We all go a little mad sometimes, and judging by the new issue of Sight & Sound, that includes magazines. In their cheekily subversive cover story, “The Wild Bunch,” S&S’s editors and contributors single out fifty filmmakers of the “mad, bad, and dangerous” variety, directors who have, as Mark Cousins explains in his introduction (available online), “a psychic energy that is manic to a degree and might well be fueled by sexual rage, or colonial exploitation, or a Marxist hatred of consumerism, or a fear of modernity or the body . . .” The criteria, then, to put it mildly, are wide-ranging, encompassing such artisans of the lurid or the livid as Buñuel, Breillat, Fellini, Imamura, Maddin, Makavejev, Suzuki, and, natch, Lars von Trier. Also included in the special section are sidebars by those surveyors of the sensational Amy Taubin, Kim Newman, and Michael Brooke.
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