Cover feature: ANALYSE THIS Better known for visceral horror, David Cronenberg turns to psychoanalytical costume drama with A Dangerous Method. He talks Freud and Jung with Nick James + Brad Stevens on Cronenberg’s 1983 classic Videodrome

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MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION Rereleased to coincide with a major new David Hockney exhibition, the 1974 film A Bigger Splash is a fascinating document of the artist and his circle. By Ian Massey + Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey on the collision of painting and film

OBITUARIES Sight & Sound ’s annual survey of the notable film figures who died last year. Compiled by Bob Mastrangelo + Peter Biskind on Sue Mengers, Peter Tonguette on Bert Schneider, Philip Kemp on Michael Gough, Kate Stables on Jane Russell, and Michael Brooke on Zdenek Miler

CALIFORNIA DREAMING Bombay Beach seems like a typical observational documentary about dead-end American lives – until its subjects start to dance. Director Alma Har’el talks to Nick Bradshaw

THE GETAWAY Martha Marcy May Marlene marks debut writer-director Sean Durkin as one of the most exciting filmmakers to emerge on the US indie scene in a while. He talks to Jonathan Romney + 8 indie directors to watch

REMAIN IN LIGHT Could Mulholland Dr. be a contender in S&S ’s upcoming Greatest Film of All Time poll? B. Kite makes the case for David Lynch’s film in the light of the Vedanta-inspired spiritual philosophy that underpins all the director’s work

INKING THE DEAL Before Repo Man became Alex Cox’s cult 1984 debut, it was a comic strip. S&S reproduces Cox’s original artwork for the first time

ONLY A DREAM 1940s beauty Gene Tierney didn’t so much act as embody the mysterious heroines of three unforgettable films. By Dan Callahan

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Michael Brooke talks to director Pawel Pawlikowski about his new feature The Woman in the Fifth

Naman Ramachandran on the life and work of Indian cinema’s Charlie Chaplin, the legendary Raj Kapoor

Charles Gant on Shame’s prowess at the box office

Mar Diestro-Dópido on a great Spanish director written out of history

Michael Atkinson pays tribute to the late Theo Angelopoulos

Sophie Mayer revisits the boundary-breaking films of Barbara Hammer

Nick Roddick on goverment attitudes to film culture

LETTERS Don’t forget Finland, the truth about Adair, The Artist pros and cons

FILM OF THE MONTH Young Adult After their earlier collaboration on the crowd-pleasing Juno, Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have reteamed for an altogether more bracing follow-up, Young Adult, which overturns every romcom cliché. By Lisa Mullen

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DVD FEATURES Philip Kemp finds tinges of regret in Ozu’s early comedies

Nick Pinkerton relishes the essay films of Jean-Pierre Gorin’s post-Godard California years

Tim Lucas on a Robert Bloch-scripted tale of a killer on the couch

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BOOK REVIEWS Nick James is captivated by Geoff Dyer’s exploration of Stalker

Henry K. Miller is unimpressed by a study of 1970s British film culture

Brian Dillon enjoys a suitably eccentric book on Harpo Marx

Sukhdev Sandhu appreciates an exploration of the essay film