Nick James
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Festivals
Black Tea: a labyrinthine multicultural love story
Director Abderrahmane Sissako follows up his 2014 feature Timbuku with a diffuse story of a woman who flees the Ivory Coast for a new life in China that is weighed down by too many tangents.
By Nick James
Black Tea: a labyrinthine multicultural love story
Festivals
Abiding Nowhere: a beautiful addition to Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker film series
By Nick James
Reviews
Perfect Days: Wim Wenders captures the beauty of the everyday in his best fiction film since Wings of Desire
By Nick James
Festivals
The Bikeriders: a revved-up replay of the outlaw biker movie
By Nick James
Obituaries
Derek Malcolm obituary: renowned British film critic and LFF director
By Nick James
Festivals
Past Lives: this astonishing debut luminously captures a world-spanning, decades-long love story
By Nick James
Festivals
Everything Will Be OK labours its obvious anti-war allegories
By Nick James
Festivals
Rimini is a sleazy, cheesy and beautiful portrayal of an ageing ‘schlager’ singer
By Nick James
From the Sight and Sound archive
The Lubitsch touch in The Shop Around the Corner
By Nick James
From the Sight and Sound archive
Nicolas Roeg: the last British romantic
By Nick James
Best of 2020
First Cow: Kelly Reichardt’s milk-rustling western rises like a treat
By Nick James
The Greatest Films of All Time
How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll
By Nick James
Festivals
Azor follows a quiet Swiss banker through Argentina’s dirty war
By Nick James
Festivals
Introduction bridges the generational gap in Hong Sangsoo’s typical style
By Nick James
Interviews
In memory of Jean-Claude Carrière: the late screenwriter in conversation
By Nick James
Reviews
Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club rhapsodises Soho in blue
By Nick James
My Dream Palace
Tug of love: a cinema pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins
By Nick James
Best of 2020
About Endlessness first look: Roy Andersson rises above his customary absurdism
By Nick James
Lists
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Polls
The best film books, by 51 critics
By Geoff Andrew, Michael Atkinson and others
Polls
Print the legend: introducing the Film Book Poll
By Nick James
Reviews
Malmkrog review: Cristi Puiu convenes a big-house philosophical pile-on
By Nick James
News
Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale
By Ela Bittencourt, Jamie Dunn and others
Polls
Syndromes of a new century: introducing the best films of the 2000s
By Nick James
Reviews
Seberg review: a breathless biopic of a star with a complex life
By Nick James
Reviews
So Long, My Son first look: brooding around the decades of China’s one-child policy
By Nick James