Sight and Sound

Conversation piece : Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep is a claustrophobic, psychologically acute chamber drama with echoes of Chekhov, Bergman and Shakespeare. By Geoff Andrew = 30 REGULARS Editorial All year red carpet = 5 Rushes David Cairns on Jacques Tati, urban planner = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill drops a bomb = 5 The Five Key...: whistleblower films = 9 Interview: Trevor Johnston talks to Craig Johnson, writer-director of the dark comedy drama The Skeleton Twins = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins suggests a typically idiosyncratic new curriculum for film schools = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on keeping Paddington on track = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Ida and the logic of September releases in the UK = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts meets the inspirational US director Ira Sachs = 16 Wide Angle Kieron Corless meets artist-director Omer Fast on the set of his adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s cult novel Remainder = 50 Soundings: Frances Morgan on the astonishing sounds of Uzbek film 40 Days of Silence = 52 Primal Screen: John Oliver on fantastic invasions before World War I = 53 Festival: Jason Anderson at Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths strand = 54 Letters = 111 Endings : Charlie Fox on Pierrot lefou = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Intelligent design - the creation of 2001: A Space Odyssey : The full story of how Stanley Kubrick mounted his ‘definitive attempt’ at the science-fiction film, including previously unpublished sketches by his production designer Harry Lange. By Christopher Frayling. PLUS, from the archives, David Robinson visits the set of the film = 18 Here be monsters :Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s tense drama about a man struggling to save his home from a corrupt mayor, offers a savage portrait of modem Russia. By Ian Christie = 26 Watching the river flow : It’s impossible to watch an old-fashioned western with the same eyes as in, say, the late 40s, but their influence still colours the way we receive modern counterparts like TheHomesman By David Thomson = 36 Dreams of a life : Steve James’s Life Itself is an infectiously warm documentary about the career of US film critic Roger Ebert. By Nick Bradshaw = 40 Holy motors : Stations of the Cross, Dietrich Briiggemann’s exploration of a teenage girl’s growing religious fanaticism, joins a string of films looking at the role of Christianity in the modem world. By Catherine Wheatley = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH Concerning Violence = 58 The Homesman = 60 Sacro GRA = 62 FILMS Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day = 64 Annabelle = 64 Bang Bang! = 65 Björk: Biophilia Live = 65 BlackButler = 66 The Book of Life = 66 The Case Against 8 = 67 Citizenfour = 68 Dracula Untold = 69 The Drop = 69 Fury = 70 Giovanni's Island = 71 Going Away = 72 The Great Museum = 73 Haider = 73 Hockney = 74 Honeymoon = 75 I AmAli = 75 The Imitation Game = 76 Leviathan = 77 Life Itself = 78 Luna = 80 Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy. = 80 My Old Lady = 81 The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman = 82 Night Train to Lisbon = 83 No Good Deed = 83 The November Man = 84 The Possibilities Are Endless 86 The Remaining = 84 The Rewrite = 86 Say When = 87 Serena = 88 Set Fire to the Stars = 88 The Skeleton Twins = 89 Stations of the Cross = 90 Third Person = 91 This Is Where I Leave You = 91 What We Do in the Shadows = 92 Winter Sleep = 93 HOME CINEMA Films by Frank Borzage, Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, The Clowns, The Death Kiss, Fedora, Iguana, Le jour se leve. The Mack Sennett Collection Volume i. Shivers, Sofia's Last Ambulance, Youth of the Beast = 96 DVD features Kim Newman enjoys the surreal charm of Walerian Borowczyk’s films = 94 Nick Bradshaw on A Jester's Talehy the Czech master of fantasy Karel Zeman = 97 Lost and Found: Simon McCallum believes Elizabeth Taylor gave her boldest performance in The Driver's Seat (aka Identikit) = 102 Television : Fargo, The History Man = 100 BOOKS Tony Rayns welcomes an anthology of the great film critic Raymond Durgnat = 104 Nick Pinkerton celebrates the writings of filmmaker and teacher George Kuchar = 105 Nathalie Morris takes a visit to Gainsborough Studio in the silent era = 106 Sukhdev Sandhu joins Iain Sinclair’s 70th birthday celebrations = 106

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