Our complete digital archive
The complete archive of Sight & Sound magazine (dating back to 1932) and the Monthly Film Bulletin (1932-1991) is available in digital form for your desktop.
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Annual indexes
The Sight & Sound Annual Indexes for 2013-20 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.
Special issue: The Auteurs series
Jean-Luc Godard: a Sight & Sound special
In the first of a new series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, we delve into the Sight & Sound and Monthly Film Bulletin archives to tell the full career story – so far – of JLG, via classic features, iconic images and incisive reviews. Now available in shops, and to order from BFI Shop.
Read this pageMartin Scorsese: a Sight & Sound special
The second in Sight & Sound’s Auteurs series, this edition tells the full career story (so far) of Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest living filmmakers, via classic features, iconic images and incisive reviews. Now available in shops, and to order from BFI Shop.
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Ordering back issues
Because of the pandemic lockdown, Abacus, our subscription bureau, is currently unable to send out back issues. The current issue and a limited supply of back issues are still available for purchase at BFI Shop, though there may be some expected postal delays and prices may vary.
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2021
Sight & Sound: the April 2021 issue
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Sight & Sound: the September 2020 issue
Sight & Sound: the September 2020 issueSight & Sound: the Winter 2020-21 issue
Sight & Sound: the Winter 2020-21 issueSight & Sound: the December 2020 issue
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Sight & Sound: the October 2020 issue2019
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.
Read this pageSight & 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.
Read this pageSight & Sound: the October 2019 issue
Brad Pitt in James Gray’s Ad Astra, plus For Sama, The Last Tree and R.W. Paul.
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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.
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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.
Read this pageSight & 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.
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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.
Read this pageSight & 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.
Read this pageSight & Sound: the April 2019 issue
In praise of binge TV, plus Border, The White Crow, Ray & Liz, Out of Blue and female noir.
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The versatile and complex performances of Barbara Stanwyck; plus If Beale Street Could Talk, Burning, Capernaum and our annual obituaries round-up.
Read this pageSight & 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.
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