Sight and Sound

Faithful servant : First Reformed, the tale of an angry Christian pastor’s crisis of faith, brings Paul Schrader’s career as a critic, screenwriter and director full circle, drawing together a lifelong fascination with questions of spirituality and his obsession with tormented loners. By Philip Concannon = 40 REGULARS Editorial : Imitation of life = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: what to look out for in the world of film = 6 Interview: Philip Concannon speaks to Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, director of Thai prison drama A Prayer Before Dawn = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds that fashion doc McQueen is very mych on trend = 9 Dispatches: Mark Cousins pays his respects to the late Kira Muratova, one of the greatest directors in the world = 11 Wide Angle Preview: Erika Balsom navigates the uncharted metaohorical depths of the sea = 12 Primal screen: Bryony Dixon explores the symbiotic relationship that’s developed between film and fashion since the early days of cinema = 14 Artists’ Moving Image: Michael : Pattison is haunted and burned by the imagery of Martha Colburn = 17 Letters The modern trend for murky cinematography; film colourisation; film in Derry during the Troubles = 95 Endings : Peter Tonguette explores the quiet disappointment that closes Elia Kazan’s Splendour in the Grass = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE 100 novels on cinema : In a 20-page special feature, S&S contributors pick their favourite novels and short stories about filmmaking – from Hollywood to Bollywood, via Britain, France, Germany, Italy and beyond = 18 Pause and effect : With crisp dialogue that is at once laconic and verbose, Harold Pinter’s phenomenal screenplays, from Accident and The Servant to The Quiller Memorandum, are among the most influential in the English-speaking world. By Robert Hanks = 44 Bearing witness : Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy draws on the director’s experiences growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness in Oldham, exploring the tensions provoked within a family when a daughter pushes against the strictures of the religion. By Will Massa = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH Cocte = 54 Ex Libris = 58 Pin Cushion = 58 FILMS Adrift = 60 Apostasy = 60 Book Club = 61 The Bookshop = 62 The Butterfly Tree = 63 The Escape = 63 Extinction = 64 First Reformed = 65 Generation Wealth = 66 Habit = 67 Hearts Beat Loud = 67 Hotel Artemis = 68 Ice Man = 69 Incredibles 2 = 69 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom = 70 Kissing Candice = 71 Madame = 71 Mario = 72 El mar la mar = 73 Ocean’s Eight = 74 One or Two Questions = 74 A Prayer Before Dawn = 75 Racer and the Jailbird = 76 The Receptionist = 77 The Secret of Marrowbone = 78 Solo: A Star Wars Story = 79 Summer 1993 = 80 Tracking Edith = 81 Tranny Fag = 81 Veere Di Wedding = 82 HOME CINEMA The Ancient Law, Animerama: 1001 Nights / Cleopatra, The Children’s Hour, Inherit the Wind, Liquid Sky, Moonrise, No Way Out, There Was a Crooked Man, Vigil = 86 DVD feature : Kim Morgan enters the convulsive violent world of Samuel Fuller, where motion is emotion = 84 Revival: Michael Brooke detects signs of greatness in a triple-bill of early films by Hou Hsiao-hsien = 88 Television: Robert Hanks assesses Alan Bleasdale as screenwriting impresario = 90 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton hears David Lynch’s squawking voice in his highly original memoir = 92 Will Massa is impressed with an account of the UK film industry’s fortunes over the past 35 years = 93

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