Sight and Sound

FEATURES BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2011 : COVER FEATURE Nick James introduces our in-depth coverage of this years Festival = 15 Director Lynne Ramsay talks to Hannah Mcgill about her adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin = 16 Outgoing LFF artistic director Sandra Hebron talks to Nick James = 20 Bryony Dixon on the BFI's restoration of The First Born, a 1928 silent rich in Hitchcock resonances = 21 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne talk to Geoff Andrew about taking a step in a (slightly) sunnier direction with The Kid with a Bike = 22 Paul Julian Smith on why Mexican drug-gang pic Miss Bala is more than just another document of Latin America's social ills = 24 Nick Bradshaw rounds up the fesitval's documentary contingent = 28 Isabel Stevens on the ambitious, three-part Dreileben project = 30 Tony Rayns heralds the flowering of an ethnically Tibetan cinema = 31 PLUS Our top 20 unmissable picks of this year's festival = 32 CLASH OF THE WONDERLANDS : Two years on from Avatar, audience fatigue and critical scepticism may be peaking just as genuinely adventurous 3D work is coming our way. Don't write off 3D yet, says Ian Christie = 36 ANGRY BASTARDS : Tyrannosaur, about a reformed alcoholic's relationship with a victim of domestic violence, is the directing debut of actor Paddy Considine. Just don't call it social realism, Considine and his leading man Peter Mullan tell Nick Bradshaw = 40 DO LOOK NOW : The top award may have gone to a Russian, but British films made a remarkably strong showing at this year's Venice Film Festival. Kieron Corless reports = 42 BENEATH THE TINSEL : Some of the big-name premieres disappointed, but the sheer scale of this year's Toronto International Film Festival guaranteed some interesting discoveries, says Tom Charity = 46 REGULARS EDITORIAL : The thick red pile = 5 RUSHES Mark Le Fanu heads to Tallinn for a festival that pays tribute to Tarkovsky's Stalker = 8 Benjamin Cook celebrates the life and work of the late underground filmmaker george Kuchar = 9 Charles Gant on the profitability of rereleased classics such as Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven = 9 Michele Atkinson takes a trip through 20th-century history in The Mist in the Palm Trees = 10 Kim Newman wades through the blood and gore at this year's London FrightFest = 11 Nick Roddick has seen the future and it's in Kazakhstan = 13 LETTERS : Defending Villain, Frankenstein lookalikes, baffling slang = 96 READER OFFERS = 34 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 = 50 FILMS African Cats = 52 Albatross = 52 Anonymous = 53 Apollo 18 = 54 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (credits) = 54 Blood in the Mobile／Blod i mobilen = 54 Cane Toads: The Conquest = 55 Children of the Revolution = 56 Colombiana = 57 Contagion = 57 The Dead = 58 Dolphin Tale = 60 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark = 60 Four Days Inside Guantanamo = 61 Hell and Back Again = 62 The Help = 62 The Ides of March = 63 I Don't Know How She Does It = 64 Johnny English Reborn = 66 Midnight in Paris = 66 Miss Bala = 67 Monte Carlo = 68 NewsreelⅠ= 68 Parked = 69 Perfect Sense = 70 POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold = 70 Red State = 72 Restless = 73 Sleeping Beauty = 73 Soul Surfer = 74 The Story of Lover's Rock = 75 Tyrannosaur = 75 Ultrasuede In Search of Halston = 76 Warrior = 76 Weekender = 78 We Need to Talk About Kevin = 79 When China Met Africa = 79 Will = 80 The Woman = 80 The Yellow Sea／Hwanghae = 81 DVDs Films by Claude Chabrol = 82 The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom = 83 Colossal Youth = 83 The Molly Dineen Collection: Volume 2 - The Ark = 83 Films by Xavier Dolan = 83 Golden Sixties = 84 The Good Soldier = 90 Heavenly Creatures = 84 The Last American Hero = 85 Macbeth = 90 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence = 85 More = 86 Nostalgia for the Light = 87 Philo Vance = 90 Quatermass and the Pit = 87 The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond = 87 The Soviet Influence from Turksib to Night Mail = 87 Tagore Stories on Film = 88 Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938 = 88 Visions of Eight = 90 DVD FEATURES Michael Brooke on Kobayashi Masaki's samurai masterpiece Harakiri = 82 Philip Kemp takes a fresh look at the early work of Humphrey Jennings = 85 Tim Lucas explores the erotic universe of Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet = 86 BOOKS Alexander Jacoby immerses himself in an account of radical Japanese cinema = 92 Michael Brooke applauds an in-depth new study of Ken Loach = 92 Edward Buscombe welcomes an exhaustive examination of Italian westerns = 93

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