Sight and Sound

The man of destiny : The story of the making of Abel Gance's Napoleon-and of the decades-long efforts to reconstruct the film-is a gripping tale of single-mindedness and megalomania. By Paul Cuff = 24 REGULARS Editorial : Daniel in the lion's den = 5 Rushes In the Frame: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is entranced by the BFI's 'Black Britain of Film' collection = 6 Interview: Simran Hans meets Houda Benyamina, director of the explosive banlieue drama Divines = 9 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill goes behind the mask = 11 Dispatches: Mark Cousins finds truth is stranger than fiction in a small desert town in Arizona = 13 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant talks to the director of Bleed for This = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant audits My Scientology Movie = 15 Wide Angle Preview: Markus Nornes on the redicalism of Ogawa Productions = 50 Soundings: Frances Morgan salutes Tony Conrad, musician and filmmaker on the fringes = 52 {ro,a; Screem" Gepff Browm. at Pordenone's silent film festival, discovers American genius John H. Collins = 53 Artists' Film & Video: Jordan Cronk samples the possibilities of film in Toronto's Wavelengths strand = 54 Letters = 111 Endings : Peter William Evans teases out the implications of the card game at the close of Luis Bu0241uel's Viridiana = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The natural : Adam Driver has rocketed to global fame in the Star Wars franchise from his role in HBO's Girls. But as he hits the screens as a poetry-writing bus driver in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, he insists that his only game-plan is to work writh great directors. By Nick Pinkerton PLUS Geoff Andrew talks to Paterson director Jim Jarmusch = 16 Identification of a woman : Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Unknown Girl borrows the structure of a classic detective story for the tale of a doctor determined to uncover the identity of a dead woman. By Nick James = 32 What lies beneath : Kurosawa Kiyoshi's genre experiments share a fascination with the dark, invisible forces at work beneath the surface of things-and obsession he revisits in Creepy. By Jasper Sharp = 36 Trading Places : Shinkai Makoto's Your Name, a time-bending teenage body-swap romance, confirms his status as Japanese anime's big new thing. He talks about sky-gazing, adolescent heartache and animating Tokyo for posterity. By Nick Bradshaw = 40 Black faces, white spaces : American film noir-a genre that derives a lot of its power from the country's deep-rooted uneasiness with itself-has had a comples relationship with people of colour. But the genre's coolness, Style and unmistakable milieu have always been heavily indebted to black culture. By Angelica jade Bastien = 42 Drama queen : Peter Morgan is feted for his remarkable ability to animate the personal conflicts behind historical events. In Netflix's The Crown, charting Elizabeth II's early years, he has been given a canvas commensurate with his talents. By Trevor Johnston = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Arrival = 58 Doctor Strange = 60 United States of Love = 62 FILMS The Accountant = 64 American pastoral = 64 Burn Burn Burn = 65 Chi-Raq = 66 Creepy = 67 The Darkest Universe = 68 Dog Eat Dog = 68 The Dreamed Ones = 69 The Edge of Seventeen = 70 Ethel & Ernest = 71 Francofonia = 72 Gimme Danger = 73 The Girl on the Train = 73 Girls Lost = 74 A Hundred Streets = 75 Indignation = 75 Inferno = 76 The Innocents = 77 Into the Inferno = 77 I, Olga = 78 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back = 79 Magnus = 80 Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children = 80 M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story = 81 My Feral Heart = 82 The New Man. = 82 Oujia: Origin of Evil = 83 Paterson = 84 Rupture = 85 Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang = 85 Storks = 86 A Street Cat Named Bob = 86 Sully = 87 13th = 88 A United Kingdom = 89 The Unknown Girl = 90 The Wailing = 91 We Are the Flesh = 91 Your Name = 92 HOME CINEMA Almayer's Folly, Assault on Precinct 13, The Captive, Electra, My Love, Fedora, Little Fauss and Big Halsy, Matinee, Odds Against Tomorrow, Paris Blues, People of the Mountains, Films by Douglas Sirk, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Wild Horse = 96 DVD features Philip Kemp welcomes a new disc of Ealing thriller Pool of London and talks to its star, Earl Camerron = 94 Rediscovery: Andrew Male sees Anthony Newley on the run in 60s Soho in The Small World of Sammy Lee = 97 Television: Robert Hanks on The Organization, The Justice Game and The Legend of King Arthur = 100 Lost and Found: Glenn Kenny is charmed by John Ford's 1930s film The Brat = 102 BOOKS Robert Hanks is awed by David Thomson's history of television = 104 Time Hayes explores a controversial career in The Oliver Stone Experience = 105 Debika Ray on the gender politics of Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh = 106 Henry K. Miller binges on Clive James on bingeing = 106

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