Sight and Sound

Eurostar : Powerful performances in films such as Fve Loved You So Long have made Kristin Scott Thomas a bona fide rthouse star, as popular in France as she is in the UK. By Ginette Vincendeau = 32 FEATURES A Very Bad Man : David Thomson revisits John Boorman’s violent and surreal Point Blank PLUS John Wrathali on the various incarnations of crime fiction’s most redoubtable armed robber, Parker = 36 Devotion Sickness : Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills is a sombre, provocative and unsettling story of life n an Orthodox convent. He talks to Edward Lawrenson = 42 Are We Neariy There Yet? : Set largely in the back of a car during a tense family roadtrip, Thursday till Sunday is a striking ebut for Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor. She talks to Mar Diestro-Dópido = 46 The Devil in the Detail : At Cannes last year Mexican director Carlos Reygadas drew fire for the perceived incoherence of his - azzling or baffling - new film Post Tenebras Lux. But he’s not one to take criticism lightly, finds Fernanda Solórzano = 50 Indian Ink : As Indian cinema celebrates its looth anniversary, a new exhibition reveals the country’s rich tradition in film osters. By Divia Patel = 54 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Danny Boyle : Following his glittering success with the Olympics opening ceremony, Danny Boyle talks to Ryan Gilbey about returning to darker matters in his new film Trance = 60 REGULARS Editorial Quantitative clogging = 9 Reader Offers = 30 Rushes Ben Walters previews the 27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival = 10 First Sight: Isabel Stevens talks to Scott Graham about his directing debut Shell = 12 Obituary: Tony Rayns pays tribute to critic and Japan specialist Donald Richie = 13 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on the significance of birthday cakes = 14 Dispatches: Mark Cousins calls for a truly global perspective to film criticism = 17 The Industiy Development Tale: Charles Gant charts the long gestation of Belfast indie-music saga Good Vibrations = 18 The Numbers: Charles Gant on how British audiences said yes to No = 19 Overview: Geoffrey Macnab on the turbulent state of UK distribution = 20 Profile: Nick Roddick talks to Netfiix’s head of product innovation, Todd Yellin = 23 Festivals Nick James is heartened by the quality of this year’s Berlin selection = 24 Wide Angle Jaime Pena on how a town in Portugal became a mecca for arthouse directors = 66 Sukhdev Sandhu on George Barber’s video installation The Freestone Drone = 68 Agnieszka Gratza peels back the covers on the Belfort Film Festival = 69 Soundings: Frances Morgan tunes in to the songs that mean something special to characters in films = 70 Primal Screen: Kevin Brownlow looks back at a 1925 version of Les Miserables = 71 Bradlands: Brad Stevens hunts down the uncredited work of great directors in films credited to others = 72 Lost and Found: Dan Callahan marvels at the unique charms of Zoo in Budapest = 73 Forum Jonathan Romney and Quintm debate the merits of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas = 74 Letters = 76 Endings : Mar Diestro-Dopido on Cna Cuervos = 128 FILMS OF THE MONTH Neighbouring Sounds/O som ao redor = 80 Reality = 82 Side Effects = 84 The Spirit of;45 = 86 FILMS All Things to All Men = 88 Arbitrage = 88 Beautiful Creatures = 89 Bepond the Hills/Dupa dealuri = 89 Dragon/W u xia = 90 A Good Dap to Die Hard = 91 Good Vibrations = 91 Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters = 92 Home/Yurt = 92 Identity Thief = 93 In the House/Dans la maison = 94 John Dies at the End = 95 A Late Quartet = 95 Maniac = 96 Movie 43 = 97 Murder 3 = 98 The Odd Life of Timothp Green = 98 One Mile Awap = 99 Papadopoulos & Sons = 100 ThePaperbop = 100 Post Tenebras Lux = 101 Reincarnated = 102 Sammp’s Great Escape = 102 Shell = 103 Sleep Tight/Mientras duermes = 104 Spike Island = 104 Stolen = 105 Thursdap till Sundap/De jueves a domingo = 106 Trance 107 Warm Bodies = 107 Welcome to the Punch = 108 HOME CINEMA The Amazing Mr Blunden, Babette's Least, Cairo, The Dawn Patrol Deathtrap, Dracula, The Monster Squad, On Approval nibaba, The Outside Man, La Poison, The Qatsi Trilogp, Run for Cover, We Can’t Go Home Again, White Zombie = 112 DVD features James Blackford celebrates Italian horror maestro Mario Bava = 110 Dan Callahan is intrigued by a largely forgotten Robert Altman film = 113 Chris Darke relishes the new restoration of Andre Sauvage’s Etudes sur Paris = 116 Philip Kemp revisits Ozu’s early gangster films Television = 119 David Thompson looks back at the high and low- culture offerings of 1960s series Tempo = 120 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - Series 3, House of Lies - Season 1, Marriage Lines - Series 1 & 3 = 121 BOOKS Pamela Hutchinson enjoys a biography of silent star Mae Murray = 122 Paul Tickell welcomes a study of video essay Rock Mp Religion = 123 Jasper Sharp explores Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age = 123 Nick Pinkerton dips in to a book of interviews with Abraham Polonsky = 124

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