Sight and Sound

Bong Joon Ho takes over 20/20 Vision: Bong Joon Ho chooses 20 directors to watch out for = 7 Class act: Tony Rayns look back over Bong's career so far, While Bong himself discusses the influences that ignited his love of cinema = 26 'My brain is optimised for cinema': Bong talks through a selection of some of the 200-plus pages of storyboards he sketched for his acclaimed new film Parasite = 34 Kim Kiyoung: Bong and Tony Rayns celebrate the Korean master, whose shocking 1960 film The Housemaid was a key influence on Parasite = 37 Endings: James Bell and Bong on the chilling final moments of the director's Memories of Murder = 96 REGULARS Editorial: Bfe our guest = 5 Rushes Interview: Kate Muir talks to Jessica Hausner, director of botanical horror Little Joe = 12 Dream Palaces: Chinese filmmaker Zhu Shengze recalls the impact of the Ragtag Cinema in Columbus, Missouri = 13 Festival: Leonie Cooper reports on London's Doc'n Roll Festival = 14 Obituary: Hannah McGill looks back on the life of the actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter Buck Henry = 17 The Numbers: Charles Gant explains why in awards season everybody wins = 18 Wide Angle Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson discovers the funny side of Frank Borzage = 21 Reconstruction: Henry K. Miller revisits an evening of sex at the cinema in the 70s = 22 Soundings: Sam Davies tunes in to the importance of music in the work of Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo = 24 Letters = 95 FEATURES No man's land In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Celine Sciamma's exquisite love story set in pre-Revolutionary France, the director presents a female-centred vision of equality, solidarity, romance and sex. Here she explains to Isabel Stevens why she was determined to up-end the cliches and assumptions of traditional cinema = 40 Living memory Drawing on the real-life experiences of its protagonist, Pedro Costa's luminous portrait of grief Vitalina Varela follows a woman from Cape Verde who arrives in Lisbon to search for her absent husband only to find he has just died. Christopher Small talks to the director = 46 Looking fo America: The dramatic acts of Elia Kazan In a handful of masterpieces in the 1950s and 60s the director Elia Kazan revolutionised Hollywood screen acting. As the BFI launches a major retrospective, we consider key aspects of his life and explore what his career meant for film, and for America. James Bell examines his groundbreaking work with actors, Christina Newland looks at the significance of immigration in his films, Philip Kemp revisits the controversies of Kazan's political life, and Kelli Weston digs in to the role of sexuality in his work = 50 FILMS OF THE MONTH Parasite = 58 A Paris Education = 60 FILMS Cats = 62 Chhapaak = 62 Color out of Space = 62 Daniel Isn't Real = 63 Dark Waters = 64 End of the Century = 65 First Love = 66 The Gentleman = 67 Greed = 68 The Grudge = 68 A Guide to Second Date Sex = 69 Incidental Characters = 70 Ip Man 4 = 70 Like a Boss = 71 Little Joe = 71 Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait = 72 Lullaby = 72 Midnight Family = 73 Mr. Jones = 74 Portrait of a Lady on Fire = 75 The Public = 76 Push = 76 Quezon's Game = 77 Second Spring = 77 Spies in Disguise = 78 Spycies = 78 Star Wars: Episode IX-The Rise of Skywalker = 78 True History of the Kelly Gang = 79 Underwater = 80 Villain = 80 Vitalina Varela = 81 HOME CINEMA Cloak and Dagger, Cosh Boy, The Cotton Club Encore, Ironweed, The Miracle Worker, Orphans, Resurrected, Scorpio Films - The Dutch Sex Wave Collection: Obsessions / Blue Movie / Frank & Eva / My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie, Trapped, Winter Kills DVD features = 84 Andrew Male lets Curtis Harrington's art-schlock masterpiece Night Tide wash over him = 82 Streaming: Kim Newman gets inside The Outsider = 85 Archive Television: Robert Hanks on the magic of Tommy Cooper and the grip of Python = 86 Lost and Found: Adam Scovell flogs La Horse, a late and underrated Jean Gabin crime movie = 89 BOOKS Tom Charity greets a study of Chinatown that's worthy of the film = 90 David Cairns gets a case of the Shivers = 91 Jasper Sharp on Tod Slaughter, 1930s master of murderous melodrama = 92

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