SIGHT AND SOUND Magazine Covers from 2003

Issue 142
February

A Good place to die: A young Mexican's debut feature tackles love, death, redemption and cross-generational sex with skill and sensitivity. Demetrios Matheou talks to Carlos Reygadas about Japon.
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George Clooney

Issue 143
March

Magnificent Obsession: With his new film Far from Heaven director Todd Haynes, like Fassbinder before him, has been inspired to new heights by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Plus... more

Issue 144
April

Going down: Spike Lee's 25th Hour translates the fear and anxiety of its jail-bound anti-hero into a hymn to post-9/11 New York. By Amy Taubin.
Eastern Bloc: Berun 2003: Berlin... more

Issue 145
May

Issue 146
June

Sympathy for the devil: Max, a fictional account of Hitler's early days as a struggling artist, seeks to reveal the man behind the monster. Demetrios Matheou and Richard Black ask... more

Issue 147
July

Issue 148
August

Shock Around The Clock: The second series of 24 understands the fears that drove America to war in Iraq, claims David Thomson, as he re-imagines the show directed by David... more

Issue 149
September

Eurocentric: Edinburgh 2003: From a festival with a 'New Europe' theme we feature Mike Hodges' thriller I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, a dark revenger's tragedy. The director talks to Stephen... more

Issue 150
October

Issue 151
November

Play Madigan For Me: Clint Eastwood has returned to pre-Dirty Harry days to make a crime film that matches the best of his Westerns. Adrian Wootton dissects the moral universe... more

Issue 152
December

What a carve up!: Horror films endlessly devour and regurgitate characters and ideas. Mark Kerrnode asks what new versions of 1970s shockers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Alien might... more

On the covers (2003)