Sight and Sound

Swords and scandals : The Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! gleefully spoof Tinseltown history – but with classic Hollywood it’s impossible to be sure where the truth begins and ends. By Pamela Hutchinson = 32 REGULARS Editorial : Stamina paradiso = 5 Rushes In the Frame: David Thompson lifts the curtain on Shakespeare adaptations = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on sweets in the movies = 8 The Five Key…: films about witches = 9 Interview: Simran Hans talks trauma and paranoia with Disorder director Alice Winocour = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins bunks off to catch a movie in blissful isolation = 12 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant recounts the trials involved in making the Indian drama Court = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant welcomes the success of Youth and A Bigger Splash = 15 Festivals : Jonathan Romney finds stories are king at the Berlinale = 16 Wide Angle Preview: Aaron Cutler celebrates Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik = 54 Soundings: Sam Davies explores the enigma of Jacques Rivette’s debut = 56 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson adores René Clair’s Two Timid Souls = 57 Exhibition: Laura Allsop is haunted by newwork from John Akomfrah = 58 Artist’ Moving Image: Erika Balsom spies on Stan Douglas’s The Secret Agent = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : Tom Charity on McCabe & Mrs. Miller = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Things fall apart : In Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Tom Hiddleston must take sides when class tensions lead to anarchy in a 70 s tower block. He reflects on tole-playing and identity. By Nick James PLUS Neil McGlone talks to the film’s cast and crew and Roger Luckhurst looks at the cinematic influences and legacy of J.G. Ballard = 18 Sins of the fathers : Pablo Larraín’s The Club, a portrait of priest sequestered in a Vatican safe house to atone for sexual crimes, is a compassionate, claustrophobic study of human frailty. By Mar Diestro-Dópido = 28 Night moves : Shot in a single 134-minute take, Sebastian Schipper’s heist movie Victoria never sacrifices nuances of character to its dizzying momentum. By Jonathan Romney = 38 Kicking against the pricks: Renowned for his angry social conscience, the director Alan Clarke was as inventive and wide-ranging as any British filmmaker. By Michael Brooke = 42 The drowned world : The veteran Chilean documentary maker Patricio Guzmán offers a dazzling poetic meditation on history, culture and violence in The Pearl Button. By Nick Bradshaw = 50 FILM OF THE MONTH Court = 62 High-Rise = 64 The Witch = 66 FILMS Anomalisa = 68 Black Mountain Poets = 69 The Boy = 69 The Choice = 70 The Club = 71 Dad’s Army = 72 Dark Places = 72 Deadpool = 73 Disorder = 74 Eddie the Eagle = 74 Fifty Shades of Black = 75 The Finest Hours = 76 Grimsby = 76 Hail, Caesar! = 77 The Here After = 78 Homme Less = 79 The Host = 79 How to Be Single = 80 Iona = 81 Kung Fu Panda 3 = 91 Marguerite = 82 Next to Her= 83 The Ones Below = 84 Only the Dead = 85 The Other Side of the Door = 85 Our Brand Is Crisis = 86 Papusza = 87 The Pearl Button = 87 Power in Our Hands = 88 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies = 89 Remember = 90 Rock the Kasbah = 90 Speed Sisters = 91 Survival Instinct = 92 Victoria = 92 Welcome to Me = 93 Zoolander 2 = 94 HOME CINEMA Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Chaplin’s Essanay Comedies, Deep Red, L’Inhumaine, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pedicab Driver, Péril en la demeure, Three films with Gérard Philipe, Rocco and His Brothers, The Southerner, Underground, Valentino = 97 DVD FEATURES Anne Billson gaps at King Hu’s classic A Touch of Zen = 96 Rediscovery: Nick Pinkerton admires Antonio Pietrangeli’s I Knew Her Well = 99 Lost and Found: Christina Newland on the freedoms of Looking for Mr. Goodbar = 104 TELEVISION : The Borgias, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Romanzo Criminale – La serie = 102 BOOKS Ryan Gilbey observes a touch of bias at work in a tribute to Terrence Malick = 106 Trevor Johnston says a rare look at the distribution business delivers the goods = 107 Pamela Hutchinson on a collection of essays on women in the silent era = 108 Craig Williams enjoys a novel of cinephilia in 8os New York = 108

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