Sight and Sound

The S&S Interview: Guillermo del Toro : the director of the sublime romantic fantasy The Shape of Water explores the influences on the film and explains the devices behind his inimitable visual style. By Nick James = 26 REGULARS Editorial : Never mind the symbolics = 5 Rushes Interview: Juliet Jacques asks Sebastián Lelio about crossing boundaries of genre and gender in A Fantastic Woman = 6 Industry: Shelley Cobb and Linda Ruth Williams on Calling the Shots, which crunches the numbers on women in film = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant tots up the awards-season premium = 9 Interview: Trevor Johnston talks to Clio Barnard about Dark River’s mix of fiction and deeply researched truth = 10 Dispatches: Mark Cousins explains why he’s had it with Woody Allen = 13 Wide Angle Point of View: Becca Voelcker perambulates through the history of women walking on screen = 14 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon on Journey’s End and other WW1 classics = 16 Artists’ Moving Image: Nick Pinkerton enjoys the sugar rush Jodie Mack’s playful, perfect animations = 17 Letters = 95 Endings : Neil Sinyard on the unexpectedly small note humility and triumph that closes George Stevens’s Texas epic Giant = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Fly away home : A high school student desperate to escape Sacramento finds her roots in the city are deeper than she imagined, in Greta Gerwig’s bittersweet coming-of-age tale Lady Bird. By Pamela Hutchinson = 18 Sister acts : While stories of male friendship are so common they even have their own genre in the ‘buddy’ movie, depictions of female friendship remain relatively rare and underappreciated – an imbalance the BFI’s ‘Girlfriends’ season seeks to correct. By Hannah McGill = 22 The lost boy : Andrey Zvyagintsev’s haunting Loveless, the story of a young boy who goes missing, offers a pitiless indictment of a society preoccupied with superficial distractions. By Jonathan Romney = 32 The human touch : Ingmar Bergman’s English-language The Touch earned mixed reviews on release in 1971 and was soon overshadowed by his subsequent works – but it’s time to recognize it as a major entry in the director’s canon. By Geoff Andrew = 38 Obituaries : Bob Mastrangelo honours the great and good of the fil world who left us in the last year = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH A Fantastic Woman = 52 I, Tonya = 54 The Nile Hilton Incident = 56 FILMS All the Money in the World = 58 Attraction = 59 Birth of the Dragon = 59 Bombshell : The Hedy Lamarr Story = 60 The Cinema Travellers = 61 Dark River = 61 Den of Thieves = 62 The Divine Order = 63 Early Man = 64 Erase and Forget = 64 Father Figures = 65 Finding Your Feet = 66 Gook = 67 The Ice King = 67 Insidious: The Last Key = 68 Lady Bird = 69 The Liquidator = 70 Loveless = 70 The Mercy = 71 Mom and Dad = 72 Mukkabaaz = 72 My Life Story = 73 Native = 74 Pitch Perfect 3 = 75 Plot 35 = 75 The Shape of Water = 76 Slumber = 77 Tokyo Ghoul = 78 The Valley = 79 Wonder Wheel = 79 You Have No Idea How Much I Love You = 80 HOME CINEMA Alice in the Cities, The Battle of Algiers, Three Films by Jacques Becker, The Border, The Cremator, The Deadly Affair, Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Vol. 1 – Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies, Viva l’Italia, The Witches = 84 DVD features : Nick Pinkerton celebrates the kick-ass artistry of direct-to-video action films = 82 Silent films: Philip Kemp enjoys modern-day silent filn London Symphony = 85 Television: Robert Hanks on The Nearly Man and The Eagle of the Ninth = 86 BOOKS Stephen Philips on the man who put the Fox into 20th Century Fox = 90 Dan Callahan reviews a life of Miriam Hopkins – a famously ‘difficult’ actress = 91 Pamela Hutchinson gets off to a good start with a book about opening scenes = 92 Nick Bradshaw takes things slow with Thom Andersen’s writing on film = 92

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