Sight and Sound

A small island : The Red Turtle director Michael Dudok de Wit talks to his son about his exquisitely animated desert island tale, an rich blend of Eastern and Western traditions. By Alex Dudok de Wit = 30 REGULARS Editorial : 'Notes' and the 'cinematic' = 5 Rushes Preview: nick James looks ahead to this year's Cannes selection = 6 Interview: Leigh Singer talks to Hope Dickson Leach, director of rural drama The Levelling = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the surprising success of micro-budget indie My Feral Heart = 9 Spotlight: Nick Roddick wonders whether Lucas Belvaux's Front National drama Chez nous heralds a new era of political filmmaking = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins bemoans the folly of censoring the past = 13 Wied Angle Preview: Henry K. Miller uncovers a story of 1930s propaganda with resonances for today = 14 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon celebrates the art of the silent film accompanist = 16 Talking Point: Neil Young explains how betting can put the or in the Palme d'Or = 17 Letters = 111 Endings : Philip Concannon is knocked out by John Huston's Fat City = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The owls are not what they seem: the world of Twin Peaks : As David Lynch's cult early 90s series returns for a third season, we look back at its beguilingly eccentric marriage of the mundane and the macabre. By Roger Luckhurst PLUS Ronnie Hackston explores the director's filmic influences and love of doppelgangers and mirrors = 18 The unknown soldier : Francois Ozon has always shown an unquenchable enthusiasm for reinvention, so ti shouldn't surprise us that Frantz, a stately black-and-white costume drama set in the aftermath of World War 1, is like nothing he's done before. By Trevor Johnston = 26 Unhappy together : Claude Barras and Celine Sciamma's brilliant My Life as a Courgette blends political idealism with clear-eyed fatalism in a heartbreaking exploration of the losses and brutalities endured by a group of orphans in a children's home. By Kieron Corless = 34 Arias of influence : The arrival in Londen of Thomas Ades's opera on Luis Buñuel's surreal satire of bourgeois hypocrisy, The Exterminating Angel, offers an opportunity to examine the long and gruitful relationship between opera and film. By Alexander Jacoby = 36 DEEP FOCUS The Black feninine on screen : A distinct asethetic binds a number of films by black femal directors across the years-and approach that illuminates the varied experiences of black women with a rare interiority and subjectivity. On the eve of a Sight & Sound-sponsored season at London's BFI Southbank, Gaylene Gould talks to director Julie Dash about Daughters of the Dust while Tega Okiti introduces several of the key figures working within this often marginalised cinematic tradition = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH After the Storm = 52 I Am Not Madame Bovary = 54 The Levelling = 56 FLIMS The Boss Baby = 58 CHIPS = 59 Colossal = 60 A Dog's Purpose = 61 Fast & Furious 8 = 61 Finding Fatimah = 62 Frantz = 63 Ghost in the Shell = 64 Handsome Devil = 65 Harmonium = 65 The hippopotamus = 66 Inversion = 67 Jawbone = 68 The Journey = 69 LA 92 = 70 Life = 70 Machines = 71 Mindhorn = 72 Miss Sloane = 72 My Life as a Courgette = 73 The Other Side of Hope = 74 The Red Turtle = 76 The Secret Scripture = 77 The Shepherd = 77 Sleepless = 78 Sapceship = 79 Tickling Giants = 79 Tomcat = 80 Unlocked = 81 Whisky Galore! = 81 The Zookeeper's Wife = 82 HOME CINEMA Canoa: A Shameful Memory, Chaplin: The Essanay Comedies, Experiment in Terror, The Front,The Goddess, The Informer, Letter to Brezhnev, property Is No Longer a Theft, The proun Valley, 12 Angry Men = 85 DVD features Pasquale lannone on revelatory reissues of Luchino Visconti's late films Ludwig and The Innocent = 84 Television: Robert Hanks on Six Plays by Alan Bennett = 88 Lost and Found: Charlie Fox experiences the delights of Todd Haynes's infamous Barbie doll-cast Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story = 90 BOOKS Isabel Stevens on a lavish tribute to the unsung artists of the backdrop = 92 pamela Hutchinson applauds a trailblazing survey of silent comedy's female stars = 93

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