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From the Sight and Sound archive

“It earns every hair it stiffens”: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others

25 years ago, The Others chilled audiences with its creeping unease and haunted house horrors. The devil is in the details of Alejandro Amenábar’s Turn of the Screw-style story, argued Nick James in our November 2001 issue.

By Nick James

“It earns every hair it stiffens”: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others

Then and now

How the nuclear attack locations from Peter Watkins’ The War Game look today

By Adam Scovell

How the nuclear attack locations from Peter Watkins’ The War Game look today

Features

Watch to play: the rise of the video game adaptation

By Stuart Burnside

Watch to play: the rise of the video game adaptation

Features

Peter Watkins’ The Journey: the longest film, the grassroots vision

By Benjamin Cook

Peter Watkins’ The Journey: the longest film, the grassroots vision

Obituaries

Đorđe Kadijević obituary: leading director of Serbian horror and the radical Black Wave movement

By Mina Radovic

Đorđe Kadijević obituary: leading director of Serbian horror and the radical Black Wave movement

From the Sight and Sound archive

“He was a giant for work”: Michal Leszczylowski, editor of The Sacrifice, on Andrei Tarkovsky

By Michal Leszczylowski

“He was a giant for work”: Michal Leszczylowski, editor of The Sacrifice, on Andrei Tarkovsky

Features

On the Beach: Hollywood’s star-powered World War III drama

By Chloe Walker

On the Beach: Hollywood’s star-powered World War III drama

Obituaries

Simon Field obituary: adventurous British film programmer, producer and festival director

By Geoff Andrew

Simon Field obituary: adventurous British film programmer, producer and festival director

Features

Bugsy Malone at 50: original drawings and cartoons from the making of Alan Parker’s kids-with-splurge-guns classic

By Sarah Bemand

Bugsy Malone at 50: original drawings and cartoons from the making of Alan Parker’s kids-with-splurge-guns classic

Finest hours

Finest hours: Danny Glover as the malevolent charmer in To Sleep with Anger

By Alex Ramon

Finest hours: Danny Glover as the malevolent charmer in To Sleep with Anger

Features

Bryan Forbes at 100: remembering the Whistle down the Wind and The Stepford Wives director on his centenary

By Josephine Botting

Bryan Forbes at 100: remembering the Whistle down the Wind and The Stepford Wives director on his centenary

Features

All-out puppet attack! The monster puppetry in Ishiro Honda’s kaiju classics

By Steven Sloss

All-out puppet attack! The monster puppetry in Ishiro Honda’s kaiju classics

From the Sight and Sound archive

The misfits of Zwigoff: a visit to the set of Ghost World

By SF Said

The misfits of Zwigoff: a visit to the set of Ghost World

Features

How Sam Neill’s 1990s documentary Cinema of Unease reckoned with New Zealand’s film history

By Carmen Gray

How Sam Neill’s 1990s documentary Cinema of Unease reckoned with New Zealand’s film history

Features

Chronically online criticism: how we’re archiving the video essay boom

By Sidonie Bassaisteguy

Chronically online criticism: how we’re archiving the video essay boom

Features

“He rendered the foreign familiar without ever stripping it of its soul”: Wong Kar Wai, Bong Joon Ho and more on Tony Rayns

By Bong Joon Ho, Wong Kar Wai and others

“He rendered the foreign familiar without ever stripping it of its soul”: Wong Kar Wai, Bong Joon Ho and more on Tony Rayns

From the Sight and Sound archive

Lonesome tonight: Tony Rayns and Edward Yang on A Brighter Summer Day

By Tony Rayns

Lonesome tonight: Tony Rayns and Edward Yang on A Brighter Summer Day

Object of the week

How to train a kestrel: the original notes from the making of Kes

By Melanie Williams

How to train a kestrel: the original notes from the making of Kes

Rarities of British cinema

Three weeks, two lovers, one shelved film: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s forgotten blackmail drama 21 Days

By Josephine Botting

Three weeks, two lovers, one shelved film: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s forgotten blackmail drama 21 Days

Features

Sumitra Peries’s The Girls: how a landmark Sri Lankan film captures the agony of girlhood

By Uditha Devapriya

Sumitra Peries’s The Girls: how a landmark Sri Lankan film captures the agony of girlhood

From the Sight and Sound archive

God’s lonely man: Amy Taubin on Taxi Driver

By Amy Taubin

God’s lonely man: Amy Taubin on Taxi Driver

Object of the week

The back room from Dead of Night: the production design for a dusty hiding place

By Melanie Williams

The back room from Dead of Night: the production design for a dusty hiding place

Features

BFI Flare: through the years

Finest hours

Finest hours: Robert Walker as the charm-school sociopath in Strangers on a Train

By Chloe Walker

Finest hours: Robert Walker as the charm-school sociopath in Strangers on a Train

Black Film Bulletin

Excavating legacies: Euzhan Palcy interviewed by June Givanni

By Abiba Coulibaly

Excavating legacies: Euzhan Palcy interviewed by June Givanni

Then and now

75 years of The Lavender Hill Mob: how the London locations look today

By Adam Scovell

75 years of The Lavender Hill Mob: how the London locations look today

Black Film Bulletin

The monster and the mirror: Black resistance humour in cinema

By Artel Great

The monster and the mirror: Black resistance humour in cinema

Object of the week

Object of the week: Costume designs for Julie Christie in the swinging 60s drama Darling

By Melanie Williams

Object of the week: Costume designs for Julie Christie in the swinging 60s drama Darling

Then and now

Amélie’s Paris: how the locations look, 25 years later

By Adam Scovell

Amélie’s Paris: how the locations look, 25 years later

From the Sight and Sound archive

Death becomes Visconti

By Michael Wood

Death becomes Visconti