All From the Sight and Sound archive articles
On beauties and their beasts
Disney’s animated 1991 version of the classic tale is fuelled by women’s erotic impulses and a view of men as monsters – as are so many other versions, from Jean Cocteau to Angela Carter, as Marina Warner explored in our October 1991 issue.
By Marina Warner
The dewdrop on a blade of grass: Satyajit Ray in conversation
By Folke Isaksson
“Monte Hellman made westerns unlike any before or since”: Quentin Tarantino hymns Ride in the Whirlwind
By Quentin Tarantino
“You never stop moving! You never go anywhere!”: the final scene of Shampoo
By Sheila O'Malley
“American audiences’ greater education seems to have evaporated”: Jack Nicholson interviewed in 1974
By John Russell Taylor
How the movies woke up to jazz
By Tom Milne
“I don’t want to know movie directors”: Patricia Highsmith on her film adaptations
By Gerald Peary
“What, are you crazy, move the camera? Just leave it there!” Martin Scorsese on The King of Comedy
By Terrence Rafferty
“Desire is violence”: Claire Denis on Beau Travail
By Chris Darke
“Bogarde is exactly ripe for this role”: on the set of Visconti’s Death in Venice
By Margaret Hinxman
“I am NOT going to write my memoirs!”: Gloria Swanson talks pictures
By Rui Nogueira
Funeral in Berlin: Marlene Dietrich and Germany
By Gertrud Koch
Wolves, lambs – and Clarice Starling: the rise of the serial killer in 1990s cinema
By Amy Taubin
How to dramatise a plague: a brief history of Aids on screen
By Simon McCallum
The man in the cryogenic freezer: an interview with John Carpenter
By Tom Milne and Richard Combs
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
The Basilisks perfectly evokes the languor of the Italian South
By Elizabeth Sussex
The needle and the damage done: Paul Thomas Anderson on Phantom Thread
By James Bell
Witness to a killing: the Maysles brothers on Gimme Shelter
By Robert Phillip Kolker
Jean-Luc Godard in the USA
By Claire Clouzot
Les bon temps rouler: rolling with Les Blank’s good-time movies
By Nick Pinkerton
“Welcome to the circle. Bang bang”: Iain Sinclair on King of New York
By Iain Sinclair
Blood and redemption: Lizzie Borden on Raging Bull and male inhibition
By Lizzie Borden
On being Black in film noir
By Angelica Jade Bastién
Before Bond: Sean Connery’s early years
By Geoffrey Macnab
Ghoulies and ghosties: Curtis Harrington on the evolution of the supernatural horror film
By Curtis Harrington
Satire with tweezers: Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers
By Philip Kemp
Love to death: Hitchcock, Du Maurier and Rebecca
By Alison Light