The January 2016 edition of Sight & Sound magazine. The cover features a still of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant. Nick James' editorial focuses on the "French-Houston" generation of writers, who he argues helped turn film into a serious area of study throughout the 1970s to 1990, helping to cement its importance in cultural life. "Rushes": begins with a look at the decline of British animation in recent years, noting the lack of lottery funding for animate shorts and the disappearance of Exeter from the festival circuit calendar; 5 films about sisters including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Virgin Suicides; a look at London film-maker Cecil Emeke and her short online films on the legacy of colonialism including Strolling and; Mark Cousins focuses on the parallels of Bond and Doctor Who as products of the post-colonial legacy of the UK, comparing them to the early travelogue films of the Lumière brothers. "The Industry": the self-financing of Tom Browne's Radiator; The Numbers focusing on the box office of Irish films at UK/Ireland cinemas, inspired by the release of Brooklyn and; Ben Roberts on encouraging younger audiences to see art-house and indie films. "Obituary" focuses on Sight & Sound's 1956 to 1990 editor Penelope Houston. Features include: The Revenant; Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson's The Forbidden Room; Terence Davies' Sunset Song; Haitian director Raoul Peck who was given a retrospective by the BFI in December 2015 and; write Nora Ephron's impact on romantic comedies, including When Harry Met Sally. "Films of the Year" begins with a list of the top 20 films of the year as voted by critics, the first three of which are: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin; Todd Haynes' Carol and; George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road. The overall list reflects a downturn in foreign-language art-house films. It then highlights: the rediscovered reel of Laurel and Hardy film The Battle of the Century; the industry questions of inclusivity and representation and; living in the transitional period between film and TV thanks to "the digital apocolypse". "Wide Angle" includes: Haile Gerima and Peter Tscherkassky. "Reviews" includes: The Forbidden Room; Sunset Song; At Any Price; By the Sea;The Closer We Get; The Danish Girl; and The Peanuts Movie. "Rediscovery" includes T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.
Item number | 65280 |
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Category | Periodical |
Type | Criticism/History |
Language | English |
Country of origin | UK |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection