BFI | Sight & Sound | September 2007

September 2007

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Features

Love in the afternoon

D.H. Lawrence's iconic tale of unbridled passion has had many interpreters. But none has captured its title character's sensual awakening as effectively as Pascale Ferran in Lady Chatterley. Geoffrey Macnab talks to the director

Documentary: shaking the world

Can cinema change the world? Mark Cousins believes it can. And to prove it, he's selected ten films from Europe, Asia and the US whose repercussions transformed the social, legislative or political climate

Authentic talking cinema

Documentaries have been part of cinema history from the Lumières to Michael Moore, using the poetic and the political to expand the language of film. By Michael Chanan PLUS The S&S timeline chronicles a century of reality on screen

The kino club

The British documentary movement that grew tall around John Grierson marshalled avant-garde aesthetics in the service of social change. Geoff Brown celebrates the centenaries of Edgar Anstey, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright

Real appeal

How has big-screen documentary rallied from half a century of neglect to become newly fashionable in the 21st century? Nick Fraser reports PLUS Charles Gant picks out the top performers at the UK box office

Written on the rooftops

This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with Hallam Foe, a blinding Oedipal drama set in the Scottish capital. Ben Walters reports PLUS Nick James talks to DoP Christopher Doyle about filming Gus Van Sant's skater-boy movie Paranoid Park; Jonathan Romney previews Yella, Christian Petzold's cold take on modern life; Will Lawrence talks to comedy guru Judd Apatow about his new film Knocked Up; and Charles Whitehouse on Li Yang's tale of kidnapped brides, Blind Mountain