Sight and Sound

A winter's tale : Kennethe Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea is a devastaing Portrati of a community haunted by tragedy. By Jonathan Romney PLUS Isabel Stevens talks to star Michelle Williams = 48 REGULARS Editorial : The not too late show = 5 Rushes 2017 preview: Isabel Stevens looks at the film highlights of the year = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill on veiled implications = 8 Festival: pamela Hutchinson finds flappers flying high at Bristol's Slapstick Festival = 9 Rediscovery: Ian Francis looks back at the UK's Jacey cinema chain = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins makes 17 wishes for '17 = 12 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant tracks the long journey of T2: Trainspotting = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant rounds up the box-office stats for 2016 = 15 Wide Angle Artists' Moving Image: Laura Staab watches cinema dissolved in Philippe Parreno's installation Anywhen at Tate Modern = 58 Soundings: Sam Davies Listens to Jackie-a film set to Mica Levi's soundtrack = 60 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon remembers the good old days of nostalgia for early cinema = 61 profile: Cristina Alvarez Lopez and Adrian Martin on the Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomes's cinema of poetry and friendship = 62 Letters = 111 Endings : Trevor Johnston on wise-guys failing to wise up in GoodFellas = 112 REATURES COVER FEATURE Cartin Scorsese: Catholic tastes Scorsese's 28-year quest to film Silence has resulted in one of his most personal movies. He discusses faith, filmmaking and Japanese cinema. By Philip Horne, with on-set photography by Brigitte Lacombe PLUS Ian Christie on Scorsese's role as a film historian and Nick James on the use of abstraction in the director's work = 16 Forbidden colours : The landmark battle to end the criminalisation of interracial marriage in the US in the subject of Jeff Nichols's real-life drama Loving. By Kelli weston = 36 Watching the watchers : Kirsten Johnson reflects on the Lessons she's learned as one of the pre-eminent cinematographers in US documentary, in Cameraperson. By Sophie Mayer = 40 The lost lord of Romaine : Warren Beatty realises his decades-old dream of playing Howard Hughes in Rules Don's Apply, a film that follows in the footsteps of Max Ophuls and Martin Scorsese. By David Thomson = 44 Journey into fear : Juan Antonio Bayona's spectacular A Monster Calls in an unashamedly emotional examination of grief that never resorts to easy sentimentality. By Mar Diestro-Dopido = 54 FILMS OF THE MONTH Christine = 66 Jackie = 68 Starless Dreams = 70 FLMS Cameraperson = 72 Collateral Beauty = 73 Crash & Burn = 73 Danny Says = 74 Denial = 74 Gold = 75 Hacksaw Ridge = 76 Holy Cow = 77 Irreplaceable = 77 La La Land = 78 Lion = 78 Loving = 80 Manchester by the Sea = 81 Moana = 82 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism = 83 A Monster Calls = 83 Monster Trucks = 84 Office Christmas Party = 85 Passengers = 86 Rogue One = 87 Silence = 88 Sing = 89 Through the Wall = 89 The weekend = 90 The White King = 91 Why Him? = 91 The Young Offenders = 92 HOME CINEMA The Blue Lamp, Burnt Offerings, Children of Divorce, Every Thing Will Be Fine, The Asphalt Jungle/Moby Dick, The Man Between, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Pretty Poison, Private Property, Women in Love = 96 DVD features Michael Atkinson on the uneasy reckonings of One-Eyed Jacks and McCabe and Mrs. Miller = 94 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson finds all she ever wanted in Czech proto-feminist fairytale Three Wishes for Cinderella = 97 Rediscovery: michael Brooke enjoys the experimental verve of Shirley Clarke = 98 Television: Robert Hanks on I Didn't Know You Cared and The Troubleshooters-Mogul = 100 Lost and Found: Tim Lucas wallows in the pretensions of Hard Contract = 102 BOOKS Kim Newman visits the kingdom of the Euro gothic = 104 Nick Pinkerton tests The Cinema Hypothesis = 105 David Robinson applauds a lavish tribute to Paul Whiteman and King of Jazz = 106

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