Sight and Sound

Me, myself and him : A man is haunted by his doppelganger in Richard Ayoade’s Submarine iollow-wp, The Double, a black comedy of anxiety and paranoia, loosely adapted from Dostoevsky’s novella. By David Thompson = 38 REGULARS Editorial : Made in Britain = 5 Rushes Ben Walters greets the renamed BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on the erotic allure and implied danger of ankle bracelets = 8 The Five Key...: fictional European states = 9 First Sight: Jonathan Romney talks to French director Katell Quillévéré about her tale of two sisters, Suzanne = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins outlines his longstanding passion for the great Iranian director Mohammad- Ali Talebi = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant charts the web-to-screen odyssey of Svengali = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on selling Dallas Buyers Club = 14 Brewster: Ben Roberts investigates the future of gay film = 16 Festivals Nick James at the Berlinale = 18 Geoff Andrew offers his verdict on Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice = 20 Jonathan Romney meditates on Tsai Ming-liang’s latest minimalist marvel = 21 Wide Angle Jason Anderson on Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, Quebec’s v= rit= pioneers = 48 Sukhdev Sandhu looks at Bill Morrison’s film of the Great Mississippi Flood = 51 Soundings: Crystal Chan examines how Norman McLaren drew sounds = 52 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson on a predecessor to Nanook of the North = 53 John Beagles on the pathos of Mike - Michael Smith’s Reagan-era everyman = 55 Letters = 111 Endings : Danny Leigh on Scorsese’s After Hours = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Unearthly stranger : Jonathan Glazer’s extraordinary adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin is a collision between the surreal and the very real, as an extraterrestrial Scarlett Johansson tours the Scottish countryside in search of prey By Jonathan Romney PLUS composer Mica Levi on the film’s extraordinary score = 22 Between the walls : David Mackenzie’s savage prison drama Starred Up, about a violent young offender transferred to the same prison wing as his estranged father, is a high point in the career of one of Britain’s most undervalued directors. By Trevor Johnston = 28 Age of innocence : Ginema’s fascination with childhood is as old as the medium itself, enabling filmmakers to depart from conventional modes of storytelling to reflect the otherness of youthful experience. By Pasquale lannone. PLUS Mark Gousins on his documentary A Story of Children and Film = 32 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Jeremy Thomas : In the first half of a two-part interview, Nick James talks to the veteran producer of The Last Emperor dead Only Lovers Left Alive about growing up with his director father at the heart of the British film world of the 1950s and 60s, and how he progressed from the cutting room to shoot his first film = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Past/Le passé = 58 The Robber/Der Räuber = 60 Salvo = 62 The Unknown Known = 64 FILMS About Last Night = 66 Back to Front Peter Gabriel Live = 66 Back to the Garden = 67 BAFTA Shorts 2014 = 68 Betsy & Leonard = 69 Bette Bourne It Goes with the Shoes = 69 The Borderlands = 70 The Double = 70 8 Minutes Idle = 71 Endless Love = 72 The Fold = 72 G.B.E = 73 Half of a Yellow Sun = 74 Highway = 74 Honour = 75 I Declare War = 76 The Legend of Hercules = 76 The Lego Movie = 77 A Long Way Down = 77 The Machine = 78 The Monuments Men = 79 Mr. Peabody and Sherman = 80 My Stuff/Tavarataivas = 80 Need for Speed = 81 Paranoia = 81 Plot for Peace = 81 RoboCop = 81 The Rocket = 83 The Stag = 83 Starred Up = 84 A Story of Children and Film = 85 Suzanne = 86 Svengali = 87 Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy = 87 Tom at the Farm = 87 Under the Skin = 89 Unforgiven = 90 Visitors = 90 Winter's Tale = 91 The Zero Theorem = 92 HOME CINEMA The Big Melt, Classe tons risques, King of the Hill, Lubitsch in Berlin: Six Films by Ernst Luhitsch, 1918-1921, Films by Radley Metzger, Mouchette, Play It Cool, The Poirot Collection, The Agatha Christie Collection, Transportfrom Paradise, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: 50th Anniversary Edition, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? = 96 DVD features Nick Pinkerton on the Mann’s world of Thief = 94 Kim Newman on Don = 97Siegel’s 1964 The Killers = 97 Television : Bates Motel -Season 1, Colonel March Investigates, Parks and Recreation - Series 1-4 = 100 Lost and Found : Robert Hanks pleads the case for The Burglar = 102 BOOKS Jasper Sharp welcomes a history of Japanese anime = 104 Kim Newman on Pan’s Labyrinth in BFI Classics = 105 Dylan Cave revisits the lost world of hip-hop cinema = 106 Henry K. Miller dips into a study on modem visual culture and genocide = 106

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