Sight and Sound

FEATURES ALL SHE DESIRES : COVER FEATURE With Todd Haynes's five part miniserise of James M. Cain's novel Mildred Pierce - already the inspiration for a 1945 film - HBO has produced a work of truly cinematic ambition, says Paul Julian Smith = 18 PLUS Todd Haynes tells Isabel Stevens how HBO gave him space to explore female experience in a way today's Hollywood would never allow = 21 SCULPTING IN TIME Perhaps more than any other film, Alain Resnais's Last Year in Marienbad lays itself open to esoteric interpretation. To celebrate its rerelease, Brian Dillon maps the film's relationship to sculpture = 26 PLUS Keith Reader uncovers the SM subtext beneath the elegance = 28 FLESH, BLOOD, PASSION : Director Bertrand Tavernier has a flair for turning historical research into vivid drama. as he shows once again with The Princess of Montpensier. He talks to Demetrios Matheou = 30 LISTEN TO BRITAIN A new DVD collection of films documenting British folk culture evokes a lost world for Philip Hoare = 32 PLUS folk singer Shirley collins remembers the pioneering field work of Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy = 35 BETWEEN THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION : Poetry is the first of Lee Change-Dong's films to secure big-screen release in the UK. But since his debut 15 years ago, the writer-director has played a crucial role in South Korea's cultural and political life, says Tony Rayns = 38 GREAT WIDE OPEN : Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura is now more influential than ever, argues Robert Koehler in the latest of ou series on 'top ten' contenders for next year's Sight & Sound poll = 42 ART FOR ART'S SAKE : When the Japanese distributor Art Theatre Guild turned to production in the late 1960s, it unleashed a wave of extraordinary work from Japan's boldest filmmakers - Oshima, Imamura, Terayama and many more. Alexander Jacoby surveys its legacy = 48 THE OLD SOLDIER : More than half a century after Breathless first catapulted him on to the world stage, Jean-Luc Godard is still challenging cinematic norms with his politically charged, poetic essay Film Socialisme. Gabe Klinger jump-cuts through the key moments in the director's career = 52 REGULARS EDITORIAL : After Aristotle = 5 RUSHES Ian Francis : explores the work of American film artist Robert Breer = 8 Kieron Corless reports from this year's Oberhausen film festival = 9 Charles Gant on Senna's pole position at the UK box office = 9 Paul Mayersberg on an underrated Graham Greene adaptation = 10 James Mottram finds the Edinburgh film festival in dire straits = 13 Kieron Corless visits the set of Peter Strickland's new feature = 13 Lena Bergman on the private viewing habits of her father Ingmar = 14 Geoffrey Macnab pays tribute to Bergman's DP Gunnar Fischer = 15 Nick Roddick dreams of auteurs turning to action = 17 LETTERS : Drawbacks of digital, women of the West, the credits debate rolls on = 96 READER OFFERS = 24 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Treacle Jr. = 58 FILMS Bad Teacher = 60 Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo = 60 Beginners = 61 Bobby Fischer against the world = 62 Born to Be Wild 3D = 62 Break My Fall = 63 Breath Made Visible = 63 Cell 2II / Celda 2II = 64 Dancing Dreams / Tranztraume = 66 Film Socialisme = 66 The Flaw = 67 Green Lantern = 68 Hobo with a Shotgun = 68 Holy Rollers = 69 Honey / Bal = 69 Huge = 70 Kung Fu Panda 2 = 71 Larry Crowne / II N'est jamais trop tard = 71 Last Night = 72 The Light Thief／Svet-ake = 72 Poetry／Shi = 73 The Princess of Montpensier／La Princesse de Montpensier = 74 The Round Up／La Rafle = 75 Sawako Decides／Kawa no soko kara konnichi-wa = 75 Screwed = 76 Super = 77 Swinging with the Finkels = 78 Treacle Jr. (credits) = 78 The Tree of Life = 79 Trust = 80 Viva Riva! = 80 X-Men First Class = 81 Zookeeper = 82 DVDs L'Age d'or = 85 Beauty and the Beast - Season 1 = 91 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt = 85 Cross of Iron = 85 Faccia a faccia = 85 The Halfway House = 86 A High Wind in Jamaica = 86 Java Head／Tiger Bay = 86 Jemima Shore Investigates = 91 The KingdomⅠ&Ⅱ = 91 The Kremlin Letter = 86 Laila = 87 The Miners' Hymns = 88 Night Flight = 89 People on Sunday = 89 Rififi = 89 Skidoo = 90 Stressed Eric = 91 Taking Off = 90 Who Can Kill a Child? = 90 DVD FEATURES Nick Pinkerton on Fassbinder's flawed but fascinating Despair = 84 Michael Brooke marvels at the swoonsome beauty of Szindbad = 87 Tim Lucas revists Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman = 88 BOOKS Kim Newman hails a definitive biography of Boris Karloff = 92 Sophie Mayer welcomes the reappearance of Born in Flames as a hybrid graphic novel = 92 Paolo Cherchi Usai samples a revealing selection of 100 Silent Films = 93 Brad Stevens is surprised by a re-evaluation of the films of unsung 1970s／80s director James Bridges = 93

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