Sight and Sound

[FEATURES] Weimar cinema special As a major retrospective of Weimar Germany-era cinema comes to BFI Southbank in London to mark the centenary of the Republic’s founding, our special explores this most radical and exciting of epochs in film history. Margaret Deriaz looks beyond the most celebrated films of the period to uncover a cinema that was even more varied and daring than is usually assumed. Joel Finler examines the often overlooked fact that so many of the era’s most brilliant filmmakers were Jewish. And Nick James explores how the era saw the emergence of influential new forms of critical writing about the art of the cinema = 26 COVER FEATURE / Heavenly BodiesA crew of death-row prisoners on a one-way mission to a distant galaxy are forced to contemplate the meaning of life, death and the universe, in Claire Denis’s first English-language film, High Life. Here the director discusses scripts, sets, stars and sci-fi. By Pamela Hutchinson = 20 The Mysteries of BudapestIn Sunset, László Neme’s spellbinding follow-up to Son of Saul, the director channels the spirit of Franz Kafka in a tale of a young woman searching for her missing brother in Budapest during the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. By Jonathan Romney = 40 [REGULARS] Editorial Dark mirror = 5 Rushes On Our Radar The month in film = 6 Interview: Jemma Desai talks to the director of Madeline’s Madeline = 8 Dream Palaces: Neil Jordan hails Los Angeles’s Nuart cinema = 9 The Numbers: Charles Gant on biopics of cultural figures at the box office = 11 Tribute: Agnes Varda remembered by Mia Hansen-Love and others = 12 Wide Angle Opinion: Clara Bradbury-Rance wonders if visibility is everything where onscreen lesbians are concerned = 14 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon heralds a new BFI project that puts Victorian film online = 16 Festivals Nick Bradshaw reports from Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX = 18 Letters = 95 Endings Tim Hayes on Olivier Assayas’s tech thriller Dmonlover = 96 Reviews [FILMS OF THE MONTH] Birds of Passage = 46Diamantino = 48John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection = 50 [FILMS]An Accidental Studio = 52Amazing Grace = 52Arctic = 53Beats = 54The Crossing = 54Destination Wedding = 55Dirty God = 56Dumbo = 56Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile = 58Freedom Fields = 59Gloria Bell = 59Hellboy = 60High Life = 61Holy Lands = 62Hotel Mumbai = 64Last Summer = 64Little = 65Long Shot = 66Madeline’s Madeline = 66Memoir of War = 67Pet Sematary = 68Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich = 69Rafiki = 70Rory’s Way = 72Shazam! = 72Sunset = 73Too Late to Die Young = 74Triple Frontier = 75A Vigilante = 76Where Hands Touch = 77The World Is Yours = 77XY Chelsea = 78 [HOME CINEMA] Bergman: A Year in a Life, The Caretaker, Films by Marcel Carne :  Jenny/Les Portes de la Nuit, Dragonwyck, Lilith, Melo, Mr. Topaze, My Brilliant Career, The Reckless Moment, The Snake Pit, Symphonie pour un Massacre, The Third Secret, Voyages a Travers le Cinema Francais, The Wild Pussycat/The Deserter DVD features = 81 Andrew Male hitches a ride with a new restoration of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Poverty Row noir classic Detour = 80 Rediscovery: Philip Kemp revisits three of Merchant-Ivory’s lesser-known films = 84 Television: Robert Hanks on Patricia Routledge in Victoria Regina; plus The Likely Lads = 88 [BOOKS] Isabel Stevens welcomes a new biography of Olivia de Havilland = 90 Matthew Harle on the politics of bingeing = 91 Farran Smith Nehme applauds Dan Callahan’s studies of a century of Hollywood acting styles = 92

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