Features

Cover feature: Motion pictures

 

Wim Wenders’s new film Pina marks not just the culmination of a 20-year quest to film the work of choreographer Pina Bausch, but also a bold leap into the world of 3D. He talks to Nick James

PLUS Nick Roddick on Wenders’s career in documentary

 

The Oregon trail

 

After honing a minimalist style on the Oregon-set Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, Kelly Reichardt turns her gaze on the state’s pioneer past in Meek’s Cutoff, a novel female angle on the old West. Graham Fuller talks to her and writer Jon Raymond

PLUS Edward Buscombe charts women’s role in the western

 

North by northeast

 

How I Ended This Summer, a gripping Arctic-set two-hander, is the latest festival hit to emerge from Russia. Nick Hasted talks to its director Alexei Popogrebsky

PLUS Leslie Felperin surveys the recent Russian wave

 

What time is it where?

 

A 24-hour montage of film clips showing the measurement of time, Christian Marclay’s The Clock has hooked viewers in London and New York. He talks to Jonathan Romney

 

Forever falling

 

In the second of our series on possible contenders for the ‘greatest film of all time’ in next year’s Sight & Sound poll, the renowned Spanish critic Miguel Marías finds himself falling for the fathomless mysteries of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

 

Selected reviews

Reviews in this issue:

• A Small Act
• The Adjustment Bureau
• Battle Los Angeles
• Beastly
• Cold Fish
• Cold Weather
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
• Farewell
• Hall Pass
• How I Ended This Summer
• I Saw the Devil
• Limitless
• The Lincoln Lawyer
• Little White Lies
• Louise - Michel
• Mars Needs Moms
• Film review: Meek's Cutoff
• Passenger Side
• Pina
• Rango
• Red Riding Hood
• Redemption
• The Resident
• Film review: The Silent House
• Sparrow
• Film of the month: Sweetgrass
• Film of the month: Sweetgrass
• Tomorrow, When the War Began
• Tracker
• The Way
• Young Hearts Run Free
• Your Highness
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• DVD: Michael Brooke admires two early ‘women’s pictures’ by Antonioni
• DVD: Kieron Corless on the masterpiece of left-leaning radical Robert Kramer
• DVD: Tim Lucas examines the drama offered by PBS talk show Firing Line
• DVD: The Beyond
• DVD: Blood Simple
• DVD: Dark Star
• DVD: A Day in the Life
• DVD: Empire State
• DVD: The Goodies… At Last the 40th Anniversary
• DVD: Hazell – The Complete Series
• DVD: The Kartemquin Films Collection: The Early Years Volumes 1 & 2
• DVD: Larks on a String
• DVD: The Long, Hot Summer
• DVD: Man of Aran
• DVD: Films by Otto Preminger
• DVD: Promised Lands
• DVD: Slingshot
• DVD: The Unflinching Eye: The Films of Richard Woolley
• DVD: The Virginian – Season 1
• DVD: Warner Archive Collection
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• Book: Michael Atkinson salutes J. Hoberman’s masterly look at cold-war cinema in its historical context
• Book: James Bell immerses himself in an exhaustive tribute to Kubrick’s unmade Napoleon
• Book: Kim Newman appreciates a study of 1950’s Night and the City
• Book: Nick James enjoys an anthology of Philip French’s essays on film
• DVD: Dressing for Pleasure - The Films of John Samson