Sight and Sound

BRITISH CINEMA SPECIAL : Our summer celebration highlights a set of highly personal and distinctive films that offer a deeper, more diverse portrait of modern Britain than we’ve seen in the past. Joanna Hogg talks to Nick James about her semi-autobiographical 1980s-set ill-fated romance The Souvenir. Will Massa explores a new generation of filmmakers of sual heritage redefining the nature of Britishness on the global stage. Gurinder Chadha discusses her brilliant ‘masala’ films of British-Asian life with Kaleen Aftab, and Sarfraz Manzoor details how he and Chadha brought his memoir to life on screen PLUS interviews with BFI Film Fund head Ben Roberts and a trio of hot new directors = 21 REGULARS Editorial : Adaptation = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: This month’s highlights, from cinema seasons to streaming pointers = 6 Interview: Jonathan Romney talks to the director of The Chambermaid = 8 Dream Palaces: Flaneuse author Lauren Elkin on cinema-going in Paris = 9 Industry: Charles Gant on recent British cinema at the box office = 11 Wide Angle Preview: Sukhdev Sandhu rediscovers Jef Cornelis’s pensive TV art docs = 12 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon reflects on the first film about a solar eclipse = 15 Artists’ Moving Image: Ben Nicholson on the refashioning of Wavelengths = 16 Festivals : Nick Bradshaw reports from Sheffield Doc/Fest = 18 Letters = 95 Endings : Geoff Andrew on The Green Ray = 96 FEATURES Demons by daylight : Ari Aster’s Midsommar, which presents its chilling blood-soaked Swedish folk rituals against dazzling sun-lit landscapes, is the latest entry in a run of horror films, from The Birds to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, in which the terror moves out of the darkness and into the light. By Kim Newman = 46 Range days : The stresses of an open marriage are explored in Carlos Reygadas’s Our Time, which follows a couple living on a bull ranch in Mexico. Here the director talks to Matthew Thrift about the glacial pace of ‘artisan’ filmmaking, the dangerous power of critics and his vision for ‘total cinema’ = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH The Rolling Thunder Revue = 56 Varda by Agnes = 58 FILMS Animals = 60 Are You Proud? = 60 Article 15 = 61 Blue My Mind = 62 The Brink = 62 Campo = 63 The Chambermaid = 64 Child’s Play = 65 The Cold Blue = 65 The Current War = 66 Dark Phoenix = 67 The Dead Don’t Die = 67 Die Tomorrow = 68 Godzilla: Kin of the Monsters = 69 Gwen = 70 Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans = 70 The Intruder = 71 Kursk: The Last Mission = 72 Late Night = 72 Ma = 73 Making Noise Quietly = 74 Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love = 75 Men in Black: International = 75 My Friend the Polish Girl = 76 Only You = 77 Ordinary Time = 78 Our Time = 78 Pavarotti = 79 Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows = 80 Photograph = 81 Robert the Bruce = 81 Tell It to the Bees = 82 Toy Story 4 = 83 HOME CINEMA Black Joy, The Lovely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Man Who Laughs, People on Sunday, Scum, Swing Time, Who?, The Woman in the Window = 85 DVD features : Graham Fuller goes back up river with Apocalypse Now: Final Cut = 84 Anthology: Tony Rayns on the many arts of Dave McKean = 87 Rediscovery: Jonathan Romney relishes Alexei German´s dada approach to Uncle Joe in Khrustalyov, My Car! = 88 Television: Robert hanks on The Love School and David Nixon’s Magic Box = 90 Lost and Found: John Bleasdale holes up with the bleak Peter Sellers vehicle The Blockhouse = 91 BOOKS Kim Newman disappears into the wild, dark flipside of British film and TV= 92 Adrian Martin applauds the last collection of writing by critic Gilberto Perez = 93

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