Sight and Sound

Darkness visible : Paul Verhoeven talks to Nick James about his incendiary Elle PLUS Ginette Vincendeau and Erika Balsom debate the films' politics and Craig Williams revisits the director's Dutch films = 28 REGULARS Editorial : Alive, alive oh! = 5 Rushes In the Frame: Pamela Hutchinson previews the Fashion in Film festival = 6 Object Lesson: Hannah McGill offers some sharp observations on scissors in the cinema = 9 Interview: Anna Coatman talks to Jenny Gage, director of the teen documentary All This Panic = 11 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson taps into the great dancer Jeni LeGon, who inspired Zadie Smith's Swing Time = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins hails Orson Welles, prophet of Trumpery = 15 The Industry Development Tale: Charles Gant hunts for the truth behind The Lost City of Z = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant assesses Toni Erdmann's place in the pantheon of foreign-language comedies in the UK = 17 Festivals Nick James reports from Berlin = 18 Tony Rayns finds Rotterdam a source of unexpected pleasure = 21 Wied Angle Opinion: Nick Pinkerton on the place of God in contemporary cinema = 56 Soundings: Joseph Stannard asks why modern horror plays the same old tune = 58 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon and Pamela Hutchinson consider silence and deafness in films = 59 Preview 1: Nicole Brenez pays tribute to Lebanese documentarist Jocelyne Saab = 60 Preview 2: Scott MacDonald on the great DP and director Babette Mangolte = 61 Letters = 111 Endings : Adrian Martin watches Lubitsch work his magic in Trouble in Paradise = 112 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Distress signals : Kristen Stewart's acute portrayals of restless, troubled women feel as if they are channelling a wider spirit of modern dread-something Olivier Assayas has tapped into in his ghost story Personal Shopper. By Graham Fuller PLUS the actor talks to Matthias Greuling and James Mottram = 22 Worlds within: the other Indian cinema : Indian cinema is sometimes presented as a choice between Satyajit Ray and Bollywood-but as a major BFI season makes clear, the subcontinen's cinema is extraordinarily rich and diverse. By Meenakshi Shedde = 36 Spellbound : Anna Biller, director of the exquisitely realised fable The Love Witch, explains why critics have misunderstood the film, and why comparisons with Russ Meyer drive her crazy. By Kim Morgan = 40 Matters of principle : A doctor's moral world view is tested when a threat to his daughter's future persuades him to exploit his position, in Cristian Mungiu's Graduation. By Nick James = 46 Jacques Becker: the elusive auteur : Three indisputable classics, the devotion of the Cahiers crowd-yet the French director's place in film history seems oddly insecure. By Ginette Vincendeau = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH Aquarius = 64 Free Fire = 66 The Lost City of Z = 68 The Salesman = 70 FLIMS The Age of Shadows = 72 All This Panic = 72 Another Mother's Son = 73 Catfight = 74 The Chamber = 74 The Creeping Garden = 75 A cure for Wellness = 76 Dancer = 76 Don't Knock Twice = 77 Elle = 78 The Eyes of My Mother = 79 Fifty Shades Darker = 79 Fist Fight = 80 Get Out = 80 Graduation = 81 The Great Wall = 82 Headshot = 83 I.T. = 83 John Wick: Chapter 2 = 83 The Lego Batman Movie = 84 Logan = 85 The Love Witch = 85 Man Down = 86 The Olive Tree = 87 Personal Shopper = 88 P.S. Jerusalem = 89 Rahm = 89 Rings = 90 Rules Don't Appley = 91 Shut In = 92 A Silent Voice = 92 The Space Between Us = 93 Uncertain = 94 Viceroy's House = 94 Within = 95 HOME CINEMA Bunny Lake Is Missing, The Best of Cinerama & Cinerama's Russian Adventure, Cover Girl, The Crying Game, The Glass Shield, A man for All Seasons, The Man from Laramie, Memories of Underdevelopment, The Sicilian Clan, Someday My Prince Will Come/Philip and His Seven Wives, The Spring River Flows East = 97 DVD features Alex Davidson welcomes reissues of Lino Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Light and Insiang = 96 Revival: Pamela Hutchinson salutes Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce = 90 Revival: andrew Male takes off his hat to Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia = 100 Television: Robert Hanks takes a fresh look at Galton and Simpson Comedy and Probation Officer = 102 Lost and Found: Pasquale lannone revisits Luchino Visconti's Sandra = 104 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton welcomes a clear-eyed biography of Jean Renoir = 106 Jonathan Rosenbaum ponders Abbas Kiarostami the philosopher = 107 Neil Sinyard reappraises Hitchcock and Herrmann = 108 Neil Mitchell on the world of underground film = 108

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