Also in the issue:
The best of Venice film festival, from Werner Herzog and Lee Chang-dong to docs on Elon Musk and Jorge Luis Borges
Paweł Pawlikowski on the style and sensibility of Fatherland, his exploration of post-war German cultural identity, by way of Thomas Mann and family
@BootsRiley on smuggling revolutionary dialectics into Hollywood with I Love Boosters, his radical satire of ownership and class
The rediscovery of an extraordinary scrapbook detailing the making of F.W. Murnau’s 1926 fantasy Faust
+ a tribute to Jeremy Thomas; Marie Kreutzer on Gentle Monster; Dracula restored; an archive conversation between Billy Wilder and Saul Bass