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On the cover: Ken Russell’s The Devils: the controversial masterpiece returns. Inside: Paweł Pawlikowski discusses his new feature Fatherland, Boots Riley on I Love Boosters, a look inside a rediscovered scrapbook detailing the workings of F.W. Murnau’s Faust, the Venice film festival bulletin, David Thompson pays tribute to Jeremy Thomas, and we return to our archive and to a conversation between Billy Wilder and designer Saul Bass.
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21 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2026
Can’t decide what to make time for at the 70th BFI London Film Festival 2026? Discover some of the most intriguing films on the programme, reviewed and recommended by Sight and Sound contributors.
“It comes out of an anger about the way things are”: Martin Scorsese on The Departed
By Ian Christie
The Devils’ advocate: Guillermo del Toro on the film’s darkness and light
By Guillermo del Toro
The Debut: Julianne Moore gives a showstopping performance as a woman transformed by community theatre
By Neil Young
Everytime: Sandra Wollner’s digital-age fairytale finds light in a time of grief
By Alexander Mooney
Animol: Ashley Walters proves an instinctive actor’s director with a tense cell block drama
By Leila Latif
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie: fascinating documentary captures the author’s courage and humour in the wake of a brutal attack
By Philip Concannon
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“It comes out of an anger about the way things are”: Martin Scorsese on The Departed
Martin Scorsese had more on his mind than gangster movies when he made The Departed, which is now 20 years old. He told Ian Christie about the intentions behind the film, plus his long-standing plans to make Silence (2016), in our November 2006 issue.
By Ian Christie
On Bresson: Olivier Assayas, Paul Schrader, Aki Kaurismäki and more discuss the French director
By Michael Brooke
The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014
By Nick James
The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol
By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi
“He is the blockbuster given human form”: J. Hoberman on Arnold Schwarzenegger
By J. Hoberman
“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting
By Geoffrey Macnab
Of monsters and men: Peter Wollen on Jurassic Park
By Peter Wollen
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