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Sight & Sound: the April 2014 issue
Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin, David Mackenzie on Starred Up, Richard Ayoade on The Double, Mark Cousins on A Story of Children and Film and the S&S Interview with Jeremy Thomas.
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2013 in review
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Our new issue looks back at the year in cinema with the help of over one hundred international critics, curators and academics. As a preview, here’s our voters’ top ten, plus in-house selections and highlights.
25 November 2013 -
The best of 2013 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene reflects on a triumphant year for the art of documentary.
23 December 2013 -
The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2013
Discover the year’s top home-cinema releases, from cult revivals to essential cinema box sets and restorations from the archive, as chosen by 22 international critics, curators and producers.
9 December 2013 -
Sight & Sound’s top web posts of 2013
Our most popular online stories of the past year.
Polls and surveys
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The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time
846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors have voted – and the 50-year reign of Kane is over. Our critics’ poll has a new number one.
1 August 2012 -
The 2012 Sight & Sound Directors’ Top Ten
The 10 Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by 358 directors from around the world.
2 August 2012 -
The complete Greatest Films of All Time poll
Explore all the films and all the votes in our 2012 Greatest Films of All Time poll.
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We asked over 90 international critics to nominate their top five films and their highlights of 2012…
3 December 2012 -
28 critics and producers on the home-cinema releases of the year.
18 December 2012 -
The year’s best online movies, by 16 international correspondents. Introduced by Nick Bradshaw.
12 February 2013
Competitions
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Anjelica Huston’s A Story Lately Told
Five copies of the actress’s coming-of-age memoirs to be won.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg on DVD and Blu-ray
Win a 50th-anniversary edition of Jacques Demy’s beloved, bittersweet musical.
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Sony Blu-ray player and Captain Phillips on disc
Win a new high-resolution home-movie player and disc of Paul Greengrass’s pirate-hijacking thriller.
More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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This was China: Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks
Adam Nayman introduces UK audiences to the master documentarian’s debut, a monumental threnody to twentieth-century industry.
28 February 2014 -
Film of the week: We Are What We Are
Traditions of liberty and nonconformity find themselves at daggers in Jim Mickle’s backwoods-American translation of the Mexican cannibal...
28 February 2014 -
Beyond the facts ma’am: Rachel Boynton, essential nonfiction auteur
Drilling far deeper than standard issue docs, the Big Men director’s rich, thrilling movies investigate people and their power plays. There&...
26 February 2014 -
Dimensions of dialogue: Black Movie 2014
Conversations between filmmakers, festivals and nations characterised Geneva’s adventurously programmed festival of the best of developing...
27 February 2014 -
Film of the week: Stranger by the Lake
Lakeside cruising and what lies beneath: Ben Walters on a spellbinding erotic mystery from French writer-director Alain Guiraudie.
21 February 2014 -
Berlinale 2014: Cinema, art of light and shadow
From Japan to Germany and America, ideas in movie lighting have long travelled on the wind. Daniel Fairfax reports on a Berlin/New York...
26 February 2014 -
Straight to a DVD player near you?
Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola’s recent techno-fantasias have followed a once well-worn path for American indies too leftfield for cinema...
25 February 2014 -
Gallic stars go Gallois: Borderlines 2014 preview
Borderlines Film Festival patron Francine Stock on bringing her French screen heroes to the Welsh Borders.
24 February 2014 -
Dispatches: Situation critical
The pessimists are convinced the end is nigh for film criticism in the digital age – but perhaps criticism isn’t what they think it is, says Mark...
24 February 2014 -
Nick James considers technological creep and its creepy effects in Spike Jonze’s marvellously unsettling cybernautical romance.
14 February 2014 -
Berlinale 2014: Bad seeds and worse – from Nick Cave to Michel Houellebecq
Creatives majestic and wretched were the subjects of a trio of notable movies at this year’s festival, reports Carmen Gray.
14 February 2014 -
Film of the week: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Ashley Clark is bowled over by a dazzling, deliquescent, take-this-heart love movie.
7 February 2014 -
Reach for the heavens: Vertical Cinema at Rotterdam 2014
The city’s Arminius church was the perfect launchpad for a vertiginous showcase of shorts that stood tall, reports Michael Pattison.
12 February 2014 -
Alien abductions: 12 Years a Slave and the past as science fiction
Steve McQueen’s correctional slavery drama is only the most astringently literal of a handful of post-1960s films that show us the dystopian...
15 January 2014
Video
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The long conversation: Richard Linklater on cinema and time
kogonada looks time in the eye with the maker of Before Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight.
4 November 2013 -
Video essay: The essay film – some thoughts of discontent
In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware,...
16 July 2013 -
Video essay: What is neorealism?
kogonada pits the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind on the same movie material.
17 May 2013 -
Video: Funner than fiction – True/False 2013
Kevin B. Lee visits the festival where documentary filmmakers and fans let down their hair.
28 March 2013 -
Video: The world according to Koreeda
kogonada on how Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life.
8 February 2013 -
Video: Five finds at the Rotterdam International Film Festival
Five film watchers with two hats apiece go gold-panning at the mouth of the Rhine.
8 February 2013 -
Video essay: The animal menagerie of Rhythm and Hues
Kevin B. Lee considers the digital circus mastery of Hollywood’s leading computer-generated-animal engineers.
21 December 2012 -
Video: Steadicam progress – the career of Paul Thomas Anderson in five shots
Tracking a journey of camera journeys from Hard Eight to There Will Be Blood, Kevin B. Lee wonders if the director has put away showy things.
16 November 2012 -
Video: Three closings and four highlights – the Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012
Despite power cuts and further official interference, the ninth Beijing Independent Film Festival managed to showcase some remarkable new movies,...
30 August 2012 -
Not in Kansas anymore: Warwick Thornton on Samson & Delilah
Warwick Thornton talks us through the use of space, music and ‘sexy dancing’ in the opening scenes of his Aboriginal love-on-the-run drama.
13 July 2010
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