SIGHT AND SOUND Magazine Covers from 2004

Issue 155
March

Enigma Variations: 21 Grams, Alejandro Gonzallez Inarritu's powerful follow-up to Amores perros, shuffles scenes from its characters' lives and gets the audience to put the pieces together. Is it a... more

Issue 156
April

Hell In Jerusalem: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has been lambasted for its historical portrayal of the Jews. But does it work as a film, asks Nick James?... more

Issue 157
May

I Forgot To Remember To Forget: Scrambling memory and time have become key conceits for contemporary film-makers. Nick James asks what movies like the Charlie Kaufman-scripted Eternal Sunshine of the... more

Issue 158
June

All I Desire: Bad Education marks a further maturing of Pedro Almodovar's style with its spidery plot and elegant mise en scene. And this deeply felt autobiographical work has struck... more

Issue 159
July

Mission Improbable: Michael Moore hopes Palme d'Or winner Fahrenheit 9/11 will provoke the downfall of the Bush regime. B. Ruby Rich thinks he needs to learn a trick or two... more

Issue 160
August

Issue 161
September

Edinburgh 2004: The Motorcycle Diaries charts the future Che Guevara's South American road trip. Nick James talks to director Walter Salles. Plus Jim Jarmusch's Coffee & Cigarettes; The Hamburg Cell;... more

Issue 162
October

It Happened One Night: Michael Mann claims Collateral is the first major studio picture to use digital for photorealism rather than economy or effects. He talks to Mark Olsen about... more

Issue 163
November

The Innocents: Finding Neverland bends the truth about J.M. Barrie's creation of Peter Pan to boost its themes of art, death and the afterlife. It's magic, says Kevin Jackson.
Lolita's... more

Issue 164
December

Sadean Woman: In Anatomy of Hell Catherine Breillat takes the sexual explorations of Romance to new and disturbing extremes. She talks to Geoffrey Macnab about breaking the taboos that clothe... more