Sight and Sound

An Alan for all seasons : Alan Partridge’s appearances on numerous media channels made his big-screen debut inevitable. Ben Walters reflects on a 2o-year-long rolling satire of the media landscape = 38 REGULARS Editorial Rough cuts = 5 Rushes Geoffrey Macnab previews a centenary retrospective of prolific British filmmakers the Boulting brothers = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on cuddly toys in the movies = 8 The Five Key...:Patricia Highsmith films = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins writes a letter to Paul Schrader = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the production woes of Lovelace = 12 The Numbers: Charles Gant on a lean summer box-office for arthouse films = 13 Brewster: Ben Roberts reveals the latest round of projects to receive Lottery funding = 14 Geoffrey Macnab talks to Exclusive Media’s Guy East and Nigel Sinclair = 17 Festivals Geoff Andrew reports from Bologna = 18 Richard Porton on the Midnight Sun Eestival = 19 Wide Angle Craig Burnett on the moving-image work in the Venice Biennale = 54 Sukhdev Sandhu explores a new film portrait of the river Thames = 56 Steven Erickson on the Argentine director Matias Piñeiro = 57 Soundings: Frances Moigan discovers composer Elisabth Lutyen and her 1960s horror scores = 58 Primal Screen: Edward Anderson reflects on the first home movies = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : Matt Zoller Seitz on The Sopranos = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Home Cinema : At a time when television drama is reckoned to be superior to most film releases, we look at how 50 top-drawer film directors, from Robert Altman to Orson Welles, made their impact on the smaller screen. Introduction by Henry K. Miller = 20 The secret life of Walter White : As Breaking Bad, the long-running tale of the chemistry teacher who turns to a life of crime after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, reaches its final eight episodes, we examine what makes the series so potent. ByJohn Wrathall = 34 Satyajit Ray: a moral attitude : With a retrospective of the great director coming to BFI Southbank, Andrew Robinson draws upon several interviews Ray gave him before his death and celebrates the Bengali director’s abilities as a graphic artist = 42 Ways of seeing : Close observation of behaviour and images informs Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, a gently incisive meditation on how we interact in public spaces. By Sophie Mayer = 48 Enigma Variations : US Indie actor-director Shane Carruth’s Upstream Coloris exactly the kind of unclassifiable film conundrum to get Jonathan Romney’s spirits racing = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH Foxfire = 62 Looking for Hortense = 64 Silence = 66 What Maisie Knew = 68 FILMS Aftershock = 70 Any Day Now = 70 Bachelorette = 71 Call Girl = 71 Citadel = 72 The Great Hip Hop Hoax = 73 Grown Ups 2 = 73 It's a Lot = 74 The Kings of Summer = 74 Kama = 76 The Lone Ranger = 77 Lovelace = 77 More Than Honey = 78 Museum Hours = 79 Only God Forgives = 80 Pacific Rim = 81 Pieta = 82 RED2 = 83 Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie = 84 Suspension of Disbelief = 86 Upstream Color = 86 The Way Way Back = 87 When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun = 88 White House Down = 90 The Wolverine = 90 The World's End = 91 You're Next = 92 HOME CINEMA At Long Last Love, Burnt by the Sun 2 , Films by Brian De Palma, Films by Atom Egoyan, Elstree Story, Emil and the Detectives, History of The Eagles Parts i & 2 , A London Trilogy - The Films of Saint Etienne 2003 - 2007 , Marketa Lazarova, Passion, Possession, Safety Last!, Wheeler & Woolsey RKO Comedy Classics Collection = 96 DVD features Jonathan Romney explores Jaques Rivette’s Parisian fantasy Out-1 = 94 Nick Pinkerton rediscovers teen sitcom The Many Loves ofDobie Gillis Television = 97 The Last Resort, The Man in Room 17 -Series i. The New Twilight Zone = 102 BOOKS Ian Christie delights in a new study of silent-era still photography = 104 Henry K. Miller explores a history of TV’s showrunners = 105 Nick Pinkerton appraises a new collection of essays on Allan Dwan = 106 Nick James samples a visual celebration of Weimar film = 106

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