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

Abiding Nowhere: a beautiful addition to Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker film series
Reviews

Perfect Days: Wim Wenders captures the beauty of the everyday in his best fiction film since Wings of Desire

By Nick James

Perfect Days: Wim Wenders captures the beauty of the everyday in his best fiction film since Wings of Desire
Festivals

The Bikeriders: a revved-up replay of the outlaw biker movie

By Nick James

The Bikeriders: a revved-up replay of the outlaw biker movie
Obituaries

Derek Malcolm obituary: renowned British film critic and LFF director

By Nick James

Derek Malcolm obituary: renowned British film critic and LFF director
Festivals

Past Lives: this astonishing debut luminously captures a world-spanning, decades-long love story

By Nick James

Past Lives: this astonishing debut luminously captures a world-spanning, decades-long love story
Festivals

Everything Will Be OK labours its obvious anti-war allegories

By Nick James

Everything Will Be OK labours its obvious anti-war allegories
Festivals

Rimini is a sleazy, cheesy and beautiful portrayal of an ageing ‘schlager’ singer

By Nick James

Rimini is a sleazy, cheesy and beautiful portrayal of an ageing ‘schlager’ singer
From the Sight and Sound archive

The Lubitsch touch in The Shop Around the Corner

By Nick James

The Lubitsch touch in The Shop Around the Corner
From the Sight and Sound archive

Nicolas Roeg: the last British romantic

By Nick James

Nicolas Roeg: the last British romantic
Best of 2020

First Cow: Kelly Reichardt’s milk-rustling western rises like a treat

By Nick James

First Cow: Kelly Reichardt’s milk-rustling western rises like a treat
The Greatest Films of All Time

How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll

By Nick James

How we made the Greatest Films of All Time poll
From the Sight and Sound archive

Dirk Bogarde: a class act

By Nick James

Dirk Bogarde: a class act
Festivals

Azor follows a quiet Swiss banker through Argentina’s dirty war

By Nick James

Azor follows a quiet Swiss banker through Argentina’s dirty war
Festivals

Introduction bridges the generational gap in Hong Sangsoo’s typical style

By Nick James

Introduction bridges the generational gap in Hong Sangsoo’s typical style
Interviews

In memory of Jean-Claude Carrière: the late screenwriter in conversation

By Nick James

In memory of Jean-Claude Carrière: the late screenwriter in conversation
Reviews

Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club rhapsodises Soho in blue

By Nick James

Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club rhapsodises Soho in blue
Deep focus

Twenty-first century noir

By Nick James

Twenty-first century noir
My Dream Palace

Tug of love: a cinema pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins

By Nick James

Tug of love: a cinema pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins
Best of 2020

About Endlessness first look: Roy Andersson rises above his customary absurdism

By Nick James

About Endlessness first look: Roy Andersson rises above his customary absurdism
Lists

Forgotten treasures of the multiplex

By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others

Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
Polls

The best film books, by 51 critics

By Geoff Andrew, Michael Atkinson and others

The best film books, by 51 critics
Polls

Print the legend: introducing the Film Book Poll

By Nick James

Print the legend: introducing the Film Book Poll
Features

A tribute to the late Sue Bruce-Smith

By Nick James

A tribute to the late Sue Bruce-Smith
Reviews

Malmkrog review: Cristi Puiu convenes a big-house philosophical pile-on

By Nick James

Malmkrog review: Cristi Puiu convenes a big-house philosophical pile-on
News

Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale

By Ela Bittencourt, Jamie Dunn and others

Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale
Polls

Syndromes of a new century: introducing the best films of the 2000s

By Nick James

Syndromes of a new century: introducing the best films of the 2000s
Reviews

Seberg review: a breathless biopic of a star with a complex life

By Nick James

Seberg review: a breathless biopic of a star with a complex life
Reviews

So Long, My Son first look: brooding around the decades of China’s one-child policy

By Nick James

So Long, My Son first look: brooding around the decades of China’s one-child policy
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