Sight and Sound

Woman on the verge : Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night follows a factory worker’s attempts to save her job. The directors talk to Isabel Stevens about the creative benefits of not giving a damn = 64 REGULARS Editorial Eyes wide open = 5 Rushes Isabel Stevens on the work of German film poster designer Hans Hillmann = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on bones = 8 The five key... jewel thief movies = 9 Pasquale lannone on the TV version of Italian mafia saga Gomorrah = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on the non Western documentary film canon = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Hector and the Search for Happiness = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant reports on the surprise box-office success of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on the arthouse circuit outside the M25 = 17 Festivals James Bell visits Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival = 18 Neil Young reports from the boldly unorthodox FIDMarseille festival = 20 Wide Angle Jason Anderson on a defiant new crop of American independent filmmakers = 68 Soundings: Frances Morgan on the sonic terrain of the western = 70 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon on the German director Gerhard Lamprecht = 71 Melissa Gronlund explores the work of artist filmmaker Ed Atkins = 72 Letters = 127 Endings : Michael Brooke on The Thin Blue Line = 128 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Tall truths : What are the greatest documentaries ever made? We polled 340 critics, programmers and filmmakers in the search for authoritative answers. Nick Bradshaw introduces the results and we present the votes and thoughts of 100 of our respondents, including Joshua Oppenheimer, Walter Salles, Penny Woolcock, James Toback, Asif Kapadia and Paul Greengrass. PLUS Charlotte Cook on how documentary filmmakers have stepped in to fill the gap as traditional media shies away from investigative reporting in the internet age, and Robert Greene explores how the past 15 years have been a golden age for bold, adventurous documentary filmmaking. = 22 The dam busters : A trio of green activists find themselves in deep water after plotting to blow up a dam in Kelly Reichardt’s environmental thriller Night Moves. Nick James introduces the film, while Reichardt discusses the meaning of radicalism and the dangers of moral certainties with David Jenkins = 56 Poetry in motion : In 1963, as the auteurists were claiming ascendancy in the UK, critic Raymond Durgnat was swimming against the tide in the pages of Motion magazine, helping transform film culture with his far-sighted advocacy of films such as Peeping Tom and Black Sunday. By Henry K. Miller = 60 FILMS OF THE MONTH Lilting = 68 The Rover = 70 Wakolda = 72 FILMS All This Mayhem = 82 The Anomaly = 82 Art Party = 83 Blood Ties = 83 The Congress = 84 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes = 85 Delight = 86 Deliver Us from Evil = 86 Dinosaur 13 = 87 Finding Fela = 88 Goddess = 89 God Help the Girl = 89 God’s Pocket = 90 Goltzius and the Pelican Company = 91 The Grand Seduction = 92 A Haunted House 2 = 93 Heaven Is for Real = 93 Humshakals = 94 The Internet’s Own Boy = 94 The Keeper of Tost Causes = 94 Moehius = 95 Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie = 96 Mystery Road = 96 Night Moves = 98 The Notorious Mr. Bout = 9 999 Obvious Child = 99 The Police Officer’s Wife = 100 Pudsey the Dog The Movie = 101 The Purge Anarchy = 101 Seve = 102 Tammy = 102 Transformers Age of Extinction = 104 Two Days, One Night = 105 The Unbeatables = 106 Walking on Sunshine = 107 We Gotta Get Out of This Place = 107 Welcome to New York = 107 What If = 108 HOME CINEMA Birds, Orphans and Fools, Faust, Five Golden Dragons, Frau im Mond, Harold and Maude, The Chris Marker Collection, The Essential Jacques Tati Blu-Ray Collection, Too Fate Blues, I vinti, Zulu = 112 DVD features Trevor Johnston on John Guillermin’s wonderful coming-of-age tale Rapture = 110 Kim Newman sees previously unseen footage deepen the enigma of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks - The Entire Mystery = 113 Alexander Jacoby on Suzuki Seijun’s fresh blast of Japanese postmodernist cool, Branded to Kill = 114 Television : Colin’s Sandwich, The Irwin Allen Collection = 116 BOOKS Pamela Hutchinson on a fascinating look at the complex life of Hollywood star Ann Dvorak = 120 Jasper Sharp is impressed by two recent studies of Japanese cinema = 121 Nathalie Morris on a new study of costume and fashion in cinema = 122 Nick James on two beautiful booklets from Univocal Publishing = 122

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