Sight and Sound

Blockage on the line : Despite Bong Joonho’s latest film Snowpiercer -proving a hit in France and Korea, English-speaking audiences won’t he able to see it for some time to come. By Tony Rayns = 38 REGULARS Editorial I lost it at the feelies = 5 Rushes Pamela Hutchinson celebrates the poker-faced genius of Buster Keaton = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill skirts around the topic = 8 The Five Key...: one-off films directed by actors = 9 Nick Bradshaw talks to Cambodian director Rithy Panh = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on the pornographic side of Blue Is the Warmest Colour and... Tom Hanks? = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant traces the secret history of The Secret Life of Walter Mitt}; = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Philomena and the Judi Dench effect = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts is diversifying = 16 Profile: Roberto Olla, head of the Eurimages co-production fund, talks to Geoffrey Macnab= 19 Wide Angle Olaf Möller on the Finnish author, documentary maker and national institution Peter von Bagh = 56 Soundings: Frances Morgan explores the cinematic legacy of riot grrrls = 58 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon revisits the ghosts of Christmas past = 59 John Beagles rediscovers the subversive wit of LA Chicano collective Asco = 60 Letters = 111 Endings : Christopher Frayling on Jack Clayton’s fight to preserve the ambiguity of The Innocents = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Computer love : Her, the story of the love between a man and a computer, feels like Spike Jonze’s most personal film yet. He talks to James Bell about alienation and romance in the age of smartphones and Jamba Juice = 20 Films of the year : The sheer number of films screening in 2013 might have made it harder than usual to predict a winner in our annual poll, but it has also meant the quality of those in the running has never been higher. Nick James introduces our annual survey, and we print a selection of responses from the more than 100 critics polled = 26 The old man and the sea : Robert Redford’s performance in J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost sees the actor turn his back on his screen persona to portray an ordinary man facing extraordinary challenges. By David Thomson = 42 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Alexander Payne : With his quirky, gently comic films, the director has shown a canny ability to walk the line between mainstream acceptance and indie credibility - and his latest, Nebraska, is no exception. By Neil McGlone = 46 'It was the opportunity of a lifetime’ : Bruce Dem, star of Nebraska, casts his mind back over 50-plus years in the fray. By Nick Pinkerton = 52 FILMS OF THE MONTH FULL the Void = 64 Her = 66 The Missing Picture = 68 FILMS All Is Lost = 70 Big Bad Wolves/Mi mefahed mezeev hara = 71 The Butler = 71 Carrie = 72 The Christmas Candle = 73 Exposed = 73 Fannp = 74 Floating Skyscrapers/Plynace wiezowce = 76 Flu/Gamgi = 77 Free Birds = 77 Frozen = 78 Homefront = 78 How to Make Money Selling Drugs = 79 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire = 79 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa = 80 Kill Your Darlings = 81 Klown/Klovn: The Movie = 82 Last Vegas = 82 Life ’s a Breeze = 83 A Long Way from Home = 84 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom = 84 Nebraska = 85 One Chance = 86 The Patience Stone = 87 Powder Room = 87 The Railway Man = 88 Rough Cut = 89 Scatter My Ashes atBergdorfs = 90 TamlaRose = 90 This AM California = 90 Thor: The Dark World = 91 Walesa: Man of Hope/Walesa, Czlowiekz nadziei = 92 HOME CINEMA The Beauty of the Devil; The Criminal Code; Dr Mabuse, Der Spieler; Gaslight; Films by Tobe Hooper; Le Joli mai; The Night of the Hunter; Nosferatu; The Uninvited; The White Dove/Josef Kilian = 96 DVD features Jonathan Rigby turns out the lights for 70s British TV’s take on the gothic = 94 Michael Brooke unearths a few gems in the World Cinema Project Volume 1 = 97 Nick Pinkerton finds John Ford was so much more than a director of westerns 100 Television : Broadchurch, A Different World/ Messenger from Poland, Wonderfalls = 102 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton admires The Wes Anderson Collection = 104 Kim Newman enjoys yet another retelling of the life of Roger Gorman = 105 Michael Brooke on Aleksandar Petrovic = 106 Nick James salutes critic Geoffrey O’Brien = 106 Philip Kemp assesses the legacy of William Wyler = 106

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