Sight and Sound

Cover feature : Film of a thousand faces : One-time enfant terrible Leos Carax's return to feature films after a 13-year absence, Holy Motors is at once an unclassifiable, hugely original vision and a compendium of visual references to cinema. David Thompson decodes its influences = 26 FEATURES A sense of Dredd : Kim Newman explains why a new British take on Judge Dredd reflects the true spirit of the comic-strip original. Plus Dredd writer-producer Alex Garland talks to David Jenkins = 32 The moonshine boys : The moonshiner film is a rural subgenre of the Hollywood gangster movie with a lively and largely disreputable history-and it's back with a vengeance in its bloodiest incarnation yet courtesy of the Nick Cave-scripted Lawless. By Michael Atkinson = 36 The owl's legacy : Catherine Lupton pays tribute to the late French filmmaker and interactive pioneer Chris Marker, while ten directors including Agnès Varda, Patricio Guzmán, Chris Petit, José Luis Guérin and Patrick Keiller share memories of the work and the man = 40 In the shadow of the Wall : The leading light of the Berling School, Christian Petzold turns his attention to the final years of communist East Germany with the tense and probing Barbara. He talks to Nick Hasted = 48 REGULARS Editorial : Surfing the anticlimax = 9 Reader Offers = 24 Rushes : Hannah McGill explores the meaning of the ice pick in Basic Instinct = 10 Ashley Clark celebrates a lost classic in Chameleon Street = 13 Mark Cousins ponders straight and curly lines in art and cinema = 14 Kevin B. Lee reports from the ninth Beijing Independent Film Festival = 15 Jonathan Romney on sound and silence in Leo McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap The Industry = 17 Charles Gant : recounts The Sweeney's long journey to the big screen = 18 Charles Gant : assesses Searching for Sugar Man's box-office performance = 19 David Locke on why the departure of the BBC's head of film acquisitions is a blow = 20 Geoffrey Macnab talks to the boss of sales company IM Global, Stuart Ford = 23 The S&S Interview : Revered film critic David Thomson discusses his new book The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us with Greil Marcus = 52 Wide Angle : Simon Merle finds the Documenta art festival is a haven for cinema lovers = 56 FILMS OF THE MONTH About Elly = 72 Barbara = 74 Dredd = 76 Killing Them Softly = 78 Savages = 80 FILMS Anna Karenina = 82 Big Boys Gone Bananas = 83 Cockneys vs Zombis = 84 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel = 85 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days = 86 The Expendables2 = 86 False Trail/Jägarna 2 = 88 Hit So Hard = 88 Holy Motors = 89 Hope Springs = 90 Hysteria = 91 I Against I = 91 Keyhole = 92 The Knot = 93 Liberal Arts = 93 London Babylon = 94 The Myth of the American Sleepover = 96 Now Is Good = 96 Para Norman = 97 The perks of Being a Wallflower = 97 Premium Rush = 98 [Rec]³ Genesis = 98 Shut Up and Play the Hits = 99 The Snows of Kilimanjaro/Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro = 100 Sound of My Voice = 102 To Rome with Love = 103 Total Recall = 104 Tower Block = 105 Twenty8k = 106 Untouchable/Intouchables = 106 The Watch = 107 When the Lights Went Out = 107 HOME CINEMA Bye Bye Birdie, High Time, Cleopatra, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Don Quixote, The Edgar Wallace Mysteries-Volume 1, A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, Johnny Guitar, Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer, Man of the Story, My Son John, Rumble Fish, Twins of Evil, Ukrainian Re-Vision, Les Vampires = 112 DVD features Dan Callahan finds a modern sensibility in Paul Fejos's 1928 classic Lonesome = 110 Pamela Hutchinson on why Mary Pickford was more than just an Edwardian sweetheart = 113 John Riley celebrates a new batch of Soviet classics = 116 Television : Casanova '73, The Invisible Man, Wilfred-Season 1 = 120 BOOKS Kent Jones exults in David Thomson's latest love letter to the movies = 122 J. Hoberman uncovers the relationship between the FBI and Hollywood = 124 Sophie Mayer unravels a feminist critique of women's cinema = 125 Ian Christie admires the work of Powell and Pressburger's in-house portraitist = 125

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