Sight and Sound

Life in a day : 20,000 Days on Earth presents an inventive docufiction portrait of 24 hours in the life of Nick Cave, merging archive footage, live performance and dream sequences. By Thirza Wakefield = 26 REGULARS Editorial Gimme shelter = 5 Rushes Isabel Stevens previews this autumn’s London Film Festival = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on cinema’s disembodied hands = 8 The five key: Francesco Rosi films = 9 Ehsan Khoshbakht on Mohammad Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don't Bum = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins salutes Michael Moore’s documentary festival = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant outlines the production history of Pride = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant figures out the value of music event cinema = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on Film4 in the wake of the success of The Inbetweeners 2 = 16 Obituaries Adam Nayman celebrates Direct Cinema pioneer Robert Drew = 18 Nicole Brenez on Harun Farocki = 19 Wide Angle Aaron Cutler explores the work of Brazil’s Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias = 50 Soundings: Daniel Barrow on the uses and abuses of jazz in the movies = 52 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon investigates film piracy in the silent era = 53 Festival: Isabel Stevens reports from this year’s Locarno film festival = 54 Forum : Letters = 111 Endings : Jasper Sharp on The Ballad of Narapama = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Love is the devil : David Fincher’s big-screen version of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel Gone Girl explores the dark secrets at the heart of a dysfunctional marriage. Here the director discusses the slippery art of manipulating expectations of innocence and guilt. By Nick James = 20 Slim pickings : For all of the generous obituaries that accompanied Lauren Bacall’s recent death, her status as a Hollywood legend is actually built on just two films - To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep. By David Thomson = 32 The outsider : Pawel Pawlikowski’s films have always shown an affinity for outsiders - and his latest, Ida, a drama examining post-WWII Poland, is no exception. By Michael Brooke = 36 THE ACTORS: Making faces : Peter Lorre’s role in Fritz Lang’s Mmarked him out as one of the greats, but also led him to be typecast ever after playing sadists and melancholy psychopaths. By Philip Kemp = 40 Ghost world : David Cronenberg’s vicious Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars is powered by a blistering performance by Julianne Moore. Here the director explains why Tinseltown finds it so hard to escape the spectres of its past. By Nick James = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH At Berkeley = 58 Pride = 60 A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness = 62 FILMS All Cheerleaders Die = 64 Alleluia = 64 Attila Marcel = 65 Ballet Boys = 66 The Expendables 3 = 66 Get On Up = 67 Grand Piano = 67 Guardians of the Galaxy = 68 The Guest = 69 The Guvnors = 70 Hector and the Search for Happiness = 70 Hercules = 71 The Hundredfoot Journey = 71 Ida = 72 The Inbetweeners 2 = 74 In Order of Disappearance = 75 Into the Storm = 75 I Origins = 76 The Last Impresario = 76 Let's Be Cops = 77 Life of Crime = 78 Lucy = 78 Magic in the Moonlight = 79 Maps to the Stars = 80 Million Dollar Arm = 81 A Most Wanted Man = 81 Night WUl Fall = 82 Palo Alto = 83 Planes Fire & Rescue = 83 Salome = 84 Sex Tape = 84 Step Up All In = 86 They Came Together = 86 Think Like a Man Too = 87 20,000 Days on Earth = 87 A Walk Among the Tombstones = 88 Watermark = 89 What We Did on Our Holiday = 90 Wilde Salome = 91 Wish I Was Here = 91 You and the Night = 92 HOME CINEMA Films starring Charles Bronson, Caught, Favorites of the Moon, Hearts and Minds, House of Bamboo, Madame Dubarry, The North Star/Armored Attack!, The Roots of Heaven, Stranger on the Prowl, Films by Frangois Truffaut, We're in the Movies: Palace ofSilents & Itinerant Filmmaking = 96 DVD features Michael Brooke settles down with The Werner Herzog Collection = 94 Nick Pinkerton explores The Essential Jacques Demy = 97 Rob Young revisits a classic of 1970s British children’s television, The Changes = 98 Television : The Boyfrom Space, Z Cars: Collection Two = 102 Lost and Found : Nick Wrigley on Road, Alan Clarke’s furious 1987 missive from the tom heart of Thatcher’s Britain = 103 BOOKS Philip French enjoys an overdue appraisal of the work of Fred Zinnemann = 104 Nick Pinkerton on a lively and thought-provoking study of star appeal = 105 Nick Wrigley unpacks the monolith that is Taschen’s tome on Kubrick’s 2001 : A Space Odyssey = 106

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