Sight and Sound

All I desire : For female critics, talking about ogling men on screen is a subversive joy that allows for critical honesty and challenges centuries of the male gaze. By Christina Newland = 34 REGULARS Editorial : The Kids aren't all right = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: BFI London film Festival highlights = 6 Interview: Abbey Bender talks to Maysaloun Hamoud, whose In Between focuses on Palestinian women in Israel = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant charts breakout hits Girls Trip and The Big Sick = 9 Idustry: Andrew Male tunes in to Talking Pictures, the unexpected success story of digital TV = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins remembers the surprising Jeanne Moreau = 13 Festivals : Kieron Corless reports from Locarno = 14 Wide Angle Preview: ahead of a retrospective at London's Tate Modern, Elena Gorfinkel explores the world of the American artist Kevin Jerome Everson = 16 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon tests the vintage of Shiraz. a rare survivor from India's silent era = 18 Point of View: Mark Steven examines the violent connections between capitalism and slasher films = 21 Letters = 95 Endings : Alex Dudok de Wit on the rich, bleak ambiguities that close Mira Nair's stunning Salaam Bombay! = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Dark mirror: the conema of Stephen King : Stephen King's monumental output offers a detailed map of the insecurities of the post-war American psyche-a distinctive mythos captured in a dizzying array of adaptaions, from the auteur visions of Stanley Kubrick to low-budget video nasties. By Roger Luckhurst PLUS Kelli Weston looks at King's use of firytale archetypes = 22 Trouble and strife : Even by the standards of Darren Aronofsky, a director who has make a career out of defying expectations, Mother!-the tale of a woman trying to create a dream family home in the face of disturbances by a series of strange guests-is a thoroughly confounding experience. He talks to Trevor Johnston = 30 Love and death on Long Island : Yance Ford's wrenching documentary Strong Island, about the killing of his brother by a white mechanic in 1992, confronts viewers with tough questions about their own complicity in racial stereotyping. By Robert Greene = 38 Birdy num-num : The Indian characters Peter Sellers plays in The Millionairess and The Party are, on a basic level, grotesque constructs-but on closer examination, they contain an unwitting depth and complexity. By Hanif Kureishi = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH Insyriated = 48 The Road to Mandalay = 50 The Work = 52 FLIMS Almost Heaven = 54 Atomic Blonde = 54 Back to Burgundy = 55 Bending the Arc = 56 Brimstone = 56 Bushwick = 57 Daphne = 58 The Dark Tower = 59 The Emoji Movie = 59 The Glass Castle = 60 Home Again = 62 In Between = 62 An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power = 63 In the Last Days of the City = 64 Journey Through French Cinema = 65 Kills on Wheels = 66 The Limehouse Golem = 68 Metamorphose = 68 The night Is Short, Walk On Girl = 69 On Body and Soul = 70 On the Road = 72 Primaire = 73 The Reagan Show = 73 Shin Godzilla = 74 Step = 75 Tramontane = 76 The Vault = 76 The Villainess = 78 Wind River = 79 Wolf Warrior II = 79 Zoology = 80 HOME CINEMA L'Argent, Marion Davies films: The Bride's Play/Beauty's Worth/When Knighthood Was in Flower, The Love of a Woman, The Mourning Forest, Peppermint Soda, Ronin, The Sinbad Trilogy: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad/The Golden Voyage of Sinbad/Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, The Tree of Wooden Clogs = 83 DVD features : Pamela Hutchinson traces the continuities in Josef von Sternberg's career, from first to last = 82 Rediscovery: Henry K. Miller delights in the art films of James Scott = 85 Television: Robert Hanks on Charles Dickens at the BBC in the 50s and 60s = 86 Lost and Found: Isabel Stevens leafs through Demon Lover Diary = 88 BOOKS Tim Hayes assesses Niger 'Quatermass' Kneale's place in film and TV history = 90 Alexander Jacoby welcomes a comprehensive study of Ozu Yasujiro = 91 Pamela Hutchinson on the Hollywood costume designer Dolly Tree = 92 Henry K. Miller looks back at the UK's film and video collectives of the 70s = 92 Geoff Andrew gives at least two cheers for the film writing of Joseph McBride = 93

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