Sight and Sound

REGULARS Editorial Goodbye Mr French = 5 Rushes Michael Brooke on an exhibition of the grotesque world of Jan Svankmajer = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill with a puff for balloons = 8 The Five Key. . American Civil War films = 9 Sam Davies meets the director of Sundance hit Cutie and the Boxer = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins is breathless in Telluride = 13 The Industiy Development Tale: Charles Gant on How I Live Now’s journey to the screen = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant examines the success of The Great Beauty = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on how to build a sustainable UK film industry = 16 Profile: Kieron Corless welcomes a new agency for artists working in film = 19 Festivals Nick James feels at home in Venice = 20 Gabe Klinger on the thrill of not reporting from Venice = 21 Wide Angle Jason Anderson at Toronto’s Wavelengths, a festival within a festival = 52 lain Sinclair hails low-budget existentialist Gary Walkow = 55 Soundings: Daniel Barrow on the alien worlds of Eduard Artemiev = 56 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon sees history repeat itself, every six seconds = 57 Artists’ Film and Video: Melissa Gronlund on Elizabeth Price = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : Philip Concannon on the surprise finale of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Shadowlands : Shapeshifting, all-devouring, steeped in blood - the influence of the gothic tradition now lurks in all comers of our culture, says Rhidian Davis on the eve of a major BFI season. PLUS Roger Corman on his cycle of films based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe = 24 The instability of truth : Clio Barnard brings a fresh sensibility to British Loachian social realism in The Selfish Giant The director talks to Kate Muir about art, inspiration, tmth and her teenage obsession with Mick Jagger = 32 The tragic mountain : The Epic of Everest, about Mallory and Irvine’s ill-fated 1924 ascent, was more than a record of a heroic failure, says Wade Davis: it set new standards for documentary film = 34 The history man : Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History gazes at Ferdinand Marcos’s legacy in the Philippines through a Dostoevskian lens. By Aaron Cutler = 38 DEEP FOCUS: The peak of silent cinema Ian Christie picks 15 key films from the highpoint of the silent era, the period 1926-30, when the form reached a zenith of poetic expression and subtlety before the coming of sound swept it all away = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Broken Circle Breakdown = 62 Captain Phillips = 64 Gloria = 66 Philomena = 68 FILMS The Blueblack Hussar = 70 Camp 14: Total Control Zone = 70 Closed Circuit = 71 Cold Comes the Night = 72 The Crash Reel = 72 Cutie and the Boxer = 73 Diana = 74 Drinking Buddies = 74 Enough Said = 75 The Fifth Estate = 75 Folie a deux: Madness Made of Two = 76 Last Passenger = 77 The Lebanese Rocket Society = 77 Like Father, like Son/Soshite chichi ni naru = 78 Love, Marilyn = 79 Machete Kills = 79 Mademoiselle C = 80 Morrissey 25; Live = 81 Muscle Shoals = 81 NFA = 82 9.79* = 82 The Nun/La Religieuse = 84 One Direction: This Is Us = 85 On Landguard Point = 86 Prince Avalanche = 86 Prisoners = 87 Project Wild Thing = 88 Riddick = 88 The Selfish Giant = 89 Short Term 12 = 90 The Taste of Money = 91 Turbo = 92 We Are What We Are = 92 Le Week-end = 93 Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington = 94 HOME CINEMA Betty Boop: The Essential Collection Vol 1, Body Double, Code Name Ruby, Early Fassbinder, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Final Programme, The Life ofOharu, Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa, Serpent's Path/Eyes of the Spider, Two Men in Manhattan, Van Gogh = 98 DVD features Kim Newman relishes a sumptuous transfer of Czech sci-fi IkarieXB 1 = 96 Bryony Dixon finds real treasures in a release of US films by the New Zealand Film Archive = 99 Television : Belfagor, Crocodile Shoes, Six Centuries of Verse = 102 BOOKS Ben Walters browses a pair of books about the witty and irascible Orson Welles = 104 Brian Dillon feels a collection of Derek Jarman’s sketchbooks could have offered more = 105 Owen Hatherley enjoys a journey into space with Patrick Keiller = 106 Tom Charity is fascinated by a study of The Searchers = 106

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