Sight and Sound

Richard Linklater interview : The acclaimed director discusses his ‘indie epic’ Boyhood, which was filmed over 12 years in order to capture its protagonist from childhood through to college. Here he explains why the process of filmmaking is more important than the end result. Interview by Ryan Gilbey = 20 REGULARS Editorial : Godard for breakfast = 5 Rushes Sam Davies on Richard Lester’s A Hard Day's Night at 50 = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on the special place of trees in the movies = 8 The five key: films about photographers = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on the virtues of speed and creative urgency = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on David Gordon Green’s Joe = 12 The Numbers: Charles Gant reports on slow summer at the UK box office = 13 Brewster: Ben Roberts on the film industry’s ongoing issues with diversity = 14 Exhibition: Fatema Ahmed on the threat to two of London’s niche cinemas = 17 Festivals : Nick Bradshaw reports from Sheffield Doc/Fest = 18 Wide Angle Profile: Jasper Sharp on the distinctive voice of Kawase Naomi = 52 Soundings: Daniel Barrow on disco and Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble = 54 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson on a new online project about female silent film pioneers = 55 Festival: John Beagles reports from the Oberhausen short film festival = 56 Letters = 111 Endings : Pasquale lannone on the haunting finale of Elem Klimov’s Come and See = 112 FEATURES Sinister cinema : Gan small, apparently insignificant, details - such as whether a character is left-handed - affect how we read a film? By David Thomson = 26 The kill list : As action movies hit their stride in the 1980s, the biceps grew bigger and the body count rose. Then in the 90s, a more defined muscularity took hold, paving the way for today’s versatile action star -buff, tough and often just a little bit bland. By Nick Pinkerton = 30 Summer in the city : Twenty-five years on. Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing still resonates. Ashley Clark considers the film’s enduring power, while key figures from the film world explain its hold on their imaginations = 36 When the lights went out : At the outset of World War I, British cinemas offered an eclectic mix - a diversity reflected in the BFI’s archive compilation A Night at the Cinema in 1914. By Pamela Hutchinson = 40 DEEP FOCUS: The Fifth Generation : In the 1980s and 90s, Ghina’s convention- busting New Wave blazed on to the world stage. Michael Berry explores the evolution of the post-Mao ‘Fifth Generation’, while Nick James and James Bell outline their key films = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH Grand Central = 60 Jealousy = 62 Norte, the End of History = 64 FILMS Arthur & Mike =66 Begin Again =66 Blackwood =67 Boyhood =68 Bright Days Ahead =69 Earth to Echo =69 Edge of Tomorrow =70 Einding Vivian Maier =71 The Galapagos Affair Satan Came to Eden =71 Here and Now =72 Hide Your Smiling Eaces =73 The House of Magic =74 How to Train Your Dragon 2 =74 How We Used to Live =75 I Am Divine =75 Jersey Boys =76 Jimmy's Hall =76 Joe =77 Keeping Rosy =79 Love Me till Monday =79 Maleficent =80 A Million Ways to Die in the West =80 Mood Indigo =82 Mr Morgan's Last Love =83 Northwest =83 The Nut Job =84 A Perfect Plan =84 Postman Pat The Movie =85 A Promise =85 The Sacrament =86 Smart Ass =87 SuperMensch The Legend ofShep Gordon =87 22 Jump Street =88 Under the Rainbow 90 Who Is Dayani Cristal? =90 The Year and the Vineyard =92 HOME CINEMA Bang! You're Dead, Films by Leos Carax, Cry Danger, The Driver, Hobson's Choice, If..., An Inspector Calls, The Max Linder Collection, The Pawnbroker, The Road to Glory, The Shadow of the Cat, Sleepaway Camp, Unfaithfully Yours = 96 DVD features Kate Stables hails Preston Sturges’s Sullivan's Travels = 94 Geoffrey Macnab delves into Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble = 97 Kim Newman on Martin Sheen’s big-screen debut in Larry Peerce’s The Incident = 98 Television : The Count of Monte Cristo, Generation War = 100 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton explores the life of Edgar G. Ulmer, Hollywood hustler = 104 Hannah McGill grapples with the contradictions of Vanessa Redgrave = 105 Kim Newman welcomes a study of schlock producer Charles Band = 106 Charles Barr on the man who wrote Blackmail dead Poreign Correspondent = 106 Jonathan Rosenbaum relishes a jargon-free book about Histoire(s) du cinema = 107 Paul Tickell on a collection of French philosopher Alain Badiou’s writings = 107

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