Features and reviews

Sight and Sound magazine relaunches with new look and revamped editorial

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World directors: “The film industry has a history of sad stories about child actors”

Sight and Sound: the September 2021 issue

5 things to watch this weekend – 30 July to 1 August

Sundance award winner CODA to be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland

10 great Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s

Strangers in a strange land: how films are reframing the refugee experience

Settlers fights for its life on Mars

Cannes 2021: Un Certain Regard round-up

640 film and TV productions enabled in the past 12 months by the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme

Earl Cameron: 10 essential performances

The World to Come finds forbidden love in a 19th century New York winter

Old washes up on the sands of time

Night of the Kings concocts an Ivorian prison myth of raw beauty

Where to begin with Jaume Collet-Serra

Target for Tonight: the classic RAF bombing-raid documentary turns 80

5 things to watch this weekend – 23 to 25 July

Directors’ Fortnight: round-up

BFI Southbank programme announced for September to early October 2021

10 great African films

Early Bergman: the genius of the angry young man

The Story of My Wife is all at sea in its exploration of marital dysfunction

Memoria shows Apichatpong at the peak of his mesmerising powers

50th anniversary of the National Film and Television School celebrated with season at BFI Southbank

Where to begin with Bette Davis

The Year of the Everlasting Storm forges international bonds with a pandemic-era anthology

After Yang finds gif-sized glimpses of life after AI death

France shows that all the world’s a stage for the media