Sight and Sound

sight and sound / 15873 / Dec-15 / Vol.25 Issue 12 Appointment in Berlin : Steven Spielberg shows extraordinary visual flare in his true-life US-Russian prisoner-swap drama Bridge of Spies, which taps into the screen history of the Cold War. By Nick Pinkerton = 26 REGULARS Editorial : Abridge that ending = 5 Rushes Tony Rayns introduces the 2015 London Korean Film Festival = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill looks at wheelchairs in the movies = 8 The Five Key…: epic romances = 9 Sam Davies considers music doc Junun – and the future it heralds for film = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on happiness = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant uncovers the childhood roots of supernatural horror The Hallow = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant looks at Shakespearean performance = 15 Brewster: Ben Roberts on the digital revolution and the celluloid fightback = 16 Wide Angle Neil Young in the confrontational political cinema of American director Travis Wilkerson = 48 Soundings: Daniel Barrow celebrates the haunted aesthetic of the record label Ghost Box =50 Primal Screen: Brian Robinson cheers loudly the silent delights of Pordenone’s Giornate del cinema muto = 51 Vera Brunner-Sung on Chick Strand’s multilayered, ecstatic cinema = 53 Richard Porton reports from Poland on the 40th Gdynia Film Festival = 55 Letter = 111 Endings : Alex Davidson on the vengeful triumph that crowns The Heiress = 112 FEATURES THE S&S INTERVIEW: Todd Haynes : From his Jean Genet-inspired debut Poison to his new Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol, Todd Haynes has embraced stories that explore the complexity of sexual and identity politics. Here he explains what it feels like to join the canon. By Ryan Gilbey PLUS Philip Kemp explores crime novelist’s work, from Hitchcock to Minghella = 18 Rise of the machines : Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay for Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle’s warts-and-all portrait of the Apple boss, eschews the traditional cradle-to-grave biopic in favour of a three-act structure focusing on the dramas around key product launches. By David Gritten = 32 City of fallen angels : Director Sean Baker and his co-writer Chris Bergoch were determined to present a portrait of LA that looked beyond the tourist clichés in Tangerine, a gritty, riotously funny night in the life of a pair of transgender sex worker. By Edward Lawrenson. PLUS Sophie Mayer on the tragic history of trans characters on screen = 36 The mating game : The romantic comedy has roots stretching all the way back to ancient Greece, but Hollywood reinvented it in a delirious and uniquely American way – recognizing the crucial role that hate and animosity can play in every love affair. By Moly Haskell = 40 FILMS OF THE MONTH Beasts of No Nation = 58 Brooklyn = 60 ‘Love’ = 62 SPECTRE = 64 FILMS Between Two World = 66 Black Mass = 66 Brand: A Second Coming = 67 Bridge of Spies = 68 Carol = 69 Closer to the Moon = 70 Crimson Peak = 70 Do I sound Gay? = 71 Dressed as a Girl = 72 The Dressmaker = 73 The Fear of 13 = 73 Güeros = 74 The Hallow = 76 Hand Gestures = 76 He Named Me Malala = 77 Hotel Transylvania 2 = 78 Kill Your Friends = 78 The Lady in the Van = 78 Momentum = 79 My Nazi Legacy = 79 My Skinny Sister = 80 Palio = 81 Pan = 81 Paper Planes = 82 The Perfect Guy = 83 Premature = 83 Radiator = 84 Regression = 84 Revenge of The Mekons = 85 Solace = 86 Star Men = 86 Steve Jobs = 87 Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans = 88 Tangerine = 88 Tell Spring Not to Come This Year = 89 Unbranded = 90 Under Milk Wood = 91 The Walk = 91 Warriors = 92 HOME CINEMA Asylum, 80,000 Suspects, The Family Secret, Legacy of Satan/Blood, The Naked Prey, The Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection, A Sense of Freedom The Skull, Soleil Rouge (Red Sun), Sparrows Can’t Sing, Track the Man Down = 96 DVD features Philip Kemp on films by Ousmane Sembène, father of African cinema = 94 Nick Pinkerton sees history in the making in a collection of films by Patricio Guzmán = 97 Lost and found: Brad Stevens peers through the murk at Shimazu Yasujirô’s A Brother and His Younger Sister = 102 Television : An Englishman’s Castle, ITV 60, Dag season 1 = 100 BOOKS Pamela Hutchinson falls in love with The Charlie Chaplin Archives = 104 Geoffrey Macnab gets to grips with a primer on the ethics of documentary = 105 Philip Kemp praises a study of David Lean = 106 Nick Pinkerton admires a new approach to Mexico’s Cine de Oro = 106 Virgine Sélavy in pulp posters and Nicolas Winding Refn = 107

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