Sight and Sound

Birth of a salesman : For all its echoes of his previous work, Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street sees the director expand his range, and capture the American Zeitgeist as strongly as Goodfellas. By Ian Christie = 40 REGULARS Editorial On the aftermath of polls = 5 Rushes Richard Williams on Miles Davis’s score for Louis Malle’s Lift to the Scaffold = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on period dramas = 8 The Five Key...: A 1 Pacino performances = 9 Trevor Johnston talks to superfly guy Eric Steel = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins has no worries about being critical = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Dallas Buyers Club = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on a lean year for foreign film = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts has some friendly advice for the Bifas = 16 Profile: Nick Roddick meets Alejandro Ramírez Magaña of Mexico’s global cinema chain Cinepolis = 19 Festivals Nick Bradshaw on the world’s largest doc festival, Amsterdam’s IDEA = 20 Isabel Stevens revels in the spirit of innovation at Copenhagen’s CPH: DOX = 21 Wide Angie Aaron Cutler on Júlio Bressane’s cinema of the subconscious = 56 Artists’ Moving Image: Charlie Fox enters the queasily playful world of Emily Wardill = 58 Primal Screen: David Robinson hails Chaplin, supertramp = 59 Michael Pattison at the Seville European Eilm Eestival = 60 1 Soundings: Frances Morgan on Lizzie Borden’s Bom in Flames = 61 Letters = 111 Endings : Kim Newman explodes Kiss Me Deadly = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Inside the wheel : The Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis follows a folk-singing protagonist trying to hang tough in the face of despair in the early 1960s. By Nick James PLUS Frances Morgan talks to music producer T Bone Burnett about recreating the world of Greenwich Village through song = 22 A history of violence : In 12 Years a Slave, the true story of a black man forced into slavery in America’s Deep South, Steve McQueen puts into practice his belief that ‘if you don’t see it visually, mentally, psychologically, physically, then there’s no picture’. By Jonathan Romney = 28 Street legal : The shabby, mumbling insomniac of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye is one of the more memorable cinematic incarnations of Marlowe to walk Chandler’s mean streets. By Kim Newman = 34 Shooting the past : In Journal de France the great French photographer and documentarist Raymond Depardon tours Erance in a camper van, while looking back at half a century spent observing the world. By Kieron Corless = 38 Revolution in design : Though Soviet art is often dismissed as dreary propagandist kitsch, in the 1920s Russian designers revolutionised the art of the film poster, bringing new techniques and a dizzying dynamism to the form. By Isabel Stevens = 46 THE S&S INTERVIEW: George A. Romero : As his classic Creepshow is rereleased on Blu-ray, the king of the zombies recalls a life spent among the undead. By James Blackford = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH American Hustle = 64 Dallas Buyers Club = 66 The Invisible Woman = 68 Teenage = 70 FILMS After Tiller = 72 Age of Uprising/Michael Kohlhaas = 72 Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues = 73 The Armstrong Lie = 74 August: Osage County = 75 The Best Man Holiday = 76 BlackNativity = 76 The Book Thief = 77 BullettRaja = 78 Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012 = 78 Delivery Man = 79 Getaway = 80 The Hobbit: The Desolation ofSmaug = 80 Inside Llewyn Davis = 81 Journal de France = 82 Killing Oswald = 83 Kiss the Water = 84 Labor Day = 84 Lone Survivor = 85 Moon Man/Der Mondmann = 86 Moshi Monsters: The Movie = 86 Oldboy = 88 Out of the Furnace = 89 The Patrol = 89 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty = 90 12 Years a Slave = 91 The Wolf of Wall Street = 92 HOME CINEMA Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room, Bus Stop, Creepshow, Dark Days, Far From Vietnam, Fireworks Wednesday, Guest Wife, Intolerance, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Land of Hope, The Phantom of the Opera, Weekend of a Champion = 96 DVD features Geoff Andrew is astonished by the range of The Complete Eric Rohmer = 94 Pamela Hutchinson on the majestic flight scenes in William Wellman’s Wings = 97 Television : An Age of Kings, The Following -Season 1, Spyship = 100 Lost and found : Charlie Fox on the forgotten youth of Reagan- era America in Streetwise = 102 BOOKS Michael Brooke enjoys a study of Joe Dante’s career = 104 Henry K. Miller on Mark Kermode’s Hatchet Job = 105 Jonathan Romney gets lost in a study of Kubrick’s The Shining = 106 Philip Kemp admires Christopher Frayling’s monograph on The Innocents= 106

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