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MAY 2024 6 EDITORIAL Tom Ripley, back on screen, is a sociopath for all seasons I S S U E I S T H I N 9 OPENING SCENES · Opener: Jonathan Glazer · Editors’ Choice · Preview: Brian Eno and Gary Hustwit on their Eno doc · In Production: Manuela Martelli’s The Meltdown · Report: Argentinian protests against cuts to the arts · The Ballot of… Pablo Berger · Obituary: Paolo Taviani · Mean Sheets: Huang Hai’s intricate posters for Koree d a Hirokazu’s Monster 20 LETTERS 22 TALKIES · The Long Take: Pamela Hutchinson is turning the page blue in praise of Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Mrs Muir · Flick Lit: Nicole Flattery sees Don DeLillo’s Libra as ripe for the next big historical biopic · TV Eye: Andrew Male finds 3 Body Problem is filled with life · The Magnificent ’74: In a brand new column, Jessica Kiang hypothesises that it ’s half a century since cinema’s best year 98 ENDINGS · Jean Gabin was born to play the desolate closing scene of Jacques Becker’s Touchez pas au grisbi, about two ageing criminals who pull off a final heist, only to find their dreams of escape brutally crushed 90 RICHARD LESTER A 1973 interview with the director F R O M T H E A R C H I V E 96 THIS MONTH IN… 1994 Pulp Fiction on the cover and a report on the lack of European ‘stars’ REVIEWS 60 | FILMS · Hoard · Dune: Part Two · Close Your Eyes · Love Lies Bleeding · Our Body · The Trouble with Jessica · Much Ado About Dying · Kidnapped · Tiger Stripes · Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry · Last Summer · Io Capitano · The Sweet East · That They May Face the Rising Sun · All You Need Is Death · Opus · Monkey Man · Back to Black · If Only I Could Hibernate · Baltimore 78 | DVD & BLU-RAY · Allonsanfan · Happy End · I, the Executioner · By a Man’s Face You Shall Know Him · Thelma & Louise · Rediscovery: three films from Deaf Crocodile · Lost and Found: The Ghoul · Closed Circuit · Vie privée · The Spider Labyrinth · Circle of Danger · Beautiful Thing 86 | WIDER SCREEN · Jonathan Ali on gifted Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián and Laura Staab on the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, a celebration of political and aesthetic radicalism 88 | BOOKS · Hannah McGill on Katie Gee Salisbury’s book about the restricted otherness of Anna May Wong; Laura Staab on Christine Smallwood’s exploration of Chantal Akerman’s La Captive; and Kat Ellinger examines Barbara Mennel’s BFI Classics volume on Mädchen in Uniform CONTRIBUTORS ELENA LAZIC is a French freelance film writer based in London with bylines in Cineuropa and Little White Lies, among other outlets. She is also the founder and editor of film magazine Animus. GEOFF ANDREW is a writer, lecturer and programmer-atlarge for BFI Southbank, and formerly the editor of film at Time Out. His books include studies of Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof KieŚlowski, Nicholas Ray and American indie filmmakers. JESSICA KIANG is a Berlin-based freelance film critic who writes regularly for Variety, Criterion, Film Comment, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. She is also the International Programmer for the Belfast Film Festival. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Jonathan Romney, Sam Davies, Diego Lerer, Pasqual Iannone, Adam Scovell, Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Kate Stables, Kim Newman, Leigh Singer, Rebecca Harrison, Roger Luckhurst, Philip Concannon, Catherine Wheatley, Henry K. Miller, Philip Kemp and more

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