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STEVEN SODERBERGH

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26 DAVID LYNCH In our tribute to the great filmmaker, Michael Atkinson explains how the director didn’t just expand the idea of cinema, but created a new version of reality. PLUS a previously unpublished interview with Lynch from 1984; and collaborators and filmmakers explain what he meant to them

48 MIKE LEIGH The director, back on scintillating form with Hard Truths, tells Jonathan Romney why his work is about understanding, not judging. PLUS the film’s star, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, discusses her creative process

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CHANTAL AKERMAN

In an extract from the latest edition of Sight and Sound ’s Auteurs Series, a 100-page print special out now, director Céline Sciamma writes exclusively about the influence the director has had on her work

54 WALTER SALLES The director’s first fiction film for more than a decade, I’m Still Here follows a woman seeking answers about the disappearance of her husband. He tells Geoff Andrew about the ever-present spectre of Brazil’s past