Sight and Sound

Anatomy of Hell : John Huston’s The Misfits shows the essential incompatibility of two people striving to be together when what they really want is to be alone. By Peter Tonguette = 44 REGULARS Editorial : Medium raw = 5 Rushes Michael Brooke is fired by Cannon = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill opens the ballot box = 8 The Five Key…: Sherlock Holmeses = 9 Interview: Kieron Corless meets Thomas Cailley, director of existential = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins gets lost in the forest = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Slow West = 12 The Numbers: Charles Gant in an overcrowded marketplace = 13 Brewster: Ben Roberts surveys the new landscape of co-production = 15 Festivals : Tony Rayns reports from the Hong Kong International Film Festival = 17 Wide Angle Julian Ross on the films of Yoko Ono = 54 Soundings: Frances Morgan watches Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart on tour = 56 Primal Screen: Geoff Brown rediscovers the joys of nitrate = 57 Festival: Andréa Picard visits the Oberhausen Short Film Festival = 58 Sukhdev Sandhu hails the rediscovery of Iranian director Parviz Kimiavi = 59 Letter = 111 Endings : Farran Smith Nehme on Red River = 112 FEATURES Cannes: hunting season : This year’s festival saw thoroughly deserving prize-winners in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s wuxia tale The Assassin and László Nemes’s Holocaust drama Son of Saul, but the Competition as a whole was a rather lackluster affair, arguably overshadowed by the strength and invention of Directors’ Fortnight. By Nick James and Isabel Stevens = 18 COVER FEATURE Rare genius: the other side of Orson Welles : With all that has been written about Welles – born 100 years ago – it might feel as if there’s nothing new to say. But the restless polymath left such a vast body of work it’s still possible to find underappreciated gems – from his first professional film outing, Too Much Johnson, to a 1950s TV travelogue series to his late unfinishes opus The Other Side of the Wind. By Ben Walters = 26 Lost soul : Amy, Asif Kapadia’s heartbreaking documentary about Amy Winehouse, employs a similar style to Senna, his 2010 portrait of racing legend Ayrton Senna, to present a complex picture of someone more canny and more intimidated than we could ever have imagined. By Nick James = 34 The atrocity exhibition : While Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing explores the savagery of the Indonesian massacres of 1965-66 from the perspective of its perpetrators, his new documentary The Look of Silence examines the experience of its victims. By Nick Bradshaw PLUS Brian Winston on why claims about the ability of documentaries to effect social change don’t stand up = 38 THE S&S INTERVIEW: John Boorman : As Queen and Country – the belated sequel to Hope and Glory – is released, the director of Point Black and Deliverance talks about the relationship between memory and imagination in autobiographical cinema and reflects on his 50 –year career in film. By Philip Horne = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH Amy = 62 Black Coal, Thin Ice = 64 The Look of Silence = 66 FILMS Accidental Love = 68 The Age of Adaline = 68 All American High = 68 Avengers: Age of Ultron = 69 Blood Cells= 70 Bombay Velvet = 70 Les Combattants = 71 Comet = 72 Concrete Clouds = 72 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films = 73 The Emperor’s New Clothes = 73 51° North = 74 The First Film = 75 The Forgotten Kingdom = 76 Four Corners = 76 Gascoiane = 77 Heaven Adores You = 77 Home = 78 Hustlers Convention = 79 London Road = 79 The Longest Ride = 80 Mad Max: Fury Road = 81 Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles = 82 Mr. Holmes = 83 The Priest’s Children = 84 Queen & Country = 84 Results = 85 Return to Sender = 86 She’s Funny That Way = 86 Shooting for Socrates = 87 Slow West = 88 Station to Station = 88 Survivor = 89 Tomorrowland: A World Beyond = 89 Two by Two = 90 Unfriended = 91 Unhallowed Ground = 91 West = 92 HOME CINEMA Beyond the Lights, Cat People, Charlie Chaplin: The Mutual Comedies, Forty Guns, French Dressing, Hester Street, The House of Mystery, A Letter to Three Wives, Mean Streets, Nymph()maniac: The Director’s Cut, Retaliation, Ride the Pink Horse, Supernatural = 95 DVD features Philip Kemp admires the innocence and genius of Bob Hoskins = 94 Kim Newman welcomes Borowczyk’s take on Jekyll and Hyde, restored at last = 97 Nick Pinkerton can’t get enough of the comic psycho noiy of Miami Blues = 98 Lost and Found: Michael : Pattison revisits Jack Gold’s The Reckoning = 102 Television : Moondial, WolfHall = 100 BOOKS Philip French praises a life of Robert Ryan, one of the Hollywood’s greatest actors = 104 Philip Kemp on Hashimoto Shinobu’s account of his life writing with Kurosawa = 105 Nick Pinkerton peruses a handsome record of Charlie Chaplin’s year with Keystone = 106

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