Sight and Sound

Team America Richard Linklater’s Everyboby Wants Some!! offers a vision of US college life that’s familiar from a genre that goes all the way back to Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. By Nick Pinkerton = 22 REGULARS Editorial : Abominable showmen = 5 Rushes In the Frame: Nick Bradshaw wishes Cannes could be more inclusive = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on suitcases in cinema = 8 The Five Key…: Jane Austen adaptations = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins is charmed by Channing Tatum’s onscreen persona = 11 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant discovers the story behind Sing Street = 12 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds how Victoria tapped into a younger audience = 13 Festivals : Tony Rayns at the Hong Kong International Film Festival = 15 Wide Angle Preview: Simon Payne pays homage to the abstractions of Malcolm Le Grice, doyen of the British avant-garde = 48 Soundings: Geeta Dayal hails Nazia Hassan, India’s Donna Summer = 50 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon gets spaced out at Hippfest = 51 Preview: Oliver Fuke on Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, the great double-act of ‘theory film’ = 53 Archive: Ros Cranston uncovers unsung female amateur filmmakers = 55 Letters = 111 Endings : Sophie Mayer meets Tilda Swinton’s gaze in Sally Potter’s transgressive Orlando = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The wicked lady : Whit Stillman’s delightfully acid Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship, takes diabolical pleasure in its heroine’s duplicity. Here the director explains why there’s not a sentence in Austen’s work he doesn’t feel close to. By Philip Concannon = 16 Wild at heart : Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang offers a stern critique of the strictures of conservative Turkish society, in a tale of five free-spirited sisters who rebel against narrow horizons. By Despina Ladi = 28 The lost boys : Set in a remote village by the sea, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s surreal horrar fantasy Evolution is an enigmatic coming-of-age tale. By Nock Bradshaw = 30 Band on the run : In Jeremy Saulnier’s savvy exploitation thriller Green Room, a punk band falls foul of a gang of neo-Nazis – but the onscreen mayhem never overshadows the finesse of the filmmaking. By Trevor Johnston = 34 Ecstatic truths : Kathleen Collins’s overlooked 1982 gem Losing Ground explores issues of class, race and gender with humour and a welcome lightness of touch. By Tega Okiti = 36 Lives less ordinary : The recent flowering of Romanian film has resulted in numerous cinematic marvels, but perhaps none more impressive than Radu Jude’s Aferim!, about a pair of lawmen in search of an escaped slave in 19th-century Wallachia. By Geoff Andrew = 40 Signs and wonders : Some critics have been eager to dismiss Knight of Cups and the other late work of Terrence Malick fir its lofty spiritual ambitions and stylization, but repeat viewings offer rich rewards. By Kent Jones = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH Arabian Nights_ Volume Three – The Enchanted One = 58 Everybody Wants Some!! = 60 Heart of a Dog = 62 The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers = 64 FILMS Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice = 66 Breaking the Bank = 66 Cabin Fever = 67 The Call Up = 67 Chicken = 68 Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex = 69 Criminal = 69 The Daughter = 70 Departure = 71 Evolutions = 71 Florence Foster Jenkins = 72 Friend Request = 73 Golden Years = 74 Green Room = 75 Hardcore Henry = 76 Hard Tide = 76 The Huntsman: Winter’s War = 78 I Saw the Light = 79 Jane Got a Gun = 79 Journey to the Shore = 80 The Jungle Book = 81 Knight of Cups = 82 Love & friendship = 83 Mustang = 84 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 = 85 Our Kind of Traitor = 85 Race = 86 Robinson Crusoe = 87 The Seventh Fire = 87 Sing Street = 88 Streetdance Family = 88 Suburra = 89 The Sweeney: Paris = 89 These Final Hours = 90 Troublemakers = 91 Truman = 91 The Trust = 92 HOME CINEMA Black Widow, British ‘Teenager’ Films, Films Starring Marion Davies, Eureka, Horse Money, Three Films by Spike Lee, The Nonth Configuration, Pieces, A Poem Is a Naked Person, Speedy, Spring Meeting, Three Days of the Condor = 96 DVD features Revival: Philip Kemp relishes a magnificent 4K transfer of Kurosawa Akira’s Ran = 94 Rediscovery: Kim Newman settles down with 70s art-cum-exploitation chiller Symptoms = 97 Revival: Nick Pinkerton praises Edward Yang’s little-seen epic A Brighter Summer Day = 98 Lost and found: Dylan Cave revisits the sharp, sunny film industry satire Long Shot = 103 Television : Nature Boy, A Picture of Katherine Mansfield, Trapped = 100 BOOKS Isabel Stevens enjoys a timely account of women with power in Golden Age Hollywood = 104 Nick Pinkerton immerses himself in David Bordwell’s tribute to US film critics of the 40s = 105 Simon MacCallum on Elizabeth Taylor the brand = 106 Dan Callahan welcomes a brilliantly thorough, sensitive study of the young Meryl Streep = 107

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