Sight and Sound

Sapphires and steel : In a career that ran from the silent to Spielberg, Joan Crawford’s incredible self-discipline and poise under pressure saw her triumph in a series of demanding roles. By Farran Smith Nehme = 28 REGULARS Editorial : Playing favourites = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: what to look out for in the world of film = 6 Interview: Pasquale Iannone meets Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, directors of A Sicilian Ghost Story = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds cold comfort in a hot summer = 9 Discovery: Timothy P.A. Cooper applauds the great Pakistani-French director Jamil Dehlavi = 11 First Sight: Lou Thomas Talks to The Heiresses director Marcelo Martinessi = 13 Wide Angle Preview: Anna Coatman on a film tour highlighting the radicalism of women in 1968and after = 14 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon salutes René Clair, a director who looked to cinema’s past as well as its future = 16 Documentary: Matthew Barrington reports on the sometimes heated debates at the Flaherty Seminar on documentary = 19 Festivals : James Bell finds that Bologna’s annual festival of archive and restored film is more vibrant than ever = 21 Letter = 95 Endings : Davis Perrin says goodbye to Wim Wenders’s melancholy Kings Wenders’s melancholy Kings of the Road – and to the great cinematographer Robby Müller = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Deep cover : Spike Lee discusses the unlikely true tale of an African-American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, the subject of his latest film ‘BlacKkKlansman’. By Kaleem Aftab = 22 A time to love : Cold War charts the love affair between a composer and a singer under Communist rule in post-war Poland. Jonathan Romney talks to director Pawel Pawlikowski = 34 Top ranking : For his first feature as director, the thriller Yardie, Idris Elba tapped into his memories of growing up in Hackney to capture the flavor of life in London’s Afro-Caribbean community in the 1980s. By Gaylene Gould = 38 Taking a line for a walk : Drawing was the creative thread of Orson Welles’s life, far more than radio, theatre or film, and his sketches and paintings offer a back door to the cathedral of his imagination. By Mark Cousins = 42 Thrill of the Hunt : One of the most consistently cinematic franchises of the last 25 years, the Mission: Impossible films also offer a case study in the idea of the actor as auteur, with Tom Cruise again taking control in the sixth instalment, Fallout. By Nick Pinkerton = 48 FILMS OF THE MONTH Distant Constellation = 54 The Guardians = 56 FILMS Ant-Man and the Wasp = 58 The Apparition = 58 Bad Samaritan = 59 BlaKkKlansman = 60 Braguino = 61 C’est la vie! = 61 The Children Act = 62 Cold War = 63 Damascus Cover = 64 Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings = 64 Dhadak = 65 Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey = 66 The Equalizer 2 = 66 The Eyes of Orson Welles = 67 The First Purge = 68 The Heiresses =69 Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation = 69 In Darkness = 70 Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy = 71 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again = 71 The Man from Mo’Wax = 72 Mission: Impossible – Fallout = 73 The Negotiator = 74 One Note at a Time = 74 Searching = 75 Sicario 2: Soldado = 76 Sicilian Ghost Story = 77 Skyscraper = 78 Spitfire = 78 Tag = 79 Uncle Drew = 80 Under the Tree = 80 Yardie = 81 HOME CINEMA The Addiction, Black Peter, Dark Blue, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!, Two Films by Roger Donaldson: Sleeping Dogs/Smash Palace, Footsteps in the Fog, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, It Happened Here, King of Jazz, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, Neon Bull, Personal Problems = 82 DVD features : Graham Fuller is seduced all over again by Marlene Dietrich’s films for Josef von Sternberg = 82 Revival: Philip Kemp on the working-class heroes of Woodfall Films = 87 Television: Robert Hanks revisits Heimat, Edgar Reitz’s great chronicle pf 20th-century Germany = 89 Jeff Billington reassesses Yoshida Yoshishige’s 1988 Japanese take on Wuthering Heights = 90 BOOKS Dan Callahan welcomes an attempt to restore Ernst Lubitsch to his former eminence = 92 Henry K. Miller dives into a history of film buffery = 93

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