Sight&Sound - 04.2020

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Contents

April 2020

5 Editorial Lady Stardust

Rushes

7 Ela Bittencourt, Anjana Janardhan

and Joshua Rothkopf report on

the highlights from Sundance

10 Interview: James Bell talks to

Cary Fukunaga about updating

Bond for the Brexit era

12 Campaign: Ben Walters heads to

Dungeness to report on the appeal to

save Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage

13 Soundtracks: Leonie Cooper on

Gwenno’s new live score for Bait

14 Dream Palaces: Iranian director Marjane

Satrapi on the cinema that inducted

her into French cinephile culture

15 Interview: Kieron Corless talks to

Todd Haynes about Dark Waters and

his love of whistleblower films

16 The Numbers: Charles Gant looks

beyond the awards films and discovers

a thriving anime scene in the UK

Wide Angle

19 Preview: Erika Balsom on how Frank

Beauvais’s Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

uses images torn from a mammoth film

binge to evoke our present maladies

20 Kim Newman celebrates the beyond

terrible but strangely brilliant films

of trash auteur Andy Milligan

95 Letters

Endings

96 Ben Walters watches a new self

quietly being born at the end of John

Cameron Mitchell’s delightfully

transgressive Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Tilda Swinton: Smoke and mirrors and make-believe

Tilda Swinton’s remarkable screen presence has been

the engine behind a dizzying variety of films, from

early collaborations with Derek Jarman to new work by

Pedro Almodóvar and Wes Anderson. She talks to Isabel

Stevens about Buster Keaton, sharing Tarkovsky’s dreams and

why the greatest performance in cinema history is by a donkey

FEATURES

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Blood lands

Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird, a

searing portrait of a boy trapped in the

violence of Eastern Europe during World

War II, joins a brave lineage of films

exploring the experience of conflict

in the region, from Ivan’s Childhood to

Come and See. By Michael Brooke

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Stepping out

Levan Akin’s tender love story And

Then We Danced offers an intoxicating

celebration of Georgian culture, presenting

a defiant challenge to homophobia in the

country. Alex Davidson traces its place

within a small but significant tradition

of queer films from the former USSR

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Space invader

Almost 25 years after his career hit the

skids, cult director Richard Stanley is

back with Color out of Space, a sci-fi horror

tale based on a story by horror writer

H.P. Lovecraft. He talks to Michael Blyth

PLUS Roger Luckhurst explores how

Lovecraft’s tales of metaphysical dread

have found increasing favour with

a new generation of filmmakers

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Remain in light: Roger

Deakins in ten shots

Roger Deakins’s Oscar wins have only

confirmed what people already knew:

that the British cinematographer is one

of the greatest artists of light and shade

in movie history. Joshua Rothkopf picks

ten shots that show off his genius

REGULARS

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATERINA JEBB

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