MARCH 2025
6 EDITORIAL In the singular world of David Lynch, there was no such thing as a side project
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9 OPENING SCENES
· Opener: Mohammad Rasoulof
· Editors’ Choice
· In Production: Ben Wheatley’s
Normal and more · AI Spy: The Brutalist and more
· In Conversation: Yamada
Naoko and Ushio Kensuke talk about The Colors Within · Obituary: Malcolm Le Grice
· Mean Sheets: Brian Hung on
Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs
20 LETTERS
22 TALKIES
· The Long Take: Pamela
Hutchinson rewinds to her youthful affair with VHS · Flick Lit: Nicole Flattery on older women with younger men, in a glut of recent films and books · TV Eye: Andrew Male applauds the real children, and real thrills, in the latest slice of Star Wars IP
98 ENDINGS
· Chantal Akerman’s musical comedy of love, loss and consumerism set in a Brussels shopping centre, Golden Eighties, reveals the director to be an incorrigible romantic
90 ASTA NIELSEN A profile of the Danish silent star
F R O M T H E
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96 THIS MONTH IN… 1998 Tarantino on the cover and an interview with Shane Meadows
REVIEWS
60 | FILMS
· Memoir of a Snail
· Nosferatu
· I’m Still Here
· Here
· Presence
· On Falling
· Emmanuelle
· Saturday Night
· Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
· Pepe
· A Complete Unknown
· By the Stream
· Julie Keeps Quiet
· To a Land Unknown
· The Seed of the Sacred Fig
· Short Film: The Watchman
· The Fire Inside
· I Am Martin Parr
· The Last Showgirl
· The Colors Within
· Bring Them Down
78 | DVD & BLU-RAY
· Mikey and Nicky
· Requiem for a Vampire
· Mermaid Legend
· Two films by Ermanno Olmi:
Il posto and I fidanzati · Cure
· Rediscovery: Nothing Is Sacred:
Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel · Lost and Found: Freelance
· Bushman
· Park Lanes
· The Cat
· Punch-Drunk Love
· High and Low
86 | WIDER SCREEN
· Island-hopping with the Muestra de Cine festival in Lanzarote, and John Boorman’s almost forgotten, eerily prophetic absurdist story of west London Leo the Last
88 | BOOKS
· Pamela Hutchinson on a juicy,
gaudy memoir of the Roman film industry, Anton Bitel on women directing horror and Bryony Dixon on a study of film distribution
CONTRIBUTORS
MICHAEL ATKINSON
writes about film for the Village Voice; his books include Exile Cinema (SUNY Press), Hemingway Cutthroat (St. Martin’s Press) and the BFI Modern Classics volume on Blue Velvet (Bloomsbury/BFI).
ROBERT EGGERS
is an American filmmaker known for his works of historical fiction, including The Northman (2022) and Nosferatu (2024).
CÉLINE SCIAMMA
is an award-winning French writer-director whose films include Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and Petite maman (2021).
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Gaspar Noé, Ali Abbasi, Ehsan Khoshbakht, Sukhdev Sandhu, Kambole Campbell, William Fowler, Henry K. Miller, Brad Stevens, Hannah McGill, Adam Scovell, Kim Newman, Saffron Maeve, Rachel Pronger, Leila Latif and more
