“We wanted to do it as a sitcom, a bit like Terry and June, but with killing.”
—Steve Oram on Sightseers
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Our November festival special issue brings you the best of Venice, Toronto and the upcoming London film festivals: Ben Walters explores the strain of “British bathetic bucolic” in Ben (Kill List) Wheatley’s cover black comedy Sightseers, Jacques Audiard talks about the mix of Marion Cotillard, sex, disability and orcas in his new drama Rust and Bone, Sally Potter revisits adolescent passions under the shadow of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in Ginger and Rosa and Demetrios Matheou reports from the location shoot of Walter Salles’ Kerouac adaptation On the Road.
Plus a ‘Deep Focus’ on the dark side of Ealing Studios, David Thomson imagines an interview with Jack Nicholson’s mad Randy post-The Shining, Tony Rayns’ guide to Korean master Im Kwontaek, an interview with pure-cinema pioneer Peter Kubelka, New York’s radical renaissance man Aldo Tambellini, reviews of 34 new film releases and 23 DVDs, books on Nicholas Ray and Olivier Assayas, J. Hoberman’s take on 21st Century Cinema, and that last shot of The Searchers.
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RUSHES: New London Film Festival head Clare Stewart; Hannah McGill on movie typewriters; Mark Cousins on film museums; John Malkovich’s Duke of Wellington.
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THE INDUSTRY: Why a heist remake took 15 years to reach the screen; Polish films at the UK box office; how film festivals can help give a leg-up to niche titles; veteran festival programmer Marco Müller.
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FESTIVALS: Nick James rounds up the best of Venice and Tom Charity reports from Toronto.
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A black comedy about a murderous north-country caravan trip, Sightseers taps into a tradition of urban couples coming unstuck in the English countryside. Ben Wheatley and his two writer-stars talk to Ben Walters.
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Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, writer-director Sally Potter revisits 1962 in Ginger & Rosa. She talks to Sophie Mayer.
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Best known for intense crime dramas, Jacques Audiard has gone for a more offbeat, lyrical approach with his new film Rust and Bone. He talks to Thomas Dawson.
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Im Kwontaek has directed more than 100 films in his career, holding up a mirror to the changes in his country since the Korean War. By Tony Rayns.
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It’s taken 50 years for Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic On the Road to reach the screen. Demetrios Matheou talks to director Walter Salles and his cast on set in Montreal.
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The Shining is back in a longer print, its secrets probed in the new documentary Room 237. By Michael Atkinson. PLUS: ‘A Little Touch of Amber’, a Shining-inspired short story by David Thomson.
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Mark Duguid explores the darker currents running through the diverse 1940s and 50s output of Ealing Studios, usually best known for its comedies. Plus Josephine Botting on studio head Michael Balcon.
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WIDE ANGLE: Peter Kubelka; Lang’s The Woman in the Window and Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut; two Tuesday Weld gems; Irish Silence; silent-era censors; Aldo Tambellini; Closed Circuit.
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FORUM: Letters on giallo, and our Greatest Films poll. Plus James Bell on truth in The Imposter.
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FILMS OF THE MONTH: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Five Broken Cameras, Frankenweenie, Ginger & Rosa. Plus 30 more new releases reviewed.
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DVD FEATURES: Samuel Fuller’s Park Row; a Gainsborough Pictures trio; American New Wave rarity End of the Road. Plus 18 more releases.
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BOOKS: Olivier Assayas’s films and memoirs; troubled Hollywood director Nicholas Ray; J. Hoberman on 21st-century cinema.
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ENDINGS: A man silently silhouetted in a doorway has never been as eloquent as in the closing shot of John Ford’s The Searchers.
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