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The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time
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The 2012 Sight & Sound Directors’ Top Ten
The 10 Greatest Films of All Time, as chosen by 358 directors from around the world.
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Select discussion of our 2012 Greatest Films of All Time poll on external websites.
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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 DVDs and Blu-rays of 2013
Discover the year’s top home-cinema releases, from cult revivals to essential cinema box sets and restorations from the archive, as chosen by 22 international critics, curators and producers.
Monday 9 December 2013 -
The best of 2013 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene reflects on a triumphant year for the art of documentary.
Monday 23 December 2013
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More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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Nicolas Cage tries to keep a lid on his demons in a dark backwoods Texas in David Gordon Green’s latest real-American missive. By Ryan Gilbey.
Friday 25 July 2014 -
Edinburgh 2014: brain-benders of the Black Box
The Edinburgh Film Festival’s final-weekend blowout of artists’ experimenta ran the gamut from hand-processed celluloid to live multi...
Friday 25 July 2014 -
Film of the week: Norte, the End of History
Filipino arthouse hero Lav Diaz shoots for Balzacian social breadth and Dostoevskyian moral depth with this sprawling crime-and-punishment fable,...
Thursday 17 July 2014 -
Twelve years go by in Richard Linklater’s ‘indie epic’, a simple, magical study of the subtle turns of life, says Ashley Clark.
Friday 11 July 2014 -
Matthew Barney’s latest magnum blow-out is a six-hour filmed opera of Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings: “phantasmagorical, recondite…...
Thursday 10 July 2014 -
Mid-century emasculation: The House in Cypress Canyon
Brad Stevens remembers a radio horror drama with a very cinematic power.
Wednesday 9 July 2014 -
Film of the week: Cycling with Molière
Ginette Vincendeau on a smart, spry meta-adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope, set on France’s media-colonised Île de Ré.
Friday 4 July 2014 -
Prolific filmmakers like Tsui Hark, Scorsese and Fassbinder are driven by a creative urgency, part intoxication and part childlike joy, scrawls...
Wednesday 9 July 2014 -
Film of the week: Cold in July
…and dark in Texas: Violet Lucca hails an 80s-set horror-thriller with ideas from the increasingly impressive team of Jim Mickle and co...
Friday 27 June 2014 -
Horrible histories: works by John McGrath
Michael Pattison on pro-Scottish independence arguments from beyond the grave at the Edinburgh Film Festival
Friday 4 July 2014 -
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: just add music
From portraits of Pulp and shoegazing to the sounds of Richard Hawley and Summer Camp, pop kept it big at this year’s Doc/Fest, found Simran...
Thursday 3 July 2014 -
Eli Wallach: the gun beneath the bubbles
Republished to mark Eli Wallach’s death, this interview from 2005 celebrates a veteran performer who often played the heavy against starrier...
Wednesday 25 June 2014 -
The cinema of the Palestinian revolution
Celluloid Liberation Front reflects on a recent programme of international film art from the era of Palestinian armed resistance.
Sunday 22 June 2014 -
Pre-Code: Hollywood before the censors
In a brief window between 1930 and 1934, Hollywood studios were able to portray America with previously unseen realism. Mike Mashon explores the...
Wednesday 30 April 2014 -
Gallery: the landscape art of The Wind Rises
Images from Miyazaki Hayao’s final film, illustrating the changing landscape of Japan in the 1920s and 30s – a time marked by poverty,...
Monday 19 May 2014
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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