All From the Sight and Sound archive articles
Les bon temps rouler: rolling with Les Blank’s good-time movies
In this piece from our February 2015 issue, Nick Pinkerton celebrates the late documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s joyful, raucous, you-are-there dispatches from the disappearing margins of American life.
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
Colonial guilt: India Song and Marguerite Duras
By Carlos Clarens
Notes from the cinematographer: Léonce-Henry Burel on working with Robert Bresson
By Tom Milne
Erich Von Stroheim in London
By Karel Reisz
Kenneth Tynan on Greta Garbo: “The ecstasy of existing”
By Kenneth Tynan
Mothers, lovers and others: films by Black British female directors
By Karen Alexander
“We have to study you in order to survive”: Horace Ové on Black and white Britain
By Sylvia Paskin
A rage in Harlesden: Stuart Hall on Babymother, Britain’s first dancehall drama
By Stuart Hall
Alfred Hitchcock: my own methods
By Alfred Hitchcock
White noise: Carol Clover on Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down
By Carol Clover
Sorrowful black death is not a hot ticket: bell hooks on Spike Lee’s Crooklyn
By Bell Hooks