Sight and Sound

FEATURES HOTEL CALIFORNIA : COVER FEATURE Like much of her past work, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is set in the rarefied world of the rich and unhappy. What do her films - and reactions to them - tell us about the perils of fame, asks Hannah Mcgil = 16 PLUS Isabel Stevens talks to the director about capturing the mood and light of Los Angeles = 20 REVIEW OF THE YEAR : Nick James introduces the results of this year's annual S&S poll, in which 85 contributors from around the world pick the top five films they saw in 2010, and their other movie highlights of the past 12 months = 24 FREE RADICAL : Famous for his experiments scratching directly on to celluloid, New Zealander Len Lye was a trailblazer who moved between the cinema and the art gallery. As a major new exhibition opens, Ian Francis surveys Lye's legacy = 38 COUNTER CULTURE : Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 classic The Shop Around the Corner fils out its romantic-comedy confection with a moving portrayal of economic desperation. As the Film is rereleased in UK cinemas, Nick James dissects the 'Lubitsch touch' = 40 THE MARK OF KANE : With Sight & Sound's once-in-a decade Greatest Film of All Time poll looming in 2012, David Thomson launches an occasional series of debates about the canon, wondering whether Citizen Kane will - or should - retain its top spot = 44 MEMENTO MORI : Based on the true story of a group of monks in Algeria, Of Gods and Men is one of several recent films to examine links between French and Islamic culture. But what really resonates, says Jonathan Romney, is the film's evocation of the monks' inner state as they face death = 50 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Game on = 5 RUSHES Tony Rayns pays tribute to the man who pupt Pusan on the map = 8 Kieron Corless wishes he could have seen all the films on offer at this year's Viennale = 9 Charles Gant on cultural-niche animation at the box office = 9 Neil Sinyard re-examines a neglected indictment of racial prejudice by William Wyler = 11 Edward Lawrenson talks to documentarist Marc Isaacs = 12 Trevor Johnston asks director and DIY SFX designer Gareth Edwards about his alien road movie Monsters = 13 Nick Roddick analyses the increasingly solitary experience of watching film = 15 LETTERS : The charms of Romeo, the legacy of Metropolis, Peeping Tom recalled = 104 READER OFFERS = 22 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Monsters = 56 FILMS Aftershock／Tangshan Dadizhen = 58 The Be All and End All = 59 Broken Sun = 60 Burke & Hare = 60 Catfish = 61 Chatroom = 62 Cuckoo = 63 Due Date = 64 Easier with Practice = 65 The Edge of Dreaming (credits only) = 89 Enemies of the People = 66 Fathers of Girls = 66 Fezeka's Voice = 67 For Colored Girls = 67 Fred The Movie = 68 In Our Name = 69 Loose Cannons／Mine vaganti = 70 Love & Other Drugs = 71 Love Life = 72 Mammoth／Mammut = 74 Megamind = 75 Miral = 75 Monsters = 76 Of Gods and Men／Des hommes et des dieux = 77 On Tour／Tournee = 78 An Ordinary Execution／Une execution ordinaire (credits only) = 90 Outcast = 79 Paranormal Activity 2 = 80 Rare Exports A Christmas Tale／Rare Exports = 80 RED (credits only) = 90 Saw 3D = 81 Secretariat = 82 Skyline = 83 Slackistan = 83 Somewhere = 84 Spiderhole = 86 The Thorn in the Heart／L'Epine dans le coeur = 87 Unstoppable = 88 Waiting for "Superman" = 89 DVDs Animation Express = 93 Chaplin at Keystone = 93 Colditz = 98 D'Artagnan's Daughter = 93 Eden of the East = 98 The Ghost(1963) = 93 Grindhouse - 2-Disc Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) = 94 Heimat Fragments: The Women = 94 Last Train Home = 94 Leverage - SeriesⅠ = 98 The Magician = 95 Metropolis = 96 Mickey One = 97 Night of the Demon = 97 Paths of Glory = 97 A Room and a Half = 97 Space 1999-SeriesⅠ = 98 DVD FEATURES Nick James on Marcel Ophuls's indelible Hotel Terminus = 92 Kim Newman falls under the spell of a trio of trippy 60s Poe adaptations = 95 Tim Lucas delves into a study of the conflicted singer Harry Nilsson = 96 BOOKS Tom Charity takes a serious look at the biggest stars of US comedy = 100 Maria Delgado is refreshed by a study of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu = 101 Hannah McGill ponders the sincere populism of Danny Boyle = 101

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