Sight and Sound

[FEATURES] The lives of Others Jordan Peele’s horrifyingly entertaining Us is an allegorical portrait of the state of the Union, set in a sun-kissed California peopled with evil doppelgangers. He talks to Simran Hans = 34 COVER FEATURE / The Last DetailStanley Kubrick made it his business to learn about every area of visual craft and paid unusually close attention to the design of the title sequences and publicity materials for his films. By Rick Poynor PLUS Christina Newland on Kubrick’s fascination with the male physique = 20 A Matter of Life and DebtAlice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro is an ambitious fable exploring the iniquities of society through the eyes of a simple, kindly soul. She talks to Philip Concannon = 30 Sons and Daughters of the JianghuJia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White, a tale of love and betrayal in China’s criminal underworld, explores the rootless lives of its protagonists against a backdrop of rapid social and economic change. By Tony Rayns = 38 Rough JusticeS. Craig Zahler has established himself as a genre auteur with a penchant for brutality and incongruously leisurely tempos. Now, with Dragged Across Concrete, he’s hijacked the heist movie. By Nick Pinkerton = 42 The S&S interview: Koreeda HirokazuThe acclaimed Japanese director talks to Alexander Jacoby about crime and punishment, his mistrust of government and why he still doesn’t understand Ozu = 46 [REGULARS] Editorial Streaming the house down = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: This month’s film-related highlights = 6 Preview: Lizelle Bisschoff celebrates Rafiki, a groundbreaking lesbian love story from Kenya = 8 Dream Palaces: Sergei Loznitsa recalls sneaking into a forbidden movie in a cinema in Communist-era Kiev = 9 Interview: Cathy Brennan talks to the director of trans documentary A Deal with the Universe = 11 The Numbers: Charles Gant examines the box-office success of Capernaum = 13 Wide Angle Anniversary: Ten years after J.G.Ballard’s death, Chris Hall reflects on the writer’s debt to cinema = 14 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson looks back at Anny Ondra - more than just a Hitchcock blonde = 17 Exhibition: Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas explore Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s moving-image art = 18 Letters = 95 Endings Fintan McDonagh relishes the poetic close of Marcel Carne’s Le Jour seleve = 96 Reviews [FILMS OF THE MONTH] Loro = 52The Sisters Brothers = 54Wild Rose = 56 [FILMS]Ash Is Purest White = 58Bel Canto = 59Ben Is Back = 59Captain Marvel = 60Captive State = 61A Deal with the Universe = 61The Dig = 62Donbass = 63Dragged Across Concrete = 64Eighth Grade = 64Fighting with My Family = 65Five Feet Apart = 66Greta = 66Happy as Lazzaro = 67The Keeper = 68Last Breath = 69Lords of Chaos = 69Mid90s = 70Nervous Translation = 71Once upon a Time in London = 72Pond Life = 73Red Joan = 73Steel Country = 74Styx = 75Thunder Road = 75Tolkien = 76Tucked = 77Us = 78Vox Lux = 79Winterlong = 79Woman at War = 80Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story = 81 [HOME CINEMA] Bloodhunger: The Films of Jose Larraz – Whirlpool / The Coming of Sin / Vampyres, A Dandy in Aspic, The Alice Howell Collection, Der Hund von Baskerville, Maurice, Phantom Lady, The Prisoner, Psyche 59, Shoah: The Four Sisters DVD features = 95 Philip Kemp admires Harold Pinter’s savage talent, as revealed in a new box-set of Pinter at the BBC = 82 Rediscovery: Ben Nicholson joins in the reindeer games of a Finnish fantasy classic = 85 Revival: Robert Hanks on Take a Girl Like You and A Severed Head = 86 Television: Robert Hanks revisits Sunshine and Lorna Doone = 88 Lost and Found: Brian Quinn rootles up the groundbreaking Irish drama Pigs = 89 [BOOKS] Isabel Stevens welcomes a book that gives the female directors of the New Hollywood era long overdue recognition = 90 Tom Charity on a fine addition to the corpus of Peckinpah studies = 92

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