Sight and Sound

Infinite jest : Maren Ade, director of the critically beloved Toni Erdmann, discusses comedy and why cliche is the enemy of complexity. By Isabel Stevens PLUS ten great father-daughter films = 30 REGULARS Editorial : La La Land and freedom = 5 Rushes In the frame: Killi Weston meets the director of coming-fo-age drama The Fits = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill offers some illumination on light bulbs = 8 Dispatches: Mark Cousins seeks out a filmmaker equal to our troubled times = 11 Obituary: Mark Kermode pays his respects to William Peter Blatty, far more than the writer of The Exorcist = 12 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant on Indian partition drama Viceroy's Hous = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant On the awards season's theatrical bottleneck = 15 Wide Angle Profile: Adrian Martin Succumbs to the uncompromising ecstasies of Werner Schroeter = 56 Soundings: Sam Davies gets hep to Italian jazz soundtracks = 58 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson focuses on women with a movie camera = 59 Archive: Olaf Moller excavates Cuban newsreel's extraordinary legacy = 60 Artist's moving image: Erika Balsom experiences the delicate power of Laida Lertxundi's short films = 61 Letters = 111 Endings : Pamela Hutchinson on the tragic final moments of King Vidor's The Crowd = 112 REATURES COVER FEATURE Rhapsody in blue : Moonlight, the tale of a young gay man growing up against a backdrop of poverty, violence and drugs in Miami, was a deeply personal project for director Barry Jenkins-but one that has entranced audiences around the world. By Gaylene Gould = 16 In the company of women : In its portrait of a free-spirited woman struggling to raise a son in California in the era of Jimmy Carter, Mike Mills's 20th Century Women finally closes the door on unfinished business left by the women's films of the 1970s. By Molly Haskell = 24 A woman's work : The old pioneer ethics of fortitude and hard work drive the trio of tales that make up Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, a film sharply attuned to life on the margins as it outline its characters' determined efforts to forge a connection. By Sophie Mayer = 38 Viloa Davis: over the fences : Long feted for her abiity to steal scenes from co-stars, Viola Davis, the star of Fences, has now made history as the first black actress to be nominated for three Oscars. By Jan Asante = 44 Obituaries : Bob Mastrangelo's roll-call of the film world's departed in 2016 = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH It's Only the End of the World = 64 Le Parc = 66 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter = 68 The Student = 70 FILMS Assassin's Creed = 72 Best = 72 Bitter Harvest = 73 The Bye Bye Man = 74 Certain Women = 74 Close Relations (Rodnye) = 75 Fences = 76 The Fits = 77 The Founder = 78 Hidden Figures = 78 iBOY = 79 Live by Night = 80 Lost in France = 81 LoveTrue = 81 Marauders = 82 Moonlight = 83 Patriots Day = 84 Prevenge = 84 Rats = 85 Southern Fury = 85 Split = 86 Sweet Dreams = 87 T2 Trainspotting = 87 Toni Erdmann = 88 Tower = 89 Trespass Against Us = 90 20the Century Women = 91 Underworld: Blood Wars = 92 xXx: Return of Xander Cage = 93 Zero Days = 93 HOME CINEMA Accidentally Preserved Vol 4, Black Orpheus, Black Society Trilogy, Body Double, Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Christine, Daisy Kenyon, The Hired Hand, Metroplis, Sacrifice!, Something Wild, Toshiaki Toyoda: The Early Years, Variete = 96 DVD features Pamele Hutchinson : toasts a sparkling reissue of His Girl Friday = 94 Rediscovery: michael Brooke on new releases from the Hungarian Digital Film Arechive = 97 Television: Robert Hanks revisits James Burke's Connections and Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope = 100 Lost and Found: Andrew Nette on Uptight, Jules Dassin's Black Power remake of The Informer = 102 BOOKS Jonathan Rosenbaum revisits Casablanca = 104 Bryony Dixon examiner the issue of the reissue = 105 Philip Kemp reads a life of onscreen villain/offscreen nice guy Dan Duryea = 106 Ehsan Khoshbakht tunes in to the ways film harmonises with jazz = 106

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