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Our October issue kicks off with an illuminating look at Holy Motors, the daring and unclassifiable new film from provocative French maverick Leos Carax. David Thompson decodes the complex web of cinematic homages and references at play in Carax’s dazzling and film-literate one-off.
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We also remember a French innovator from an earlier age: the great Chris Marker, who died in July this year, and who was always so much more than just a ‘documentary filmmaker’. Catherine Lupton introduces our coverage, which features tributes from directors inspired by Marker’s towering example, among them Agnès Varda, Patricio Guzmán, Chris Petit, José Luis Guérin, Patrick Keiller and more.
Kim Newman enjoys Dredd, a new take on the helmeted futuristic lawman Judge Dredd, and writer Alex Garland tells David Jenkins how he was committed to staying true to the raw, borderline-psychotic spirit of the 2000AD comic-strip original; Michael Atkinson explores the history of the moonshiner film – a rural and largely disreputable subgenre of the Hollywood gangster movie that’s back with a vengeance in its bloodiest incarnation yet courtesy of the Nick Cave-scripted Lawless; and Nick Hasted talks to Christian Petzold, the leading light of the Berlin School of filmmakers, famed for the uneasy gaze they’ve cast over modern Germany, whose tense and probing new film Barbara turns his attention to communist East Germany in the last decade of its existence.
We also launch our new ‘Sight & Sound Interview’ feature this month, as the great American critic and cultural historian Greil Marcus talks to David Thomson about Thomson’s latest book The Big Screen, and about a life spent watching movies.
Our comprehensive reviews pages include in-depth looks at Oliver Stone’s Savages and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, and we also review the most interesting books, DVDs and Blu-ray releases. All that, and much more besides…
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RUSHES: Hannah McGill on the ice pick in Basic Instinct, Ashley Clark on the lost Chameleon Street, Mark Cousins on straight and curly lines, Kevin B Lee on the Beijing Independent Film Festival and Jonathan Romney on Ruggles of Red Gap.
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THE INDUSTRY: Charles Gant on The Sweeney’s long journey to the big screen, and on Searching for Sugar Man’s box office, David Locke on the loss of the BBC’s head of film acquisitions, and Geoffrey Macnab talks to the boss of sales company IM Global.
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Former enfant terrible Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is at once an unclassifiable, hugely original vision and a compendium of visual references to cinema. David Thompson decodes its influences.
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Kim Newman on why a new British take on Judge Dredd reflects the true spirit of the original; plus writer-producer Alex Garland talks to David Jenkins.
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The moonshiner film is back with a vengeance in its bloodiest incarnation yet courtesy of the Nick Cave-scripted Lawless. By Michael Atkinson.
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Catherine Lupton pays tribute to the late Chris Marker, while ten directors including Agnès Varda, Patricio Guzmán, Chris Petit, José Luis Guérin and Patrick Keiller share memories.
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The leading light of the Berlin school, Christian Petzold turns his attention to the final years of communist East Germany with the tense and probing Barbara. He talks to Nick Hasted.
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Revered film critic David Thomson talks The Story of the Movies and What They Did To Us with Greil Marcus.
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WIDE ANGLE: Simon Merle on the Documenta art festival, Mark Webber on the late Owen Land, Frances Morgan on failed film scores, Henry K. Miller on the Shaftesbury Avenue Pavilion, Kieron Corless at Locarno and Brad Stevens on cinephilia and technology.
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FORUM: Robert Koehler and Jonathan Romney take sides for and against Leos Carax; plus in Letters, reflections on the S&S poll and redesign.
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FILMS OF THE MONTH: About Elly, Barbara, Dredd, Killing Them Softly, Savages. Plus 35 more new releases reviewed.
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HOME CINEMA: Rediscovering Paul Fejos; Mary Pickford – more than just a Victorian sweetheart, plus 17 other DVD reviews.
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BOOKS: Kent Jones on David Thomson’s latest love letter to the movies, J. Hoberman on the relationship between Hollywood and the FBI, Sophie Mayer on a feminist critique of women’s cinema and Iain Christie on Powell and Pressburger’s in-house portraitist.
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