BFI | Sight & Sound

June 2009

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Features

Joseph Losey & Harold Pinter: In search of poshlust times

From Venetian decadence and British class war to Proustian time games, the collaborations of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter in the 1960s and 1970s introduced a new, high-culture kind of art film, says Nick James

Losey/Pinter special: The go-between

In-between dissecting the British class system in his films with Pinter, Losey was busy shooting ads for Ford and Horlicks. By Dylan Cave

Cannes preview

With brand new features from Michael Haneke, Quentin Tarantino, Jane Campion, Andrea Arnold, Gaspar Noé, Ang Lee and Lars von Trier, this year's Cannes film festival looks set to be a cinephile's treat

Airless love

As Pedro Almodóvar nears 60, does his latest Cannes contender Broken Embraces reveal a director cannibalising his own past triumphs, asks Paul Julian Smith, or a master at the peak of his powers?

Fantasy football

A fantasy sequence, little social or political comment and a starring role for football legend Eric Cantona. Can Looking for Eric really be a film by Ken Loach, asks Nick Roddick?

Gone in 60 years

Charlie Kaufman's first film as a director, Synecdoche, New York is about - you guessed - a director; one who turns his life into theatre. But is there more to Kaufman than the Kaufmanesque blurring of art and life, asks Edward Lawrenson

Losey/Pinter special: The caretaker

As a playwright, Pinter had a unique and unmistakable voice. But as a screenwriter, argues Ian Christie, he was a meticulous and sensitive adaptor of other writers, including Fitzgerald, Kafka - and himself

Losey/Pinter special: Losey and 'Accident'

In 1966, James Leahy visited the set of what many consider Losey's greatest film. We reprint his report

Losey/Pinter special: The infiltrator

Exiled from his native America by McCarthy's witch-hunt, Losey used his outsider's eye to keep probing beneath the surface. Brad Stevens finds hidden depths in one of the director's most neglected films, 1972's The Assassination of Trotsky