Sight and Sound

Funny games : A group of men on a fishing trip compete to determine which of them is the best, in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s affectionate satire of modern masculinity, Chevalier. By Adam Nayman = 32 REGULARS Editorial : The bright side = 5 Rushes Nathalie Morris visits an exhibition dedicated to Vivien Leigh = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill explores film’s fascination with record players = 8 The Five Key…: Muhammad Ali screen appearances = 9 Interview: Abbey Bender meets Rebecca Miller, director of Maggie’s Plan = 10 Exhibition: Nick Roddick celebrates the great Dutch DP Robby Müller = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins visits the ‘86’ festival in Ukraine = 15 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on The Hard Stop = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Polish film at the box office = 17 Festivals : Nick Bradshaw reports from Sheffield Doc/Fest and Open City Docs Fest = 18 Wide Angle Point of View: Kim Newman explores a very British stain of 70s thrillers = 56 Soundings: Sam Davies struts his way through Prince’s filmography = 58 Primal screen: Bryony Dixon steels herself for a repellent 1919 film = 59 Festival: John Beagles reports from the Oberhausen short film festival = 60 Rediscovery: Peter Hames revisits the work of Drahomíra Vihanová, forgotten director of the Czech New Wave = 61 Letters = 111 Ending : Anne Billson on The Thing = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURES Cinema of punk : To celebrate punk’s 40th anniversary, Jon Savage finds echoes between Taxi Driver and the Ramones’ debut, Thurston Moore remembers No Wave cinema, Will Fowler explores UK punk film, Don Letts reflects on his filmmaking career, Frances Morgan surveys riot grrrls on screen, and Alex Cox recalls the making of Sid and Nancy = 20 Blue valentine : Robert Budreau’s Born to Be Blue seeks to remain true to the improvisational spirit of Chet Baker’s music rather than simply offering a blow-by-blow account of the trumpeter’s tragic life, By Trevor Johnston = 36 Ways of seeing : Technological changes have transformed the way we watch movies. Geoffrey Macnab examines how these shifts are affecting the industry, Amanda Randall pays tribute to community cinemas, Nock Pinkerton addresses the need for a new critical discourse to reflect the revolution in film culture and Kate Taylor seeks succor in cinephile activism. = 38 THE S&S INTERVIEW : D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus : After a series of masterworks of American cinéma vérité, D.A. Pennebaker found fresh creative impetus with Chris Hegedus. The pair have created a formidable body of work, charting 40 years of change. By Eric Hynes = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH From Afar = 64 A Poem Is a Naked Person = 66 Queen of Earth = 68 FILMS Aferim! = 70 Author: The JT LeRoy Story = 71 Bayou Maharajah = 71 The BFG = 72 Born to Be Blue = 73 Brahman Naman = 73 The Carer = 74 Central Intelligence = 74 Chevalier = 75 The Communce = 76 The Conjuring 2 = 77 Les Cowboys = 77 Down by Love = 78 Finding Dory = 79 Gods of Egypt = 79 The Hard Stop = 80 Independence Day: Resurgence = 80 Keanu = 81 K-Shop = 82 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer = 82 Me Before You = 83 The Meddler = 84 Men & Chicken = 84 Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air = 85 Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants = 86 The Neon Demon = 86 Now You See Me 2 = 87 Precious Cargo = 88 The Purge: Election Year = 88 The Secret Life of Pets = 89 Summertime = 89 Sweet Bean = 90 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows = 91 Top Cat Begins = 92 Up for Love = 92 Warcraft: The Beginning = 93 Weiner = 93 Where You’re Meant to Be = 94 HOME CINEMA Absolute Beginners, The Chase, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, Gilda, Here Comes Mr Jordan, A Month in the Country, Poor Cow, Richard III. Rich Kids, Stuff and Dough, That Cold Day in the Park = 98 DVD Features Television: Robert Hanks salutes one of the great British auteurs, Alan Clarke = 96 Rediscovery: Nick Bradshaw traces the early evolution of Joshua Oppenheimer’s film career = 99 Revival: Nick James is beguiled by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s debut = 100 Lost and Found: Jaymes Durante unearths the fascinating jazz curio Dingo, starring Miles Davis = 103 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton on the obsessive thoroughness of trans-European filmmakers Straub-Huillet = 104 Sonia Genaitay is impressed by a historical guide to film technology = 105 Henry K. Miller considers Owen Hatherley’s take on Chaplin and the Soviet avant-garde = 106

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