All From the Sight and Sound archive articles
“Bogarde is exactly ripe for this role”: on the set of Visconti’s Death in Venice
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, we republish this report from our Autumn 1970 issue in which Margaret Hinxman visits the film’s set and talks to its star Dirk Bogarde.
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
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
Meet whiplash Wilder: Billy Wilder interviewed in 1967
By Charles Higham
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