Sight and Sound

Sjght & Sound - Sep 20 REAGULARS Editorial Actions and words = 5 Rush What happens now?: Naomi Obeng talks to workers in and around UK film about racial inequality = 7 Dream Places: John Akomfrah pays tribute to the Rio Cinema, Dalston = 11 Rising star: Fyzal Boulifa, director of the acclaimed drama Lynn + Lucy = 11 Obituary: Alex Ramon mourns Black British pioneer Earl Cmeron = 12 Obituary: Nick James salutes the great Ennio Morricone = 13 Film preservation: Isabel Stevens reports on the treat facing Brazil’s film archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira = 14 Report from Italy: John Bleasdale explains why outdoor cinema in Rome has had a narrow escape = 15 Preview: Pamela Hutchinson looks forward to the best film and TV due out-touch wood-later this year = 16 The Numbers: Charles Gant assesses the effects of lockdown on arthouse cinemas = 17 Wide Angle Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchnson celebrates the Black stars and filmmakers of the silent era = 19 Profile: Mattew Barrington applauds Ja’Tovia Gray’s The Giverny Document = 22 Letters = 95 Endings Nels Abbey on the toe-curling montage with which Spike Lee rests hiscase in Bamboozled = 96 FEATURES Scenes from a hostile environment = 32 Black British filmmakers have for decades depicted and chronicled protest against racism and injustice. Ashley Clark explores this ghost anon of British film and television, and uncovers a lineage of urgent work that has for too long been overlooked or actively suppressed ‘It was a guerrilla activity’: An oral history of the Black Film Bullentin = 40 Founding editors June Givanni and Gaylene Gould and new editors Jan Asante and Melanie Hoyes talk James Bell through the history of a vital space for critical commentary around new Black cinema and pan-African cinema histories Testament of youth = 46 A joyous but gritty tale of young female friendship in inner-city London, Rocks did away with the usual chains of filmmaking command, enabling the cast of teenage girls to tell their story in their own honest way. Simran Hans talks bucking convention with key members of the team FROM THE ARCHIVE: Soul to soul = 50 In the first in a new monthly series of features drawn from our own archives, we revisit a 1991 in interview with director Isaac Julien, discussing his transgressive murder mystery Young Soul Rebels at a time when hopes were high for the creation of a more diverse filmmaking culture in the UK and beyond. by Amy Taubin

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