Sight & Sound. 05/06.

Once again, Sight & Sound offers a full house online, two features and three reviews from the new issue, though none of them have anything to do with the cover. The dose of France comes not in the lovely form of Emmanuelle Béart but in Robin Buss and James Bell's double on Dominik Moll's Lemming. Buss traces French relations with Hitchcock while Bell talks with the director.

Charles Gant talks with Julien Temple about Glastonbury after assessing his career: "early fame; cocksure hubris; humiliating catastrophe; years of creative and commercial struggle; and now a satisfying third-act resolution with work that finally makes sense of his peculiar talents."

The reviews:

• Someone's missing a byline. Freudian slip? Basic Instinct 2 "is psychoanalytic fable rewritten as pulp fiction. Perhaps that's why it's so ludicrously entertaining."

• Ali Jaafar on Paradise Now and its reception: "The personal is made the political in the most emphatic manner."

• Ryan Gilbey: "[François] Ozon's compulsion - it's one of his defining characteristics, in fact - to root out sensual properties in unlikely places is more than usually evident in Time to Leave."

Posted by dwhudson at April 20, 2006 3:18 AM