Sight & Sound June 2013

June 2013 issue of BFI's Sight & Sound Magazine with an image of Gemma Arterton in Byzantium (2012), directed by Neil Jordan. The tagline for this issue is, 'Neil Jordan restakes his claim to vampire territory' and relates to the cover feature article on Neil Jordan's contemporary vampire story. Other feature articles include a piece on The Great Gatsby; Female vampires; The Fashion Film Festival and the work of director Marcel L'Herbier, looking at Le Vertige (1926), L'argent (1928), Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir (1931) and L'epervier (1933); Olivier Assayas and his film Something in the Air (2012); Joachim Lafosse, director of Our Children; an interview with Audrey Tautou; Claude Miller's final film Therese Desqueyroux. Nick James' editorial discusses The Great Gatsby and the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. James compares Fitzgerald's novel with British society and the super-rich. He includes a short tribute to film critic Roger Ebert (1942-2013) and includes his top ten films in descending order. The Rushes section includes a short piece by Nick James on that year's Cannes Competition line up; an article by Hannah McGill on roses and follows in films; an interview with Tobias Lindholm, writer of Borgen and The Hunt and an article by Mark Cousins on the portrayal of Northen Ireland in film, referring to films such as Hunger and Odd Man Out. The On Our Radar section includes details about Edgar Wright's The World's End, a retrospective of Satyajit Ray at the BFI Southbank, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the release from Eureka/Masters of Cinema of The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith). There is a list of the five key Scott Fitzgerald films to watch. There is an obituary to Jesus 'Jess' Franco (1930-2013) and Juan Jose Bigas Luna (1946-2013). The Industry article discusses Tom Shkolnik and his film The Comedian' and includes a break down on the top five self-distributed UK hits. This issue includes the new column from the director of the BFI Film Fund where he discusses films that will be included in the Official Selection from Cannes, such as The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard), Last Day on Mars (Ruairi Robinson) and For Those in Peril (Paul Wright). Short column on directors and projects in production, including: David Cronenberg, David O. Russell, Asif Kapadia, Olivier Assayas, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Noah Baumbach and Ang Lee. This issue includes an article on producer Peter Aalbaek Jenson and his collaboration with Lars Von Trier. There is an article on a developer's attempt to demolish Turkey's oldest cinema which had opened in 1924 and how it prompted a protest. There is an article on the first film version of The Great Gatsby and although it has been lost, contemporary reviews and a surviving trailer give an understanding of what it was like. In this issue there is an interview with producer Tony Garnett. He discusses his long collaboration with Ken Loach and partnerships with writers like Jim Allen, David Mercer and G.F. Newman. An article on the growth of opportunities to stream film and video online, refers to such films as Time Together (2012) and Slow Action; on Tibet's first film director, Peme Tseden; the Cinema du reel Documentary Festival in Paris; Harmony Korine's films Gummo and Spring Breakers; Nicholas Ray's late erotic short The Janitor; the film Some Call it Loving, starring Zalmon King and Richard Pryor; Stephane Derlome, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du Cinema and the auteur theory. The reviews section in this issue includes reviews on films such as: The Comedian (Tom Schkolnik, 2012) with a corresponding feature in the industry section; The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair, 2012); Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas, 2011) with its corresponding feature on page 46; The Host (Andrew Niccol, 2013); Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013); Mud (Jeff Nichols); No One Lives (Ryuhei Kitamura, 2012); The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (Shane Meadows); Village at the End of the World (Sarah Gavron, 2012). The Home Cinema section includes details of the release of Polish Classics Volume 2, including the three films: Illumination, The Promised Land and Escape from the 'liberty' cinema; a short review of the re-release of Billy Liar (John Schlesinger); Badlands (Terence Malick); Kawashima Yuzo's comedy Bakumatsu Taiyo-Den; Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi) and The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson). Short review on Ken Loach's The Spirit of '45. Last article looks at the ending of Richard Linklater's Before Sunset (2003).

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