Sin and Punishment

Dark transgressions and darker castigation

Reviews:

• In the Basement
• Penance
• The Night of the Hunter: ‘Beware of false prophets’
• The Story of Sin: In Walerian Borowczyk’s lush historical drama, it is Ewa who is tempted
• Nymphomaniac: Lars von Trier’s saga of lust and life
• Alucarda: A Panique dive into extreme rituals
• Confessions: Tetsuya Nakashima’s devastating tale of crime and retribution

Features:

• Pete Walker’s Flesh and Blood Show
• A Catholic Childhood of Unwatchable Terror

Interviews:

• A Touch of Sin: Interview with Jia Zhang-ke
• Vile, Evil Veil: Roee Rosen on sado-masochism as political exorcism

Alter Ego

• Shelley Harris is Hildy Johnson in Howard Hawks’s mile-a-minute screwball comedy His Girl Friday

Film Jukebox:

• Athens-based dance duo Felizol and the Boy on Careful, Café Flesh and Singapore Sling

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Illustration by Sandra Jane Smith