Sight and Sound

FEATURES WOODY ALLEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY : COVER FEATURE The received opinion may be that Woody Allen is past his best as a director, but Brad Stevens finds intriguing patterns in his European-set films of the last decade = 16 PLUS Woody Allen talks to James Bell about his latest London-set film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger = 18 BERLIN REPORT HORSE LATITUDES : All the sound and fury of this year's Berlin festival - from Shakespeare to terrorism to 3D - was left in the shade by Bela Tarr's minimalist The Turin Horse, says Nick James PLUS Carmen Gray scours the Forum for hidden gems = 24 OUT OF THE DARKNESS : Werner Herzog has turned to 3D to capture the wonder of 32,000-year-old palaeolithic cave paintings in his new film Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He talks to Samuel Wigley about primitive man and the ethics of 3D = 28 SENSUAL SENSIBILITY : Famously protective of his novels, Haruki Murakami has entrusted his 1987 bestseller Norwegian Wood to the Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, who tells James Bell about capturing the author's distinctive narrative voice = 32 UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN : The new film Patience (After Sebald) and a recent symposium in Suffolk celebrate the cult of W.G. Sebald, inspiring Mark Fisher to revisit the German-born writer's East Anglian odyssey The Rings of Saturn = 36 THE FUGITIVE : After 30 years of making films in exile in the West, Jerzy Skolimowski is back working in his native Poland - appropriately enough, on the story of a man on the run in a foreign land. The director talks to David Thompson about his new film Essential Killing = 38 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Bigger than life = 5 RUSHES Nick Bradshaw talks to campaigning documentarist Alex Gibney about his new film Client-9 = 8 Nick James encounters moments of bleakness in Rotterdam = 9 Charles Gant on an awards-season bonanza at the box office = 9 Daniel Trilling visits Agnes Varda's Paris home-cum-workshop = 10 Charles Burnett revisits 1946 Southern mystery The Red House = 11 Brian Robinson celebrates 25 years of the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival = 12 William Fowler on the uncertain future of 16mm prints = 13 Nick Roddick explores why film producers matter = 15 LETTERS : For and against Black Swan, library plans, a definition of auteurship = 96 READER OFFERS = 22 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Submarine = 44 FILMS Age of the Dragons = 46 All American Orgy = 46 Anuvahood = 47 Arthur and the Great Adventure = 48 Ballast = 48 Barney's Version = 49 Benda Bilili! = 50 Big Mommas Like Father like Son = 51 Cave of Forgotten Dreams = 52 Chalet Girl／Powder Girl = 53 Client-9 The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer = 54 The Company Men = 54 Country Strong = 55 The Dilemma = 56 Drive Angry = 56 The Eagle = 57 Eleanor's Secret／Kerity La Maison des contes／Nat e il segreto di Eleonora = 58 Essential Killing = 60 Faster = 61 Gnomeo & Juliet = 62 His & Hers = 63 I Am Number Four = 64 Ironclad = 66 Just Go with It = 66 Justin Bieber Never Say Never = 67 Killing Bono = 68 A Little Bit of Heaven = 69 Norwegian Wood = 70 No Strings Attached = 71 Oranges and Sunshine = 71 Patagonia = 72 Paul = 74 The Rite = 75 Route Irish = 76 Sanctum = 77 Submarine = 78 A Turtle's Tale Sammy's Adventures／Le Voyage extraordinaire de Samy = 80 Unknown／Unknown Identity／Sans identite = 80 The Ward = 81 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger／Conoceras al hombre de tus suenos = 82 DVDs The Boy with Green Hair = 84 Brighton Rock (1947) = 84 Broadcast News = 85 The Crowded Day／Song of Paris = 85 Films by Peter Greenaway = 85 Justified - SeasonⅠ = 90 The Locket = 86 The Magician = 86 The Man Who Fell to Earth = 86 One Continuous Take: The Kay Mander Film Book = 86 Riot = 87 Senso = 88 The Social Network = 89 Some Mothers Do 'Ave' Em - The Complete Series = 90 Szamanka = 89 Trouble in Mind = 89 The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) = 90 The War You Don't See = 90 DVD FEATURES Geoffrey Macnab relishes the humour and humanity of Milos Forman's A Blonde in Love = 84 William Ivory hails a quintet of BBC dramas by Jack Rosenthal = 87 Tim Lucas gets Stuart Rosenberg's WUSA under his skin = 88 BOOKS David Jays finds Busby Berkeley's onscreen precision matched by offscreen personal turmoil = 92 Nick Bradshaw enjoys a Chaplin quest by Kevin Brownlow = 92 Brad Stevens wishes for more from a new biography of Arthur Penn = 93 Kieron Corless is stimulated by a study of "post cinematic affect" = 93

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