Sight and Sound

Journey to the end of the night : The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino’s ambitious odyssey through decadent Roman high society, shows the director to be one of modem cinema’s most confident stylists. By Pasquale lannone = 38 REGULARS Editorial State of mind = 5 Rushes Mikey Please draws inspiration from Richard Williams and Norman McLaren = 6 Preview: Sight & Sound’s highlights of the upcoming BFI London Film Festival = 9 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on the society of the spectacles = The Five Key...: Gilbert Taylor films = First Sight: Ashiey Clark talks to Kelly + Victor direcior Kieran Evans = Dispatches: Mark Cousins on falling for film = The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the tribulations of filming Filth = The Numbers: Charles Gant does the sums on alternative content events = Brewster: Ben Roberts asks what films can learn from alternative content = Profile: Geoffrey Macnab interviews BBC Films head Christine Langan = 21 Festivals : Carmen Gray reports from Locarno = 23 Wide Angie Olaf Moiler appraises forgotten German director Roland Klick = 52 Soundings: Charlie Fox on the wicked enchantments of Kenneth Anger’s soundtracks = 54 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon on the power of 100 at Cinema Ritrovato = 55 Artists’ Moving Image: John Beagles on three female Scottish artists = 56 Letters = 111 Endings : Dan Callahan unravels the final moments of Coppola’s The Rain People = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Long arm of the lore : Forty years on, despite studio maulings and disappearing prints, The Wicker Man still exercises an uncanny grip on the imagination. Director Robin Hardy remembers the making and marring of a pagan classic. By Vic Pratt = 24 Mind the gaps : Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of movies? Slavoj Zizek knows - and he won’t stop talking about it. In The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology he uncovers more dark secrets from the dream factory. By Sam Davies = 32 Keep on running : Claude Sautet’s Classe tons risqueswas criminally neglected in the fuss over the nouvelle vague. Half a century on, it emerges as an authentically tough gangster classic. By Nick James = 36 A ghost in the machine : Watchful, humble, helplessly professional, Eddie Marsan has become one of those actors who directors just love to cast. By David Thomson = 42 THE S&S INTERVIEW: James Benning : The American filmmaker and teacher, legendary for his formal rigour and devotion to i6mm, talks about digital technology, ‘slow’ art, and manipulating the image in the interests of reality. By Nick Bradshaw = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Blue Jasmine = 60 Kelfy + Victor = 62 Nobody's Daughter Haewon/Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon = 64 The Stuart Hall Project = 66 FILMS About Time = 68 Ain't Them Bodies Saints = 68 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa = 69 The Artist and the Model = 70 Austenland = 70 A Belfast Story = 71 Borrowed Time = 71 Elysium = 72 Emperor = 72 EUth = 73 Eor Those in Peril = 74 42 = 74 The Great Beauty/La grande bellezza = 75 Hannah Arendt = 76 Harrigan = 77 Hawking = 78 How I Live Now = 78 In a World... = 79 In the Name of/W imie. . . = 80 InRealLife = 80 Insidious: Chapter 2 = 81 Jadoo = 81 Justin and the Knights of Valour = 82 Kick-Ass 2 = 82 A Magnificent Haunting/Magnifica presenza = 83 Metro Manila = 84 Mister John = 84 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones = 85 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters = 86 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology = 87 R.I.P.D. = 88 Rush = 88 The Smurfs 2 = 89 Thanks for Sharing = 89 The To Do List = 90 2 Guns = 91 We're the Millers = 92 Winter of Discontent/El sheita elli fat = 92 HOME CINEMA The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Bronte Sisters, Cloak and Dagger, The Damned, Pilms Starring Bette Davis, Deranged, The Driver, Help!, Hemingway & Gellhom, The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris, The Sun in a Net = 96 DVD features Peter William Evans welcomes two lesser- known Douglas Sirk melodramas = 94 M ichael Brooke on a rare appearance by Bill Douglas in front of the camera = 97 Television : Banshee, Jo, Z-Cars = 102 BOOKS Pamela Hutchinson enjoys a cool-headed appreciation of Gloria Swanson = 104 Bryony Dixon cheers on another step in the rehabilitation of Mary Bickford = 105 Jane Giles on a reappraisal of Written on the Wind = 106 Dan Callahan admires a Deleuze-inspiredtake on queer cinema = 106

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