Sight and Sound

REGULARS Editorial Lost for words = 5 Rushes Nathalie Morris on an exhibition exploring the style of The Innocents = 6 Catherine Bray welcomes the BFI Player = 9 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill is bowled over = 10 The Five Key...: lesbian dramas = 11 Richard Deming on Welles’s rediscovered Too Much Johnson = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins has all the answers - it’s the questions he doesn’t like = 15 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Saving Mr. Banks = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the return of Woody Allen = 17 Brewster: Ben Roberts on funding children’s films = 18 Profile: Geoffrey Macnab meets Lars Jönsson, producer of Lukas Moodysson = 21 Festivals : Demetrios Matheou in San Sebastián = 23 Wide Angle Ben Walters meets Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues = 52 Soundings: Frances Morgan on An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge = 54 Primal Screen: Geoff Brown at Pordenone’s silent film festival = 55 Sukhdev Sandhu hails an extraordinary film inspired by the Swiss novelist Robert Walser = 56 Ben Walters reports from Queer Lisboa = 57 Letters = 111 Endings : Ashley Clark on Horace Ové’s Pressure = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Space is the place : Grayz^ tries to depict the actual dangers of spaceflight. Roger Luckhurst looks at the surprisingly narrow gap between the cinematic fantasy of life beyond Earth and the chilly reality. PLUS Director Alfonso Cuaron and visual effects supervisor Tim Webber on the challenge of creating zero gravity in the studio = 24 Fight fire with fire : Czech and Slovak filmmakers have struggled to capture the reality of ‘normalisation’ - the repression that followed the Prague Spring. Now, says Peter Names, a Pole, Agnieszka Holland, has succeeded = 32 Past masters : When it comes to 80s period authenticity, Andrew Bujalski’s Computer ChesshdiS got it taped, thanks to the magic of old-fashioned video technology. Calum Marsh asks what the return of analogue means = 34 Women in love : Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest ColourhdiS caused no small amount of controversy since winning the Palme d’Or in Cannes, not least for the perceived male slant to its depiction of a lesbian love affair. Jonathan Romney considers the film and talks to the director = 34 All at sea : An abstract painting set to a musique concrete soundtrdick, an ocean-going LeSang des bites, a Mobp-Dickior trawlermen - Leviathan is both a documentary about the fishing industry, and something far more rich and strange. By Trevor Johnston = 34 Love for sale : Frangois Ozon’s latest film, Jeune & jolie, is a cool, provocative blend of teen coming-of- age drama and Belle de jour, overlaid with a Frangoise Hardy soundtrack. The director talks to Nick Roddick about sex, money and the modern teenager = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH Blue Is the Warmest Colour/La Vie d’Adele Chapitres 1 et 2 = 60 Child’s Pose/Pozitia copilului = 62 The Counsellor = 64 Jeune & jolie = 66 FILMS Baggage Claim = 68 Battle of the Year = 68 Breakfast with Jonnp Wilkinson = 69 Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman = 69 Cloudp with a Chance of Meatballs 2 = 69 Computer Chess = 70 Dap of the Flowers = 71 Dirtp Wars = 71 DomHemingwap = 72 Don Jon = 72 Either Wap/A annan veg = 73 Ender’s Game = 74 Escape Plan = 74 The Familp/Malavita = 75 Future Mp Love = 76 Gravitp = 76 The Haunting in Connecticut 2 : Ghosts of Georgia = 77 How to Survive a Plague = 78 In Fear = 78 Leviathan = 79 Love Tomorrow = 80 Marius = 81 Metallica Through the Never = 81 Milius = 82 Pandora’s Promise = 84 Parkland = 84 Romeo & Juliet = 85 RunnerRunner = 86 Rurouni Kenshin = 86 Saving Mr. Banks = 87 Seduced and Abandoned Seduits et abandonnes = 88 Sunshine on Leith = 88 Utopia = 89 uwantme 2 killhim? = 89 V/H/S/2 = 90 iVivan las antípodas! = 91 Who Needs Enemies = 91 WolfChildren = 92 HOME CINEMA Barbara Broadcast, Bullfighter and the Ladp, Camille redouble, Children’s Film Foundation Collection: Scarp Stories, TheMummp, La notte. Red River, Streets of Fire, Take it or Leave it. Time Bandits, The Witches = 96 DVD features Nick Pinkerton celebrates a trio of Rossellini films starring Ingrid Bergman = 94 Charlie Fox is mesmerised by the cerebral, dreamy Riddles of the Sphinx = 97 Mark Duguid revisits a classic series of British television plays = 100 Television : Portlandia- Seasons 1 & 2 , Selling Hitler, Young Montalbano- Collection 1 = 102 Lost and found : Austin Collings on Australian psycho-family psychodrama The Bops = 103 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton on a life of Richard Pryor = 104 Kim Newman is mildly thrilled by a collection of essays on the 1930s horror movie = 105 Sukhdev Sandhu on UK film collectives of the 1970s = 106 Michael Brooke welcomes the first English-language study of Sergei Parajanov = 106

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