Sight and Sound

Children of the Damned : Australian director Cate Shortland’s lore offers a new angle on Germany at the end of WWII, seen hrough the eyes of a 15-year-old as she crosses the war-ravaged land. By Nick James = 44 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The Future is No : Pablo Larram completes his Pinochet trilogy with No, a portrait of an adman who sells the rejection of the ictator the same way he sells cola. By Jonathan Romney PLUS Mar Diestro-Dopido talks to the film’s star, Gael Garcia Bernal, nd Kim Newman surveys how the movies have portrayed the world of advertising = 28 Honourable Men : After years of neglect by UK distributors, the Taviani brothers are back with their grittiest film yet, Caesar ust Die. By Pasquale lannone = 34 Divine Reality : The rerelease of Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew gives a chance to rediscover this most isunderstood of filmmakers, says Hannah McGill PLUS Mark Cousins on what his work teaches us = 38 The Actors: Montgomery Clift : A Place in the Sun marked a pinnacle of complexity and ambiguity in the actor’s work, says ric Hynes = 48 THE S&S INTERVIEW : Chris Menges : The British great DP looks back over his career with Jo Comino = 56 REGULARS Editorial Goodbye January blues = 9 Reader Offers = 26 Rushes Michael Brooke on the BFI’s celebration of the steel industry on film = 10 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on the various meanings of the cowboy hat = 12 Obituary: Tony Rayns pays tribute to Oshima Nagisa = 15 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on when a film is a portrait = 17 The Industiy Development Tale: Charles Gant on how Broken got put back together = 18 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the box-office phenomenon of Life of Pi = 19 News: Geoffrey Macnab sees HMV’s future in the balance = 20 Profile: Geoffrey Macnab on Picturehouse’s Lyn Goleby = 23 Festivals : Eric Kohn reports from a technology-inspired Sundance = 24 Obituaries : Bob Mastrangelo’s survey of the film greats and lesser-knowns who left us during 2012 = 58 Wide Angle Olaf Moller on a season of activist cinema by India’s Anand Patwardhan = 64 Soundings: Mark Fisher on an East Anglian crossover between M.R. James and Brian Eno = 66 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon welcomes a new Parisian film festival = 67 John Beagles on artist Duncan Gampbell’s forays into the archive = 68 Bradlands: Brad Stevens on the lost language of mise en scene = 70 Lost and Found: Fintan McDonagh salutes Peter Lorre’s sole stab at directing, Der Verlorene = 73 Forum Sam Dunn wonders why so much interesting British cinema is missing from DVD = 74 Letters = 76 Endings : Philip Kemp on Charulata = 128 FILMS OF THE MONTH Cloud Atlas = 80 Compliance = 82 Gangs ofWasseppur/Gangs ofWasseppurll = 84 To the Wonder = 86 FILMS Babeldom = 88 The Bap = 88 Breath of the Gods = 89 Broken = 90 Broken dtp = 91 Caesar Must Die = 91 Chained = 92 Crawl = 93 Fire in the Blood = 94 Fire with Fire = 94 For Ellen = 95 Gangster Squad = 95 The Guilt Trip = 96 Hi-So = 97 King of Pigs = 98 The Last Stand = 98 Lore = 99 Mama = 100 Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God = 100 No = 101 Parental Guidance = 102 Parker = 102 Reign of Assassins = 103 TheRoadAStorp of Life and Death = 104 Robot & Frank = 104 Run for Your Wfe = 105 Safe Haven = 106 Side bp Side = 106 Stoker = 107 Texas Chainsaw = 107 This Is 40 = 108 Trashed = 109 Veritp’s Summer = 109 The Wee Man = 110 Won't Back Down = 110 Zaptoun = 111 HOME CINEMA Beloved Infidel, The Confrontation, Cut to the Chase! The Charlep Chase Collection, Films bp Jess Franco, From Bepond, From the Sea to the Land Bepond, It's in the Bag, The Lickerish Quartet, Once upon a Time in America, Something Wild, The itfield Thunderbolt, Warner Archive Film Noir, Wild River = 112 DVD features David Thompson on Sternberg’s discovery of his muse in The Blue Angel = 112 Michael Brooke sees signs of things to come in Kubrick’s Fear and Desire = 115 Tom Charity reassesses Heaven's Gate Television = 118 Death Vallep, Enlightened - Season 1 Unit One - Series 1 = 121 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton savours a survey of the western = 122 Geoff Andrew appraises a biography of Rouben Mamoulian = 123 Isabel Stevens on film and the visual arts = 124 Nick Bradshaw on Los Angeles on film = 124

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