BFI | Sight & Sound | March 2007

March 2007

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Features

The Ceremony Of Innocence

From Mick Jagger to Allen Ginsberg, Peter Whitehead captured the personalities and politics of the 1960s in films such as Tonite Let's All Make Love in London and The Fall. What drove him to give it all up in pursuit of falconry, asks Paul Cronin

Degraded Dupes Steven Soderbergh

The Good German explores the shadowy underworld of political manoeuvring in post-war Berlin. Amy Taubin talks to its director Steven Soderbergh about confounding our expectations and capturing the look of the 1940s

Daydream Believer David Lynch

Inland Empire is a typically Lynchian miasma of overlapping stories and identities, dream and consciousness, shot on digital in Los Angeles and Poland by the director himself. By Roger Clarke. Plus David Lynch tells Mike Figgis about fishing for ideas, the process of painting and why he'd rather die than return to celluloid

Obituaries: January to December 2006

Sight & Sound pays tribute to the year's departed. By Bob Mastrangelo. Plus Philip Kemp on Shelley Winters; Ginette Vincendeau on Philippe Noiret and Gérard Oury; Donald Richie on Imamura Shohei; Tony Rayns on Cherd Songsri; Bob Mastrangelo on Henry Bumstead; and Nick James on Robin Buss and Andi Engel

Josephine Baker An American In Paris

Josephine Baker starred in only four features, but her energetic performance style made her the best-paid black woman of her generation. Robin Buss traces her flight from US apartheid and fight to escape her jungle-girl image