Sight and Sound

The year in television The results of our inaugural critics' poll of the top ten small-screen dramas and comedies of the year, including Molly Haskell on Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag = 52 REGULARS Editorial Hope in the dark = 5 Rushes News: Jonathan Romney finds Brazilian cinema-after an annu mirabilis- in the grip of a political crisis = 7 Interview: Sophile Monks Kaufman meets Mirrah Foulkes and Mia Wasikowska, director and star of judy = 9 Dream Palaces: director Celine Sciamma recalls a youthful Utopia = 10 Tribute: Jane Giles remembers dynamic producer, distributor and educator Nik Powell = 11 Preview: So Mayer uncovers how Frozen inspires young eco activists = 12 open letter: Mark Cousins lays down a challenge for Disney head Bob Iger = 13 Festival; Kieron Corless at the Viennale = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant goes over the accounts for 2019 = 15 Wide Angle Artists’ Moving Image: Jordan Cronk takes an all-round view of 3D film = 17 Profile: Aboubakar Sanogo pays tribute to one fo Africa’s gifts to world cinema-the director Med Hondo = 18 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson reports from the Festival Lumiers in Lyon = 20 Letters = 95 Endings Edward Pamell is haunted by the nightmarish purgatory of fear and guilt that confronts the protagonist in the classic 1945 Ealing horror Dead of Night = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE = 23 The 50 best films of 2019 We polled 100 of our regular critics fo find the best films fo the past 12 months,and the results are in... James Bell Introduces our full countdown of the top 50 films of the year PLUS Alex Davidson reports on the year in queer cinema, Nick James assesses the year in British cinema, Kim Newman looks back on horror cinema in 2019, Jonathan Romney on the challenges that have faced European art cinema, Ben Nicholson uncovers the best in expanded cinema from the past 12 months, Tony Rayns reports on the year’s best from East Asia, and Katherine Mclaughlin on how recent cinema has reflected the post-#MeTOO era Contents Reviews= 23 FILMS OF THE MONTH Long Day’s Joumey into Night = 58 So Long, My Son = 60 FILMS Amanda = 62 La Belle Epoque = 63 Buddies = 64 The Cave = 64 Citizen K = 65 Countdown = 66 The Courier = 66 Doctor Sleep = 67 Frozen 2 = 67 The Good Liar = 68 Greener Grass = 69 Honey Boy = 69 Into the Mirror = 70 Invasion Planet Earth = 70 Jojo Rabbit = 70 The Kingmaker = 71 Klaus = 72 Midway = 73 Motherless Brooklym = 73 Ophelia = 74 Ordinary Love = 75 Pink Wall = 75 Promare = 76 Seberg = 76 Sons of Denmark = 77 Star Dog and Turbocat = 78 System Crasher = 78 Terminator: Dark Fate = 79 Them That Follow = 79 2040 = 80 The Two Popes = 80 The Wolf’s Call = 81 HOME CINEMA Hussy, Der Golem, 90 in the Shade, Pickup Alley, The System, Yentl DVD features = 84 KIM Newman feels the power of mighty Godzilla = 82 Poll: Top ten discs of 2019 = 83 Revival: Mark Cousins parades the virtues of Hara Kazuo’s genre-exploding documentary the mperor’s Naked Army Marches On = 85 Streaming: who watches the Watchmen? Gaylene Gould does = 86 Archive Television: Robert Hanks relives the paranoia and strangeness of 8os thriller Edge of Darkness = 88 Lost and Found; Philip Kemp admires the escapist verve of Resistance revenge drama Le Vieus Fusil = 89 BOOKS David Thomson on success, failure and the Mankiewicz brothers = 90 The best film books of 2019 = 91 Philip Kemp reads a dismaying account of the writing of a Frank Capra biography = 92

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