blind spot about what America was’ Barry Jenkins’s TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s nverl The Underground Railroad resonates powerfully in a country deeple scarred by its past. The Director talks to Devika Girish = 26 REGULARS Editorial Inside the box = 5 Rushes Finance: Pamela Hutchinson investigates the mysteries of non-fungible tokens-will they really revolutionise film finance? = 7 Streaming: Thomas Flew finds out about a new digital platform devoted to the cinema of North Africa and the Middle East = 9 Rising Star: Annika Summerson, cinematographer of Mogul Mowgli = 9 Interview: Katie McCabe hears from Celeste Bell about putting her mother, punk icon Poly Styrene, on film = 10 Festival: Ela Bittencourt rounds up the highlights of the 2021 Berlinale = 13 Soundings: Katie McCabe talks to Amy Nostbakken, co-writer, co-star and composer of Mouthpiece = 13 Obituary: Jonathan Romney on the photographer Raymond Cauchetier = 14 Film craft: Nicole Davies talks to three dialect coaches = 17 History: Henry K. Miller looks back at the last time the cinemas went dark - the outbreak of World WarⅡ = 18 Dreadm Palaces: director Sarah Gavron on the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel = 19 Wide Angle Pamel Hutchinson and Bryony Dixon turn the click back 100 years to examine the great films of 1921 = 21 Letters = 95 Endings Philip Kemp revisits the cosy domesticity that rounds off the Coen brothers' great crime thriller Fargo = 96 FEATURES There'a good girl = 34 Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan as a 'bad girl' out to avenge a college-years sexual assault. Hannah McGill puts it in the context of cinema's long relationship with the virgin/shore trope Mysterious ways = 38 Black Bear takes an unsettling look behind the scenes of an indie film. Its star Aubrey Plaza talks to Beatrice Loayza about the challenges of the shoot 'We got lie brothers': Joe Pesci and the making of Raging Bull = 40 Joe Pesci, Rovert De Niro and Martin Scorsese recall the start of a beautiful friendship in extracts from Raging Bull: The Making Of, a new book by Jay Glennie Beyond belief = 44 Dea Kulumbegashvili's Beginning, a portrait of a young woman in crisis, is by turns mysterious, shocking and icily reserved. She talks to Jonathan Romney about religion, violence and ecstatic cinema FROM THE ARCHIVE = 48 Aconversation with Satyajit Ray To mark the centenary of the great Indian director's birth, we republish a 1970 interview he gave to Sight & Sound, By Folke Isaksson PLUS Satyajit Ray chronicles the making of Pather Panchali, in an article he wrote for S&S in 1957 FILM OF THE MONTH ACommon Crime = 58 Los conductos = 60 FILMS Black Bear = 62 Coming 2 America = 63 The Drifers = 63 Freaky = 64 I Care a Lot = 65 I WOW: I Walk on Water = 65 Martyr = 66 Mouthpiece = 67 Moxie = 68 My Donkey, My Lover & I = 69 My Father and Me = 69 The Night = 70 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche = 71 Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time = 72 Sequin in Blue Room = 73 Sisters with Transistors: Electronic Music's Unsung Heroines = 73 Spring Blossom = 74 Verdict = 75 TELEVISION OF THE MONTH ZeroZeroZero = 76 TELEVISION Bloodlands = 78 THe Investigation = 79 Framing Britney Spears = 80 Man in Room 301 = 81 HOME CINEMA The Criminal Code; Demons 1 & 2;Ingagi; TheJewish Soul; Ten Classics of Yiddish Cinema; Kagemusha; Survivor Ballads: Three Film by Shohei Imamura-The Ballad of Nrayama/Zegen/Black Rain; I Was at Home, But...; Romeo Is Bleeding; Things Change; Twentieth Century = 83 DVD features Phuong Le is thrilled by the Weimar Queer classic Madchen in Uniform = 82 Rediscovery: Kim Newman finds Italian Shockers deliver pleasant surprises = 85 Television: Robert Hanks returns to the summer of '76 with the fly- on-the-wall navy series Sailor = 86 Lost and Found: Linda Mannheim on the first great Holocaust film = 89 BOOKS J.Hoberman toons in for an enjoyable history of American animation = 90 Sukhdev Sandhu praises a penetrationg study of Goodbye, Drabgon Inn = 92 Philip Concannon relishes the method in a tightly researchde explorarion of Robert De Niro = 92

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