Sight & Sound. 3/06.

The online offerings from the March issue of Sight & Sound are modest, but who's to complain - they're free. In the first of two features, Nick Roddick talks with director John Hillcoat and writer Nick Cave about The Proposition, which whipped up a little positive buzz when it screened here in Berlin last week.

"Nicolas Winding Refn's international reputation has been strangely slow to catch fire," notes Jonathan Romney in a piece on the Pusher trilogy, "one of the most distinctive exercises in recent crime cinema - although in fact, Refn insists, 'The Pusher films are about people in a criminal environment, not about crime.'"

Reviews:

• Edward Lawrenson on The Squid and the Whale, "refreshingly matter-of-fact about the practicalities of family break-up, in contrast to the (implicitly conservative) Hollywood tendency to 'blame' one of the partners (cf Kramer vs Kramer, 1979)."

• Tim Robey on Capote: "Any suspicions that [Philip Seymour] Hoffman's performance will turn out to be a bit of skin-deep, virtuoso grandstanding are laid to rest by how it progressively deepens."

• Ryan Gilbey: "The audience's familiarity with the stylistic devices of Manderlay should allow the film's more reflective screenplay to shine through."

Posted by dwhudson at February 20, 2006 5:13 AM