Sight & Sound September 2016

September 2016 issue of BFI's Sight & Sound Magazine featuring Isabelle Huppert on the cover with the tagline "Cinema's most fearless actor on her life and career". This issue contains features on: 6-page interview with Isabelle Huppert discussing her work with Claude Chabrol, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis and Gerard Depardieu; feature on Mia Hansen-Love's film 'Things to Come' which also stars Isabelle Huppert; and an article on Ingrid Bergman's formative years in Sweden and Germany, before working in Hollywood; a feature article on Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra and his shark attack thriller 'The Shallows'; a feature article on Todd Solondz's film 'Wiener-Dog'; and a feature article celebrating the life and work of Iranian Director Abbas Kiarostami which is made up of contributors from a selection of filmmakers - Victor Erice, Shirin Neshat, Mike Leigh, Nicolas Philibert, Jogn Akomfrah and Jim Jarmusch. The Editorial by Nick James discusses dialogue-driven drama and its increasing migration to telvision. He refers to Jason Bourne as an example and references Shekhar Kerpur and Catherine Shoard's Guardian article 'Words are losing their power'. In the Rushes section, it includes an article by Philip Kemp on an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum 'Real to Reel: A Century of War Movies' and mentions films such as "Paths of Glory" (1957), "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Atonement" (2007) etc. Listomania includes films about animal attacks such as "Jaws" (1975) and "The Birds" (1963). In "All Cisterns are go" article by Hannah McGill she talks about the symbolism of toilets on screen, referring to films such as "Psycho" (1960), "Bridesmaids" (2011), "Jurassic Park" (1992). The Five Key dog films compiled by Robert Hanks are listed as: Charlie Chaplin's "A Dog's Life" (1918), "The Awful Truth" (1937) with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, "Lassie Come Home" (1943) with Roddy McDowell and Liz Taylor, "White Dog" (1982) - Samuel Fuller's adaptation of Romain Gary's Novel and Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" (2014). Article by Ian Christie titled "Disappearing Act" on R.W. Paul and his work with Birt Acres. Article by Mark Cousins on neuroscience discoveries and how this relates to film history. Article by Charles Gant on Noel Clarke's "Brotherhood", British urban genre, and his writing career. Gant looks at South American Cinema at the UK/Ireland Box Office in the Numbers segment. There is an article by James Bell which looks at the archive film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. Bell highlights programme's preference for 1930s Universal Pictures films such as "The Good Fairy" (1935), "King of Jazz", "Laughter in Hell" (1933) etc. There is a 5-page article on Petro Almodovar's 20th feature film "Juilieta". Article on Lewis Klahr's animated films. Article by Pamela Hutchinson on music accompaniment for a silent film. Saskia Vogel discusses Helsinki's Viva Erotica festival, celebrating sex on film in all its variety - hardcore, softcore, conceptual-experimental. Article on a documentary ("ActionSpace" by Huw Wahl) about inflatable structures. Reviews in this issue include: "The Childhood of a Leader" (Brady Corbet, 2015), "Cosmos" (Andrzej Zulawski, 2015), "Jason Bourne" (Paul Greengrass, 2016), "Absolutely Fabulous The Movie" (Mandie Fletcher, 2016), "Anthropoid" (Sean Ellis), "Asterix The Mansions of the Gods" (Louis Clichy, 2014), "Brotherhood" (Noel Clarke), "Cafe Society" (Woody Allen), "The Conferssion: Living the War on Terror" (Ashish Ghadiali, 2016), "The Fall" (Daniel Gordon, 2016), "Ghostbusters" (Paul Feig, 2016), "Ingrid Bergman: In her own words" (Stig Bjorkman, 2015), "Julieta" (Pedro Almodovar), "The Killing$ of Tony Blair" (Sanne van den Bergh, Daniel Turi, Greg Ward, 2016), "Pete's Dragon", (David Lowery, 2016), "The Shallows" (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2016), "Star Trek: Beyond" (Justin Lin), "Swallows and Amasons" (Philippa Lowthorpe, 2016), "Things to Come" (Mia Hansen-Love, 2016), "Wiener-Dog" (Todd Solondz, 2015). Feature on a restored collection of three films (Padre Padrone/The Night of the Shooting Stars/Kaos) by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. Rediscovery Article on rural life in England looking at "Akenfield" (Peter Hall, 1974) and "On the Black Hill" (Andrew Grieve, 1988). which were re-released as part of BFI's 'Britain on Film: Rural Life' project. Release of "Buster Keaton: The Complete Short Films", includes review of the collection. Article on Robert Mulligan's film "The Nickel Ride". Final article is on final image of Charles Heston in the original "Planet of the Apes".

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection