SEPTEMBER 2024

6 EDITORIAL The enigma of David Lynch and why music is now key to our definition of Lynchian

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9 OPENING SCENES

· Opener: Angela Patton and

Natalie Rae’s Daughters · Editors’ Choice

· In Production: Iain Forsyth

and Jane Pollard’s The Extraordinary Miss Flower · In Conversation: Henry Selick

· Reel Talk: Screen Bandita

· The Ballot of… Moin Hussain

· Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

· Mean Sheets: the posters for Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express

20 LETTERS

22 TALKIES

· The Long Take: Pamela

Hutchinson applauds a camp revamp of early Viennese erotica · TV Eye: Andrew Male has

peeped Inside No. 9 and found a dark portrait of modern Britain · Flick Lit: Nicole Flattery on

Steven Shainberg’s SM comedy Secretary – and what it misses in Mary Gaitskill’s original story · The Magnificent ’74: Jessica

Kiang on the very bad taste of Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles

98 ENDINGS

· Cop, James B. Harris’s taut,

minimalist cult thriller about a detective on the trail of a serial killer, closes with a scorching moment of frontier justice

90 GRIGORI KOZINTSEV A 1959 essay on historical renewal

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96 THIS MONTH IN… 1947 Pierre Fresnay on the cover and Sergei Eisenstein inside

REVIEWS

62 | FILMS

· I Saw the TV Glow

· Kensuke’s Kingdom

· Twisters

· Blur: To the End

· Hundreds of Beavers

· Eno

· Daughters

· Fly Me to the Moon

· In a Violent Nature

· Kneecap

· Longlegs

· Only the River Flows

· Horizon: An American

Saga – Chapter One · Sing Sing

· Chuck Chuck Baby

· Dìdi

· Tuesday

· Janet Planet

· Sky Peals

· Dammi

· The Echo

78 | DVD & BLU-RAY

· The Small Back Room

· Remembrance

· A Bittersweet Life

· The Valiant Ones

· The Landlord

· Lost and Found: Garde à vue

· Rediscovery: Bandits of Orgosolo/

The Lost World · Crumb

· The Music Lovers

· Obsession

· The Agitator:

Three Provocations from the Wild World of Jean-Pierre Mocky

86 | WIDER SCREEN

· Bold, provocative works of camp

pleasure by Dominican director Jean-Louis Jorge; and a spellbinding Manchester exhibition by Brass Art

88 | BOOKS

· Ryan Gilbey on a book that assesses

the history and future of transness in cinema; Hannah McGill on the BFI Classics companion to one of Ousmane Sembène’s best films; and Sam Davies on a guide to representations of pop music in film

CONTRIBUTORS

WALTER MURCH

has spent six decades in cinema as a film editor, sound designer, writer and director, stretching back to 1969. This includes work on The Godfather I, II, and III, THX-1138, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain and many other films.

SOPHIA SATCHELL-BAEZA

is a film scholar, programmer and arts critic. Her book on light shows, experimental film and psychedelic art is coming out with Strange Attractor Press later this year.

SAM WIGLEY

is digital features editor at the BFI. He has written for the Guardian and Mubi Notebook, and has also contributed Blu-ray booklet essays for Arrow, Radiance and Indicator.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Sam Davies, Alex Dudok de Wit, Nick Bradshaw, James Bell, Jonathan Ali, John Beagles, Ryan Gilbey, Hannah McGill, Ben Walters, John Bleasdale, Kim Newman, Chris Shields, Henry K. Miller, Adam Scovell, Adrian Martin and more