Sight and Sound

Steel and silk: the life of Olivia de Havilland : On the eve of het 100th birthday, we celebrate the last of the great pre-WWII Hollywood stars – to whom every actor in Tinseltown owned a debt of gratitude. By Farran Smith Nehme = 36 REGULARS Editorial : Stories we tell = 5 Rushes Festival: Nick Bradshaw reports on the changes afoot at Sheffield Doc/Fest = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill gets wrapped up in fur = 8 The Five Keys…: fashion industry films = 9 Interview: Philip Concannon meets Omer Fast, director of Remainder = 11 Restoration: Lawrence Napper on the official film of the battle of the Somme = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins is troubled by the glamour of some screen violence = 14 The Industry Development Tales: Charles Gant unravels the resurrected Ghostbusters = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant follows Mustang’s gallop to success = 17 Wide Angle Opinion: Erika Balsom wrestles with the representation of reality in an age of digital technology = 50 Soundings: Sam Davies listens to The Platter’ ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ – soundtrack of bittersweet romance = 52 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson explores the lessons sound cinema is learning from the silent = 53 Profile: nock Pinkerton applauds nostalgic avant-gardist Paolo Gioli = 54 Festival: Olaf Möller looks back 70 years, to the first post-war Cannes = 55 Letters = 111 Endings : Nick Roddick on Cristian Mungiu´s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURES Cannes: hall of mirrors : Nick James outlines the hits and misses from this year’s formidable Competition lineup PLUS Isabel Stevens chooses the best of the rest from the festival’s sidebars = 18 The beauty myth : Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon is a violent exploration of society’s obsession with beauty, set in the dark heart of the LA fashion scene. By Christina Newland = 26 House of the spirits : Yonebayashi Hiromasa’s When Marnie Was There transposes an English children’s classic to modern Japan, in what might be the last in-house feature from Studio Ghibli. By Nick Bradshaw PLUS Isabel Stevens on Ghibli animation The Red Turtle from Michaël Dudok de Wit = 32 Jungle fever : Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent examines the ravages of colonialism from the viewpoint of the indigenous population, in a tale of a shaman leading two Westerners up the Amazon. By Tom Graham = 42 Two for the road : Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, about a pair of bickering Pls in the smog-filled mean streets of 70s LA, follows a long tradition of Hollywood buddy movies. By Kim Newman = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Cemetery of Splendour = 58 Fire at Sea = 60 No Home Movie = 62 Remainder = 64 FILMS Adult Life Skills = 66 Alice Through the Looking Glass = 66 Angry Birds = 67 Bad Neighbours 2 = 67 Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) = 68 Barbershop: A Fresh Cut = 69 Baskin = 70 Blood Orange = 70 The Boss = 71 Capitan America: Civil War = 71 The Colony = 72 Crazy About Tiffany´s = 73 The Darkness = 73 Elvis & Nixon = 74 Embrace of the Serpent = 75 Holding the Man = 76 A Hologram for the King = 76 The Keeping Room = 78 Learning to Drive = 79 Long Way North = 79 Maggie’s Plan = 80 ma ma = 81 The Measure of a Man = 81 Miracles from Heaven = 82 Misconduct = 83 Money Monster = 84 Mon roi = 84 Mother’s Day = 85 The Nice Guys = 86 Notes on Blindness = 86 The Silent Storm = 87 Tale of Tales = 87 Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach = 88 The Violators = 89 When Marnie Was There = 90 Where to Invade Next. = 91 X-Men: Apocalypse = 92 HOME CINEMA The Desert of the Tartars. Easy Rider, Forbidden Hollywood: Volume 10, In a Lonely Place, Kansas City Confidential, The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & Associates, A Kiss Before Dying, Man with a Movie Camera, 1900, Ourselves Alone, Scott of the Antartic, The Sound Barrier, Three Brothers, Try and Get Me! = 95 DVD features Restoration: Kim Morgan watches a noir double bill – Too Late for Tear and Woman on the Run = 94 Revival: Pamela Hutchinson revisits Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command = 98 Revival: Tony Rayns sees the young Hou Hsiao-Hsien forging a path to maturity = 98 Television : Culloden/The War Game = 100 BOOKS Tim Lucas on a vivid, multifaceted portrait of the perpetual enfant terrible of British film, Ken Russell = 104 Nick Pinkerton finds feuds, ecstasies and guffaws in the criticism of Jonas Mekas = 105 Dan Callahan welcomes the first ever biography of Sylvia Sidney = 106

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