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Von Sternberg - six chapters in search of an auteur:
The six films Josef von Sternberg made with the star he 'created', Marlene Dietrich, are a triumph of pure style and sensual excess over novelettish plots. To welcome a new season, David T

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Syndromes of a new century


How have the first ten years of the 21st century changed cinema? From Argentina to Romania, from AlmodOvar to Weerasethakul, Nick James introduces Sight & Sound's selection of the 30 key films of the past decad

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Obituaries


Sight & Sound's comprehensive survey of the actors, directors, writers, producers and technicians who died during the course of 2009, compiled by Bob Mastrangelo. PLUS:


Betsy Blair by Kieron Corless (online exclusive)

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Alice through the lens


Mark Sinker compares the various artistic visionaries - from John Tenniel to Dennis Potter to Jan Svankmajer - who have put their stamp on Alice since 1865


PLUS (in the magazine) Go ask Alice: Tim Burton is on

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Italian Cinema: Maestros and mobsters:

Cinematic nostalgia, endemic corruption and the deadening hand of Silvio Berlusconi have prevented Italy's real story from being told on film for 30 years, says Nick Hasted. But now a new generation of

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The Film Book poll: Writing about the art of cinema can be an art in itself. Having polled a wide range of leading international critics, we reveal our survey of the best film books ever published. Nick James browses the results.

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Kurosawa on Kurosawa:

The director whom Steven Spielberg once described as "the pictorial Shakespeare of our time" was famously reluctant to discuss his films, but he opened up to Donald Richie in an interview first published in Sight & Sou

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More than any other director bar Hitchcock, the Brazilian Alberto Cavalcanti had a profound influence on British film-making in the 1930s and 40s. But he remains an unjustly overlooked figure, says Nick James.

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Contents Out of the past: Frantisek Vlacil: Less celebrated internationally than his near contemporaries Forman and Menzel, the late Czech director Frantisek Vlacil's visionary medieval epics have recently been rediscovered in the West. But there was more to him t

Contents The life and death of the UK Film Council


From 'Cool Britannia' to coalition cold comfort, Geoffrey Macnab unravels the circumstances surrounding the recently announced demise of the UK Film Council


PLUS Palme d'Or-winning producer Keith Griffit

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Carlos: five hours of the Jackal: An epic biopic of legendary terrorist Carlos marks a change of pace for Olivier Assayas. By David Thompson

English pastoral: Robinson in Ruins: 'Robinson in Ruins' marks the return of director Patrick Kei

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Capra before he became 'Capraesque':

Celebrated each Christmas for the 'Capracorn' of It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra deserves reappraisal as a director in the light of the restoration of his 1920s silents and his luminous talkies of the