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Annual indexes

The Sight & Sound Annual Indexes for 2013-19 are available to download and print here. The listings include subject, director, film title, contributor and more and provide a comprehensive index of the entire contents of each Sight & Sound print issue over the course of the whole year.

With thanks to Patricia Coward, who has compiled them for us.

 

2020

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2020 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2020 issue

    Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine at 25, plus Ladj Ly’s Les Miserables, Damien Chazelle’s The Eddy, Mark Cousins’s Women Make Film and David Thomson on enigmatic acting.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2020 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2020 issue

    Tilda Swinton speaks (and writes poetry) in The S&S Interview, plus Color out of Space, And Then We Danced, The Painted Bird and No Time to Die.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2020 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2020 issue

    Guest editor Bong Joon Ho on his career and obsessions, Parasite storyboards, 20 future filmmaking greats and love of Kim Kiyoung’s 1960 shocker The Housemaid. Plus Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Vitalina Varela and four facets of Elia Kazan.

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2020 issue

    Sight & Sound: the February 2020 issue

    Willem Dafoe: the Sight & Sound Interview. Plus Little Women, Uncut Gems, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam and a preview of 2020.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2020 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2020 issue

    The 50 best films of 2019 and the themes and stories of the year – from queer and post-#MeToo movies to the fortunes of the European arthouse, expanded cinema and the TV of the year. 

2019

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2019 issue

    Eyes Wide Shut at 20: reappraising Stanley Kubrick’s last film. Plus Succession, Atlantics, Marriage Story, I Lost My Body and the movie musical.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2019 issue

    Martin Scorsese on Robert De Niro and The Irishman. Plus Joaquin Phoenix, Monos and Maurice Pialat’s New French Realism.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2019 issue

    Brad Pitt in James Gray’s Ad Astra, plus For Sama, The Last Tree and R.W. Paul.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2019 issue

    Quentin Tarantino on the genesis of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Plus Sharon Tate, Pedro Almodóvar on Pain and Glory, Christian Petzold on Transit and the making of Cary Grant.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2019 issue

    British cinema special: Blinded by the Light, The Souvenir, multicultural British heritage cinema, new British talents and the future of the British film industry. Plus Midsommar, Our Time, and Apocalypse Now: Final Cut.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2019 issue

    Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die and the best of Cannes; the Golden Age of Mexican cinema; Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls; and the legacy of Pauline Kael.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2019 issue

    Into deep space with Claire Denis and Robert Pattinson for High Life. Plus the fever and ferment of Germany’s Weimar-era cinema, and László Nemes’s Son of Saul.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2019 issue

    Design, and male figures in Stanley Kubrick’s cinema; plus Koreeda Hirokazu, Happy as Lazarro, Jordan Peele on Us, Ash Is Purest White, Dragged Across Concrete and Hirokazu Koreeda.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2019 issue

    In praise of binge TV, plus Border, The White Crow, Ray & Liz, Out of Blue and female noir.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2019 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2019 issue

    The versatile and complex performances of Barbara Stanwyck; plus If Beale Street Could Talk, Burning, Capernaum and our annual obituaries round-up.

  • Sight & Sound: the January/February 2019 issue

    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.

2018

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2018 issue

    Boots Riley on his incendiary satire Sorry to Bother You, plus 9 to 5, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Mirai, Disobedience, The Wild Pear Tree, Shoplifters, Suspiria, Wildlife and more.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2018 issue

    Steve McQueen brings Widows into the now; plus Mandy, The Other Side of the Wind, Shirkers and the French fantastique.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2018 issue

    Class in British cinema – plus Peterloo, Climax, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Columbus, Elaine May and more.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2018 issue

    Spike Lee: the BlacKkKlansman interview; the indomitable Joan Crawford; Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War; Mark Cousin’s on the drawings and paintings of Orson Welles; the Mission: Impossible series; Marlene Dietrich and Von Sterberg; Idris Elba and more. 

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2018 issue

    Flick lit: S&S contributors pick the 100 greatest novels and short stories about filmmaking, Paul Schrader on First Reformed, Harold Pinter’s phenomenal screenplays, Apostasy and more.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2018 issue

    The irrepressible Agnès Varda, Cannes 2018, Marco Bellocchio, Debra Granik, The Happy Prince, Budd Boetticher and more.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2018 issue

    The other side of 80s America, Marion Cotillard, Lucrecia Martel, Louise Brooks, Jean Rollin, Derek Jarman, Jeune femme and more.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2018 issue

    120 BPM salutes the courageous Aids activists of the early 90s. Plus runaway British indie directors, Beast, Lean on Pete, Woodfall Films, Western and the S&S Interview with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2018 issue

    Wes Anderson on Isle of Dogs, Warwick Thornton on Sweet Country, Lynne Ramsay on You Were Never Really Here, Ruben Östlund on The Square and American women writers and producers during World War II.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2018 issue

    Greta Gerwig on Lady Bird, plus girl friends in the movies, The Shape of Water, Loveless, The Touch, A Fantastic Woman, Dark River and our Obituaries of 2017. 

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the February 2018 issue

    Paul Thomas Anderson on Daniel Day Lewis and Phantom Thread; plus Nick Park’s Early Man, Alexander Payne’s Downsizing, Steven Spielberg’s The Post and a fresh look at Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2018 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2018 issue

    The best films of 2017 and reflections on the year in cinema, plus Get Out, Twin Peaks: The Return, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Miike Takashi, The Disaster Artist, The Deuce and The Twilight Zone.

2017

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2017 issue

    Robert Pattinson in in the Safdie brothers’ Good Time; plus The Florida Project; Mudbound; Gloria Grahame, Annette Bening and Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool; and William Friedkin on Sorcerer at 40.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2017 issue

    Denis Villeneuve on Blade Runner 2049, David Fincher on Mindhunter, Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin, Luca Guadagnino on Call Me by Your Name, Alan Pakula’s paranoia trilogy and the female stars of post-war Japanese cinema.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2017 issue

    The cinema of Stephen King, plus female desire at the movies, Hanif Kureishi on Peter Sellers’ Indian characters, Darren Aronofsky on Mother and Yance Ford on Strong Island.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2017 issue

    Kathryn Bigelow on John Boyega and Detroit, plus A Ghost Story, God’s Own Country, Jean-Pierre Melville and Cuban documentary filmmaking.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2017 issue

    Christopher Nolan on Dunkirk and real film, plus Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Jane Campion and Elisabeth Moss on Top of the Lake and Jean-Pierre Léaud looks back at a monumental career.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2017 issue

    Edgar Wright talks Baby Driver with Mark Kermode, plus the best of Cannes, Bong Joonho’s Okja, Philippe Garrel and 50 years of queer British cinema.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2017 issue

    The return of Twin Peaks, The Red Turtle, My Life as a Courgette, François Ozon’s Frantz, Buñuel at the opera, Daughters of the Dust and the black feminine in cinema.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2017 issue

    The explosive genius of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: a 14-page tribute. Plus Lady Macbeth, Raw and cannibalism on film, James Baldwin, Their Finest and the role of women in British wartime film.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2017 issue

    Kristen Stewart, the star for our times, plus Paul Verhoeven and Elle, The Love Witch, Graduation, Jacques Becker and the range of Indian cinema.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2017 issue

    Moonlight – a beacon of hope in troubled times. Plus Viola Davis, Toni Erdmann, Certain Women, 20th Century Women, The Fits, Prevenge, Werner Schroeter and our 2016 obituaries record.

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the February 2017 issue

    Martin Scorsese on Silence – an extended interview. Plus Scorsese’s art of abstraction and the director as film historian and advocate, Manchester by the Sea; Cameraperson, A Monster Calls, Loving and Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2017 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2017 issue

    Damien Chazelle’s modern musical La La Land, and a new look at exemplary toe-tapper Gene Kelly. Plus Krzysztof Kieslowski, Issa Rae, Eugène Green, William Kentridge – and our annual year-end roundup.

2016

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2016 issue

    Adam Driver, Jim Jarmusch and Paterson, Napoleon, Shinkai Makoto, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Peter Morgan on The Queen, the Dardennes’ The Unknown Girl and film noir’s debt to black culture. 

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2016 issue

    David Oyelowo and the crisis of black British film stars: a Black Star special issue. Plus Ken Loach’s excoriating I, Daniel Blake, Robert Aldrich’s remarkable late-career flourishing and a Deep Focus on French film noir.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2016 issue

    Andrea Arnold on American Honey, plus women’s road movies, Kirk Douglas, John Carpenter, Víctor Erice’s El sur, Ira Sachs’ Little Men and four limp Hollywood war satires.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2016 issue

    Isabelle Huppert in The S&S Interview, plus Mia Hansen-Løve on Things to Come, Pedro Almodóvar on Julieta, Todd Solondz on Weiner-Dog, Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Shallows, the origins of Ingrid Bergman and the abiding inspiration of Abbas Kiarostami.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2016 issue

    Jon Savage, Thurston Moore and Don Letts on 40 years of punk. Plus the changing shape of cinema distribution, Chevalier, Born to Be Blue, and the S&S Interview with D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2016 issue

    Cannes 2016 special: the inside track on new films from Loach, Arnold, Jarmusch, Verhoeven, Almodóvar, Ade, Assayas, the Dardennes, Mungiu and more. Plus fashion horror The Neon Demon, Olivia de Havilland, Studio Ghibli’s final in-house movie, Embrace of the Serpent and the Shane Black buddy movie.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2016 issue

    Whit Stillman on his acid-tongued Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship. Plus Richard Linklater’s college daze, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence, late Terrence Malick, modern Turkish fairytale Mustang, Aferim! and a decade of Romanian cinema, Green Room and Kathleen Collins’ overlooked indie gem Losing Ground.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2016 issue

    Down, dark and dirty with the psychological western, plus the women of the west, Son of Saul, Arabian Nights, The Brand New Testament, Agnieszka Holland and the rise of virtual reality.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2016 issue

    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.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2016 issue

    Inside the mind of Charlie Kaufman, from Being John Malkovich to Anomalisa. Plus Hitchcock-Truffaut, Hollywood reboots, A Bigger Splash, Making a Murderer and the S&S Interview with the great production designer Jack Fisk.

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the February 2016 issue

    Tarantino on Tarantino, Kent Jones on the best of Jean-Luc Godard, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s ravishing The Assassin, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and the return of The X Files.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2016 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2016 issue

    The best films of 2015 as voted for by 168 critics, Alejandro González Iñarritu on The Revenant and Nora Ephron, queen of the romcom.

2015

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2015 issue

    Todd Haynes on Carol, queer cinema, period dramas, Patricia Highsmith and much more in the S&S Interview. Plus Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, Tangerine’s transgender cinema and Molly Haskell on the romcom.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2015 issue

    Guillermo del Toro’s gothic Crimson Peak, Andrei Tarkovsky’s path-forging screen poetry and Yorgos Lanthimos’s starry social satire The Lobster. Plus Carey Mulligan and Suffragette, Sicario’s US-Mexico borderlands and British TV documentaries from the 1950s and 60s.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2015 issue

    The Female Gaze: 100 underrated films directed by women, with contributions from Agnès Varda, Jane Campion, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Tilda Swinton, Greta Gerwig and more. Plus Tom Hardy and Legend, Horse Money, Mia Madre and Lucrecia Martel.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2015 issue

    Trash Special! John Waters and a survey of American and British Trash cinema, plus 45 Years, Hard to Be a God and Vittorio De Sica.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2015 issue

    Pixar’s Inside Out, Song of the Sea and Halas & Batchelor in our special animation issue, plus Eden, Dear White People, new London cinemas and old London on film.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2015 issue

    The Other Side of Orson Welles, plus Amy, The Look of Silence, The Misfits, the best of Cannes and the S&S Interview with John Boorman.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2015 issue

    Girlhood and the faces of the new French cinema – plus Clouds of Sils Maria, The New Girlfriend, the Tribe, Phoenix and the S&S Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2015 issue

    Born on the bayou – the gothic cinema of the American Deep South, plus The Falling, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Jauja, Force Majeure, Cry of the City and the radical British cinema of the 1970s.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2015 issue

    Remake/remodel: 50 of the most intriguing director’s cuts and alternative versions. Plus Agnès Varda, Věra Chytilová, Takahata Isao, Adam Curtis, Thom Andersen, Shirley Clark and much more…

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2015 issue

    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.

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2015 issue

    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.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2015 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2015 issue

    Wong Kar Wai on The Grandmaster, plus Birdman and the resurrection of Michael Keaton, John Berger on Charlie Chaplin and 112 critics on the best films of the year.

2014

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2014 issue

    The making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, plus David Thomson on westerns, the rise of Christianity movies, Winter Sleep, Leviathan, Life Itself and much more.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2014 issue

    Mike Leigh gets Romantic, Darwinian sci-fi and the birth of the Method. Plus Nightcrawler, ’71, Gone Girl, The Knick, Venice and Toronto, agnès b, Zabriskie Point…

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2014 issue

    David Fincher on Gone Girl, Peter Lorre, David Cronenberg and Maps to the Stars, Pawel Pawlikowski, 20,000 Days on Earth, Lauren Bacall.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2014 issue

    The Greatest Documentaries of All Time poll, plus the documentary new wave, Laura Poitras, the Dardennes, Kelly Reichardt and Raymond Durgnat.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2014 issue

    Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Steve McQueen on Do the Right Thing, action-blockbuster stars, China’s Fifth Generation, One Night in 1914 – and David Thomson on left-handed cinema.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2014 issue

    Amma Asante on race, costume drama and Belle, Bruno Dumont on Juliette Binoche and Camille Claudel, Jane Campion on Cannes, Chinese classic Spring in a Small Town and the dark dreams of Dennis Potter.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2014 issue

    Miyazaki Hayao takes flight with The Wind Rises, plus Jia Zhangke on A Touch of Sin, Amat Escalante on Heli, David Thomson on the cinema of World War I and the S&S Interview with Dario Argento.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2014 issue

    Everything you needed to know about Hollywood before the censor, plus Walerian Borowczyk reappraised, Lukas Moodysson on We Are the Best!, John Michael McDonagh on Calvary and Jeremy Thomas, super-producer.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2014 issue

    Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin, David Mackenzie on Starred Up, Richard Ayoade on The Double, Mark Cousins on A Story of Children and Film and the S&S Interview with Jeremy Thomas.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2014 issue

    Jim Jarmusch on Only Lovers Left Alive, Wes Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel, Lars von Trier’s Nymph()maniac and the many faces of Derek Jarman.

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the February 2014 issue

    Joel and Ethan Coen on Inside Llewyn Davis, Steve McQueen on 12 Years a Slave, Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Altman’s The Long Goodbye and the S&S Interview with George Romero.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2014 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2014 issue

    In our January issue: The best films of the year, plus Spike Jonze’s computer romance, Bong Joonho versus Harvey Weinstein and Alexander Payne and Bruce Dern on Nebraska.

2013

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2013 issue

    In our December issue: lost in space with Gravity, in time with Computer Chess, at sea with Leviathan and in love with Blue is the Warmest Colour.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2013 issue

    In this issue: Gothic cinema from Universal to Hammer to Twilight – plus The Selfish Giant, Philomena, Captain Phillips and the peak of silent cinema.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2013 issue

    In this issue: 40 years of The Wicker Man, plus The Great Beauty, Slavoj Žižek on cinema’s dark secrets, Claude Sautet’s noir classic Classe tous risques, Eddie Marsan’s stealthy success and James Benning on watching paint dry.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2013 issue

    In this issue: Television special – the hidden gems of the small screen: when film directors make TV, plus Steve Coogan and Armando Ianucci on Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Breaking Bad, Satyajit Ray, Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours and Shane Carruth on Upstream Color.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2013 issue

    In this issue: Frances Ha’s Greta Gerwig – the most exciting actress in America? Plus Ryan Gosling in Only God Forgives, Wadjda, The Wall, Jean Grémillon and a Deep Focus on the essay film.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2013 issue

    Richard Linklater on Before Midnight, plus Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, Abbas Kiarostami on Like Someone in Love, Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England and a full Cannes roundup. In print and digital from 7 June.

  • Sight & Sound: the June 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the June 2013 issue

    Neil Jordan’s vampire return Byzantium, Audrey Tatou in Therese Desqueyroux, Joachim Lafosse’s Our Children, Olivier Assayas’s Something in the Air, Tony Garnett, Marcel L’Herbier and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  • Sight & Sound: the May 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the May 2013 issue

    In this issue: Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, plus Pedro Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited!, In the Fog, Scarecrow, the history of the music videos and the roots of neorealism.

  • Sight & Sound: the April 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the April 2013 issue

    In this issue: Danny Boyle, Kristin Scott Thomas, Carlos Reygadas, Point Blank and Beyond the Hills.

  • Sight & Sound: the March 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the March 2013 issue

    Gael Garcia Bernal in Pablo Larraín’s No, plus Caesar Must Die, Somersault, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Montgomery Clift.

  • Sight & Sound: the February 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the February 2013 issue

    Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, Spielberg’s Lincoln and much more.

  • Sight & Sound: the January 2013 issue

    Sight & Sound: the January 2013 issue

    In this issue: Ang Lee’s 3D spectacular Life of Pi, plus the best films of 2012. In print and digital from 1 December.

2012

  • Sight & Sound: the December 2012 issue

    Sight & Sound: the December 2012 issue

    Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master, Cristi Puiu on Aurora, Thomas Vinterberg on The Hunt and LFF newcomer Sally El Hosaini on My Brother the Devil – plus the S&S career interview with Amour’s Michael Haneke.

  • Sight & Sound: the November 2012 issue

    Sight & Sound: the November 2012 issue

    The best of Venice, Toronto and the upcoming London film festivals: Sightseers, Rust and Bone, Ginger and Rosa and On the Road.

  • Sight & Sound: the October 2012 issue

    Sight & Sound: the October 2012 issue

    Holy Motors, Dredd, Lawless, Barbara, Chris Marker, David Thomson, Greil Marcus, Paul Fejos, Mary Pickford and the FBI.

  • Sight & Sound: the September 2012 issue

    Sight & Sound: the September 2012 issue

    In our redesigned, expanded new issue: The Greatest Films of All Time by 846 critics and 358 directors. Plus more pages, sections and columns, and a wider remit – from the business of film to artists’ movies.

  • Sight & Sound: the August 2012 issue

    Sight & Sound: the August 2012 issue

    The genius of Alfred Hitchcock: Guillermo del Toro on the Master of Suspense; plus Christopher Nolan, Patricio Guzmán, Bruce Lacey, Boris Barnet, Wolfgang Suschitzky and Andrew Kötting’s Swandown.

  • Sight & Sound: the July 2012 issue

    Sight & Sound: the July 2012 issue


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