Sight and Sound

The kindness of strangers : Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, a feminine reinterpretation of Don Siegel's 1971 film about a wounded soldier taken in by an group of women at a Southern boarding school, represents the apotheosis of the gauzy, dream-like style. By Jessica Kiang = 46 REGULARS Editorial : Faith, hope and clarity = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: Filmic highlights = 6 Preview: Andrew Male talks to Kasper Collin, director of a new film abot jazz great Lee Morgan = 8 The Number: Charles Gant sees The Red Turtle doing swimmingly = 9 Interview: James Mottram talks to writer Kumail Nanjiani about the trauma behind romcom Thge Big Sick = 11 Rediscovery: Gary Vanisian on the great Nigerian filmmaker Ola Balogun = 12 Dispatches: Mark Cousins sings the praises of didacticism = 15 Wide Angle Point of view: Robert Koehlet hails the phenomenal rise of Latin American film = 16 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson reports from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival = 18 Artists' moving image: Esther Leslie on the dizzying, shocking animations of Jordan Wolfson = 21 Letters = 95 Endings : Philip Kemp admires the optimism of Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade = 96 REATURES COVER FEATURE The great escape : Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk plunges viewers into the bloody heart of the epic rescue of Allied troops from France at the start of World War II-but the director was determined to frame it as a tale of suspense and survival, not a traditional war film. By Nick James PLUS James Mottram talks to producer Emma Thomas and DP Hoyte van Hoytema about the challenges of making the film = 22 Frail majesty : The great Jean-Pierre Leaud Plays the Sun King in Albert Serra's The Death of Louis XIV, a film that offers an quasi-documentary portrait of the actor's own frailty. By Jonathan Romney PLUS director Albert Serra on Why he likes to encourage a little confusion on set = 30 Queen Elisabeth : Elisabeth Moss has shown a canny ability to pick projects with a zeitgeisty weight-from The West Wing to The Handmaid's Tale-playing complex roles with a feminist edge. By Hannah McGill PLUS Isabel Stevens talks to Moss and director Jane Campion about Top of the Lake: China Girl = 36 Eye of the storm : Julian Assange is a crusader for radical transparency, but the version of him that emerges in Laura Poitras's Risk is notable for its murkiness. By Nick Bradshaw = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH It Comes at Nigth = 54 Risk = 56 Song to Song = 58 FLIMS Abacus: Small Enough to Jail = 60 All Eyez on Me = 60 The Beguiled = 61 The Big Sick = 62 The Boy and the Beast = 63 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie = 63 Cars 3 = 64 A Change in the Weather = 64 City of Ghosts = 65 Davied Lynch: The Art Life = 66 The Death of Louis XIV = 66 Diary of a Wimpy Did: The Long Haul = 67 Dying Laughing = 68 England Is Mine = 68 Genocidal Organ = 69 The Ghoul = 70 Hounds of Love = 71 I Called Him Morgan = 71 Land of Mine = 72 The Last Word = 73 Maudie = 74 The Midwife = 74 The Mummy = 75 Norman: The moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer = 76 Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge = 76 Public House = 77 Rock Dog = 78 Scribe = 78 Shot! The Psycho-spiritual Mantra of Rock = 79 Souvenir = 80 Transformers: The Last Knight = 80 Wonder Woman = 81 HOME CINEMA Brain Damage, Death in the Garden, Diabolique, Ghost World, The Goose Steps Out, Films by Umberto Lenzi, Long Shot - A Film About Filmmaking, Minute Bodies, Moulin Rouge, Phenomena, Serial Mom, La Strada, Tampopo = 83 DVD features : Nick Pinkerton settles down with voume two of Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project = 82 Television : Robert Hanks on The Naked Civil Servant and Praying Mantis = 86 Lost and Found: Neil Sinyard revisits Alain Jessua's sensational, enigmatic study of mental illness Life Upside Down = 88 BOOKS Dan Callahan reviews a portrait of Ava Gardner = 90 Lee Grieveson is dazzled by a study of the casualties of noir-era Hollywood = 91 Philip Kemp celebrates the legacy of the great Indian archivist P.K. Nair = 92 Nick Pinkerton watches the utopian television of Rossellini, Watkins and Godard = 92

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