Sight and Sound

Of human bondage : Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy combines sadomasochism, lesbianism and entomology with the cosy domesticity of Terry and June. By Demetrios Matheou = 44 REGULARS Editorial : Spoiling point = 5 Rushes Dan Callahan on Katharine Hepburn’s path to The Philadelphia Story = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill gets with the beat = 8 The Five Key…: opera films = 9 Sam Davies talks to James Ward Byrkit about his directorial debut Coherence = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins puts a classic into context = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant relates the struggles behind Still Alice = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant examines Oscar nominees at the box office = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on the challenges of creating hit family films = 17 Festivals : Vadim Rizov reports from Sundance = 19 Wide Anlge Isabel Stevens talks to John Akomfrah about the riches of the Arts Council’s little-seen film archive = 54 Soundings: Frances Morgan revisits Jodorowsky’s extraordinary music = 56 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon heads south for a silent screening = 57 Neil Young reports from Belgrade’s Alternative Film/Video Festival = 58 Adam Nayman immerses himself in the dream worlds of Josephine Decker = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : Imogen Sara Smith on In a Lonely Place = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Walk with me : In keeping its focus on one of the key chapters of the Civil Rights Movement, Ava Su Vernay’s Selma avoids the pitfalls of the biopic and succeeds in portraying Marin Luther King with a rare intimacy. Here, the director talks to Miriam Bale PLUS Ashley Clark looks at the history of the US Civil Rights Movement on film = 20 Different drums : Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan, about the anti-government protest in Kiev’s central square in the winter of the 2013-14, is the latest in a worldwide upsurge in films documenting dissent. By Nick Bradshaw = 26 Small is dutiful : In Amour fou Jesscia Hausner has made a quiet film that revolves around a silent, passive woman. But the passivity and formality conceal a deeply unconventional sprit. By Catherine Wheatley = 30 Tainted love : A nightmare from David Robert Mitchell’s childhood inspired the menace in his ethereal horror film It Follows, which triumphs in its refusal to be constrained by genre expectations. By Michael Blyth = 34 Bad cop : In his ultra-brutal Hyena, Gerard Johnson dodges the clichés of the modern London crime film, harking back to Cassavetes and Jean-Pierre Melville. By Trevor Johnston = 36 New York stories : Ira Sach’s Love Is Strange offers a gentle character study of a gay couple whose lives are to get married. By Keith Uhlich PLUS Ben Walters on the welcome recent increase in films about older LGBT people = 40 Obituaries : Bob Mastrangelo’s roll-call of the key figures in film who departed in 2014 = 48 FILMS OF THE MOTNH Blackhat = 62 Dreamcatcher = 64 White Bird in a Blizzard = 66 FILMS Amour fou = 68 Appropriate Behaviour = 69 Bill = 69 Cake = 70 Catch Me Daddy = 71 Coherence = 71 Dancing in Jaffa = 72 A Dark Reflection = 73 Down Dog = 73 The Duke of Burgundy = 74 Dying of the Light = 75 Goodbye to Language = 75 Hinterland = 76 Hyena = 77 It Follows = 77 Kill the Messenger = 78 Kingsman: The Secret Service = 79 Kumiko the Treasure Hunter = 80 Life of Riley = 81 Love Is All = 82 Love Is Strange = 82 Maidan = 83 Mortdecai = 84 No Manifesto = 85 PK = 86 Predestination = 86 Shaun the Sheep: The Movie = 87 Snow in Paradise = 88 The Snow Queen: Magic of the Ice Mirror = 88 Still Alice = 89 Sill Life = 89 Stones for the Rampart = 90 Taken 3 = 91 Tinkerbell and the Legend of the NeverBeast = 91 Two Night Stand = 91 The Wedding Ringer = 92 White God = 92 HOME CINEMA Ganja & Hess, I’m All Right Jack, Independencia, Kinetta, Les Misérables, Nekromantik, The Other, Films Starring Burt Reynolds, Safe, Tootsie, Two for the Road = 96 DVD features Tony Rayns salutes Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations = 94 Henry K. Miller on the underrated virtues of The Good Wife = 97 Television : Game of Thrones Season 4, In Search of the Dark Ages = 100 Lost and Found : Noel Hess unearths Tony Richardson’s version of Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark = 102 BOOKS David Thomson on the amazing but not always amusing career of Bob Hope = 104 Barry Keith Grant reviews an impassioned tribute to sci-fi classic Silent Running = 106 Scott Anthony considers John Grierson’s place in the history of documentary film = 106 Pamela Hutchinson is captivated by a new biography of silent film visionary Rex Ingram = 107 David Thompson on a celebration of the life of Robert Altman = 107

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