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Reviews
All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
Two musicologists obsessed with field recordings of Irish folk ballads uncover the dark, destructive secrets of an ancient song in Paul Duane’s chaotic and original low-budget folk horror.
By Roger Luckhurst
All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
Reviews
The Book of Clarence: a messy, genre-blending Biblical epic
By Arjun Sajip
Features
Bye Bye Love, 50th anniversary: this gender-fluid couple-on-the-run movie had no precedent in Japanese cinema
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
If Only I Could Hibernate: a beautifully crafted Mongolian drama
By Tom Charity
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 12 to 14 April
By Sam Wigley
10 great
10 great films featuring a film within the film
By Georgina Guthrie
News
Cannes 2024 lineup includes 3 BFI-supported UK films
Cannes 2024 lineup includes 3 BFI-supported UK filmsFrom the Sight and Sound archive
“Her charisma, her presence, was a lot to do with her eyes”: Asif Kapadia on Amy
By Nick James
Interviews
Kirsten Dunst and Alex Garland on Civil War: “I don’t feel any need to add to the number of films that spell everything out”
By Lou Thomas
Reviews
Back to Black: Amy Winehouse biopic fails in its aspirations to focus on the music
By Rebecca Harrison
Reviews
The Teachers’ Lounge: the hunt for a bad apple leads to chaos in this jittery classroom thriller
By Catherine Wheatley
Reviews
Civil War: Alex Garland’s spectacle of violence is determined to throw the audience off balance
By Henry K Miller
News
Chantal Akerman film catalogue acquired by BFI Distribution
Chantal Akerman film catalogue acquired by BFI DistributionFrom the Sight and Sound archive
My father the hero: Víctor Erice’s El sur
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
Reviews
Yannick: a disgruntled heckler hijacks a play in Quentin Dupieux’s wry comedy
By John Bleasdale
Features
Classroom politics and the new grade of teacher movies
By Bruno Savill De Jong
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 5 to 7 April
By Sam Wigley
Reviews
Io Capitano: a surreal, shapeshifting quest for a new life in Europe
By Jason Anderson
Interviews
Girls State: what we learned when teenage girls were put in charge of everything
By Faye D. Effard
Reviews
The First Omen: a surprisingly lively take on well-worn franchise mythology
By Adam Nayman
Reviews
Monkey Man: Dev Patel wreaks brutal havoc in a muddled but enthralling revenge drama
By Guy Lodge
From the Sight and Sound archive
“We will never see that Hollywood again”: Bette Davis, grande dame of cinema
By Margaret Hinxman