Where to begin
Where to begin with Guru Dutt
One hundred years after his birth, we pick a path through the films of the melancholy maestro of Indian cinema, Guru Dutt.
By Arun A.K.
Where to begin with Guru Dutt
Features and reviews
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Object of the week
Object of the week: promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
By Eva Norton
Finest hours
Finest hours: Debbie Harry as the kinky therapist in Videodrome
By Stephen Dalton
Finest hours
Finest hours: Farley Granger in They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray’s tender lovers-on-the-run noir
By Chloe Walker
Features
1975: the year that changed cinema forever
By Adam Nayman
Object of the week
Object of the week: The Red Shoes wallpaper by the film’s designer Hein Heckroth
By Nathalie Morris
Features
Her Story: 10 years of playing desktop detective
By Jacob Heayes
Obituaries
Mark Peploe obituary: British screenwriter who wrote for Antonioni and Bertolucci
By Stephen Dalton
Features
Audie Murphy centenary: how the most decorated soldier in American history became a movie star
By Chloe Walker
Finest hours
Finest hours: Derren Nesbitt as the hissable Nazi in Where Eagles Dare, “the least boring film ever made”
By David Parkinson
Features
Steven Soderbergh on Jaws: “Every time I look at the film, it gets better”
By Philip Concannon
Rarities of British cinema
Edward G. Robinson’s rare British film: remembering 1930s fish-out-of-water drama Thunder in the City
By Josephine Botting
Features
70 years of Hammer’s The Quatermass Xperiment: a very British alien invasion movie
By George Bass
Festivals
Celluloid celebration: the BFI Film on Film Festival 2025
By Pamela Hutchinson
Then and now
60 years of Repulsion: how the London locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Black Film Bulletin
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra at 100: a quiet construction
By Tambay Obenson
Black Film Bulletin
Blacks Britannica: ‘storm chasing’ in search of Black Britishness
By Lanre Bakare
From the Sight and Sound archive
“I’m telling the story of me... it might set a trend”: George Lucas on the set of Star Wars
By Philip Strick
Finest hours
Finest hours: Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler
By Brogan Morris
Obituaries
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina obituary: the first Arab and African director to win Cannes’ Palme d’Or
By Joseph Fahim
Features
Smashing the goldfish bowl: how the Grierson sisters helped pioneer British documentary
By Ros Cranston
Features
Mountains: Monica Sorelle’s quiet epic of Caribbean resilience
By Ivie Uzebu
Features
The cat, the snail and the robot: the new wave of indie animation
By Andrew Osmond
Finest hours
Finest hours: Martha Vickers in The Big Sleep
By Chloe Walker
Festivals
IndieLisboa 2025: highlights from the festival that sells a quarter of its tickets to kids
By Kieron Corless
Features
Splatoon: 10 years of Nintendo’s joyous, messy squid game
By Stuart Burnside
Obituaries
Marcel Ophuls obituary: veteran documentary-maker behind the monumental The Sorrow and the Pity
By Nick James
Features
28mm: the forgotten home movie gauge
By Christopher Bird
Features
Pac-Man at 45: the video game character who consumed the culture
By Stuart Burnside
Features
20 years on from the Cannes walkouts, a new look at The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
By Anton Bitel