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Sight & Sound: the February 2015 issue
Dropping out with Paul Thomas Anderson, and the best of the awards season’s new American movies. Plus Mike Nichols remembered, modern masters Eric Rohmer and Chantal Akerman and the S&S Interview with Frederick Wiseman.
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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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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 -
We asked you for your best films of 2014. The results are in.
Tuesday 2 December 2014
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
More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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Pasquale Iannone on the Neapolitan portraitist of the Italian South and master of the ‘cine-investigation’.
Monday 12 January 2015 -
Film of the week: National Gallery
Indefatigable documentary master Frederick Wiseman shows us the show and its making, says Michael Atkinson.
Friday 9 January 2015 -
Archives online: even coracles get the blues (1948-72)
Thirza Wakefield digs through the Media Archive for Central England to find two visions of a dwindling family of coracle-makers on the River Severn.
Sunday 4 January 2015 -
Back to black: the 101-year making of the oldest black American-starring feature
Ashley Clark on how 1913’s Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day finally got its field day.
Thursday 18 December 2014 -
Clothes make the han: uniforms and lies at London Korean 2014
Anton Bitel reports on seven new thrillers that fan feelings of resentment and injustice through variations of criss-crossing and double-agency.
Thursday 18 December 2014 -
Aesthetica 2014: shorts circuit York
Aesthetica’s multi-short showcase has grown from a magazine insert to a citywide festival in five short years. Is it time to take stock, asks...
Thursday 18 December 2014 -
Hello Blu-ray: Goodbye to Language
It’s Jean-Luc Godard’s first movie in 3D, and our critics’ second best of 2014, but his UK distributor has banished it almost straight...
Monday 15 December 2014 -
Circling by a thread: ethnography and structuralism share 11 rides through the heavens in the latest revelation from Harvard’s Sensory...
Thursday 11 December 2014 -
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Greed and goblins finally succumb to a coalition of the quasi-robotic good in Peter Jackson’s big-ticket paean to homespun virtues. Henry K....
Thursday 11 December 2014 -
Toon of the month: Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day
Chris Robinson on an animation to wipe the smile off your face.
Sunday 14 December 2014 -
The critical condescension that met Oliver Dahan’s Grace of Monaco biopic shows tastemakers still struggling with ‘feminine’ cinema, says...
Friday 12 December 2014 -
Film of the week: The Grandmaster
Wong Kar Wai casts his romantic and cultural reveries through a kung fu scrim in this long-awaited distillation of the life of wing chun master Ip...
Friday 5 December 2014 -
With ‘live’ film shows now the rage, Charlie Lyne journeyed from Copenhagen’s incessantly deconstructionist CPH:DOX to a Frozen singalong to...
Friday 5 December 2014 -
Sight & Sound must recognise the wealth of women making and commenting on movies, write two correspondents. Plus our response.
Tuesday 2 December 2014
More video
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Now go wash: True/False 2014 and the Unclean Cinema
Art / journalism, ethics / aesthetics, chaos / structure, creativity / confusion: documentaries are embracing their inner slash, reports Robert...
Saturday 22 March 2014 -
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: The essay film – some thoughts of discontent
In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware,...
Tuesday 16 July 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: Funner than fiction – True/False 2013
Kevin B. Lee visits the festival where documentary filmmakers and fans let down their hair.
Thursday 28 March 2013 -
Video: The world according to Koreeda
kogonada on how Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life.
Friday 8 February 2013 -
Video: Five finds at the Rotterdam International Film Festival
Five film watchers with two hats apiece go gold-panning at the mouth of the Rhine.
Friday 8 February 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 -
Video: Three closings and four highlights – the Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012
Despite power cuts and further official interference, the ninth Beijing Independent Film Festival managed to showcase some remarkable new movies,...
Thursday 30 August 2012 -
Video: Not in Kansas anymore – Warwick Thornton on Samson & Delilah
Warwick Thornton talks us through the use of space, music and ‘sexy dancing’ in the opening scenes of his Aboriginal love-on-the-run drama.
Tuesday 13 July 2010
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