Sight and Sound

FEATURES RECKLESS MOMENT : COVER FEATURE Adapted from Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, The Deep Blue Sea represents a triumphant return to filmmaking for writer-director Terence Davies. He talks to Geoff Andrew = 18 PLUS set report by Nick James = 20 PLUS Rising star Tom Hiddleston tells Nick James what attracted him to working with Terence Davies = 23 PLUS DP Florian Hoffmeister on the film's distinctive look = 23 PASSING FANCIES : It was a one-off collision between George Gershwin's music, Gene Kelly's dancing, French art history, Red Shoes-inspired film ballet - and America's enduring love affair with the French capital. David Thomson revisits An American in Paris = 28 ENTER THE VOID : Snowtown dramatises the real-life serial killings uncovered in the eponymous South Australian small town. But far from true-crime sensationalism, it's a gruelling psychological study from first-time director Justin Kurzel. He talks to James Bell = 32 LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Leaving the council-estate setting of her earlier films for the moors of Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold has put her own stamp on Emily Bronte's classic, says Amy Raphael = 34 PLUS David Jenkins surveys other screen versions = 37 FAUST AND FURIOUS : A surprise winner of the top prize at the recent Venice Film Festival, Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust has divided critics, leaving some groping for superlatives. Ian Christie places the film in the context of European high culture's previous tellings of the tale - and of the Russian director's other, varied works, now showing in a BFI retrospective = 38 LITTLE VOICE : Restored scenes omitted from the original 1979 cut have added a new dimension to Volker Schlondorff's adaptation of Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum - as have revelations about the novelist's wartime past. Geoffrey Macnab reports = 42 TROUBLE IN MIND : For years Michael Shannon has been building a reputation as an intense, risk-taking actor on stage and in supporting roles. But his compelling turn as the dream-haunted everyman in Take Shelter proves he can carry a movie. Nick Pinkerton talks to him = 46 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Back to monochrome = 5 RUSHES Brian Dillon surveys the intriguing films of Albanian artist Anri Sala = 8 Geoff Brown reports on the silent treasures revived at this year's Pordenone film festival = 9 Charles Gant decodes the box-office success of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy = 9 Paul Tickell revisits Robert Wise's overlooked late-period noir Odds Against Tomorrow = 10 Dylan Cave reconsiders the 1950s British Empire film in light of a new BFI season = 12 Tom Rice on the role and output of the former Colonial Film Unit = 12 Thomas Dawson talks to British director Andrew Haigh about his well received debut feature, Weekend = 15 Nick Roddick on how the rise of VOD is threatening old business models = 17 LETTERS : Be international, who directed Judy, Tinker Tailor writers = 96 READER OFFERS = 26 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : This Our Still Life = 52 FILMS Abduction = 54 The Adventures of Tintin The Secret of the Unicorn = 54 An African Election = 55 The Awakening = 55 Battle of Warsaw 1920／1920 Bitwa Warszawaska = 56 The British Guide to Showing Off = 57 The Deep Blue Sea = 57 Demons Never Die = 58 Dream House = 58 Everything Must Go = 60 50／50 = 61 First Night = 61 Footloose = 62 Force = 62 Four = 63 The Future = 63 Jack Goes Boating = 64 Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer = 66 Junkhearts = 67 Killer Elite = 68 Moneyball = 69 Oslo, August 31st = 69 Real Steel = 70 Resistance = 71 Reuniting the Rubins = 71 The Rum Diary = 72 Shark Night 3D = 73 The Silence／Das letzte Schweigen = 73 Sket = 74 Snowtown = 74 Sound It Out = 75 Straw Dogs = 76 Tabloid = 76 Take Shelter = 77 This Our Still Life = 78 The Three Musketeers = 78 Weekend = 80 We Were Here = 80 What's Your Number? = 81 Wuthering Heights = 82 DVDs Ashes & Diamonds = 84 Blue Bloods - SeasonⅠ = 91 The Cheerleaders／Revenge of the Cheerleaders = 84 Max Davidson Comedies = 85 Identification of a Woman = 85 The Iron Horse = 85 Ken Loach at the BBC = 91 Films by Grigori Kozintesv = 86 Landmarks of Early Soviet Film = 86 Mimic - The Director's Cut = 87 The Modern City = 87 Nightmare = 87 Our Beloved Month of August = 88 The Outsiders = 88 The Phantom Carriage = 89 Le quattro volte = 89 Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher = 89 The Suicide Room = 90 This Boy's Life = 90 Voice Over = 90 Films from Zoetrope Studios = 90 DVD FEATURES Brad Stevens welcomes a definitive three-version Blu-ray release of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil = 84 Tim Lucas eyes a pre-Velvet Undeground Nico in Strip-Tease = 88 BOOKS Sophie Mayer on a new study of Maya Deren's avant-garde classic Meshes of the Afternoon = 91 John Wrathall welcomes The Whole Story of cinema in one volume = 92 David Jays applauds a light-footed new selection of 100 key musicals = 93 Chris Fujiwara finds a new collection of Clint Eastwood interviews from the late 1970s and early 80s to be a fascinating time capsule = 93

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