The Editorial this month is a kind of obituary of Eleanor Coppola by Mike Williams. The wife of Francis Ford died in April at the age of 87. However, the central theme of the piece is her co-direction of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. This is the 1991 documentary about the making of this classic movie. And then her directorial debut in 2016 at the age of 80!
In TV Eye, Andrew Male looks at This Town and other rock movies, particularly how they should avoid actual song writing. He picks out the Daisy Jones adaptation on TV. But back in the 1970's, Rock Follies did have passable songs, courtesy of Andy Mackay (Roxy Music) and Howard Schuman. Never missed an episode.
Jessica Kiang in The Magnificent '74 looks at road movies from 1967's Bonnie and Clyde through to how 1974's Bring Me the Head Of Alfredo Garcia brought them crashing down.
The big interview (twelve pages) is with Richard Linklater, the director from Austin, Texas. All very interesting even if I gave up on most of his movies. All except the terrific School of Rock. Next week his new film Hit Man opens which looks very promising. In School of Cinema, Linklater talks about his favourite movies in four separate categories. One of which is "On Orson Welles" where he says his Othello is the best Shakespeare on film. And Chimes at Midnight not far behind.
Risky Business has director David Leitch talking about his movie The Fall Guy with references to other films such as Grosse Pointe Blanc. Then how many rolls a car can make for one of the biggest stunts. In Six Sublime Cinema stunts, those named include Buster Keaton, Jackie Chan, True Lies and Mission Impossible - Fallout.
Alice in Wonderland is all about the Italian director Alice Rohrwacker's La Chimera, a kind of folk fantasy set in the Italian countryside. It is filmed in three different camera formats: 35mm, Super 16 and 16mm (the amateur format). (I will check out her Cannes Grand Prix winning The Wonder from 2014. The star of La Chimera, Josh O'Connor is interviewed and alongside, in Cine Archaeology, a run down of Alice's six films that inspired her including Federico Fellini's Roma.
The Film Reviews this month include Hit Man, Civil War, Challengers, The Fall Guy and La Chimera. All the others are foreign films. In the reviews of DVD and Blu Ray comes the 1931 Quick Millions in the Lost and Found section. A Spencer Tracy gangster film.
In From the Archive, Lindsay Anderson's 1989 interview is repeated. He said at the time that he avoided going to the cinema as it was "a gruesome experience". Much better twenty five years later. His film If .... might be interesting.
Last of all in Endings, there is a superb piece by Anne Billson on Jacques Tourneurs' Night of the Demon. Scary or what.
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