BFI | Sight & Sound | September 2009

September 2009

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Features

The wild bunch

They make films that are uncategorisable, in which cinematic language, taste and even reality itself are bent to their will. Mark Cousins hails the 50 revolutionary auteurs from around the world whom we have dubbed the 'Wild Bunch'

PLUS (in the magazine) 50 directors - from Anger to Zulawski via Breillat, Lynch, Suzuki, Tsui and Verhoeven - profiled by our panel of contributors

PLUS (in the magazine) Kim Newman on one-hit wonders, Amy Taubin on 'wild' women and Michael Brooke on the eastern European visionaries who managed to fool the censors

In the realm of Oshima

Best known in the west for the period co-productions In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Oshima's finest works are the fiercely modern Japanese films he made in the '60s, says Alexander Jacoby

Days of Gloury

After S&S covered the Cannes premiere of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino took exception to our accusation of pastiche. He tells Ryan Gilbey why his new film is really all about language

Sensory perception

Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces sees the director taking a sidestep away from melodrama towards noir. Via the story of a blind screenwriter, he explores his - and his native country's - relationship to the past. By Maria Delgado

The big switch

Over the past two years, digital projection has begun to transform cinemagoing in the UK. But reports of the death of celluloid may be premature, says Geoffrey Macnab