Sight and Sound

Bringing up baby : Hosoda Mamoru's Mirai, about a boy whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of a baby sister, mixes fantasy with delicate realism and psychological acuity. By Nick Bradshaw = 36 REGULARS Editorial : The perfect storm = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: What to see and do in the world of cinema this month = 6 Interview: Sophie Monks Kaufman talks to Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan about Wildlife, a searing portrait of a family in crisis = 8 Dream Palaces: Mark Cousins kicks off a new regular column exploring the world's most beloved cinemas = 9 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Glenn Close's box-office attraction with The Wife = 11 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson investigates the career of the Free Cinema movement's Lorenza Mazzetti = 12 Wide Angle Profile: Ros Murray traces the screen career of avant-gardist extraordinaire Antonin Artaud = 14 Primal Screen: David Cairns swoons at the gritty romance of Frank Borzage = 17 Tribute: Sukhdv Sandhu on the eclectic, electric cultural criticism of the late Mark Fisher, aka k-punk = 18 Festivals : Tony Rayns visits DMZ Docs = 21 Letters = 95 Endings : neil Young is dazzled by Dario Argento's frenzied finale to Deep Red = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE White lines : Boots Riley talks to Kaleem Aftab about capitalism, race and resistance in his fabulous absurdist comedy Sorry to Bother You. PLUS Hannah McGill examines Hollywood's long history of workplace satires = 22 Trigger happy : The Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an anthology of six violent tales of the American frontier. Here they ponder the intractable links between character, story and setting in the western, the pros and cons of digital filmmaking and why there are no stories about Serbians in the movie. By Ben Walters = 32 No place like home : Sebastian Lelio's Disobedience explores the forbidden love affair between two women from an Orthodox Jewish community in nort-west London. Here the director discusses quietude in his films, being an outsider in London and what his tale owes to mythology. By Nick James = 42 Return of the native : Employing his signature blend of analytical detachment, wry humour and unsentimental compassion, Nuri Bilge Ceylan tells the story of a young man with uncertain prospects reluctantly returning to the town where he grew up, in the elegant The Wild Pear Tree. By Geoff Andrew = 46 FILMS OF THE MONTH Happy New Year, Colin Burstead. = 52 Shoplifters = 54 Suspiria = 56 FILMS Anna and the Apocalypse = 58 An Artist's Eyes = 58 Assassination Nation = 59 Bad Times at the El Royale = 60 Becoming Animal = 60 Black Mother = 61 Disobedience = 62 Fahrenheit 11/9 = 63 The Guilty = 64 Johnny English Strikes Again = 64 Make Me Up = 65 ¡Nae pasarán! = 66 Orione = 66 The Other Side of Everything = 67 Outlaw King = 68 Overlord = 68 Postcards from London = 69 Siberia = 70 Smallfoot = 71 A Thousand Girls like Me = 72 3 Days in Quiberon = 72 Three Identical Strangers = 73 Tides = 74 22 July = 74 Venom = 75 Waru = 76 Wildlife = 76 The Wild Pear Tree = 77 A Woman Captured = 78 Won't You Be My Neighbor? = 79 The Workshop = 80 HOME CINEMA Buddies, The Collector, Films by Federico Fellini: I vitelloni/Juliet of the Spirits, Gas Food Lodging, The Mind of Mr. Soames, Oleanna, Witness for the Prosecution = 84 DVD features : Robert Hanks is under the spell of Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon = 82 Rediscovery: Michael Atkinson welcomes a chance to get to know Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, star of Brazil's Cinema Novo = 86 Documentary: Trevor Johnston praises Marc Isaacs-great soul on a small screen = 87 Rediscovery: Felix Bazalgette tunes in to The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez = 88 Television: Robert Hanks investigates the greatness of The Rockford Files and Columbo = 89 BOOKS Pamela Hutchinson is gripped by a fascinating portrait of the women in Howard Hughes's life = 90 Geoff Andrew is illuminated by a new study of the Coen brothers = 91 Brad Stevens salutes the great writings of critic Robin Wood = 92 Alex Dudok de Wit enjoys a memoir by Studio Ghibli's Suzuki Toshio = 92

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