Sight and Sound

Cannes: bourgeois bluse : Nick James and Isabel Stevens report from the festival, with reviews of new work by old hands-from Agnes Varda to Michael Haneke-alongside the pick of the discoveries = 44 REGULARS Editorial : 'Prolific', the sequel = 5 Rushes In the Frame: coming attractions, including Dunkirk and festivals in Edinburgh and Sheffield = 6 Interview: Nick Roddick meets Koreeda Hirokazu, director of the piercing Japanese family drama After the Storm = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant tallies the surprising success of Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden = 9 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson revisits Fritz Lang's death-haunted breakthrough film of 1921 Der mude Tod = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins salutes the courage and composure of Nicole Kidman = 13 Wied Angle Opinion: Sophie Mayer speaks for the curators who have shaped film history = 14 Primal Screen: David Cairns wonders what we might have missed in Humor Risk-the Marx Brothers' lost silent film = 16 Artists' moving image: Nick Pinkerton explores the endlessly changing worlds of Ian Cheng = 19 Festivals : Tony Rayns reports on work from a pair of fine directors in Hong Kong = 21 Letters = 95 Endings : Adam Scovell considers the incendiary closing moments of The Wicker Man = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Boy racer : Building on the musical fantasias of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the action elements of Hot Fuzz and the observational comedy of Shaun of the Dead, Edgar Wright's kinetic Baby Driver is hot on the tail of a getaway driver looking for a way out. The director talks to Mark Kermode PLUS Christina Newland hits the road with the best American car-chase films of the 60s and 70s = 22 Piggy in the middle : A genetically modified pig is at the centre of a battle between the conglomerate that created him and a Korean girl determined to save his life, in Bong Joonho's delightfully idiosyncratic Okja. By Tony Rayns = 30 Coming out fighting : The upcoming 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in the UK offers and opportunity to look back at the portrayal of queer lives in British film and TV in the 60s and 70s. By Simon McCallum = 34 Fugitive pieces : For more than 50 years, the French director Philippe Garrel has reimagined the emotional highs and lows of his life on film-from his drug-fuelled relationship with the German singer Nico in 1979's L'Enfant secret, to his affair with a much younger woman in this year's Lover for a Day. By Cristina Alvarez Lopez and Adrian Martin = 40 FILMS OF THE MONTH By the Time It Gets Dark = 52 Edith Walks = 54 The Human Surge = 56 FLIMS Alien: Covenant = 60 Alone in Berlin = 61 American Hero = 61 Baby Driver = 62 Baywatch = 63 Berlin Syndrome = 64 Centre of My World = 64 Churchill = 65 Destination Unknown = 66 Detour = 66 Dough = 67 From the Land of the Moon = 68 Gifted = 68 A good Day to Die Hoka Hey = 69 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 = 70 Hampstead = 70 In This Corner of the World = 71 Kedi = 72 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword = 72 Lost in Lebanon = 73 A Man Called Ove = 74 My Cousin Rachel = 74 Okja = 75 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger = 76 Slack Bay = 77 Snatched = 78 Stockholm My Love = 78 Summer in the Forest = 79 Tommy's Honour = 80 Whitney: Can I Be Me = 81 Wilson = 81 HOME CINEMA Behind the Door, The Big Heat, Hardcore, Drunken Master, Hard Times, Madame de..., Mandy, Melody, Spotlight on a Murderer = 83 DVD features Trevor Johnston brushes the cobwebs off Bill Forsyth's Housekeeping = 82 Revival: Kate Stables sees the funny side of Alan Clarke's raucous comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too = 85 Television: Robert Hanks on 1990 and Star Maidens = 86 Lost and Found: Jonathan Coe casts a fond glance at John Huston's period curio Sinful Davey = 88 BOOKS Pamela Hutcinson gets wrapped up in costume disigner Tracy Tynan's life = 90 Jonathan Rosenbaum examines the fruits of William Faulkner's prolific seccnsriting career = 91 David Thompson welcomes another instalment in the rehabilitation of walerian Borowczyk = 92 Nick Pinkerton wrestles with Jean Louis Schefer's 'ordinary man' = 92

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