Sight and Sound

Twilight in the smog : Joseph Mc Bride, one of the key figures who helped shepherd Orson Welles's legendary The Other Side of the Wind to the screen, offers an insider's report on its tortuous gestation = 32 REGULARS Editorial : Look, no hands = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: what to look out for in the world of film = 6 Interview: Sophie Brown meets documentarist Khalik Allah, director of Black Mother = 8 The Numbers: Charles Gant On Spike Lee's box-office comeback with BlacKkKlansman = 9 Obituary: Nick Pinkerton pays tribute to the easy-going, virile charm of Burt Reynolds = 10 Wide Angle Preview: Becca Voelcker on the landscapes of the Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait = 12 Primal Screen: Neil Young salutes Paulette McDonagh and her sisters, female pioneers of Australian film = 15 Inside Track: novelist chloe Aridjis explains how she came to make her screen debut = 16 Festivals Don't look now, but Nick James is in Venice = 18 Pamela Hutchinson feels the difference at Toronto = 21 Letters = 95 Endings : Philippa Snow explores the bleak conclusion of Catherine Breillat's A ma Soeur! = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Thieves like us : Steve McQueen's Widows, a Chicago-set update of Lynda La Plante's 1980s TV series about a group of women planning a heist, portrays the entire social system as rotten, showing how politics interacts with criminality. He talks to James Bell = 22 Night of the demons : Director Panos Cosmatos talks to Kat Ellinger about blending the spirit of 70s exploitation movies with the image-making of Andrei Tarkovsky, in his film Mandy, in which Nicolas Cage takes bloody revenge on a group of demon bikers = 28 The vanishing : In 1992, the older, male director of Singaporean filmmaker Sandi Tan's first feature ran off with the reels. Her documentary Shirkers reflects on her shattered creative dreams and explains what happened when the footage was unexpectedly returned to her years later. By Christina Newland = 38 DEEP FOCUS: Fantastique : French cinema has always been lauded for its works of dramatic realism, but from the medium's earliest days a rival tradition has flourished, incorporation elements of fantasy, horror and science fiction into bizarre, atmospheric tales in which the unexplained and the supernatural intrude into reality. By Virginie Selavy = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH First Man = 50 A Star Is Born = 52 Touch Me Not = 54 FILMS Back to Berlin = 56 Bad Reputation = 56 Blindspotting = 57 The Captain = 58 Crazy Rich Asians = 59 Dogman = 60 Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot = 61 Escobar = 61 An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn = 62 Female Human Animal = 63 Halloween = 63 The Hate U Give = 64 The House with a Clock in Its Walls = 65 Jalouse = 66 Juliet, Naked = 66 King of Thieves = 67 London Unplugged = 68 Mandy = 68 Mile 22 = 69 Mirai = 71 Nancy = 72 The Nun = 72 Peterloo = 73 Pili = 74 Possum = 75 Shirkers = 76 A simple Favour = 77 Sink = 78 Two for Joy = 78 U-July 22 = 79 Widows = 80 HOME CINEMA Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Comfort of Strangers, Death Laid An Egg, Eye of the Needle, The Man Who Cheated Himself, Ministry of Fear, The Miraculous Virgin, Missing, Salvador = 83 DVD features : David Thompson watches Olivier Assayas coming of age, in three early films = 82 Documentary: Sukhdev Sandhu admires Nikolaus Geyrhalter's sober dissections of modernity = 85 Revival: Christina Newland on Edie Sedgwick, victim and star of Ciao! Manhattan = 85 Television: Robert Hanks sighs for the heyday of the one-off drama = 88 BOOKS Christopher Frayling : welcomes a new addition to the shelves of books on 2001: A Space Odyssey = 90 Trevor Johnston looks back on the cultish joys of London's Scala Cinema = 92 Nick Pinkerton gets his kicks from a Bruce Lee biography = 93

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