Sight and Sound

Open secrets : Pedro Almodóvar’s 20th feature, Julieta, explores guilt, memory, secrets and lies in a enigmatic tale adapted from a trio of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro. By Maria Delgado = 38 REGULARS Editorial : The Bounce obsolescence = 5 Rushes Exhibition: Philip kemp on war movies at London’s Imperial War Museum = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill meditates on the toilet = 8 The Five Key…: dog films = 9 Rediscovery: Ian Christie investigates the mystery of why British film pioneer R.W. Paul suddenly quit the industry = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins shows how film criticism can benefit from the discoveries of neuroscience = 12 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Noel Clarke’s Brotherhood = 14 The Number: Charles Gant charts the success of Embrace of the Serpent = 15 Festivals : James Bell dips into a selection of early Universal gems at Il Cinema Ritrovato = 17 Wide Angle Profile: Adam Nayman explores the humane 2D cartoons of Lewis Klahr = 54 Soundings_ Pamela Hutchinson listens to the music of silent = 56 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon makes connections in Bologna = 57 Festival: Saskia Vogel visits Helsinki’s Viva Erotica = 58 Preview: Sukhdev Sandhu looks at the inflatable art pioneers Action Space = 59 Letters = 111 Endings : David Cairns on Planet of the Apes = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The S&S Interview: Isabelle Huppert : One of the finest and most adventurous actors of her generation, Huppert has proved unforgettable in roles for the likes of Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke and Claire Denis. Here she talks about her earliest memories of cinema, the art of great performances and what it was like to work with Gérard Depardieu again for the first time in 35 years. By Nick James = 18 An Autumn tale : A sixtysomething philosophy lecturer finds herself facing a newfound freedom that is also a gaping void, in Mia Hansen-Love’s warm, funny drama Things to Come. By Catherine Wheatley = 24 Always be yourself: the making of Ingrid Bergman : Bergman’s formative years on screen in Sweden, and later Germany, shaped the remarkable talent that would make her a Hollywood legend, By Pamela Hutchinson = 28 Survival instincts : Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has carved a niche in the US making high-quality, mid-budget genre pics, including jaw-droppingly entertaining shark attack thriller The Shadows. By Nick Pinkerton = 34 Life’s a bitch : Wiener-Dog follows four tales loosely connected by the presence of a dachshund. But as you might expect from Todd Solondz, the focus is not on Lassie-style trials and triumphs, but on prejudice, disaffection, ennui – and diarrhea. By Jonathan Romney = 44 Remembering Abbas Kiarostami : To celebrate the life and work of the late Iranian director, S&S has invited tributes from a selection of filmmakers who recognized his place in the pantheon of the great: Victor Erice, Shirin Neshat, Mike Leigh, Nicolas Philibert, John Akomfrah and Jim Jarmusch = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Childhood of a Leader = 62 Cosmos = 64 Jason Bourne = 66 FILMS Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie = 68 Almost Holy = 68 Anthropoid = 69 Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods = 70 Behemoth = 70 Black = 71 Brotherhood = 72 Café Society = 73 Cell = 73 The Confession: Living the War on Terror = 74 The Fall = 75 The Founders = 75 400 Days = 76 Ghostbusters = 76 Ice Age: Collision Course = 77 The Idol = 77 Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words = 78 Jim: The James Foley Story = 79 Julieta = 80 The Killings of Tony Blair = 81 The Legend of Tarzan = 81 Lights Out = 82 Mike and Dave Need wedding Dates = 82 Nerve = 83 Pete’s Dragon = 84 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping = 84 Raman Raghav 2.0 = 85 The Shallows = 86 Star Trek: Beyond = 87 Swallows and Amazons = 88 Things to Come = 89 Tickled = 90 Traders = 90 Valley of Love = 91 The Wait = 92 The Wave = 92 Wiener-Dog = 93 HOME CINEMA All Night Long, Belladonna of Sadness, Crimes of Passion, Edvard Munch, Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The In-Laws, A Kind of Loving, 99 River Street, Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Return of the Living Dead = 95 DVD features Reissue: Pasquale Iannone revisits three films by the Taviani brothers = 94 Rediscovery: Graham Fuller goes back to the country side in Akenfield and On the Black Hill = 97 Revival: Pamela Hutchinson rejoices in the complete short films of Buster Keaton = 98 Television: Robert Hanks reviews Timeslip, The Ginger Tree and Roobarb and Custard = 100 Lost and Found: Andrew Male on the sunshine noir of The Nickel Ride = 102 BOOKS David Thompson explores the lives of Eric Rohmer = 104 Nick James reads a study of the impact of early of the cinema on Paris’s artistic avant garde = 105 Mark Duguid is moved by TV producer Tony Garnett’s compelling autobiography = 106

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