BFI | Sight & Sound | October 2006

October 2006

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Features

Out Of The Rubble

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center tells the heartwarming story of two policemen plucked from the rubble. But is garnering sympathy for America's 9/11 tragedy now a lost cause, asks B. Ruby Rich

The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears, shows the royal facade crumbling - and Tony Blair relishing his finest hour - as the public mood turns against the monarchy following the death of Princess Diana. By Philip Kemp.

I'm Not A Political Filmmaker Goddamit!

Web Exclusive! Oliver Stone in conversation with Sight & Sound's Ali Jaafar. This candid interview, conducted in September of this year, came a little too late to make it into our 9/11 special. Enjoy the complete transcript exclusively here.

Living On Thin Air

Shot on a remote Tibetan plateau with a crew depleted by freezing temperatures and altitude sickness, Mountain Patrol (Kekexili) recreates a tale of volunteers who track down poachers of antelope. Director Lu Chuan tells James Bell about filming in an extreme landscape

In a lonely place

Lodge Kerrigan's films - Clean, Shaven, Claire Dolan and now Keane - explore the haunted psyches of the mentally ill and others who drift through the margins of American life. Geoff Andrew talks to a director who acknowledges he could easily be one of them

Jean-pierre Leaud - Lord Of The Left Bank

After his signature role at age 14 as François Truffaut's screen incarnation in Les Quatre Cent Coups, Jean-Pierre Léaud became a talisman of the French New Wave's youthful rebellion. But how did it all go wrong, asks Chris Darke?

PLUS Keith Reader draws out the tragic undertones in the actor's roles for Jean-Luc Godard