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5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 19 to 21 April
A song from 1,000 years ago wreaks havoc, while family responsibility weighs heavily on a Mongolian maths whizz.
By Sam Wigley
5 things to watch this weekend – 19 to 21 April
Reviews
Last Summer: Catherine Breillat’s most heartbreaking film to date
By Ela Bittencourt
Lists
Children’s Film Foundation: 10 fabulous films from the home of kid-based hijinks
By Vic Pratt
Reviews
Sometimes I Think About Dying: downbeat workplace indie shows another side to Daisy Ridley
By David Katz
News
BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for Wales
BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for WalesFrom the Sight and Sound archive
Elaine May: laughing matters
By Carrie Rickey
Features
O dreamlands: why Lindsay Anderson was never the realist he claimed to be
By Henry K Miller
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Ford is a director with whom things are either right or wrong”: Lindsay Anderson’s review of The Searchers
By Lindsay Anderson
Reviews
All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
By Roger Luckhurst
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