SUMMER 2024
6 EDITORIAL It ’s quarter past the century. What better time for some bold claims about greatness?
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9 OPENING SCENES
· Opener: Agnieszka
Holland’s Green Border · Editors’ Choice
· In Production: Ruben Östlund’s
The Entertainment System Is Down · In Conversation: Efthymis
Filippou on Kinds of Kindness · Festivals: Jeonju
International Film Festival · The Ballot of… Alice Rohrwacher
· Mean Sheets: CheckMorris’s big colours for Motel Destino and more
18 LETTERS
20 TALKIES
· Flick Lit: Nicole Flattery is electrified by James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work · The Long Take: Pamela
Hutchinson salutes the rare sight of female directors on screen · TV Eye: Andrew Male on what is lost in translation about the great French drama Class Act · The Magnificent ’74: Jessica
Kiang on Los Angeles and its timeless, troubling Chinatown
146 ENDINGS
· When Sam Peckinpah’s
Straw Dogs was released, reviewers were appalled by its violence. But the film’s lasting shock lies in a smile
136 ELIA KAZAN He pens a 1957 piece paying tribute to writers
F R O M T H E
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143 THIS MONTH IN… 2014
Boyhood on the cover plus Godard for breakfast
REVIEWS
106 | FILMS
· Orlando, My Political Biography
· Àma Gloria
· The Bikeriders
· Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
· Sleep
· The Nature of Love
· You Burn Me
· Hounds
· About Dry Grasses
· Kinds of Kindness
· Sasquatch Sunset
· Crossing
· Bread & Roses
· Gasoline Rainbow
· Eternal You
· Bye Bye Tiberias
· Next Sohee
· Fancy Dance
· Green Border
· Problemista
124 | DVD & BLU-RAY
· Pharaoh
· Three Revolutionary Films by
Ousmane Sembène · The Dreamers
· Witchfinder General
· Rediscovery: Heartbreakers
· Lost and Found: The Pleasure Pit
· Slacker
· Luminous Woman
· Chocolat
· Dreams
· Hidden City
· Footprints
132 | WIDER SCREEN
· Deborah Stratman’s awe-
inspiring love letter to geology imagines an Earth without humans; and we explore teddy boys and girls in 1950s cinema
134 | BOOKS
· Philip Kemp on N.T. Binh’s conversations with critic Michel Ciment; Ben Nicholson on a speech by Albert Serra about growing up in a small town; and Henry K. Miller on a BFI Classic about Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard
CONTRIBUTORS
J. HOBERMAN
has written books on Cold War Hollywood, Yiddish cinema, underground artist Jack Smith and, most recently, the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup. From 1977 until 2011 he reviewed movies for the Village Voice, the longest stint of any Voice film critic.
BEATRICE LOAYZA
is a Brooklyn-based writer. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Criterion, 4Columns, Film Comment, the Guardian and the Nation, and is currently working on a book about French New Wave actresses.
ALEX RAMON
is a film and theatre critic and programmer based in Łódź. His writing has featured in Sight and Sound, BFI online, Cinéaste and Film International.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Amy Taubin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Guy Westwell, Hannah McGill, Catherine Wheatley, Ehsan Khoshbakht, Adam Nayman, Nicolas Rapold, Rachel Pronger, Kate Stables, Molly Haskell, Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Devika Girish, Adrian Martin, Ryan Gilbey, Ashley Clark, Becca Voelcker and more
