Sight and Sound

FEATURES EXTRAORDINARY JOE : COVER FEATURE With the Palme d'Or awarded to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives marking a new level of recognition for Apichatpong Weerasethakul aka Joe, Adrian Martin probes the syndromes and mysteries of the Thai director's universe = 16 PLUS Kieron Corless talks to Apichatpong about Buddhism, Fellini and the joys of working with non-professionals = 19 FEAR IN THE MIRROR : Michael Powell's Peeping Tom was reviled on its 1960 release but subsequently canonised for its analysis of voyeurism. Fifty years on, Graham Fuller takes stock = 24 SHADOW OF A GUNMAN : Like Bourne and Ripley before him, George Clooney's antihero in The American is a well-travelled killer who finds Durope a fitting backdrop for existential dilemma. Nick James follows the tracks = 28 CEREBRAL SUBVERSIVE : Arthur Penn, who died in September, saw his career fizzle out after 1970. But for the space of a decade, with films like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, he was one of America's most challenging directors. Peter Biskind, who interviewed Penn on many occasions, pays tribute = 34 A BOOM OF ONE'S OWN : A new collection of British documentary shorts from the 1950s to the 1970s offers glimpses of a vanished world, says John Wyver = 38 MOD MAN OUT : Updating Graham Greens' classic Brighton Rock to the mod era is a shrewd move for writer-director Rown Joffe, but not one he took lightly, he tells Quentin Falk on set = 40 CAPRA BEFORE HE BECAME CAPRAESQUE Celebrated each Christmas for the 'Capracorn' of It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra deserves reappraisal as a director in the light of the restoration of his 1920s silents and his luminous talkies of the early 1930s, says his biographer Joseph McBride = 44 PLUS Kate Stables revisits Capra's It Happened One Night, not just the urtext of the romcom, but also a document of the Depression = 48 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Silence of the lambs = 5 RUSHES Mar Diestro-Dopido reports from San Sebastian = 8 Geoff Brown witnesses a silent-film renaissance at Pordenone = 9 Charles Gant on the films that perform better outside the capital = 9 Brad Stevens makes the case for the late Arthur Penn's unfairly neglected Penn & Teller Get Killed = 11 Sophie Mayer welcomes a celebration of feminist film and dance pioneer Yvonne Rainer = 12 Venia Vergou sees exciting film-making talent emerge from the ashes of Greece's economic ruin = 13 Nick Roddick on what we can learn from the Belgians = 15 LETTERS : Muybridge, Metropolis, the 'Millennium' trilogy, the truth about Gillian Wearing's Self Made = 96 READER OFFERS = 22 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : We Are What We Are = 52 FILMS Adrift = 54 The American = 54 Another Year = 55 brilliantlove = 56 Carlos (credits only) = 79 Chico & Rita = 57 Collapse = 58 Devil = 59 Dream Home／Wai dor lei ah yut ho = 60 The Edge of Dreaming = 61 The First Movie = 62 Freight = 63 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest／Luftslottet som sprangdes／Luftkastellet der blev sprængt／Vergebung = 64 I'm Still Here (credits only) = 81 Into Eternity = 66 Jackass 3D = 66 Leap year／Ano bisiesto = 67 Legend of the Guardians The Owls of Ga'Hoole = 68 Let Me In = 69 Life as We Know It = 81 Machete = 70 My Afternoons with Margueritte／La Tete en friche = 71 An Ordinary Execution = 72 Out of the Ashes = 72 RED = 73 Red & White／Merah putih = 73 Robinson in Ruins = 74 The Social Network (credits only) = 82 The Stoning of Soraya M. = 76 This Prison Where I Live = 77 True Legend／Su qi-er (credits only) = 82 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives／Lung Boonmee raluek chat／Uncle Boonmee erinnert sich an seine fruheren Leben／Oncle Boonmee celui qui se souvient de ses vies anterieures／El Tio Boonmee que recuerda sus vidas pasadas = 77 We Are What We Are／Somos lo que hay = 78 You Again = 79 DVDs The Battle of the River Plate = 85 Films by Gordon Douglas = 85 The Exploding Girl = 85 Flesh of the Orchid = 86 The Larry Sanders Show - SeasonⅠ = 90 Last Night = 86 The Law = 86 Films by Claudia Llosa = 86 Max Headroom = 90 Morgiana = 87 La Nuit du carrefour = 87 Our Friends in the North = 90 Room in Rome = 87 Silent Scream = 87 Small Time／Where's the Money, Ronnie! = 87 Tintin = 88 Warner Archive Collection = 89 Wetherby = 89 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? = 89 The World = 90 DVD FEATURES Michael Atkinson salutes a pristine new transfer of The Thin Red Line complete with lavish extras = 84 Tim Lucas on Joseph Strick's stab at Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer = 88 BOOKS David Thompson wants more Fellini from a detailed study of Italian film composer Nino Rota = 92 Sam Davies on a timely analysis of class in recent British cinema = 92 Elisabetta Girelli finds more than tragedy in a new life of Montgomery Clift = 93 Nick James savours the latest edition of David Thomson's The New Biographical Dictionary of Film = 93

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