Sight and Sound

The brothers grim : Brian Helgeland’s Legend reinvigorates the gangster genre with his take on the Kray twins story. By Nick James PLUS David Thomson on the genius of the film’s star, Tom Hardy = 38 REGULARS Editorial : The anxiety of influence Rushes Danny Leigh celebrates the IDY ethic of the Scalarama festival = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill plays her cards right = 8 The Five Key…: director biopics = 9 Nick James on the London Film Festival = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins slams easy assumptions about female filmmakers = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on the rocky road to Everest = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant offers a snapshot of the Sebastião Salgado documentary Salt of the Earth = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on growing the film industry outside London = 16 Festivals : Neil Young enjoys the rejuvenating effects of the Swiss town of Locarno = 17 Wide Angle Thirza Wakefield laments the strange neglect of the films of Marguerite Duras = 58 Soundings: Nick Pinkerton on a classis triptych of LA’s post-punk scene = 60 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson describes how 20s Hollywood got in touch with its feminine side = 61 John Beagles reports from this year’s Venice Biennale = 62 Letter = 119 Endings : Andrew Bienen, screenwriter of Boys Don’t Cry, on Joshua Logan’s Picnic = 120 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women : Over 20 page we celebrate a selection of remarkable works by female filmmakers that have unjustly slipped from public view – with choices by Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis and Agnés Varda among others. Introduction by Isabel Stevens PLUS Ruth Lingford examines the history of female directors in animation and Virginie Sélavy looks at the bloody-minded women directing horror films = 18 A death in the family : A self-absorbed filmmaker has to come to terms with the impending death of her aged mother in Mia madre, a fine return to form for director Nanni Moretti. By Geoff Andrew = 46 The ghost toad : With Horse Money, Pedro Costa offers a complex meditation on history and memory, colonisation and revolution, and the plight of society’s poor and dispossessed. By Jacques Rancière = 48 Another place, another time : Seven years after her last film, The Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel is back at work on another chronicle of existential uncertainty with and adaptation of Zama, a classis Argentinian novel about a civil servant in late 18th-century Paraguay waiting for his life to change. Diego Lerer visits the set = 54 FILMS OF THE MONTH Irrational Man = 66 Macbeth = 68 Miss Julie = 70 Pasolini = 72 FILMS Absolutely Anything = 74 Alive Inside = 74 American Ultra = 75 The Bad Education Movie = 76 Brother = 76 Containment = 77 The Dance of Reality = 77 Death of a Gentleman = 78 En équilibre = 79 Escobar: Paradise Lost = 80 La mille Bélier = 80 Fantastic Four = 81 The Gift = 82 A Girl at My Door = 82 Horse Money = 83 How to Change the World = 84 Infini = 85 Just Jim = 85 Legend = 86 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. = 87 Marc Quinn: Marking Waves = 87 The Messenger = 88 Mia madre = 89 Misery Loves Comedy = 90 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation = 90 99 Homes = 91 Orion: The Man Who Would Be King = 92 Pixels = 93 Pleasure Island = 93 The Pyramid Texts = 94 Ricki and the Flash = 95 Straight Outta Campton = 95 A Syrian Love Story = 96 Tangerines = 97 3 1/2 Minutes = 98 Vacation = 98 A Walk in the Woods = 99 The World of Astley Baker Davies = 99 Zombie Fight club = 100 HOME CINEMA The Adventures of Gerard, Films starring Richard Attenborough, Cruel Story of Youth, Here Is Your Life, The Maggie, Pickup on South Street, Run of the Arrow, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Varieté, Vivre sa vie = 103 DVD features Tony Rayns on the anguished poetry of Franju’s Eyes Without a Face = 102 David Mackenzie explains why the colour’s all wrong on your TV set = 105 Michael Brooke relishes the eccentric auteurism of Richard Massingham = 106 Lost and Found: Alex Davidson revisits 70s comedy Girl Stroke Boy = 110 Television : Baretta, Wolcott = 108 BOOKS Robert Hanks on the complicated life and times of Auntie Beeb = 112 Bryony Dixon swoon over the colours of early cinema = 113 Pamela Hutchinson admires an acute study of The Birth of a Nation = 114 Henry K. Miller is fascinated by a history of Regent Street Cinema = 114

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