BFI | Sight & Sound | March 2005

March 2005

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Features

Lesser Spotted Fish And Other Stories...

Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou charts the problems of an autocratic, obsessive director. "It's not based on me," he promises Kevin Conroy Scott. Plus Ali Jaafar explores the underwater world of Anderson's muse Jacques Cousteau.

Dark Passion

Voted 2004's best European film, Head-On explores Turkish-German cultural identity through the eyes of a girl who just wants to have fun. Asuman Suner reports.

Origins of the Agit Fop

Boomstick-toting Nick Broomfield has become a familiar sight in his own films. Jason Wood revisits the time when the documentary-maker stayed behind the camera.

Dangerous Intimacies

Actor Antonio Banderas has bridged the divide between Europe and America, and Latinos and Angles. And he's man enough for anyone, says Paul Julian Smith.

Icon

Andrei Tarkovsky is still regarded as a director with a gold-plated reputation - but what was the reaction to his films on their release? Nick James turns back the clock.

Obituaries

Sight & Sound mourns the passing of Carlo Di Palma, Marlon Brando, Ann Miller, Suraiya, Kamal El-Sheikh and Michael Relph, plus a host of others remembered by Bob Mastrangelo.