BFI | Sight & Sound | October 2001

October 2001

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Features

Digital Deluge

Is digital all it's cracked up to be? Nick James and New Cinema Fund head Paul Trijbits ask film-makers if they've become digital converts or can't wait to get back to celluloid.

A small documentary crew has spent seven years charting the fight for justice of four families whose members died in custody. Now the Police Federation wants their film Injustice to go unscreened. Adrian Cooper reports.

Dead Man Walking

The Coen's new film The Man Who Wasn't There may look like classic noir, but its ego-bereft hero and homely femme fatale confuse the moral maze, argues Graham Fuller. Plus DoP Roger Deakins talks to Philip Kemp about the aesthetic certainties of black and white.

Peeping Tommies

Codebreakers may lack the pyrotechnic panache of wartime movie heroes, but their sexual and professional anxieties make Michael Apted's Enigma all the more interesting. By Geoffrey Mcnab.

Bringing Up Baby

Does the gutsy young heroine of Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer's Little Otík show the director has finally overcome his childhood fears? Interview by Peter Hames. Plus extracts from the director's dieary reveal a life of dreams, desires, terror and relentless hard work.

Urban Legends: Tokyo

Beneath the economic miracle of the new Japan, Tokyo in the 60s was a city of rebellion and dissent. Donald Ritchie traces the artistic and social ferment in which Oshima and other independents flourished.