Cover feature: AN ISLAND OF HIS OWN Set on an island off the coast of the US in the mid-60s, on the eve of that decade’s upheavals, Moonrise Kingdom is the latest of the self-contained worlds created by Wes Anderson. Nick Pinkerton talks to the director

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THE EARLY LIFE OF COLONEL BLIMP As a new digital print restores Powell and Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to its Technicolor glory, we reproduce two key artefacts from its production: a tapestry and Pressburger’s original treatment

LISTOMANIA In our countdown to September’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll, Michael Atkinson anatomises critical obsession with the ‘top ten’

LIFE EXPECTANCY Bertrand Tavernier’s 1980 sci-fi one-off Death Watch anticipated reality TV, and showed Glasgow as never before. He talks to Pasquale Iannone

GONE WITH THE WIND The Turin Horse is the last testament of the legendarily uncompromising Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr. He talks to Jonathan Romney. PLUS Geoffrey Macnab on the battle for the soul of Hungarian film. PLUS Turin Horse DP Fred Kelemen analyses his remarkable collaboration with the director

TRAVELLING LIGHT Jean-Claude Carrière is famed above all for his six-film collaboration with Luis Buñuel. The veteran French screenwriter discusses the secrets of his craft with Nick James

ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS In a unique long-term collaboration, Paul Laverty has now written ten features for director Ken Loach. Thomas Dawson talks to the writer on the set of The Angels’ Share

SPRING AWAKENING A year on from the Arab Spring, Ali Jaafar examines the implications of political change for the new generation of filmmakers emerging in the Middle East

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Ian Francis talks to artist Yto Barrada about her double life running a cinema in Tangier

Tony Rayns on a commitedly vulgar new comedy that was the highlight of the Hong Kong Film Festival

Charles Gant sees critical darlings Nuri Bilge Ceylan and the Dardenne brothers triumph at the box office

Philip Kemp rediscovers an unexpectedly lyrical product of wartime German cinema

Ian Christie assesses the influence of the Bauhaus school on cinema

Nick Roddick ponders the strange business of canon-forming

LETTERS Don’t call us ‘grey’, more digital dilemmas, Lynch misunderstood

FILM OF THE MONTH

Faust Winner of the Gold Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Alexander Sokurov’s retelling of the Faust legend finally arrives on these shores. But it’s not just the film’s hero who’s suffering from hubris, says Tony Rayns

• 35 other cinema releases reviewed

DVD FEATURES

Michael Atkinson is unsettled by a 1932 adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau

Michael Brooke salutes Radu Muntean’s forensic analysis of an illicit affair

Tim Lucas savours highlights from a golden age for US animation

• 18 other releases reviewed

BOOK REVIEWS

Henry K. Miller admires a well-researched history of the British Film Institute

Andrew Robinson dips into a brilliant compilation of Satyajit Ray’s writing on cinema

Maria M. Delgado surveys an ambitious study of New Argentine Cinema