Sight and Sound

A field in England : Mike Leigh has made may fine period dramas, but Peterloo, his depiction of the slaughter of peaceful protesters in Manchester in 1819, is his first genuine historical epic. By Matthew Sweet = 28 REGULARS Editorial : Live another day = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: Coming attractions on the small screen = 6 Interview: Sophie Brown talks to Chloé Zhao, directors of the Rider = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant examines the small-scale success of Leave No Trace = 9 Interview: Lou Thomas talks to Bart Layton, director of the documentary/heist-movie mongrel American Animals = 11 Preview: Nick James outlines the films to watch out for at the BFI London Film Festival = 13 Wide Angle Preview: Catherine Wheatley explores the dream-like brilliance of German director Angela Schanelec = 14 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson finds a thoroughly modern sensibility at work in the silent films at the BFI London Film Festival = 16 Artists’ Moving Image: Matthew Barrington is excited by the young black British filmmakers finding new ways into the archive = 19 Festivals : Kieron Corless reports from Locarno, where mystery and obliquity this year came with a few laughs = 21 Letters = 95 Endings : Sheila O’Malley watches Warren Beatty’s final rinsing in Hal Ashby’s prescient comic classic Shampoo = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE The class ceiling : The working-class actors and directors who helped revitalize British filmmaking in the 1960s now feel like the product of a golden age of social mobility, which only serves to underscore the dismal paucity of working-class talent within UK film culture today. By Danny Leigh PLUS Anna Coatman on women and working-class cinema= 22 Disco inferno : Gaspar Noé discusses Climax, which follows a troupe of dancers descending into a bacchanalian frenzy of sex and violence. By Anna Bogutskaya = 32 Dire straights : The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Desiree Akhavan’s tale of a woman sent to a rural gay conversion therapy centre, combines the drama of Carrie with the ease and fun of a John Hughes film. By Anna Coatman = 36 Elaine May: laughing matters Elaine May’s extraordinary career as director, screenwriter and stand-up comic remains criminally undervalued, a body of work in which she has taken delight in skewering male vanity. By Carrie Rickey = 40 Being there : Kogonada’s exquisite Columbus is a love letter to the serene elegance of modernist architecture. By Jonathan Romney = 44 FILMS OF THE MONTH American Animals = 50 Faces Places = 52 The Little Stranger = 54 FILMS Anchor and Hope = 56 Black’47 = 56 Christopher Robin = 57 Climax = 58 Columbus = 59 The Darkest Minds = 60 Down to Earth = 60 The Gospel According to André = 61 In Praise of Nothing = 62 Island = 62 The King = 63 Kusama: Infinity = 64 Lucky = 65 Matangi/Maya/M.I.A = 65 The Meg = 66 The Miseducation of Cameron Post = 67 Never Here = 67 A Northern Soul = 68 Pope Francis: A Man of His World = 69 Puzzle = 70 Reinventing Marvin = 70 The Rider = 71 The Seagull = 72 Skate Kitchen = 73 The Spy Who Dumped Me = 74 Superfly = 74 Tehran Taboo = 75 Under the Wire = 76 Unfriended: Dark Web = 76 Upgrade = 77 Wajib = 78 The Wife = 79 HOME CINEMA The Changeling; Le Crime de monsieur Lange; The Defiant Ones; Films starring Alain Delon: Deux hommes dans la ville/Mort d’un pourri/Trois hommes à abattre/Pur la peau d’un flic; Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror: The Camp on Blood Island/Yesterday’s Enemy/The Stranglers of Bombay/The Terror of the Tongs; King of Hearts; Mohsen Makhmalbaf: The Poetic Trilogy – Gabbeh/The Silence/The Gardener; Separate Tables; Smithereens; Suffering of Ninko = 82 DVD features : Nick Pinkerton falls at the feet of Jackie Chan, our age’s incarnation of the pure spirit of filmmaking = 80 Rediscovery: Jonathan Rosenbaum revisits Jacques Rivette’s The Nun = 85 Television: Robert Hanks on The Mad Death and Wodehouse Playhouse = 86 Lost and Found: Martyn Conterio celebrates Tod Browning’s Fast Workers = 88 BOOKS Hannah McGill takes aim at Peter Biskind’s musings on film and extremism = 90 Tony Rayns browses a new study of Kobayashi Masaki = 91 J. Hoberman dives into the world of Stan Brakhage = 92 Henry K. Miller offers a chilly assessment of Geoff Dyer’s slim exploration of Where Eagles Dare = 92

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