Sight and Sound

[FEATURES] In the groove for love Kelli Weston talks to director Barry Jenkins about his fine adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel of racial injustice If Beale Street Could Talk, in which a young woman tries to clear the name of her partner, who has been falsely accused rape = 20 Playing with FireAn aspiring writer adrift in a world of meaningless part-time jobs falls under the spell of a young woman and a mysterious, wealthy stranger in Burning, Lee Changdong’s enigmatic portrait of millennial life in contemporary Korea. By James Bell = 26 City of Lost ChildrenA young runaway has to fend for himself on the mean streets of Beirut in Nadine Labaki’s powerful drama Capernaum, which offers a searing vision of the living hell endured by millions of children worldwide. By Pamela Hutchinson = 32 COVER FEATURE / Barbara Stanwyck: Dreams of Starting OverBringing humour to the darkest noir and injecting malignancy into the brightest romantic comedy, Barbara Stanwyck brought an emotional complexity to a series of unforgettable performances, often playing women on the make who are willing to go to any lengths to get themselves out of a hole. By Molly Haskell = 36 Obituaries 2018 Bob Mastrangelo honours the great and the good of the film world who left us last year, with brief overviews of the lives of Penny Marshall, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Mrinal Sen and William Goldman = 42 [REGULARS] Editorial Hidden lights = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: The month’s film highlights = 6 Rediscovery: Tony Rayns on a season of early Korean cinema = 8 Dream Palaces: Neil Young tells tales from the Vienna Gartenbaukino = 9 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds out how Free Solo scaled the heihts at the box office = 11 In Production: Films in the pipeline = 11 Interview: Beth Webb talks to Sara Colangelo, director of The Kindergarten Teacher = 12 Wide Angle Preview: Tony Rayns dives into the sensual world of Straub-Huillet = 14 Primal Screen: Neil Young examines the unjustly neglected work of John Robertson = 17 Artists’ Moving Image: Elena Gorfinkel on the enigmatic, poetic image-making of Sky Hopinka = 18 Letters = 95 Endings Dariush Alavi explores fraught European relations in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s great Three Colours: White = 96 Reviews [FILMS OF THE MONTH] Can You Ever Forgive Me? = 50Green Book = 52Mektoub, My Love = 54 [FILMS]All Is True = 56América = 56Aquaman = 57Boy Erased = 58Bumblebee = 58Burning = 59Capernaum = 60Creed II = 61Escape Room = 62Foxtrot = 62Glass = 63Hannah = 64Holmes & Watson = 65The House by the Sea = 65If Beale Street Could Talk = 66Instant Family = 67Jellyfish = 68Love Sonia = 69Mary Poppins Returns = 70The Mule = 71Of Love & Law = 71One Cut of the Dead = 72One Nation, One King = 73On the Basis of Sex = 73A Private War = 74Sauvage = 75Sometimes Always Never = 75Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse = 76Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me = 77The 12th Man = 77Vice = 78Welcome to Marwen = 79 [HOME CINEMA] Atoll K, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Deadbeat at Dawn, De Niro & De Palma: The Early Films, Gosford Park, Hallelujah The Hills, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte, FIlms By Ishuii Teruo, Khartoum, Red White and Zero, The Serpent’s Egg DVD features = 82 Pamela Hutchinson welcomes a pair of anthologies of films made by pioneering women = 80 Redicovery: Henry K. Miller on how a new release of Nightcleaners scrubs up = 83 Revival: David Thompson on the range and depth of Julien Duvivier’s films = 84 Television: Robert Hanks goes to ground on Rogue Male, with Peter O’Toole = 86 Streaming: David Thomson relishes Julia Roberts in Homecoming = 88 [BOOKS] Christina Newland welcomes a definitive chronicle of The Sopranos = 90 Nick Pinkerton eyes up a book on cinematographer Darius Khondji = 91 Michael Brooke cuts to the chase on a volume about European film editors = 92 Stephen Phillips on the memoirs of Hollywood titan Michael Ovitz = 92

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