Sight & Sound

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 5 & 6 recap – the good, the bad and the Dougie

Agent Cooper: back… but as Señor Droolcup? With the testing fifth and sixth episodes of the new Twin Peaks running high on bloody violence, operatic tragedy and a preponderance of oddball slapstick, Tom Huddleston wonders if David Lynch is messing with us.

Thursday 22 June 2017

TV

The black feminine on screen: 11 key auteurs

From Daughters of the Dust to Lemonade, a distinctly interior, subjective aesthetic binds a number of films made by and about black women. Tega Okiti spotlights 11 of the varied individuals and collectives at the heart of this often marginalised cinematic tradition.

Saturday 17 June 2017

Deep Focus

Film of the week: By the Time It Gets Dark refracts memories of a massacre

Anocha Suwichakornpong’s formally experimental, provocative film frames and re-frames stories related to an infamous Thai student massacre in 1976, with each of its narrative threads occupying its own questionable reality, writes Ben Nicholson.

Friday 16 June 2017

Reviews and recommendations

Film of the week: My Cousin Rachel, a gothic conjugal intrigue

Rachel Weisz’s is she/isn’t she killer bride bewitches this sleek Daphne du Maurier adaptation, says Lisa Mullen.

Sunday 11 June 2017

Reviews and recommendations

The Mummy review: Tom Cruise’s monster movie shuffles off all signs of life

Universal Studios’ mission to reboot its classic monster cycle as a new cinematic Dark Universe begins in chains with this desperately enervated first instalment, says Kim Newman.

Sunday 11 June 2017

Reviews and recommendations

Film of the week: My Life as a Courgette, a joyful cartoon about damaged children

Claude Barras’s marvellous stop-motion feature juggles the troubles, dreams and fortitude of a boy in a children’s home with deft realism, says Hannah McGill.

Friday 2 June 2017

Reviews and recommendations

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 1-4 recap – so far, so wayward

David Lynch’s game-changing TV mystery show Twin Peaks is back on our screens after 26 years – and on the evidence of the first episodes, it’s a shiftier beast than ever. Tom Huddleston joins the investigation.

Thursday 8 June 2017

TV

Guru Dutt: such sweet sorrow

In this piece from the Sight & Sound archive, Mark Cousins highlights “one of the great, brooding figures in post-Independence Indian cinema”: an actor-director who brought stillness, self-criticism and unexpected pessimism to the whirl of Indian melodrama, making himself its Orson Welles.

Friday 2 June 2017

Features

Lost in the filters: social media past and present at Oberhausen 

The German short film festival celebrated examples of ‘social’ media before the age of Twitter, Facebook et al. So how better for Kevin B. Lee to report on the event than via Instagram?

Tuesday 6 June 2017

Festivals

Daughters of the Dust review: a transportive, transformative colonial rites-of-passage movie

As Julie Dash’s rare masterpiece returns to cinemas as the centrepiece of Sight & Sound’s latest Deep Focus season Visions of the Black Feminine, here’s Lizzie Francke’s original review of this “balletic, operatic… elemental” film, from our September 1991 issue.

Friday 2 June 2017

Reviews and recommendations

Review: Wonder Woman defies the warring bores

Gal Gadot’s empathic anti-warrior puts the hero back in ‘superhero’, and a chink of likeability in the Warners/DC cinematic universe, says Kim Newman.

Thursday 1 June 2017

Reviews and recommendations

Gallery: the island imagery of The Red Turtle

Michael Dudok de Wit’s dialogue-free castaway reverie The Red Turtle enfolds its lone human figures in the environment of a deserted tropical island that’s given magisterial presence by de Wit’s richly pellucid animated drawings. Here are 12 frames from the film.

Friday 2 June 2017

The pictures

Film of the week: The Red Turtle is a dream of a desert island movie

Delicate, elegant and profound, Michael Dudok de Wit’s collaboration with Studio Ghibli is a touching tale of man’s uneasy relationship to nature, set in a sinister paradise, writes Kate Stables.

Friday 26 May 2017

Reviews and recommendations

Roger Moore obituary: the star who gave James Bond a martini-dry wit 

The endearingly modest actor with famously flexible eyebrows claimed he did little more than learn his lines and avoid the scenery, but his talent helped him to segue from TV’s The Saint to become a beloved 007, noted for his easy charm and sex appeal, says Kevin Lyons.

Thursday 25 May 2017

Obituaries

Lav Diaz: “Art is a commitment to the beauty of the soul”

The Filipino director of rich and often extraordinarily long films tells Jonathan Romney about his spiritual approach to filmmaking.

Thursday 18 May 2017

Interviews

Wrapped in plasticity: Twin Peaks’ myriad Laura Palmers

Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin conduct a forensic examination of the slippages at play in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surrealistic investigative series.

Friday 28 April 2017

Video

Hollywood icon/oclast: the art of Jack Nicholson

From New Hollywood rebel to arch Hollywood devil, Jack Nicholson has been our gold-standard baby boomer, on the run from his demons even as he upends the world – and hounds down the last laugh. As he turns 80, Leigh Singer looks back at the art of Jack.

Friday 21 April 2017

Video

Video: Scorsese NYC

It’s complicated: Martin Scorsese’s irresistible passion for the mean streets of his hometown show us not just the psyche of a city, but the soul of a nation, says Leigh Singer.

Friday 3 February 2017

Video

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