The new issue of Sight and Sound
On the cover: 21st-century sci-fi special – from dystopias to dreamworlds, the essential science-fiction films of the millennium so far Inside: Cannes bulletin including interviews with Sandra Hüller and Bruce Dern, Sumitra Peries interviewed by Mark Cousins and we revisit David Robinson's 1966 visit to the set of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Get your copySight and Sound presents the auteur series: Chantal Akerman
In a new edition of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, we delve into our archives to revisit the radical cinema of Chantal Akerman, whose film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, was voted Greatest of All Time in 2022.
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This special edition magazine celebrates our 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll, as voted for by the world’s most influential filmmakers and critics.
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Dry Leaf: Alexandre Koberidze’s low-res road movie is a quietly political ode to the ordinary
The Georgian director invites us to try a new way of seeing in a subdued low-tech portrait of a post-Soviet nation between two worlds, shot on a 2008 Sony Ericsson phone.
By Joseph Fahim
Familiar Touch: a lovingly told coming-of-old-age film
By Ela Bittencourt
Nino: a young man’s world is rocked by a cancer diagnosis in a poignant French New Wave-inspired drama
By Catherine Wheatley
A Private Life: Jodie Foster anchors this elegant but underpowered Parisian mystery
By Philip Concannon
“The whole film is centred upon Hockney’s art”: A Bigger Splash reviewed in 1975
By Philip French
Cactus Pears: a gentle exploration of queer identities in rural India
By Srikanth Srinivasan
A close encounter with Steven Spielberg
By Richard Combs
The Greatest Films of All Time
Once a decade Sight and Sound asks critics to select the best films ever made. Find out the results of our largest ever poll.
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
By Nick Broomfield
Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
By Katie McCabe and Isabel Stevens
Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
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Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
By Janet Bergstrom
An audience with Howard Hawks
By Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
Rhapsody in blue: Barry Jenkins on Moonlight
By Gaylene Gould
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