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Then and now

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

As the beloved Ealing crime comedy turns 75, we track down the exact spots where Alec Guinness and his gang of gold bullion thieves carried out their heist.

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

Object of the week

Object of the week: Pre-Python promotional shots for 60s ITV sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set

By Lisa Kerrigan

Object of the week: Pre-Python promotional shots for 60s ITV sketch show Do Not Adjust Your Set

Then and now

30 years of Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies: how the London locations look today

By Adam Scovell

30 years of Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies: how the London locations look today

Object of the week

Inside a 1959 fan magazine for Marilyn Monroe

By Tamar Jeffers-McDonald

Inside a 1959 fan magazine for Marilyn Monroe

Features

The film that fate helped make a classic: The Misfits

By Geoff Andrew

The film that fate helped make a classic: The Misfits

Features

Reservoir Cops: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip

By Quentin Tarantino

Reservoir Cops: Quentin Tarantino on The Rip

Features

The Marilyn moment: Monroe at 100

By Farran Smith Nehme

The Marilyn moment: Monroe at 100

Object of the week

Emeric Pressburger’s screening room pass for the UFA film studios in pre-Nazi Germany

By Melanie Williams

Emeric Pressburger’s screening room pass for the UFA film studios in pre-Nazi Germany

From the Sight and Sound archive

A “lethally perfumed neo-noir”: David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.

By Graham Fuller

A “lethally perfumed neo-noir”: David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.

Features

Exit 8: in the loop

By Adam Nayman

Exit 8: in the loop

Where to begin

Where to begin with Ritwik Ghatak

By Sanghita Sen

Where to begin with Ritwik Ghatak

Features

Guillermo del Toro’s advice for young filmmakers: stay untamed, irrational and stubborn

By Ivie Uzebu

Guillermo del Toro’s advice for young filmmakers: stay untamed, irrational and stubborn

Where to begin

Where to begin with Aleksandr Rou

By Deborah Allison

Where to begin with Aleksandr Rou

Then and now

In search of the locations from Bicycle Thieves

By Adam Scovell

In search of the locations from Bicycle Thieves

Object of the week

When Brighton Rock was called ‘The Worst Sin’ – the rare original poster

By Alex Prideaux

When Brighton Rock was called ‘The Worst Sin’ – the rare original poster

From the Sight and Sound archive

Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

By Colin L. Westerbeck Jr.

Beauties and the beast: Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

Object of the week

Object of the week: Sight and Sound’s Festival of Britain special from 75 years ago

By Alex Prideaux

Object of the week: Sight and Sound’s Festival of Britain special from 75 years ago

All about...

All about... online video and the third age of the moving image

By Mark Duguid, Patrick Russell and others

All about... online video and the third age of the moving image

Back into focus

In the claws of desire: Lino Brocka’s Macho Dancer, a trip into Manila’s gay underworld

By Tony Rayns

In the claws of desire: Lino Brocka’s Macho Dancer, a trip into Manila’s gay underworld

Object of the week

Object of the week: the 1930s publicity ‘song book’ for the Hindi romance Jeevan Naiya

By Jesse Woodd

Object of the week: the 1930s publicity ‘song book’ for the Hindi romance Jeevan Naiya

From the Sight and Sound archive

Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976

By Penelope Houston

Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976

Features

Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie

By George Bass

Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie

Then and now

In search of the locations for Germany, Year Zero: how Roberto Rossellini’s Berlin looks today

By Adam Scovell

In search of the locations for Germany, Year Zero: how Roberto Rossellini’s Berlin looks today

Features

Attenborough on Attenborough at 100: zoologist or television man?

By Elinor Groom

Attenborough on Attenborough at 100: zoologist or television man?

Features

At the movies with Guillermo del Toro

By Mar Diestro-Dópido

At the movies with Guillermo del Toro

Object of the week

Michael Ffolkes’s Punch illustrations for This Sporting Life and other 1960s British classics

By Melanie Williams

Michael Ffolkes’s Punch illustrations for This Sporting Life and other 1960s British classics