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Our bumper holiday issue
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Sight & Sound: the January/February 2019 issue
In our biggest issue ever: Roma, The Favourite, Robert Redord, Alexander Korda, Laurel & Hardy, plus our Films of 2018 poll with 32 pages of analyses of the year in cinema.
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Recent stories
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Film of the week: An Elephant Sitting Still is a howl of desperate defiance
Director Hu Bo interweaves four tales to create a psychologically acute portrait of the bleakness of modern Chinese life, but finds succour in his characters’ inner strength, writes Tony Rayns.
Thursday 13 December 2018 -
Wang Bing on Dead Souls: “You have to show some truth”
The director’s latest work is a typically gruelling eight-hour documentary about the brutal regime in Chairman Mao’s re-education camps. He talks to Arjun Sajip about tracking down survivors, gaining their trust and fighting for the freedom to tell their story.
Thursday 13 December 2018 -
At the Estonian festival, a strand devoted to cinema from the centenarian nations that emerged after the First World War revealed some refreshingly modern and absurd films, including many that were once banned. Anton Bitel reports.
Thursday 13 December 2018 -
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review: a wider webbed world
The original Peter Parker is joined by five new iterations of the arachnoid superhero in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s mercurial and visually dazzling caper. Review by Henry K. Miller.
Wednesday 12 December 2018 -
Film of the week: Sorry to Bother You is an unruly, outrageous corporate satire
The grasping racial politics of late-stage capitalism come under fire in Boots Riley’s wildly inventive comedy, starring Lakeith Stanfield as an office worker who gets too close to the truth, writes Adam Nayman.
Thursday 6 December 2018 -
The Image Book review: Jean-Luc Godard’s ruminative and radical montage
Godard’s multifaceted essay film revels in the mobility and mutability of imagery in the 21st century, uncovering the violence of representation but always searching for hope in a cacophonous world, writes Erika Balsom.
Thursday 6 December 2018
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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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More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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Film of the week: Roma reframes Alfonso Cuáron’s boyhood through the eyes of his family’s maid
Cuáron’s magnificently crafted memoir casts us back to a 1970s childhood in the throes of family break-up, ruptures on the streets of Mexico City – and a Mixtec housekeeper given the weight of the drama, writes Nick Pinkerton.
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Auteurists under cover: when acclaimed filmmakers take on TV assignments
Long before Twin Peaks, signature directors from John Ford to David Cronenberg, Samuel Fuller to Jerry Lewis, have dabbled with small-screen jobs for hire. The results can be fascinating, writes Brad Stevens.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
Five of the best at the 2018 Manchester Animation Festival 2018
From the UK, Poland and the Low Countries, here are five highlights of Manchester’s budding animation extravaganza, picked by Alex Dudok de Wit.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018: convening the vanguard of British cinema
At the eighth edition of this dynamic event in York, creatives at the forefront of film technology, from VFX to animation to VR, inspired audiences with their work and their stories, reports Alex Dudok de Wit.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
James Baldwin and beyond: radical nights at the inaugural Smithsonian African American Film Festival
The opportunities for dialogue created by showing films from the African disapora in a grand Washington DC museum were very exciting, although there was little time to visit the exhibits between screenings, reports Matthew Barrington.
Friday 30 November 2018 -
Punto y Raya 2018: where every frame counts
This celebration of abstract art cinema in Wrocław offered a holiday from conventional filmmaking and the chance to watch films liberated from narrative and commerce on their own, wild terms, reports Ian Francis.
Thursday 29 November 2018 -
Bernardo Bertolucci obituary: an extraordinary director of visually outstanding cinema
The Italian filmmaker who inspired a generation with The Conformist went on to create many more beautiful movies about sex and politics, including 1900, Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, writes Philip Concannon.
Wednesday 28 November 2018 -
Nicolas Roeg obituary: one of British cinema’s greatest visionaries
From a waning Venice to Australia’s hazy outback, a subterranean Mick Jagger to an alien David Bowie, Nicolas Roeg put his prismatic, associative, discomposing stamp on some of the most indelible forays to the movies’ outer limits, writes David Thompson.
Sunday 25 November 2018 -
Film of the week: Shoplifters reveals Koreeda’s masterfully light touch
Koreeda Hirokazu won the Palme d’Or at Cannes with this nuanced and immersive drama about a makeshift family group, and rightly so – there is compassion in every frame, writes Trevor Johnston.
Friday 23 November 2018 -
“Is blood enough?” Koreeda Hirokazu on makeshift families and Shoplifters
Japanese cinema’s first Palme d’Or in 21 years has surely cemented Koreeda Hirokazu’s place at the forefront of international filmmaking. He talks to Alexander Jacoby about the ties that bind, communal criminality and why he steers clear of politicians.
Friday 23 November 2018 -
Margarethe von Trotta: “Becoming a director was always the real goal”
With her new Ingmar Bergman documentary on the festival circuit and a touring retrospective in the UK, the renowned German filmmaker sat down with Erica Carter to discuss four key films from her career.
Friday 23 November 2018
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Three Colours Silver: Europe 25 years after Kieslowski’s trilogy – a video essay
A quarter century on from Krzysztof Kieślowski’s post-Cold War arthouse landmark, how has time distilled the insights of Three Colours Blue, White and Red, asks Leigh Singer.
Wednesday 12 September 2018 -
How to be a documentary filmmaker in the UK? It’s all about what hotel bar you know, video-essays Charlie Lyne.
Monday 9 July 2018 -
In her eyes: notes on Gloria Grahame (a video essay)
With a curl of her lip and an arch of her eyebrow, Gloria Grahame was the actress who stood up to both Humphrey Bogart and Lee Marvin in their most violent roles. In this video essay, Serena Bramble explores the burn mark Grahame left on the silver screen.
Friday 24 November 2017 -
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.
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