Sight and Sound

[FEATURES] The disruptive spectacle of the musical Often dismissed as cosy and conventional, the film musical has actually been a defiantly radical form since its very beginnings, embracing difficult subjects, championing diversity and shattering narratives. By Pamela Hutchinson = 42 COVER FEATURE / Eyes of the beholder On the 20th anniversary of Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s dark portrait of sexual jealousy, Hannah McGill re-examines the director’s dreamlike examination of male power and privilege. PLUS: *Jan Harlan, the film’s exec producer, recalls a flying visit to Venice to collect masks *Anthony Frewin, Kubrick’s assistant, discusses the film’s costumes *Katharina Kubrick celebrates her father’s exacting genius *Federic Raphael, the film’s screenwriter, remembers collaborating with Kubrick *Georgina Orgill outlines the joys of being head of the Kubrick archive = 24 Scions of the times The jostling for position among the maladjusted offspring of a billionaire media magnate provides the fuel for Jesse Armstrong’s HBO series Succession, a bleakly comic portrait of corrupt power that owes much of its charm to its distinctly English sensibility. By Hannah Mackay = 34 Ghost stories In Mati Diop’s bold supernatural drama Atlantics, the tale of a young woman haunted by an absent lover, the Senegalese city of Dakar is inhabited by the spirits of a lost generation of men drowned trying to cross the ocean to Europe. By Simran Hans = 38 ‘Life doesn’t stop for divorce’ With his trademark bittersweet comic touch, Noah Baumbach explores the humiliations and torments of a couple going through a gruelling separation, in Marriage Story. By Christina Newland = 48 Hand on the run A severed hand scuttles through Paris in search of its owner, in Jérémy Clapin’s cosmically strange animated tale. The director and the producer Marc du Pontavice explain the art of creating a characterful hand that didn’t conjure up troubling memories of spiders. By Alex Dudok de Wit = 52 [REGULARS] Editorial Heroes and villains = 5 Rushes LFF Report: Ian Mantgani sees Robert De Niro, on stage at BFI Southbank = 7 Interview: Isabes Stevens talks to Sandy Powell, costume designer for The Irishman = 8 Martin Scorsese remembers a childhood in the shadow of noir = 9 LFF Report: Matthew Thrift surveys emerging filmmakers = 10 Dream Palaces: Rian Johnson reveals his favourite cinema, LA’s New Beverly = 12 Festival: Leonie Cooper goes under the influence in Idyllwild, California = 13 Profile: Will Massa reports on the rise of Rapman = 14 Interview: Jonathan Romney talks to Bertrand Bonello about Zombi Child = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant on the remarkable success of Fleabag live = 17 Wide Angle Primal Screen: Tamsin Cleary detects something queer in Charlie Chaplin = 19 Profile: Ela Bittencourt hails the playful enigmas of Malcolm Le Grice = 20 Soundings: Sam Davies cocks an ear to Carles Santos, maestro of silence = 22 Letters = 95 Endings Violet Lucca gazes into the abyss at the close of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond = 96 Reviews [FILMS OF THE MONTH] Here for Life = 58Knives Out = 60 [FILMS] The Addams Family = 62The Aeronauts = 62The Amazing Johnathan Documentary = 63Atlantics = 63Back Roads = 64Black and Blue = 65Blue Story = 65El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie = 66Darkness Visible = 66A Dog Called Money = 67Earthquake Bird = 67The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil = 68Gemini Man = 69Harriet = 69Heimat Is a Space in Time = 70I Lost My Body = 70The Irishman = 71Judy & Punch = 72Ladyworld = 73Le Mans ’66 = 73Little Monsters = 74Luce = 75Maleficent: Mistress of Evil = 75Marriage Story = 76Meeting Gorbachev = 76The Nightingale = 77Permission = 78The Report = 78Shooting the Mafia = 79The Street = 80Zombi Child = 80Zombieland: Double Tap = 81 [HOME CINEMA] The Bells of St Mary’s; The Dark Half; The Fate of Lee Khan; Hair; Films starring Tony Hancock: The Rebel, The Punch and Judy Man; Legend of the Witches / Secret Rites; Ray Meets Helen; Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom; That’ll Be the Day / Stardust = 84 Nick Pinkerton revels in the martial arts mastery of Sammo Hung = 82 Rediscovery: Jasper Sharp welcomes a reissue of Japanese travelogue The Inland Sea = 85 Streaming: Sheila O’Malley on Netflix’s stunning true-crime series Unbelievable = 86 Archive Television: Robert Hanks watches Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, and Landscapes of England = 88 [BOOKS] Pamela Hutchinson delves behind the scenes of the investigation that brought down Harvey Weinstein = 90 Ryan Gilbey is dazzled by the brilliance of Adam Mars-Jone’s film reviews = 91 Sam Davies focuses on Lillian Ross’s classic study of art and power in Hollywood = 92

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