Sight and Sound

FEATURES WELCOME TO THE GRINDHOUSE : COVER FEATURE : In Grindhouse Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have produced an evening of B-movies and spoof trailers designed to take you back to your misspent youth. Nick James straps himself in for the ride = 16 GIVERS OF THE VISCERA : Where did the thrills and spills of grindhouse come from? Mike Atkinson traces the history of a phenomenon that brought us gore-saturated torture, lesbian vampires, white-knuckle car chases and faux snuff = 19 GRINDHOUSE NIGHTS : Why did the British spoil the fun by turning trash into art? Tony Rayns recalls 1960s Soho and the pleasures of an uncensored Chinatown = 22 SPEAKING IN FORKED TONGUES : Black Snake Moan features Samuel L. Jackson as a southern bluesman determined to cleanse Christina Ricci's nymphomaniac of her sins. It's a shame it lacks the courge of its convictions, say Ben Hervey = 24 10 PICKS FROM THE GRINDHOUSE : Tim Lucas gets down and dirty - then takes himself off for a shower = 25 RADICAL CHIC : As the Cannes film festival celebrates its 60th birthday, Chris Darke uncovers the history of political radicalism that underlies the glitz and glamour PLUS Sight & Sound picks out ten Palme d'Or winners that have been unjustly forgotten = 30 THE WAY IT WAS : So authentic is Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes that its story has been incorporated into Aboriginal myth. The director talks to James Bell about the process of its making = 34 OUTSIDERS: THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS AND POLITICAL CINEMA : Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 The Battle of Algiers has been both lauded by the left and studied by Pentagon hawks. But what constitutes a political film, asks Michael Chanan = 38 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Fun out of bounds = 5 RUSHES James Bell : picks out the next generation of talent from Istanbul = 8 Ali Jaafar : celebrates the second Iraqi feature since the fall of Saddam = 9 Charles Gant : analyses the marketing strategy for The Lives of Others = 9 Kevin Jackson : on how a would-be film-maker realised his wildest dreams = 10 Keith Reader : on the French response to the presidential elections = 11 Geoffrey Macnab : asks debut director Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo about putting film noir into rural Spain = 12 Nick Roddick : on how venture capitalism is ruining the studios = 13 LETTERS : US indie cinema; firing the canon = 96 READER OFFERS = 28 COVER : Cover design by Michael Koelsch REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Longing = 44 FILMS The All Together = 46 Black Gold = 46 Black Snake Moan = 47 Blades of Glory = 48 The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros／Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros = 50 The Bothersome Man／Den brysomme mannen／Den bryesomme mannen = 51 The Breed = 52 City of Violence／Jjakpae = 53 Conversations with Other Women = 54 Fly boys = 56 The Future Is Unwritten／Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten = 56 Goodbye Bafana／Il colore della libertà = 57 Goya's Ghosts = 58 Hacking Democracy = 62 Jindabyne = 62 The Last Mimzy = 63 Longing = 64 The Mark of Cain = 65 The Messengers = 66 My Best Friend／Mon Meilleur Ami／Il mio migliore amico = 66 Namastey London = 68 The Night of the Sunflowers／La noche de los girasoles／La Nuit des tournesols／Angosto = 69 Nishabd = 70 Not Here to Be Loved／Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé = 70 Paradise Lost／Turistas = 71 Perfect Stranger = 72 The Puffy Chair = 74 The Reaping = 74 Shooter = 75 Tell No One／Ne le dis à personne = 76 Ten Canoes = 77 28 Weeks Later／28 semanas después = 78 Water = 80 Zizek! = 81 Zodiac = 81 DVDs Bad Boy Bubby = 85 Bigas Luna Collection = 85 The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan = 88 The Card = 85 Clouzot Box-Set = 85 Co／Ma = 85 The Commissar = 85 The Departed = 86 Ichikawa Kon = 88 Johanna = 86 Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple = 89 Le jour se lève = 86 Kissed = 86 Harry Kümel = 89 London to Brighton = 86 Midnight Movies = 86 Mischief Night = 86 6 Films de Luc Moullet = 89 Muriel = 90 Le Quai des brumes = 87 Rampage = 87 St Elsewhere: SeasonⅠ = 90 Le Sang d'un Poète／Testament d'Orphée = 87 Saturday Live: The Best of SeriesⅠ = 90 Sunday = 90 The Thick of It: Series Ⅰ&2 = 90 The Unit: SeasonⅠ = 90 Valmont = 87 DVD FEATURES Michael Brooke on Paul Robeson = 84 Downloads: Danny Birchall on the Clips that are legal and free to remix = 87 Tim Lucas on Alain Robbe Grillet's La Belle Captive = 88 Label in Focus: Facets = 88 BOOKS Casque d'or By Sarah Leahy = 92 Le Corbeau By Judith Mayne = 92 Cléo de 5 à 7 By Valerie Orpen = 92 Amélie By Isabelle Vanderschelden = 92 Cannes: Inside the World's Premier Film Festival By Kieron Corless and Chris Darke = 92 Digital Storytelling: The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film By Shilo T. McClean = 93 Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers By Antonia Quirke = 93

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