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Sight & Sound: the March 2015 issue
Selma and the art of protest, from Alabama in 1965 to modern-day Kiev and Cairo. Plus the whims and wiles of Eros in It Follows, The Duke of Burgundy, Love Is Strange and Amour fou.
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2014 in review
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The best films of the year – the overground, the underground, the widely released and the still emerging, from oldtimers and first-timers – as chosen by 112 of our international contributors and colleagues.
Friday 28 November 2014 -
The best films of 2014 – all the votes
Browse all the votes and comments in our year-end poll of 112 international film critics.
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We asked you for your best films of 2014. The results are in.
Tuesday 2 December 2014 -
The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2014
34 international critics and DVD curators nominate their five best releases of the year.
Wednesday 7 January 2015 -
The best of 2014 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene highlights 25 new triumphs in the art of interpreting reality.
Friday 9 January 2015 -
The best indie animation of 2014
Jez Stewart inspects the year’s best of British, while Chris Robinson surveys the international scene.
Tuesday 27 January 2015
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: comment from around the web
Select discussion of our 2012 Greatest Films of All Time poll on external websites.
More polls and surveys
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The Greatest Documentaries of All Time poll
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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
Competitions
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The epic Fury on DVD and a brand new, state of the art Blu-ray player.
More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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Lang may yer lum reek: Glasgow at the movies
Emma Jackson reviews the Mitchell Library’s exhibition celebrating the city’s history of gallus film-going.
Thursday 26 February 2015 -
Films for film’s sake: Tromsø 2015
James Bell reports on how the ‘Paris of the north’ flies the flag for cinema in the Arctic circle.
Thursday 26 February 2015 -
Inside your head: conceptual science fiction
Low-budget, high-philosophy sci-fi forays – including the recent Ex Machina, Predestination and Coherence – remind us of the intrinsic visionary...
Tuesday 24 February 2015 -
The great game: Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake
The extraordinary footage assembled in Adam Curtis’s powerful film about the tangled history of Afghanistan offers some welcome insights – but in...
Monday 23 February 2015 -
Drama of the week: The Duke of Burgundy
Lesbian bondage and moth studies intertwine in Peter Strickland’s third movie, a phantasmagoric 70s Euro sex-horror pastiche about...
Friday 20 February 2015 -
Documentary of the week: Maidan
Sergei Loznitsa’s epic yet intimate canvas of Kiev’s 2013-14 Maidan protests brings out the multifariousness of our lives together, as...
Friday 20 February 2015 -
I turn my back on you: black movie poster art
Isabel Stevens on black film posters that both succumbed to and defied racism.
Sunday 22 February 2015 -
Not everything they teach at film school should be practical. How about a little Edmund Burke or nude figure drawing instead, proposes Mark Cousins.
Thursday 19 February 2015 -
Blindfolds back on – Sam Taylor-Johnson’s adaptation struggles to serve E.L. James’s Kindle-busting BDSM bestseller, says Jane Giles.
Thursday 19 February 2015 -
Archives online: Go tell it in the fog
Thirza Wakefield on a public TV documentary that records (and decryies) the state of racism in San Francisco, 1963, with James Baldwin and more.
Sunday 15 February 2015 -
A judicious jury gave its awards to Iran’s Jafar Panahi, Chile’s Pablo Larraín and Patricio Guzmán, actors Charlotte Rampling and Tom...
Sunday 15 February 2015 -
Film of the week: Love Is Strange
Ira Sachs gives the comedy of remarriage a modern-day refresh with this warm, wise story of a newly vagrant gay couple in New York, writes Roger...
Friday 13 February 2015 -
A visual homage to some of the key figures in film who passed away in 2014.
Friday 13 February 2015 -
A chill Nor’easter: Olive Kitteridge
Frances McDormand cuts to the quick in Lisa Cholodenko’s rare tragicomedy of female unlikability. By Molly Haskell.
Thursday 12 February 2015 -
Ava DuVernay’s dramatisation of Martin Luther King’s leadership of the Civil Rights marches that overcame American voting discrimination speaks...
Thursday 5 February 2015
Video
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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: 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 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
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