Sight and Sound

Little Miss Sunshine : Sean Baker's The Florida Project depicts the adventures of six-year-old Moonee and her friends, who live in a run-down motel in the sahdow of Disney World. By Philip Concannon = 26 REGULARS Editorial : Festival of resistance = 5 Rushes In the Frame: UK film festivals = 6 Interview: Christina Newland talks to Eliza Hittman, director of the jarring, sexy Beach Rats = 8 The numbers: Charles Gant on what went right for the Palestinian-Israeli film In Between = 9 What next after Weinstein?: Key figures in UK film outline ways the industry can learn from the scandal = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on films exploring the sacred and sexual = 15 Wide Angle Preview: Becca Voelcker encounters the challenge of Ana Mendieta's short, explosive films = 16 Primal Screen: Geoff Brown is left breathless and bewildered by the choice at Pordenone's silent film festival = 18 Festival: Erika Balsom finds Berwick-upon-Tweed staying true to its roots = 19 Letters = 95 Endings : Christina Newland admires the redemptive grace of American Gigolo = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE A thief in the night : Josh and Benny Safdie's frenetic Good Time is powered by Robert Pattinson, superb as a smalltime crook on a nighttime odyssey through New York to rescue his brother from the law. By Nick Pinkerton = 20 Delta blues : In Dee Rees's Mudbound two families in post-war Mississippi-one black, one white-find that shared experiences and tentative friendships count for nothing against the South's toxic social system. By Kelli Weston = 32 Road to perdition : Forty years after the release of Sorcerer, His Blistering remake of The Wages of Fear, director William Friedkin reminisces about a brutal shoot and an equally brutal critical reception. By Mark Kermode = 36 Catch a falling star : Paul McGuigan's Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool portrays the affair between a young Scouse actor and one-time queen of noir Gloria Garhame. Annette Bening discusses her decades-long preparation for playing Grahame. By Will Lawrence = 40 The flicker in her eyes : Gloria Grahame's ability to switch between innocence, bitterness and smouldering sensuality made her a screen legend in the golden age of noir. By Serena Bramble = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH Blade Runner 2049 Happy End = 52 The Ornithologist = 54 FLIMS Antiporno = 56 Battle of the Sexes = 56 Beach Rats = 57 Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's = 58 Boy Braker = 59 Felicite = 60 Ferrari: Race to Immortality = 61 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool = 62 Fireworks = 64 Flatliners = 64 The Florida Project = 65 Geostorm = 66 Good Time = 67 Heartstone = 68 Jane = 68 Kaleidoscope = 69 Lost in Paris = 70 Manigesto = 70 The Man Who Invented Christmas = 71 Marshall = 72 Most Beautiful Island = 72 No Stone Unturned = 73 Only the Brave = 74 Professor Marston and the Wonder Women = 74 School Life = 75 The Snowman = 76 Strangled = 77 Suburbicon = 78 Thor: Ragnarok = 78 Trophy = 79 Wet Woman in the Wind = 80 HOME CINEMA The Chase; Italian Genre Classics: Don't Torture a Duckling, Kill, Baby... Kill!; Buster Keaton: 3 Films-Sherlock Jr., The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr.; Life Is Sweet; Three Films by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff, Raining Stones, Ladybird Ladybird; Miracle Mile; Le Plaisir; Vampir Cuadecuc; The Wages of Fear = 83 DVD features : Kim Newman extols the grave joys of Herk Harvey's cult classic Carnival of Souls = 82 Rediscovery: Virginie Selavy on Sergio Martino, Genre generalissimo = 85 Lost and Found: Ben Nicholson untangles Korean noir Black Hair = 88 BOOKS Philip Kemp enjoys David Thomson's profile of the Warner brothers = 90 Nick Pinkerton welcomes the overdue reissue of Stan Brakhage's artistic credo = 91 Dan Callahan finds fresh insights in a memoir about Bette Davis = 92 Pamela Hutchinson : praises an invaluable short study of late silent film = 92

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