Sight and Sound

Deep Focus: Birth of the Method : Foster Hirsch on the history of the revolution in American acting. PLUS James Bell introduces 12 ‘Method’ classics in our accompanying film season, and Clyde Jeavons explores the neglected career of jack Garfein, a key figure at the Actors Studio = 44 REGULARS Editorial : The equalizers = 5 Rushes Peter Labuza takes the pulse on Steven Soderbergh’s medico-historical TV drama The Knick = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill roller-skates into action = 8 The Five Key…: black film posters = 9 Interview: Adam Nayman meets Yann Demange, the director of thriller ’71 = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins leaps to the defence of Lauren Becall = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant charts the trials of Effie Gray = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Two Days, One Night and arthouse VOD = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts gets animated = 16 Profile: Nick Bradshaw talks to fashion designer turned director agnès b. = 19 Wide Angle Olaf Möller puts the case for Crazed Fruit director Nakahira Ko being more than a one-hit wonder = 54 Soundings: Jonathan Romney revisits Mihály Víg’s soundworlds for Béla Tarr = 56 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon looks back at a trio of films about World War I = 57 Sukhdev Sandhu on the anarchist cinema of Adam Kossoff = 58 James Boaden swoons over Gregory J. Markopoulos’s exquisite films = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : Nick Pinkerton on Zabriskie Point = 112 FEATURES FESTIVALS Venice: that sinking feeling : Is Venice starting to lose its way in a crowded festival circuit, asks Nick James = 20 Toronto: steel behind the sheen : Ashley Clark watches the Canadian festival flex its muscles over its competitors = 23 COVER FEATURE : A dab hand : Mike Leigh´s Mr. Turner painstakingly recreates the world of the Romantic landscape painter to illuminate the artist´s creative process. The director talks to Isabel stevens PLUS Michael Brooke looks back at the wide canvas of films about artists = 26 SCI-FI: DAYS OF FEAR AND WONDER Darwin´s nightmares : The insidious altered states and transformations that abound in sci-fi cinema owe their genesis to the great evolutionary biologist, and each new milestone in Darwinian theory, from ‘The Selfish Gene’ to the Human Genome Project, provides fresh material for sci-fi filmmakers. By Roger Luckhurst = 34 The future is here : While much big-screen sci-fi relies on splashy effects, plenty of less ostentatious films have made a virtue of low budgets – by using the viewer´s imagination to fill in the gaps, or by letting a dystopian vision of the present stand in for the future. By Jonathan Rosenbaum = 40 FILMS OF THE MONTH Gone Girl = 62 Nightcrawler = 64 ’71 = 66 FILMS As Above/So Below = 68 The Babadook = 68 Before I Go to Sleep = 69 The Boxtrolls = 69 The Calling = 69 Cathedrals of Culture = 70 A Dangerous Game = 71 Dolphin Tale 2 = 71 Draft Day = 72 Effie Gray = 72 The Equalizer = 73 Finding Fanny = 74 The Giver = 74 Gone Too Far! = 75 Human Capital = 75 If I Stay = 76 Jack to a King: The Swansea Story = 77 Jimi: All Is by My Side = 77 The Judge = 78 The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq = 79 The Knife That Killed Me = 80 Life After Beth = 80 Love, Rosie = 81 Manuscripts Don’t Burn = 81 The Maze Runner = 82 Mr. Turner = 82 My Name Is Hmmm… = 84 The Overnighters = 86 The Riot Club = 87 Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For = 88 Soul Boys of the Western World = 89 Still the Enemy Within = 89 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles = 90 Time Is Illmatic = 90 Tony Benn: Will and Testament = 91 United We Fall = 92 Violette = 92 The Way He Looks = 93 White Settlers = 94 WolfCop = 94 HOME CINEMA The ’Burbs, Castaway, A Farewell to Arms, The Gang’s All Here, Juggernaut, Macbeth, The Medusa Touch, Outer Space: Three Cosmic Tales from the Children´s Film Foundation, The Party, Providence, The Shout, Twins of Evil = 98 DVD features Kim Newman is over the moon about the BBC sci-fi anthology Out of the Unknown = 96 Lost and Found: Graham Fuller enjoys the depth in 1920s submarine drama Mare Nostrum = 102 Television : Red Shift, Sgt. Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show – The Complete Collection = 100 BOOKS James Udden welcomes an essential primer on the history of Chinese cinema = 104 Brad Stevens admires the BFI Classics take on Marnie = 105 Philip Kemp on a memoir by Bobby Henrey, child star of The Fallen Idol = 106 Philip Concannon is impressed by David Cronenberg’s first novel = 106 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith celebrates the writings of the critic Richard Roud = 107

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