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COVER FEATURE
Three and a half hours with Scorsese
While the gangland thriller The Irishman is
in some ways a return to familiar territory,
at 76 Martin Scorsese is – as he makes
clear in this wide-ranging interview with
Philip Horne – as inspired as ever, still
hunting for fresh ideas, fresh methods and
fresh ways of telling stories
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Law of the jungle
Alejandro Landes’s surreal, unsettling
war story Monos follows a squad of
adolescent guerrillas fighting for an
unknown cause in an unnamed country.
By Isabel Stevens PLUS an interview
with the film’s composer, Mica Levi
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Deep Focus: Maurice Pialat and the New
French Realism
Maurice Pialat’s raw, unsentimental
cinema, often driven by on-set conflict,
had an even deeper influence on
French directors and actors than did
the nouvelle vague. By David Thompson
PLUS Ginette Vincendeau looks at
the generation that followed, and
Olivier Assayas tells James Bell what
French cinema owes to Pialat
Behind a painted smile
As his sociopathic antihero in Todd Phillips’s Joker
confirms, right now Joaquin Phoenix is the most
compelling actor in American film – a star, whether
or not that’s what he wants. By Ryan Gilbey
REGULARS
5 Editorial A personal journey
Rushes
6 On Our Radar: We tune in to a
fine season of musicals and select
this month’s film highlights
8 Dream Palaces: Richard Stanley, the
cult director of Hardware, recalls taking
refuge in London’s Scala cinema
8 Rising Star: Meet Rose Glass
9 Classical Hollywood: Pamela
Hutchinson celebrates Judy and the
return of ageing divas to our screens
10 The Pictures: unseen archive
images of Sharon Tate
11 The Numbers: Charles Gant finds
audiences being hooked on Bait
Festivals
12 Nick James heralds a series of
great performances at Venice
14 Tom Charity reports on Toronto’s
efforts to tackle gender imbalances
Wide Angle
16 Profile: Sophia Satchell Baeza pays
tribute to Shirley Clarke, avant-garde
chronicler of lives at the margins
18 Primal Screen: Bryony Dixon
rejoices at the rediscovery of a
film by 1920s star Betty Balfour
19 Artists’ Moving Image: Matthew
Harle considers video archives
as anthropology and activism
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Endings
96 John Bleasdale on Alan Parker’s
hellish noir Angel Heart
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