Sight and Sound

The old and the new : Jia Zhangke’s Cannes prizewinner A Touch of Sin brings a touch of genre film-making to a daring anatomy of violence in present-day China. By Tony Rayns = 30 REGULARS Editorial : Yakety yak = Rushes In the Frame: Jonathan Romney looks forward to this year’s Cannes = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on mothers, children and shoes = 8 The Five Key...: films by musicians = 9 First Sight: Trevor Johnston meets Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins asks where the working-class filmmakers have gone = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on The Two Faces of January = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant traces he rise and rise of event cinema = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts gazes into the abyss left by Tessa Ross’s departure from Film4 = 16 Profile: Geoffrey Macnab on Zurich- based finance house Silver Reel = 19 Wide Angle Michael Temple previews an exhibition about the great French film archivist Henri Langlois = 52 Soundings: Frances Morgan tunes in to the music that made Robert Altman’s Nashville = 54 Primal Screen: David Cairns investigates a key year in Cecil B. DeMille’s illustrious career = 55 John Beagles enters the manic, accelerationist world of US filmmaker Ryan Trecartin = 56 Letters = 111 Endings : Neil Sinyard on Ace in the Hole = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Studio Ghibli special : The Wind Rises, a fictional biography of the designer of Japan’s famous Zero fighter plane, and the swansong of Japanese director Miyazaki Hayao, is a movie unlike any he has made and yet absolutely true to his preoccupations. By Nick Bradshaw PLUS Miyazaki’s supervising animation director and producer offer insights into working with the director, Helen McCarthy explores the influences on Miyazaki’s work, from Kurosawa and manga to Swallows and Amazons, and Jasper Sharp considers Japanese animators who might continue in Miyazaki’s great tradition = 20 Grand illusions: cinema of the Great War : Have the films addressing the slaughter of World War I done justice to its memory? By David Thomson = 36 Trouble every day : Amat Escalante’s unflinchingly brutal Heli reflects the director’s desire to bear witness to the violent reality of Mexico’s drug wars - but hope and humanity emerge from the gloom. By Jonathan Romney = 44 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Dario Argento : Once dubbed the ‘Italian Hitchcock’, the director tells Pasquale lannone about his youthful success as a film critic, his collaborations with Bertolucci and Leone, his debt to Antonioni and Lang, and his desire to keep experimenting = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Canyons = 60 Frank = 62 Transcendence = 64 FILMS Advanced Style = 66 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 = 66 American Interior = 67 Bad Neighbours = 68 Before the Winter Chill = 69 Believe = 69 Benny & Jolene = 70 Beyond the Edge = 72 Cheap Thrills = 72 Concussion = 73 The Dirties = 74 Fading Gigolo = 75 Heli = 75 In Bloom = 76 Legends of Oz Dorothy’s Return = 78 Next Goal Wins = 78 Noah = 79 Pantani The Accidental Death of a Cyclist = 80 Patema Inverted = 81 Pluto = 81 Pompeii = 82 Pulp A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets = 84 The Punk Singer = 85 Reaching for the Moon = 85 Rio 2 = 86 Run & Jump = 86 Sabotage = 87 Silent Sonata = 87 Stick Out Your Tongue = 88 Tarzan = 89 36 = 89 A Thousand Times Good Night = 90 A Touch of Sin = 91 The Two Faces of January = 92 Willow Creek = 92 The Wind Rises = 93 HOME CINEMA Ace in the Hole, The Big House, Celluloid Man, The Children’s Film Foundation Collection: Runaways, Fragments of Kubelka, The Garden of Words, Le mani sulla citta, Men in War, The People vs. Paul Crump, The Sicilian Clan, The War Lord,What Price Hollywood = 96 DVD features Kim Newman wallows in Donald Cammeirs post- Performance serial-killer drama White of the Eye = 94 Charlie Fox on Fassbinder’s feverish take on Jean Genet, Querelle = 97 Television : Airwolf Seasons 1-3,Banacek, The Professionals -MK1 = 100 Lost and Found : Philip Kemp admires Frank Borzage’s romantic ultra-noirMoonrise = 102 BOOKS David Thomson welcomes a study of Hollywood directors in World War II = 104 Pamela Hutchinson dips in to a previously unpublished Chaplin novella = 106 Andrew Osmond gets bogged down by a guide to late-career Miyazaki = 106 Philip French on the boost McCarthyism gave to European cinema = 107

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