Sight and Sound

Slave to the rythm : Whiplash follows the battles between a young would-be jazz drummer and his sadistic music teacher. Nick James takes five perspective on the film and talks to director Damien Chazelle = 24 REGULARS Editorial : Wishful thinking = 5 Rushes Lucy Porter on the joys of women in silent comedy = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill goes bananas = 8 The Five Key…: teacher-pupil films = 9 Mar Diestro-Dópido meets Mariana Rondón, director of Pelo malo = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins squares up to François Truffaut, the young critic = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant ventures Into the Woods = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the UK box office in 2014 = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on investing in the audiences of the future = 16 Festivals : Nick Bradshaw at Amsterdam’s International Documentary Festival = 17 Wide Angle Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin present a Chantal Akerman primer = 54 Soundings: Geeta Dayal on Louis and Beve Barron’s groundbreaking score for Forbidden Planet = 58 Primal Screen: Oliver Gaycken on rediscovering a lost fragment of early cinema – Cheese Mites = 59 Letter = 111 Endings : Trevor Johnston on Michael Curtiz’s The Breaking Point = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Strange daze : In Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, Joaquin Phoenix plays a stoner detective in a Californian hippie culture soured after the Manson killings. Jonathan Romney tunes in to the film and talks to the director = 18 The double life of Eric Rohmer : The pseudonym adopted by Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer was just one of the ways the director ensured his public and private lives were strictly separated. By Geoff Andrew = 28 Wresting with demons : Bennett Miller’s true-life tale Foxcatcher is a troubling examination of class and male pride in America. By Same Davies = 34 Mike Nichols on assignment : The late director joins a formidable list of professional filmmakers celebrated for their versatility. By David Thomson = 38 Oil City confidential : J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year is far more than a generic gangster picture. By Trevor Johnston = 44 THE S&S INTERVIEW: Frederick Wiseman : As Nationality Gallery is released, the veteran documentary filmmaker explains the golden rule of filming. By David Jenkins = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH American Sniper = 62 Ex Machina = 64 The Last of the Unjust = 66 FILMS Annie = 68 Beyond Clueless = 68 Big Eyes = 69 Big Hero 6 = 69 Exodus: Gods and Kings = 70 Foxcatcher = 71 The Gambler = 71 Get Santa = 72 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies = 72 I Am Yours = 73 Inherent Vice = 74 Into the Woods = 75 Kajaki: The True Story = 75 La Maison de la radio = 76 Montana = 77 A Most Violent Year = 77 National Gallery = 78 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb = 80 Paddington = 81 Paper Souls = 82 Pelo malo = 82 Penguins of Madagascar = 83 Point and Shoot = 84 The Pyramid = 84 The Rendlesham UFO Incident = 84 Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno = 85 Selma = 85 Son of a Gun = 86 A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story = 87 Testament of Youth = 87 Trash = 88 The Turning = 89 Unbroken = 90 We Still Kill the Old Way = 91 Whiplash = 91 Wild = 93 HOME CINEMA Boy Meets Girl; Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; The Freshman; The Girl Who Knew Too Much; Jigsaw; The Killing Fields; Films by Mitchell Leisen and Preston Sturges; The Man Who Played God; The Hayao Miyazaki Collection; The Naked City; The Protagonists; Sidewalk Stories; Spione = 96 DVD features Nick Pinkerton on the joyous films of Les Blank = 94 Pamela Hutchinson on D.W. Griffith’s unapologetic Intolerance = 97 Television : Nice Work, Out of This World = 100 Lost and Found: Kim Morgan on Wicked Woman = 102 BOOKS Mark Cousins eats Werner Herzog’s words = 104 Vic Pratt enjoys the BFI Film Classic on Quatermass and the Pit = 105 Kim Newman thinks a reappraisal of Tod Browning’s Dracula wins the argument = 106 Catherine Wheatley on a new collection of essays devoted to Eric Rohmer = 106

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