Sight and Sound

FEATURES TO CATCH A SPY : COVER FEATURE Despite inevitable compression, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy the movie captures the mood of John le Carre's source novel, says John Sutherland = 16 PLUS Gary Oldman talks to James Bell about how he made the role of George Smiley his own = 18 THE SOCIAL NAVIGATOR During a directing career spanning almost half a century, Ken Loach's work has become a byword for a brand of naturalistic, socially conscious British filmmaking. But there's more to him than that, says John Hill = 24 PLUS Michael Brooke welcomes back a lost Loach film from 1969 = 27 PLUS Antonia Bird, Martin Compston, Luc Dardenne, Nell Dunn, Tony Garnett, Peter Kosminsky, Jimmy McGovern and Jonathan Morris pay tribute to Loach's film and working methods = 28 THE CONFESSIONS OF LARS VON TRIER : Interviewing Lars von Trier about his dreamily apocalyptic new film Melancholia, Nick James was under strict instruction not to broach the subject of Nazism. But the Danish controversialist had other ideas = 30 OUT THERE IN THE DARK : In recent years British TV has given little airtime to serious coverage of cinema. But all that is changing with the transmission of a 15-hour documentary by Mark Cousins that offers a truly global perspective. Ian Christie immerses himself in The Story of Film = 36 LIFE ON EARTH : In the extraordinary new Greek film Attenberg, a woman fascinated by David Attenborough's nature programmes confronts the mysteries of human behaviour. Director Athina Rachel Tsangari talks to Jonathan Romney = 40 EYRE CONDITIONING : A director with an 'outsider's eye' is unleashed on a British literary classic: it's a familiar strategy, but it pays dividends with Cary Joji Fukunaga's Jane Eyre, says Claire Monk = 44 STEALER'S WHEELS : Best known for his Copenhagen-set Pusher trilogy, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn brings a European style and sensibility to his first American film, the gripping crime-and-car thriller Drive. He talks to Nick Roddick = 46 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Not the silly season = 5 RUSHES Philip Kemp talks to Celine Sciamma about her new film Tomboy = 8 Geoffrey Macnab reports on how the UK's DVD labels are recovering after the Enfield Sony warehouse fire in the August riots = 9 Charles Gant on Kristin Scott Thomas's pulling power at the UK arthouse box office = 9 Peter Tonguette rediscovers Alan J.Pakula's See You in the Morning = 10 Jonathan Romney remembers the Chilean director and polymath Raul Ruiz, who has died aged 70 = 12 Amy Taubin celebrates the legacy of NY maverick Jack Smith = 13 Nick Roddick on the instant availability of movies = 15 LETTERS : Bogarde in leather, for and against digital, the end of Poetry = 96 READER OFFERS = 22 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Post Mortem = 52 FILMS Aarakshan = 54 Attenberg = 54 Broken Lines = 55 Captain America The First Avenger = 55 The Change-up = 56 Conan the Barbarian = 57 Cowboys & Aliens = 57 Crazy Stupid Love = 58 The Debt = 60 Drive = 60 Elite Squad The Enemy Within／Tropa de elite 2 - O inimigo agora e outro = 61 Fast Romance = 62 Final Destination 5 = 62 Friends with Benefits = 64 The Green Wave = 65 Guilty of Romance／Koi no tsumi = 66 The Inbetweeners Movie = 66 Jane Eyre = 68 A Lonely Place to Die = 69 Mademoiselle Chambon = 69 Melancholia = 70 Page One Inside the New York Times = 72 Post Mortem (credits only) = 72 R Hit First, Hit Hardest／R = 73 Red White & Blue = 73 Rise of the Planet of the Apes = 74 Self Made = 76 The Smurfs = 77 Spy Kids All the Time in the World in 4D = 77 30 Minutes of Less = 78 3D Sex and Zen Extreme Ecstasy／Saam D Yuk poutyun ji giklok bou gaam = 78 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy = 79 Tomboy = 79 Troll Hunter = 80 Turnout = 81 Way of the Morris = 81 You Instead = 82 Fright Night (credits only) = 82 DVDs Before the Revolution = 84 The Colour of Pomegranates = 84 Films by Maurice Elvey = 85 The Endless Summer = 85 Father = 85 The Garden of the Finzi-Contini = 85 The Killing (1956) = 86 Films by Chris Marker = 86 The Music Room = 86 The Police Story series = 87 La rabbia = 88 Films by Alain Resnais = 89 Schloss Vogelod = 89 Secret Sunshine = 89 The Strange World of Gurney Slade = 91 Strigoi = 90 The Twilight Zone - SeasonⅠ = 91 The Warped World of Koreyoshi Kurahara = 90 White Line Fever = 90 The Woman on the Beach = 91 DVD FEATURES James Bell on Jerry Schatzberg's The Panic in Needle Park = 84 Michael Atkinson on Bergman's psychodrama Face to Face = 87 Tim Lucas enjoys the post-punk melodrama Breaking Glass = 88 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton wants more from a new study of 1970s horror = 92 John Wrathall enjoys the memoirs of film editor Jim Clark = 92 Paul Ryan is impressed by a new book on Basil Dearden's Victim = 93 Patrick Russell on a significant new study of British municipal cinema = 93

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