Sight and Sound

Jean-Pierre Melville: iron in the soul : Though the influence of American cinema is clear in Melville's work, the hard-edged Gallic poetry of his films, with their compromised, war-weary heroes, is all his own. By Nick James = 32 REGULARS Editorial : Ticking off = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: forthcoming attractions = 6 Interview: Sophie Monks Kaufman talks to Shubhashish Bhutiani, the 26-year-old director of Hotel Salvation = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the remarkable success of Lady Macbeth = 9 Obituary: Kim Newman mourns horror king George A. Romero = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins pays tribute to gentleness in films = 13 Festivals : James Bell on the joy of rediscovery at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna = 14 Wide Angle Point of View: Nick Pinkerton wants ot puncture the inflated seriousness of modern genre movies = 16 Primal Screen: Olaf Moller on the director Roberts Land, a neglected master of early German cinema = 19 Festival: Kieron Corless watches the walls come tumbling down at FID Marseille = 20 Letters = 95 Endings : Matthew Taylor on the wrenching encounter that closes Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Motor city's burning : In Detroit, an incendiary portrait of police brutality and racism, Kathryn Bigelow documents the riots that shook the city in 1967 and the notorious Algiers Motel incident, in which a group of young people were beaten and tortured by members of the riot task force. By Ryan Gilbey = 22 Enduring love : David Lowerys A Ghost Story, an idiosyncratic study of grief and love, sprang from the whimsical idea of making a traditional haunted house film in which the ghost is a figure in a white sheet. By Philip Concannon = 28 Cold comfort farm : After acting for years, Francis Lee gave it all up, found work in a scrap yard and began to make shorts - finally securing funding for his beautifully controlled feature debut God's Own Country, and intense drama about the love affair between a Yorshire farmer and his Romanian co-worker. By Trevor Johnston = 40 After the revolucion : The bold social and political innovations of the Cuban Revolution soon made their mark on the country's film industry, encouraging an explosion of experimental and iconoclastic documentary filmmaking. By Michael Chanan = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH Dunkirk = 50 Logan Lucky = 52 Mimosas = 54 Quest = 56 FLIMS Annabelle: Creation = 58 Chubby Funny = 58 Dark Night = 59 Despicable Me 3 = 60 Detroit = 60 Everything, Everything = 61 Final Portrait = 62 47 Metres Down = 62 47 Metres Down = 62 A Ghost Story = 63 Girls Trip = 64 God's Own Country = 65 The Hitman's Bodyguard = 66 Hotel Salvation = 66 The House = 67 London Symphony = 68 Moon Dogs = 69 Napping Princess = 69 The Odyssey = 70 Patti Cakes = 71 Rough Night = 72 La Soleded = 72 Spider Man: Homecoming = 73 Tom of Finland = 74 Una = 75 The Untamed = 75 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets = 76 The Wall = 77 War for the Planet of the Apes = 78 Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, The Clours of Life = 79 Williams = 79 Wish Upon = 80 HOME CINEMA The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Climber, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, J'accuse, Films starring Sophia Loren, The 3 Marx Brothers at Paramount: 1929-1933, Mickey One, Momotaro, Sacred Sailors, The Orchard End Murder, Pluse, Terror in a Texas Town, Westfront 1918/Kameradschaft, Zaza = 83 DVD features : Alexander Jacoby wonders what lies beneath the gorgeous surface of Suzuki Seijun's 'Taisho Trilogy' = 82 Rediscovery: David Thompson celebrates Marcel Pagnol's sparkling Marseille trilogy-Marius, Fanny and Cesar = 85 Television: Robert Hanks watches subtle 70s horrors The Frighteners and 80s evangelicals in The Vision = 86 Lost and Found: Graham Fuller on Peter Wollen's eerie, prophetic sci-fi film Friendship's Death = 90 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton is inspired by the first selection of Annette Michelson's experimental film writing = 92 Ian Christie Launches into the space of Soviet film = 93

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