Sight and Sound

FEATURES ANALYSE THIS : COVER REATURE Better known for visceral horror, David Cronenberg turns to psychoanalytical costume drama with A Dangerous Method, He talks Freud and Jung with Nick James = 16 PLUS Brad Stevens on Cronenberg’s 1983 classic Videodrome = 21 MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION Rereleased to coincide with a major new David Hockney exhibition, the 1974 film A Bigger Splash is a fascinating document of the artist and his circle. By Ian Massey = 24 PLUS Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey on the collision of painting and film = 26 OBITUARIES Sight&Sound’s annual survey of the notable film figures who died last year. Compiled by Bob Mastrangelo = 29 PLUS Peter Biskind on Sue Mengers, Peter Tonguette on Bert Schneider, Pilip Kemp on Michael Gough, Kate Stables on Jane Russell, and Michael Brooke on Zdenek Miler CALIFORNIA DREAMING : Bombay Beach seems like a typical observational documentary about dead-end American lives-until its subjects start to dance. Director Alma Har’el talks to Nick Bradshaw = 34 THE GATAWAY Martha Marcy May Marlene marks debut writer-director Sean Durkin as one of the most exciting filmmakers to emerge on the US indie scene in a while. He talks to Jonathan Romney = 38 PLUS 8 indie directors to watch = 41 REMAIN IN LIGHT : Could Mulholland Dr. be a contender in S&S’s upcoming Greatest Film of All Time poll? B.Kite makes the case for David Lunch’s Film in the light of the Vedanta-inspired spiritual philosophy that underpins all the director’s work = 44 INKING THE DEAL : Before Repo Man became Alex Cox’s cult 1984 debut, it was a comic strip. S&S reproduces Cos’s original artwork for the first time = 48 ONLY A DREAM : 1940s beauty Gene Tierney didn’t so much act as embody the mysterious heroines of three unforgettable films. By Dan Callahan = 50 REGULARS EDITORIAL : Get into bed = 5 RUSHES Michael Brooke talks to director Pawel Pawlikowski about his new feature The Woman in the Fifth = 8 Naman Ramachandran on the life and work of Indian cinema’s Charlie Chaplin, the legendary Raj Kapoor = 9 Charles Gant on Shame’s prowess at the box office = 9 Mar Diestro-Dopido on a great Spanish director written out of history = 10 Michael Atkinson pays tribute to the late Theo Angelopoulos = 12 Sophie Mayer revisits the boundary breaking films of Barbara Hammer = 13 Nick Roddick on government attitudes to film culture = 15 LETTERS : Don’t forget Finland, the truth about Adair, The Artist pros and cons = 96 READER OFFERS = 22 REVIEWS FILM OF THE MONTH : Young Adult = 56 FILMS The Adopted/Les Adoptes = 58 Bel Ami = 58 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel = 59 Best Laid Plans = 60 Big Miracle = 60 Blood Car = 62 Carancho (The Vulture) = 62 A Dangerous Method = 63 The Darkest Hour = 64 The Devil Inside = 66 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close = 66 Girl Model = 67 Goon = 67 The Grey = 68 Hadewijch = 69 Hunky Dory = 70 If I Were You = 70 Khodorkovsky = 71 Martha Marcy May Marlene = 72 Michael = 72 A Monster in Paris/Un Monstre a Paris = 74 The Muppets = 75 Position Among the Stars = 75 Rampart – 76 Red Dog = 77 The Topp Twins Untouchable Girls = 77 Underworld Awakening = 78 The Woman in the Fifth/La femme du Veme = 79 X Night of Vengeance = 80 Young Adult (credits only) = 80 DVDs An Affair to Remember = 82 Beats Rhymes & Life : The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest = 83 Bill Brand = 90 Come and See = 83 The Cycle = 83 Dersu Uzala = 83 Exterieur, nuit = 84 Hamlet(1921) = 84 The Hellstrom Chronicle = 85 Hung – Season 2 = 90 Marketa azsrova = 85 Orphans = 86 The Phantom of the Opera(1925) = 87 Putty Hill = 87 The Pyx = 87 Repo Man = 88 Rolling Thunder = 88 Der Rosenkavalier = 88 Smile Jenny, You’re Dead = 90 Films by Suzuki Seijun = 89 Films of the Taiwan New Cinema = 89 Travels of with My Aunt = 90 DVD FEATURES Philip Kemp finds tinges of regret in Ozu’s early comedies = 82 Nick Pinkerton relishes the essay films of Jean-Pierre Gorin’s post-Godard California years = 85 Tim Lucas on a Robert Bloch-scripted tale of a killer on the couch = 86 BOOKS Nick James is captivated by Geoff Dyer’s exploration of Stalker = 92 Henry K. Miller is unimpressed by a study of 1970s British film culture = 92 Brian Dillon enjoys a suitably eccentric book on Harpo Marx = 93 Sukhdev Sandhu appreciates an exploration of the essay film = 93

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