BFI | Sight & Sound | April 2010

April 2010

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Features

Alice through the lens

Mark Sinker compares the various artistic visionaries - from John Tenniel to Dennis Potter to Jan Svankmajer - who have put their stamp on Alice since 1865

PLUS (in the magazine) Go ask Alice: Tim Burton is only the latest film-maker to reinvent Alice in Wonderland in his own image. Kim Newman unpicks the interface of Burton and Lewis Carroll's imaginary worlds.

Island of lost souls

Scorsese’s Shutter Island may be a faithful adaptation of a bestseller, but it’s also his deeply felt homage to the cinema of the 1940s and 50s, says Graham Fuller, and a return to the paranoid interior world of Taxi Driver

The Berlin crawl

With too many major film-makers saving their wares for Cannes, this year's Berlin Film Festival offered slim pickings. Nick James finds solace in genre thrillers and US indies.

PLUS Tony Rayns on the dire state of the Berlin Forum

PLUS Jonathan Romney on two very different minimalist masterpieces

The ties that bind

Samson & Delilah captures both the harsh realities of Aboriginal life and a vivid sense of desert light and silence. Sophie Mayer talks to debut director Warwick Thornton

'M': murder in the city

Freshly released on DVD in a restored version, Fritz Lang's seminal serial-killer thriller M endures both as a compelling document of its time - Berlin, 1931 - and as a harbinger of mass murders and psychosis to come. By Iain Sinclair