BFI | Sight & Sound | January 2008

January 2008

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Features

Sight & Sound Films Of 2007

See what made our Top Ten of 2007 and read our critics nominations in full.

Ang Lee's Lust, Caution portrays a lost world whose glittering surfaces mask sexual intrigue and political treachery. He tells Nick James how a midlife crisis prompted his triumphant return to the Shanghai and Hong Kong of the late 1930s

The Road Goes On Forever

Wim Wenders took the language of American film - in particular the rambling alienation of the road movie - and gave it a distinctly European spin. Nick Roddick travels the director's landscapes of the mind

It ain't me, babe

In I'm Not There Todd Haynes turns his gift for precise recreations of the past to a portrait of Bob Dylan's early years that uses six different actors to personify aspects of the music legend. And it works, says Michael Gray PLUS Jonathan Romney talks to the director about gaining Dylan's approval and James Bell surveys the singer's journeys into cinema

Things fall apart

Southland Tales, the second feature from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, imagines an apocalyptic American near-future that's not far removed from our current political, economic and ecological collective insanity, says Amy Taubin. She talks to the director about the Second Coming and the Terminator in the White House

Mystery Trains

Trains in movies are claustrophobic microcosms that intensify class conflicts, criminal urges and sexual tension - and no one better exploited their potential than Alfred Hitchcock in The Lady Vanishes, says Graham Fuller PLUS Philip Kemp celebrates the career of star Margaret Lockwood

The sheltering sky

Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light infuses its tale of a love triangle in a strictly religious Mennonite community with a sensuality and beauty that's near miraculous, says Jonathan Romney. He talks to the director about why real life always looks better than CGI