Sight and Sound

Stardust memories : An exquisite portrait of an ageing director looking back on his life, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory merges intimate confessions from his own past with tantalizing fictions. By Paul Julian Smith PLUS María Delgado talks to the director = 34 REGULARS Editorial : And life goes on…. = 5 Rushes On Our Radar: This month’s highlights, from cinema seasons to streaming pointers = 6 Global Discovery. Kim Morgan talks to the makers of Furie, the highest-grossing Vietnamese film ever = 8 Dream Palaces: Photograph director Ritesh Batra celebrates Mumbai’s New Roshan Talkies cinema, a beautiful relic from another era = 9 Industry: Charles Gant on Midsommar and how alternatives to summer blockbusters have fared at the box office in the UK and Ireland = 11 Wide Angle Preview: Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates the brilliant but tragically short career of Mexican director Eugenio Polgovsky = 12 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson on how Musidora, the great icon of silent cinema, was more than just and image = 14 Festivals : James Bell reports from Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival = 16 Letters = 95 Endings : Chris Shields explores the enigmatic las moments of Robert Bresson’s L’Argent = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE To live and die in LA : Quentin Tarantino’s Once upon a Time… in Hollywood offers a dazzling portrait of Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s, in the tale of a fading actor and his stunt double in the days leading up to the Manson murders. Here, in an exclusive interview with Kim Morgan, the director describes the genesis of the film, his childhood in the city and why Burt Reynolds was quite possibly the most charming man in the world. PLUS Erik Morse on Sharon Tate, whose media ubiquity made her a countercultural muse in the 1960s but whose notable acting talents have been overshadowed by her violent death. = 18 The roads to freedom : The ghost of Franz Kafka looms over Christian Petzold’s Transit, an adaptation of a World War II novel that appears to be set in a visibly present-day France. Here the director explains his decision to fuse past and present in a tale of hauntings, doubles and mistaken identity. By Jonathan Romney = 30 Bringing up Cary : Before he became a bona fide star in the late 1930s, Cary Grant spent a number of years as s studio player, often miscast in forgettable films – but as he experimented with roles to find what worked best, the contours of the legend we know were gradually being etched. By Pamela Hutchinson = 42 FILMS OF THE MONTH Bait = 50 Leto = 52 The Souvenir = 54 FILMS Aniara = 56 Anna = 56 Annabelle Comes Home = 57 Blinded by the Light = 58 The Candidate = 59 Crawl = 59 Djon Africa = 60 A Faithful Man = 61 Gaza = 61 The Great Hack = 62 Hail Satan? = 64 Holiday = 64 Inna de Yard: The Soul of Jamaica = 65 Jt LeRoy = 66 The Lion King = 66 Lisbon Beat = 67 Memory = 68 Midsommar = 68 A Million Little Pieces = 69 Mrs Lowry & Son = 70 The Mustang = 71 Okko’s Inn = 71 Once upon a Time… in Hollywood = 72 Opus Zero = 74 Pain and Glory = 75 Phoenix = 76 The Queen´s Corgi = 76 Spider-Man: Far from Home = 77 Stones Have Laws = 78 Stuber = 78 Transit = 79 The Wedding Guest = 80 HOME CINEMA Films starring Jean-Paul Belmondo – Le Professionel/The Outsider, A Case for a Rookie Hangman, Coming Home, Domino, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Of Flesh and Blood: the Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda – Maborosi/After Life/Nobody Knows/Still Walking, The Legacy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Used Cars, Vida en sombras, Two Films By John Woo: Last Hurrah for Chivalry / Hand of Death = 83 DVD features : Hannah McGill dips into the murky world of Klute = 82 Rediscovery: Pamela Hutchinson revisits the films of Mai Zetterling = 85 Revival: Anne Billson on the gruesome horror films of Norman J. Warren = 86 Television: Robert Hanks goes back to the future for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century = 88 Lost and Found: Tony Rayns falls for the charms of Fritz Lang’s all but forgotten comedy You and Me = 90 BOOKS Will Massa enjoys a survey of Britpop cinema = 92 Geoff Andrew welcomes the first volume of Luc Dardenne’s diary in English = 93 Kim Newman revels in the scurrilous memoirs of writer David McGillivray = 93

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