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Lost and found: Spring Night, Summer Night: J.L. Anderson's backwoods Appalachian love story is a forgotten classic of 1960s indie neorealism, says Ross Lipman

2011: The year in review: In a strong year for arthouse cinema, Terrence Malic

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Theo Angelopoulos: the sweep of history: As his oeuvre is released on DVD, Theo Angelopoulos revisits his career with David Jenkins

Jean Vigo: Artist of the floating world: Vigo's sole full-length feature bridged the surrealism of 1920s

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Remain in light: Mulholland Dr. and the cosmogony of David Lynch: As our ten-yearly poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time gets ever closer, B. Kite considers David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. in the light of the Vedanta-inspired spiritual phi

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Light my fire: The Hour of the Furnaces: As S&S counts down to the September issue's once-a-decade poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, French critic Nicole Brenez makes the case for one of the key revolutionary activist films of the 1

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The great escape: La Grande Illusion: In past S&S polls of the greatest films of all time, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion has lost out to his later, allegedly more personal film La Regle du jeu. It's time to reconsider, says Ginette Vincend

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Cover feature: An island of his own:Set on an island off the coast of the US in the mid-60s, on the eve of that decade's upheavals, Moonrise Kingdom is the latest of the self-contained worlds created by Wes Anderson. Nick Pinkerton talks to t

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Cover feature: The genius of Hitchcock: Since his twenties, when he wrote a book about Hitchcock, Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro has returned to his films again and again. He offers a director's POV on what we can learn from the

Contents Cover feature: The 2012 Critics' Poll


Once a decade we ask critics to select the Greatest Films of All Time. This year 846 of them responded. We unveil the Top 100, plus 100 personal top tens from David Thomson, Camille Paglia, J. Hoberman, Mark Ker

Contents Our October issue kicks off with an illuminating look at Holy Motors, the daring and unclassifiable new film from provocative French maverick Leos Carax. David Thompson decodes the complex web of cinematic homages and references at play in Carax's dazzlin

Contents "Our November festival special issue brings you the best of Venice, Toronto and the upcoming London film festivals: Ben Walters explores the strain of “British bathetic bucolicâ€ in Ben (Kill List) Wheatley’s cover black comedy Sightseers, Jacques Au