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JANUARY 2013 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 1
THE INTERNATIOONAL FILM MAGAZINE
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PLUS
THE BEST FILMS OF 2012
William Klein Martin McDonagh
from pop to documentary on the cool killers of his ‘Seven Psychopaths’
Bruno Dumont Jonas Mekas
on ‘Hors Satan’ prince of the underground
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford reunited
28 Days Later (2002)
A Diary For Timothy (1945)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Blackmail (1929)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Brassed Off (1996)
Brazil (1985)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brighton Rock (1947)
Carry on Screaming (1966)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Cherrybomb (2009)
Darling (1965)
David (1951)
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
Dead of Night (1945)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Dracula (1958)
Drifters (1929)
East is East (1916)
East is East (1999)
Elizabeth (1998)
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
Fish Tank (2009)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Genevieve (1953)
Get Carter (1971)
Great Expectations (1946)
Gregory’s Girl (1980)
Handsworth Songs (1987)
Harry Potter (series) (2001–2011)
Hedd Wyn (1992)
Hellraiser (1987)
Henry V (1944)
House of America (1997)
Howards End (1992)
Hunger (2008)
If… (1968)
Kes (1969)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
London Orbital (2002)
Miss Julie (1999)
Mona Lisa (1986)
My Son the Fanatic (1997)
“GORGEOUS
Naked (1993)
Nighthawks (1978)
Night Mail (1936)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) PRINTED
Oliver Twist (1948)
Orlando (1992)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Pressure (1975)
Pride and Prejudice (2005) VOLUMES”
Quadrophenia (1979)
Radio On (1979)
Ratcatcher (1999)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1986) “RICH AND
Sapphire (1959)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
The 39 Steps (1935)
ENGAGING
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1921)
The Arbor (2010)
The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954)
The Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972, 1973, 1978)
The Blue Lamp (1949) TEXTS”
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
The Drum (1938) “FINE
The Go-Between (1971)
The Gold Diggers (1983)
The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)
The Italian Job (1969)
The King’s Speech (2010) SCHOLARSHIP
The Last of England (1987)
The Long Good Friday (1979)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
The Queen (2006) ON FILM”
The Red Shoes (1948)
The Seventh Veil (1945)
The Third Man (1949)
The War Game (1966)
The Wicker Man (1973)
This is England (2006)
Tilly in a Boarding House (1911)
Touching the Void (2003)
Trainspotting (1996)
Victim (1961)
Village of the Damned (1960)
We Are The Lambeth Boys (1959)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
Withnail and I (1986)
Women’s Rights (1899)
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Welcome
January is always the Janus-faced edition where we Lee’s dazzling visuals could only have been achieved
look forward and back at the same time. So it’s apt that with digital technology, but we also cover resistance to
there’s so much in this issue about the moving image the demise of analogue fi lm at Vienna and elsewhere
in transition. You may well have expected a still from (p.76). The issue’s sub-theme, meanwhile, is forms of
The Master
(above) to herald our Review of 2012 – yes, psychological disturbance – whether it’s the sisterly
What Ever Happened to Baby
it’s won our Films of the Year straw poll (see p.51 for blood feud in the revived
Jane?
the Top Ten) – but you may be less prepared for an (p.46), the dilemma of fi nding enough homicidal
Seven Psychopaths
issue that sets tributes to genius photographer/ types in Martin McDonagh’s (p.34) or
fi lmmaker William Klein (p.62) and prince of the the strange powers of the drifter in Bruno Dumont’s
Hors Satan
underground Jonas Mekas (p.40) alongside celebration (p.32). Is this unpredictable behaviour?
of the imagery in Ang Lee’s CGI-fest Life of Pi (p.26). Just ask Joaquin Phoenix. Nick James
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Contents January 2013
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REGULARS
9 Editorial The big dumb movie umbrella
24 Reader Offers
Rushes
10 Dan Callahan fi nds hidden depths
to Doris Day’s wholesome persona
12 O bject Lesson: Hannah McGill on
diamonds, fashion and Molly Ringwald
14 D ispatches: Mark Cousins on the
hidden treasures of Albanian cinema
The Industry
16 Development Tale: Charles Gant on how
Dustin Hoffman came to direct Quartet
17 The Numbers: Charles Gant on Skyfall’s
huge success at the UK box offi ce
18 How It Works: David Locke on
the UKFC’s P&A Fund
21 P rofi le: Geoffrey Macnab talks to
Amanda Berry, CEO of BAFTA
Festivals
22 Nick Bradshaw reports from CPH:DOX
23 Lydia Papadimitriou on a strong and
defi ant Thessaloniki festival
34
Wide Angle
66 Kieron Corless reports from the
Murder He Wrote Viennale in its 50th-anniversary year
67 Miguel Gomes on the unjustly
Nick James talks to London-Irish playwright-turned-director neglected cinema of Portuguese
Martin McDonagh about Seven Psychopaths, his blackly comic fi lmmaker Manuel Mozos
follow-up to In Bruges, while Ryan Gilbey charts the unhappy 69 Adrian Martin rediscovers Anna, a 1970s
Italian fi lm rescued from the vaults
fates of other screenwriter characters in the movies
70 Olaf Möller examines the work
of Argentina’s Narcisa Hirsch
FEATURES
72 Soundings: Frances Morgan on East
26 40 Africa’s veejays and fi lm ‘explainers’
COVER FEATURE: The Sea Inside Jonas Mekas: Film as Life 73 Primal Screen: Pamela Hutchinson
In bringing to the screen the magic realism The godfather of avant-garde fi lm turns 90 explores the relationship between
of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Ang Lee has this month. His life and work are celebrated silent cinema and the internet
set himself his most complex technical by Amy Taubin plus Chantal Akerman, Ken 74 Bradlands: Brad Stevens wonders if
challenge yet, fi nds Roger Clarke Jacobs, Jim Jarmusch and Peter Kubelka Abel Ferrara is being punished for his
PLUS visual-effects supervisor Bill absence of postmodern posturing
Westenhofer and production designer 46 75 L ost and Found: Neil Brand
David Gropman on how it was done There Will Be Blood on William Wellman’s little-
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is one of seen silent Beggars of Life
32 4466 cciinnema’s most challenging depictions of
The Devil, Possibly wwoomanhood, says Hannah McGill Forum
Bruno Dumon’t sixth 76 Neil Young and Gabe Klinger discuss
feature Hors Satan 6622 whether there is a future for celluloid
completes the TTHE S&S INTERVIEW: William Klein projection in the digital age
director’s quest to TTo coincide with a retrospective at Tate 78 L etters
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ISSN 0037-4806 USPS 496-040 97
91 Chakravyuh Night, Maîtresse, The Films
CONTRIBUTORS 92 Chasing Ice of Marcel Pagnol, Sick:
Neil Brand is a writer, composer, 94 Confessions of a Child The Life and Death of Bob
silent-fi lm accompanist of the Century Flanagan, Supermasochist,
Roger Clarke is the author of 94 Dead Europe Southern Comfort,
‘A Natural History of Ghosts’
95 Fun Size Films by Jacques Tati,
Brian Dillon is UK editor of ‘Cabinet’
and teaches critical writing at the 95 Gambit This Is Cinerama,
Royal College of Art. A collection of 96 Here Comes the Boom A Trip to the Moon
his essays will be published in 2013
96 I, Anna DVD features
David Evans is a freelance arts
journalist 97 The Joy of Six 112 N ick Pinkerton revisits
Ryan Gilbey is the fi lm critic of 98 Life Just Is Fritz Lang’s masterful
‘New Statesman’ 99 Love Bite early works
103
Pamela Hutchinson blogs about 99 Love Crime/Crime d’Amour 115 Pamela Hutchinson
silent fi lm at silentlondon.co.uk
100 The Man with the Iron Fists examines the long
David Jenkins is reviews editor
at ‘Little White Lies’ 101 McCullin shadow cast by Battleship
Philip Kemp is a freelance writer 102 Mental Potemkin on the British
and fi lm historian 103 Midnight’s Children documentary movement
Gabe Klinger is a freelance critic and 104 Neil Young Journeys 118 M ichael Atkinson explores
curator based (mainly) in Chicago
104 The Oranges Japanese studio
Adrian Martin is associate professor
of Film and Television Studies, 105 Quartet Shochiku’s fl eeting foray
Monash University, and co-editor 106 Rise of the Guardians into pulp horror
of online fi lm journal ‘Lola’.
106 Safety Not Guaranteed Television
Hannah McGill is a freelance writer
and critic 107 Seven Psychopaths 121 The Human Jungle,
Lydia Papadimitriou is senior 108 Silent Hill: Revelation Maison Close – Series 1, 110
lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool 109 Smashed Parade’s End
John Moores University
109 Tinker Bell and the Secret
Nick Pinkerton is a freelance
of the Wings BOOKS
writer and regular contributor to
‘The Village Voice’ 110 The Twilight Saga: 122 P hilip Kemp dips into a
Amy Taubin is a contributing editor Breaking Dawn – Part II compendium of essays
to ‘Film Comment’ and author of the
111 When Santa Fell to Earth about Ealing Studios
BFI Film Classic on ‘Taxi Driver’
111 You Will Be My Son 123 A shley Clark assesses a
Neil Young is co-director of the
Bradford International Film Festival, readable, if routine, study 111111
and critic for ‘The Hollywood of Spike Lee
Reporter’ and ‘Tribune’
124 B rad Stevens admires
an exhaustive overview
COVER of Donald Cammell’s
‘Life of Pi’ Performance
Retouched by DawkinsColour 124 I an Christie appraises a
history of the rise of
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on sale 8 January
And online this month The complete Films of 2012 poll, plus
the best DVDs and web videos of the year | Female fi lm reporter
competition | Kode9 on La Jetée and more bfi .org.uk/sightsound
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