Sight and Sound

FEATURES BLOW BY BLOW : Based on the true story of American welterweight 'Irish' Micky Ward, David O. Russell's The Fighter drags the boxing movie out of the shadow of Raging Bull and into the age of HBO, says Kim Newman = 14 PLUS Russell talks to James Bell about capturing the rawness of the ring = 18 TRUFFAUT: THE BRITISH CONNECTION : COVER FEATURE Francois Truffaut famously commented on the incompatibility between the words 'British' and 'cinema'. But how did that apply to his own brand of cinema in particular? Catherine Wheatley charts the director's changing critical fortunes on these shores = 22 PLUS David Thomson reassesses the most English of Truffaut's films, 1971's neglected Anne and Muriel = 25 ROEG: THE LAST BRITISH ROMANTIC : Emerging from an era of hedonistic experiment, no director better epitomised the risk-taking mood of 1970s British cinema than Nicolas Roeg. Nick James looks back at the impact of Roeg's extraordinary run of early films = 28 THE GREEN BADGE OF COURAGE : Following the Iranian government's imprisonment of leading filmmaker Jafar Panahi, his colleague and compatriot Rafi Pitts has responded with an open letter to President Ahmadinejad. Gabe Klinger talks to Pitts about the case, and about the struggle to make films in Iran = 32 REMAINING DAYS In envisioning the alternate England of Never Let Me Go, American music-video veteran Mark Romanek finds his aesthetic match in Anglo-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. By Henry K. Miller = 37 PLUS Ishiguro talks to Nick JAmes = 39 OBITUARIES Sight & Sound's comprehensive annual survey of the notable film actors, directors and more who died during the course of 2010. Compiled by Bob Mastrangelo = 41 PLUS James Bell on Takamine Hideko, John Gianvito on Werner Schroeter, Philip Kemp on Jean Simmons, Kieron Corless on William Lubtchansky, and Isabel Stevens on Robert F. Boyle REGULARS EDITORIAL : Auteured states = 5 RUSHES Lucy Reynolds on the exploratory gallery films of Ben Rivers = 8 Isabel Stevens interviews Lucy Walker about her Brazilian rubbish-dump documentary Waste Land = 9 Charles Gant salutes the box-office reign of The King's Speech = 9 Joseph Stannard revisits one of Disney's strangest productions, The Watcher in the Woods = 11 Roger Clarke talks to the directors of the Allen Ginsberg tribute Howl = 12 Nick Roddick on the discreet charm of the middle classes = 13 LETTERS : The future of the BFI Library; what is The King's Speech really about? = 96 READER OFFERS = 20 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Archipelago = 48 FILMS Adrift／A deriva (credits only) = 79 Animal Kingdon = 50 Animals United／Die Konferenz der Tiere = 51 Archipelago = 51 Blue Valentine (credits only) = 79 Civic Life = 52 Confessions／Kokuhaku = 53 Fair Game = 54 The Fighter = 56 Freakonomics (credits only) = 79 The Green Hornet = 57 Gulliver's Travels = 58 Henry's Crime = 59 Honeymooner = 60 How Do You Know = 61 Howl = 62 The Insatiable Moon = 63 Inside Job = 64 It's Kind of a Funny Story = 66 Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen／Jing mo fung wan chen zhen = 67 Lemmy = 67 Little fockers = 68 Living on Love Alone／D'Amour et d'eau fraiche = 69 The Mechanic = 70 Megamind (credits only) = 80 Neds (credits only) = 81 Never Let Me Go = 72 Ride, Rise, Roar = 73 Season of the Witch = 73 Skyline (credits only) = 81 Son of Babylon／Um Hussein = 74 The Tempest = 75 True Grit (credits only) = 82 Two in the Wave／Deux de la Vague = 76 Waste Land = 77 The Way Back／Niepokonani (credits only) = 82 West Is West = 77 Yogi Bear = 78 DVDs Black Orpheus = 85 Films by Luis Bunuel = 85 Decision Before Dawn = 85 Film by Alexander Dovzhenko = 85 Duffer／Moon over the Alley = 86 Edan's 'Echo Party' Movie = 86 The Fish Child = 86 Flying Scotsman = 86 Freud = 87 Films by Samuel Fuller = 88 Johnny Staccato = 90 Films by Grzegorz Krolikiewicz = 89 Once upon a Time in America = 89 Private Road = 90 Walter = 90 DVD FEATURES Michael Atkinson celebrates a box-set tribute to new-wave pioneers BBS = 84 Paul Tickell harks back to an inventive 1966 rebel yell from Karel Reisz = 87 Tim Lucas revels in the final feature by horror's surrealist, Jean Rollin = 88 BOOKS Lee Serve enjoys a smart but slim addition to the growing pile of Humphrey Bogart biographies = 92 Ian Christie applauds a comprehensive survey of the field of post-war British documentary = 93 Bryony Dixon welcomes the rehabilitation of cinema pioneer Alice Guy Blache = 93

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