Sight and Sound

'Culture is a smokescreen' = 24 AdamCurtis's BBC series Can't Get You out of My Hand charts the roots of our modern malaise. He tells Nick Bradshaw why art has lost its way and why he loathes being called a filmmaker REGULARS Editorial Not content = 5 Rushes Pandemid filming: Adam Benzine looks back at his project to document the Covid crisis as it happened = 7 Sundance report: Thomas Flew reports on the indie showcase from hisliving room PLUS festival highlights = 8 Rising Star: P.S. Vinothraj, director of stark Tamil drama Pebbles = 9 Technology: Dominic Lees seeks the truth about the rise of the deepfake = 10 BFI Flare preview: Ben Walters talk to Oliver Masucci about playing Fassbinder PLUS films to watchout for = 12 In Production: Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Earwig = 13 Symposium: Where has Covid left the UK's cinemas? Dream Palaces: Nick Broomfield remembers jasmine-scented hights at the Gardenia on Hydra, Greece = 16 Obituaries: Alex Ramon pays tribute to the transcendent Cicely Tyson, and Pasquale Iannone mourns Giuseppe Rotunno, DP to Visconti and Fellini Wide Angle Archive film: Marsha Gordon and Allyson Nadia Field on what home movies, educational films and thelike can tell us about America and rece = 19 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon wonders about the life Chaplin might have had = 22 Letters = 95 Endings Matt Turner revisits techno-horror Pulse = 96 FEATURES Family plot = 34 Lee Issac Chung's gentlycomic drama Minari depicts a Korean- American family's attempt to Farm in rural Arkansas. Violet Lucca talks to the director about faith, farming and family ties = Handling the truth = 38 Two new documentaries about political killings, Assassins and The Dissdent, offer the tension of spy thrillers. Jonathan Romney talks to the directoers about chasing truth in an age of misinformation No success like failure: a natural history of the film maudit = 42 As Richard Kelly's infamous Southland Tales is released on Blu-ray, J.Hoberman traces the history of the 'cursed film' Drawing ahead: the future of Studio Ghibli = 48 With new features in the pipeline and its back catalogue raking in deals, the animation powerhouse is in rude health. Alex Dudok de Wit talks to key producer Suzuki Toshio about staying relevant = 48 FROM THE ARCHIVE Poet of time = 54 In and interview from our September 1995 issue, reprinted to mark the current Wong Kar Wai retrospective on BFI Player, Tony Rayns caught up with the directoer on the set of his film Fallen Angerls FILM OF THE MONTH A sun = 62 Undine= 64 FILM Ammonite = 66 Apples = 67 Assassins = 68 The Columnist = 68 Dead Pigs = 69 The Dissident = 70 A Ghost Waits = 71 Judas and the Black Messiah = 72 Malcolm & Marie = 73 Malmkrog = 73 Minari = 74 Notturno = 75 PVT Chat = 76 Slalom = 77 Stray = 78 The Stylist = 78 The Twentieth Century = 79 TELEVISION OF THE MONTH Wanda Vision = 80 TELEVISION Call My Agent! Season 4 = 82 Ethos = 83 Lupin = 84 Pretend It's a City = 85 HOME CINEMA The Ascent; Columbia Noir#2: Framed/711 Ocean Drive/ The Mob/ Arrair in Trinidad/ Tight Spot/ Murder by Contract; Films by Samuel Fuller: Hell and High Water/ House of Bamboo; Films starring Jean Gabin: Un singe en hiver/ Melodie en soussol; Geronimo: An American Legend; Augusto Genina: Il prezzo della bellezza; Light Sleeper; Restless Natives = 87 DVD features Kate Stables revisits a pair of brilliant comedies by Albert Books = 86 Rediscovery: Anne Billson expriences true revolutionary terror with surreal Soviet horror Viy = 89 Lost and Found: Sarah Fensom on George Cukor's final film Rich and Famous = 91 BOOK Farran Smith Nehme delights in a fabulous name-dropping biography of Mike Nichols = 92 Brad Stevens welcomes a sharp selection of work by the film critic V.F. Perkins = 93

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