Contents Dream Tickets: With their inventive double bills, repertory cinemas once entertained and challenged their audiences. Sight & Sound asks 52 critics and programmers to do the same by choosing their own fantasy pairings. Introduction by Jane Giles.


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Contents Popcorn Patter: Terrence Malick's Badlands now seems less a study of alienated youth and more like a screwball Western,argues David Thomson.


Reflections In A Golden Eye: Frederick Wiseman's dedication to chronicling American civic life should not dis

Contents Who needs critics?: Critics need to show more passion and conviction if they're still to matter in the internet age, argues Nick James PLUS our panel of leading critics select examples of the great writing that inspires them; Mark Fisher on the vital role

Contents The London Film Festival: Liverpool - A trilogy of closely observed characters: In his latest film the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso varies and expands on his unique realist vision, argues Quint?n.


The London Film Festival: Liverpool - Intervi

Contents Radical Chic: Is The Baader Meinhof Complex a thoughtful examination of Germany's recent past or does it glamorise terrorism? By Andrea Dittgen. PLUS James Bell talks to producer Bernd Eichinger.


Game for a century: As the great Portuguese director M