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Sight & Sound: the October 2016 issue
Andrea Arnold on American Honey, plus women’s road movies, Kirk Douglas, John Carpenter, Víctor Erice’s El sur, Ira Sachs’ Little Men and four limp Hollywood war satires.
Autumn festival reviews
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Hermia & Helena review: Matías Piñeiro’s midsummer Manhattan dream
Tom Charity on Argentine writer-director Matías Piñeiro’s first English-language film, a New York transposition of his Rohmeresque riffs on Shakespeare’s romcoms.
Friday 23 September 2016 -
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail review – Steve James meets the minnows of mortgage fraud
Tom Charity on Steve James’s documentary portrait of a (sometimes too) friendly family firm of Chinese-American bankers – and their post-banking crash prosecution.
Tuesday 20 September 2016 -
La La Land – first-look review
Once more with zing: Chazelle, Hurwitz, Gosling and Stone bring the musical back to Hollywood, says Tom Charity.
Thursday 15 September 2016 -
Masculinity, differently: Barry Jenkins’ deft, affecting drama shades three steps of growth and connection in a quiet Miami boy’s journey to manhood, says Simran Hans.
Tuesday 13 September 2016 -
Simran Hans on Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise counterpoint, a late 70s, warehouse-confined Boston-Irish crime caper steeped in blood and banter.
Sunday 11 September 2016 -
Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey – first look
Drifting clouds: Terrence Malick at his most vaporous considers creation in this proto-National Geographic documentary. Nick James reviews.
Friday 9 September 2016
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The 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.
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Directors’ 10 Greatest Films of All Time
The ten best films of all time, as chosen by 358 directors from around the world.
Thursday 2 August 2012 -
The Greatest Films of All Time 2012
Nick James introduces our Greatest Films of All Time poll – plus all our coverage.
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A roundup-in-progress of the best films we’ve seen this year – released and forthcoming.
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Our roundups and overviews of the year’s highlights in cinema, covering new features and DVDs, documentary and animation.
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The Greatest Documentaries of All Time poll
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Which are the most inspirational five books about film ever written? This was the question we asked 51 leading critics and writers and the results may surprise you…
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Arab cinema after the Arab Spring
The region’s revolutions may have largely curdled, but its filmmakers persist in opening up, programmer Rasha Salti tells Ben Nicholson.
Wednesday 14 September 2016 -
Two of this year’s most original movies emphasise the made, mediated nature of nonfiction cinema – and thereby lead us to deeper truths, argues Robert Greene.
Monday 12 September 2016 -
Film of the week: Hell or High Water
Hard times make hard desperados in David Mackenzie’s sage, post-recessionary Texan crime thriller, says Trevor Johnson.
Tuesday 13 September 2016 -
Gerry Canavan slingshots around a lifetime of allegiance to the Star Trek Ideal – and the series’ very fallible reality.
Thursday 8 September 2016 -
Where no fan had gone before: 50 years of Trekkies
You want audience engagement? As Star Trek turns 50, Kevin Lyons looks back at the ‘mother fandom’.
Thursday 1 September 2016 -
Film of the week: Things to Come
Back in the soup: Isabelle Huppert explores the nitty-gritty of unexpected, unnerving post-marital freedom in Mia Hansen-Løve’s delicate and disarming character portrait, writes Kate Stables.
Friday 2 September 2016 -
Portrait(s) of the exiled artist: the how and why of Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch
The filmmaker’s friend and scholar Joseph Gomez divulges the background to the making of Watkins’ masterpiece – a film “about Munch and about Peter Watkins and, ultimately, about all of us.”
Monday 5 September 2016 -
Podcast: FrightFest 2016 critics’ roundtable post-mortem
Sixtysomething movies later, Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy emerge to dissect the best and worst, darkest and weirdest of this year’s horror scene.
Thursday 1 September 2016 -
L’avventura giapponese: Antonioni in Japan
Celluloid Liberation Front on a rare chance to see il maestro’s early 1980s Japanese Betacam tapes.
Wednesday 31 August 2016 -
Pedro Almodóvar spins a triptych of Alice Munro short stories into a sombre, supremely expressive reflection on love, tragedy and transformation, says Jonathan Romney.
Thursday 25 August 2016 -
Hip-hop, don’t stop: inside The Get Down
A new generation bigs up the first days of hip-hop in Baz Luhrmann and co.’s Bronx musical. Ashley Clark visits the cast and crew on set.
Wednesday 24 August 2016 -
Quentin Tarantino’s wilfully unsatisfying endings ask us to confront our baser film-watching urges, says Brad Stevens.
Friday 26 August 2016 -
Film of the week: The Childhood of a Leader
Kim Newman sees our future fears as well as our worst histories in Brady Corbet’s chilly parable on the makings of a fictional world-historical tyrant.
Thursday 18 August 2016 -
The great levelling: ‘expanded cinema’ and the humbling of the movies
In the post-film projection world, mutated versions of movies demand a new language, argues Nick Pinkerton.
Friday 5 August 2016 -
‘Not really horror’ highlights: the best of FrightFest 2016
Anton Bitel highlights two handfuls of genre boundary-busters at this year’s FrightFest.
Thursday 18 August 2016 -
Film of the week: Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words
What the actor saw (and felt): Trevor Johnston on a fascinating portrait of the wandering screen icon.
Friday 12 August 2016
Video
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Video: Kirk Douglas – Hollywood champ
Ninety-nine not out: we celebrate the dimpled one with a tribute reel of his greatest scenes.
Friday 2 September 2016 -
Video: A speck in the cosmos – the inner frontiers of Raoul Walsh’s Pursued
Often described as the first psychoanalytic western, Raoul Walsh’s 1947 Pursued plays out the traumas of Robert Mitchum’s homecoming Civil War vet as an existential maelstrom of violence, isolation and psychopathy. In this video essay Tag Gallagher offers a psychological reading of one of Hollywood’s weirdest westerns.
Monday 9 May 2016 -
Video: Barbaric poetry – can we really film the Holocaust?
As László Nemes’s award-winning Son of Saul forges a new way of dramatising an Auschwitz-like death camp, Leigh Singer revisits the ethical arguments around the art of the abyss.
Friday 29 April 2016 -
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
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