Sight and Sound

Killer Joe : On the surface, You Were Never Really Here is a violent noir thriller. But it’s also – like director Lynne Ramsay’s other films – a focused study of a character on the edge. By Leigh Singer = 32 REGULARS Editorial : The ice woman cometh = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: coming attractions = 6 Archive: Matthew Harle and Jack Wormell warn of the threat to London’s gloriously eccentric Cinema Museum = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds venues that really count = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins on the lives of Lena Horne and Susan Hayward = 11 Wide Angle Artists’ Moving Image: Sukhdev Sandhu marvels at the enigmatic = films of Luke Fowler = 12 Primal Screen: Luke McKernan sees red over plans to colourise WW1 films = 15 Festival: Kieron Corless fins local colour in the heartland of globalization at Rotterdam’s IFFR = 17 Festivals : Nick James reports from a Berlinale that took time to find its feet = 18 Letter = 95 Endings : Andrew Gutman admires the precocious wisdom that closes Edward Yang’s moving family drama Yi Yi = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Where beagles dare : Wes Anderson and his co-writers talk about how they created the world of Isle of Dogs – a futuristic fantasy with a cast of dogs and a script that is half in Japanese. By Nick James = 22 Red earth : A gripping outback western set in the 1920s, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country exposes the racism and brutality at the heart of the colonial project, as a posse hunts down a pair of Indigenous Australians accused of murder. By Trevor Johnston = 28 Playing to the gallery : Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s latest spectacle of social embarrassment and abjection, The Square, takes aim at the pretensions of the art world, in its mischievous portrayal of suave Stockholm gallery director who singularly fails to live up to his own high ideals. By Jonathan Romney = 38 Stealing beauty : Typecast in roles that showcases her sex appeal and exotic allure, Hedy Lamarr’s appeal persona gave little hint of her other life as a fiercely intelligent amateur scientist and inventor. By Pamela Hutchinson. PLUS Christina Newland on the smart women who got their chance in wartime Hollywood = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH Black Panther = 50 The Third Murder = 52 Unsane = 54 FILMS Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco = 56 Around India with a Movie Camera = 56 The Cloverfield Paradox = 57 The 15:17 to Paris = 58 Fifty Shades Freed = 59 Gholam = 59 Have a Nice Day = 60 Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits = 61 I Got Life! = 61 The Islands & the Whales = 62 Isle of Dogs = 63 Journeyman = 64 Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House = 65 Nary Magdalene = 65 Maze Runner: The Death Cure = 66 My Generation = 67 My Golden Days = 69 Padmaavat = 70 Pad Man = 70 Peter Rabbit = 71 Proud Mary = 72 Psycho Vertical = 72 Red Sparrow = 73 Scott and Sid = 74 The Square = 75 Status Update = 76 Sweet Country = 76 Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas = 77 12Strong = 78 Westwood: Punk. Icon. Activist = 78 Winchester = 79 You Were Never Really Her = 80 HOME CINEMA Blue Collar, The Cat o’ Nine Tails, The Colour of Pomegranates, Goldstone, Magnificent Doll, Michael, Films by Mike Nichols: The Fortune/Wolf, Films by Peter Nichols: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg/The Nation Health, Night of the Living Dead, Orchestra Rehearsal, Something Wild = 83 DVD features : Virginie Sélavy reveals the overlooked audacity of Henri-Georges Clouzot = 82 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson welcomes the return of director Lois Weber, written back into film history at last = 85 Television: Robert Hanks takes a punt on The Main Chance, Ghost in the Water and Real Women = 86 Lost and Found: Ross McDonell on Gérard Blain’s A Child in the Crowd = 89 BOOKS Farran Smith Nehme relishes the detestable, irresistible Michael Curtiz = 90 Pamela Hutchinson is seduced by a life of 1920s star Barbara La Marr – too beautiful for her own good = 91 Philip Kemp reads a study of Hitchcock’s spy films that goes against the auteurist grain = 92 Nick James gets giddy over a philosophical reading of Vertigo = 92

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