Sight and Sound

Preview of the year Isabel Stevens introduces our lowdown on what 2020 has in store for film and TV = 7 Ten to watch out for: forthcoming attractions = 8 Horror: Anna Bogutskaya on chillers to come = 10 British film: Wendy Mitchell shops for domestic products = 13 Animation: Alex Dudok de Wit talks to Tomm Moore, director of Wolfwalkers, and offers more tips = 14 World cinema: Jonathan Romney goes international = 15 US film: Guy Lodge looks over the pond = 17 The Numbers: Charles Gant reads the box-office runes = 18 Television: Scott Bryan gets on the tube = 19 Set report: Nick James investigates a whale of a tale = 20 REGULARS Editorial : Beginnings and endings = 5 Wide Angle Artists' Moving Image: Lindsay Hallam witnesses the 1980s video nasty rising from the grave = 23 Retrospective: Kieron Corless celebrates the 20th anniversary of Mark Leckey's video collage of subcultures Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore = 24 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon pays tribute to the pioneering director Allan Dwan = 26 Letters = 95 Endings Alex Hess on the bullet-riddled, lovestruck finale of John Woo's The Killer = 96 FEATURES COVER FEATURE Willem the conqueror Willem Dafoe has built up one of the most adventurous filmographies in modern cinema. As The Lighthouse hits UK cinemas, Philip Concannon meets him and looks back at his career. PLUS co-star Robert Pattinson and director Rober Eggers talk about the film's challenges, and Graham Fuller unpacks its cultural references = 28 Rough diamonds Robert Koehler talks to the Safdie brothers about their frenetic Adam Sandler-starring New York cime drama Uncut Gems = 38 The circus of life: the many faces of Federico Fellini To mark th centenary of the idiosyncratic Italian director's birth, Pasquale lannone, Philip Kemp and Julia Wagner consider aspects of the films that made him one of the giants of 20th-century art cineam = 42 Book smart Greta Gerwig tells Isabel Stevens how her new adaptation of Little Women chimes with the mood of the post-#MeToo era = 48 'I hate making movies!' As Terry Gilliam's cursed 30-year stuggle to bring The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to the screen comes to a close, Philip Concannon recalls watching the indefatigable director at work on the Portuguese set in 2017 = 52 FILMS OF THE MONTH Richard Jewell = 58 Waves = 60 FILMS A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood = 62 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache = 63 Bombshell = 63 Charlie’s Angels = 64 Everything: The Real Thing Stroy = 65 Fiddler: A Miracle of miracles = 65 A Hidden Life = 65 Human Nature = 66 In the Line of Duty = 67 Jay & Slient Bob Reboot = 67 Jumanji: The Next Level = 67 Just Mercy = 68 The Lighthouse = 68 Little Women = 69 Lucy in the Sky = 70 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote = 70 Midnight Traveller = 71 1917 = 72 No Fathers in Kashmir = 73 The Party’s Just Beginning = 74 The Personal History of David Copperfield = 74 Plus One = 75 Present. Perfect. = 75 Queen & Slim = 76 The Runaways = 77 Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall = 77 Talking About Trees = 78 21 Bridges = 78 Uncut Gems = 79 Undocument = 80 Weathering with You = 81 The Whistleblower = 81 HOME CINEMA Betrayed, The Daytrippers, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, The Far Country, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ghost Story, The Halfway House, Moulin Rouge, Polyester, Secret Ceremony, Spetters DVD Features = 83 Trevor Johnston gets a bang out of Sergio Leone’s underrated revolutionary epic A Fistful of Dynamite = 82 Streaming: Scott Bryan opens up BritBox, the BBC/ ITV joint streaming service-Pandora’s box or box of delights? = 85 Archive Television: Robert Hanks is horrified by Worzel Gummidge and Dismayed by Jack the Ripper = 86 Lost and Found: Nick Lee bows before indie queen Parker Posey in Party Girl = 89 BOOKS Nick Pinkerton on the wild ride that is Brazillian director Glauber Rocha’s writings on film = 90 Michael Atkinson savours Luis Bunuel’s letters = 91 Catherine Wheatley gazes admiringly at the essays of Laura Mulvey = 92

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