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Sight & Sound: the May 2014 issue
Everything you needed to know about Hollywood before the censor, plus Walerian Borowczyk reappraised, Lukas Moodysson on We Are the Best!, John Michael McDonagh on Calvary and Jeremy Thomas, super-producer.
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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.
Monday 25 November 2013 -
The best of 2013 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene reflects on a triumphant year for the art of documentary.
Monday 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.
Monday 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.
Wednesday 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.
Thursday 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…
Monday 3 December 2012 -
28 critics and producers on the home-cinema releases of the year.
Tuesday 18 December 2012 -
The year’s best online movies, by 16 international correspondents. Introduced by Nick Bradshaw.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Competitions
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Ealing Studios Collection on Blu-ray
Win high-definition discs of Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Man in the White Suit.
More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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Faith, doubt, temptation, black comedy and death: Brendan Gleeson towers as a defiant man of the cloth in a cross between a Robert Bresson movie...
Thursday 10 April 2014 -
Come on in, the water’s barmy. Jonathan Romney is stopped by the glittering eye of Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical reboot.
Sunday 6 April 2014 -
Hold that look: Godfrey Reggio on Visitors
The director of Koyaanisqatsi would like us to be still now, he tells Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 3 April 2014 -
The Sight & Sound interview: James Benning
Legendary for the formal rigour and patience of his landscape films, and for his devotion to 16mm, the American filmmaker and teacher has lately...
Wednesday 2 April 2014 -
Film of the week: 20 Feet from Stardom
Foregrounding the background singers: Morgan Neville’s Oscar-winning documentary feels good, sounds great, says Kate Stables.
Thursday 27 March 2014 -
Journeys into night: the police thrillers of Yoshitaro Nomura
Alexander Jacoby on the investigations of post-war Japan by Shochiku’s career exponent of sleek, subtle genre cinema.
Thursday 27 March 2014 -
Celluloid Liberation Front remembers the “recalcitrant first lady of the Czech New Wave”.
Thursday 27 March 2014 -
Michael Pattison on violence and vulnerability in a close-to-the-knuckle slice of prison life.
Thursday 20 March 2014 -
Ugly ducklings? Fluxus docs at True/False 2014
Nick Pinkerton takes stock of the new documentaries at US cinema’s foremost neither/nor zone.
Saturday 22 March 2014 -
Safe harbour: David Hare on Turks & Caicos
Britain “finest living dramatist” talks to Adam Preston about moving between the stage, cinema and television, the perils of improvisation and the...
Thursday 20 March 2014 -
American refugees: Bill Morrison’s The Great Flood
Bill Morrison, expert aesthetician of decay and disappearance, turns his attention to the forgotten flood that devastated interwar America. By...
Wednesday 19 March 2014 -
High plains visionary: Miklós Jancsó, 1921-2014
Michael Brooke remembers the unique deep-space and -time cinema of the man Béla Tarr calls Hungary’s greatest director.
Wednesday 19 March 2014 -
Film of the week: Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson falls to Scotland – and Jonathan Glazer launches us into yonder void. Samuel Wigley probes a terrifically estranging movie.
Thursday 13 March 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...
Monday 24 February 2014
Video
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Now go wash: True/False 2014 and the Unclean Cinema
Art / journalism, ethics / aesthetics, chaos / structure, creativity / confusion: documentaries are embracing their inner slash, reports Robert...
Saturday 22 March 2014 -
The long conversation: Richard Linklater on cinema and time
kogonada looks time in the eye with the maker of Before Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight.
Monday 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,...
Tuesday 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.
Friday 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.
Thursday 28 March 2013 -
Video: The world according to Koreeda
kogonada on how Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life.
Friday 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.
Friday 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.
Friday 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.
Friday 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,...
Thursday 30 August 2012 -
Video: 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.
Tuesday 13 July 2010
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