CONTENTS

THE SUBSTANCE

I

NT H I

S I

S S U E

44

Coralie Fargeat ’s razor-sharp feminist horror explores the issue of ageing in a society Coralie Fargeat’s razor-sharp feminist horror explores the issue of ageing in a society that equates women’s worth with their looks. The French director talks to Catherine Wheatley that equates women’s worth with their looks. The French director talks to Catherine Wheatley

about misogyny, metamorphoses and placing her own experience at the centre of her work about misogyny, metamorphoses and placing her own experience at the centre of her work

: M A R K M A N N / A U G U S T

I T

C O V E R P O R T R A

26

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA At 85, the director has released his dream project, Megalopolis: an epic so full of contraries it seems designed to make consensus impossible. He talks to Tom Charity about his principles and the ambitions that still drive him

40

RETRO HORROR From Star ve Acre, a folk horror planted in the toxic soil of 1970s Britain, to I Saw the TV Glow, which turns on memories from the 1990s, contemporary horror is fascinated by the past. But why do these two eras resonate so strongly? By Roger Luckhurst

48

SCORSESE AND WRIGHT When Edgar Wright asked Martin Scorsese during lockdown about lesser-known British films, he responded with a list of 50 titles. With a season selected from that list due to launch in London, the pair sat down with James Bell to discuss these neglected classics