Sight & Sound. Oct 05.

Patrick Fahy's report from the set of Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, the cover story for the new issue of Sight & Sound, is not online. Hmph. But we do get to read Andrew Osmond on Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, a piece in which he sketches the background of the relationship between anime and children's literature while placing this particular film in the context of Miyazaki's other work.

Jonathan Romney: "[Lucile] Hadzihalilovic had announced that her eagerly awaited first feature would be in the horror genre, but she ended up making another film entirely. If there is horror in Innocence, it is of a dreamlike, fairytale variety - a gothic unease all the more discomforting because it is so hard to pin down."

Reviews:

• Romney on Bergman's "militantly wintry" Saraband.

• Richard Falcon on Cronenberg's "fantastically sure-footed" A History of Violence.

• Kim Newman on Romero's Land of the Dead: "[H]e might have been waiting for America to become terrible again, in a sufficiently different way to need a new Dead picture."

Posted by dwhudson at September 16, 2005 12:41 PM