Sight and Sound

Sjght & Sound - June 20 REGULARS Editorial The New Normal = 5 Rushes Filmmakers lockdown diaries: Pedro Almodovar Jia Zhangke, Roger Corman, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Kirsten Johnson share their experiences of life in the time of corona = 7 Coping with Covid: industry figures assess the impact of the lockdown on British film culture, and contemplate what the future holds = 14 The Numbers: Charles Gant explores the lockdown video-on-demand boom = 19 Interview: Hanna Flint talks to director Gina Prince-Bythewood about her new action movie The Old Guard = 20 Dream Palaces: Christian Petzold pays tribute to Neues Off Berlin = 21 22 Interview: Ben Walters discusses apartheid-era South Africa drama gay Moffie with director Oliver Hermanus = 22 Wide Angle Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon on the unrespectable women of silent comedy = 25 Profile: Tamsin Cleary explores the wordless dream logic An of Maya Deren's films = 28 Revival: Julian Ross revisits the gender- Fro and genre-bending 1960s Japanese cult classic Funeral Parade of Roses = 30 32 Restoration: Jonathan Romney finds now is just the time to watch Bela Tarr's boundary-breaking epic Satantango = 32 Letters = 143 Endings Alex Dudok de Wit on the restrained conclusion to Takahata Isao's exquisite 1991 anime Only Yesterday = 144 FEATURES In Ozark = 76 The Netflix drama Ozark now in its third season, plunges its lead family into a spiralling nightmare as they try to pay off a debt to a Mexican drug cartel in the backwaters of Missouri. But more than just a bracing thriller, it's a sweeping portrait of a society and its engines, writes David Thomson PLUS Kaleem Aftab talks to one of the show's stars, Julia Garner Blood ties = 82 Spike Lee negotiates landmines, snakes and a stash of buried loot as he reflects on the legacy of the Vietnam War in his action-adventure tale Da 5 Bloods. He talks to Christina Newland about taking stock of the experience of black American soldiers during the conflict and his determination to humanise the traditional demons of Hollywood cinema ー the North Vietnamese Get the message = 88 The Covid-19 crisis has revived discussion about the role of public information films 一 films produced by the Central Office of Information, until its closure in 20II. As the BFI releases a new Blu-ray collection of the best of the COI's output, Robert Hanks looks back over the history of the agency, and asks what their films have to teach us in our present moment

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