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Sight & Sound: the April 2016 issue
Tom Hiddleston and the cast and crew of High-Rise talk class and violence past and future – and the rise of cinema’s Ballardian worldview. Plus Hail, Caesar!, The Club, The Pearl Button, Victoria and the uncompromising films of the great Alan Clarke.
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2015 in review
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The top movies of the year, as chosen by 168 critics from around the world.
Friday 27 November 2015 -
The best films of 2015 – all the votes
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The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2015
Twenty-six critics and connoisseurs recommend their five best home-cinema releases of the past year.
Tuesday 12 January 2016 -
The best of 2015 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene tenders his canon of the year’s top documentaries – 25 films that spoke deeper amidst the modern media clamour.
Monday 18 January 2016 -
The best indie animation of 2015
As the awards season counts down, three of our critics pick their highlights of 2015’s animated shorts.
Friday 5 February 2016
The Greatest Films of All Time
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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.
Wednesday 1 August 2012 -
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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The year’s best in new features, home-cinema releases and revivals, documentaries, animation and more…
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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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More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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True/False 2016: Behemoth – first look
From the open-cast mines to the ghost cities beyond: Jordan Cronk reviews “a portrait of modern-day China built from the blood and sweat of its proletariat class”.
Thursday 17 March 2016 -
Designing dreams and nightmares: Ken Adam on his finest sets
The late, great movie production designer reflects on his most indelible set constructions, from Dr. No to Dr. Strangelove, in these excerpts from a 2012 interview with Ian Christie.
Monday 14 March 2016 -
True/False 2016: Cameraperson – first look
Wayfaring nonfiction cinematographer Kirsten Johnson’s first ‘directed’ credit considers the movie camera as bridge to the world, finds Jordan Cronk.
Monday 14 March 2016 -
Welcome to the Overnight: 48 hours at a cinephile retreat
Charlie Lyne packs his bags for the Eastbourne esplanade and film-watching boot camp.
Friday 11 March 2016 -
Cine-puppeteer philosopher Charlie Kaufman returns with a prize miniature that spins metaphysical mystery out of the mazes of mundane modernity, says Graham Fuller.
Friday 11 March 2016 -
Film of the week: Hail, Caesar!
At your service: the Coens salute the circus mastery of Golden-Age Hollywood, write J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters.
Thursday 3 March 2016 -
Ken Adam, 1921-2016: a tribute in pictures
The production designer Ken Adam, who created the stages for both Stanley Kubrick and James Bond, has died at the age of 95. We look back at his extraordinary work in sketches and photographs, accompanied by Adam’s own quotes from the Sight & Sound archive.
Friday 11 March 2016 -
True/False 2016: Kate Plays Christine – first look
Nonfiction-cinema champion Robert Greene peels the documentary onion in this redolent portrait of a portrait of Christine Chubbuck and her 1974 television suicide, says Jordan Cronk.
Friday 11 March 2016 -
Archives online: Gi’s a job – the 1984 Durham Miners’ Gala
Farewell, King Coal: this year’s Big Meeting will mark the first in an era without working deep-pit mines in Britain. Thirza Wakefield looks back at 1984 and the beginning of the end.
Friday 4 March 2016 -
Forty-five years since Mike Hodges’ adaptation of Ted Lewis’s pulp crime novel Jack’s Return Home minted the look and smell of 1970s north-eastern Britain on screen, its protagonist Jack Carter lives on – with a new Newcastle stage production of the story bringing him home from Hollywood. Neil Young considers the indelible traces of a favourite local antihero.
Friday 4 March 2016 -
Numb and number: where The Big Short falls short
Adam McKay’s pop reenactment of the Noughties credit crisis couldn’t be more insistently in-your-face. But will we need a sequel, asks Ann Pettifor?
Sunday 28 February 2016 -
Mirror, mirror: Jacques Rivette, the Marx Brothers and the plays we game
Brad Stevens on what links Duck Soup’s celebrated nightdress pantomime and Jacques Rivette’s multidimensional actresses – an anarchic scepticism about the very possibility of stable identity.
Friday 4 March 2016 -
Love and work differently: Anne-Marie Miéville’s cinema of companionship
Jean-Luc Godard’s partner has been a working filmmaker for 40 years – with him and independently. Albertine Fox offers us a closer look.
Friday 26 February 2016 -
Marc Karlin: the act of remembering
Marc Karlin was an innovator of the essay film and a leading voice for independent film in Britain, so why is his work so little known, asks Holly Aylett?
Friday 4 March 2016 -
Author of some of the cinema’s most delirious visions, the Polish-French director Andrzej Żuławski provided the likes of Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau with their most memorable roles, writes David Thompson.
Tuesday 23 February 2016 -
Filming Revolution: crowd-documenting the Egyptian Revolution
Who gets to tell the story – or stories – of a democratic struggle? Sophie Mayer explores Alisa Lebow’s bustling nonlinear ‘meta-documentary, encompassing the voices of 30 Egyptian filmmakers, artists and activists.
Sunday 7 February 2016
Video
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Video essay: Lines of resistance – Anne-Marie Miéville’s The Book of Mary
Counterpointing Godard: Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin offer a taste of Anne-Marie Miéville’s cinema, and a look at the patterns at play in her prologue to her partner’s Hail Mary.
Friday 26 February 2016 -
Video essay: Kicking against the chick flicks – reclaiming the Hollywood romcom
Homogenised, segregated and stupefied, the mainstream romantic comedy has never been less sexy. Leigh Singer on how to get its freak back on.
Friday 18 December 2015 -
Robert Greene essays a love letter to the “magical imitation of reality”.
Thursday 7 August 2014 -
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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