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Features

5 things to know about The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ravishing film about a dancer

By Pamela Hutchinson

5 things to know about The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ravishing film about a dancer
Features

In Prospero’s Room: the magick worlds of Derek Jarman and Powell and Pressburger collide at Prospect Cottage

By Brian Robinson

In Prospero’s Room: the magick worlds of Derek Jarman and Powell and Pressburger collide at Prospect Cottage
Features

Nuns, land girls, ballet dancers: the paradoxes of Powell and Pressburger’s women

By Rachel Pronger

Nuns, land girls, ballet dancers: the paradoxes of Powell and Pressburger’s women
Where to begin

Where to begin with Aki Kaurismäki

By Michael Brooke

Where to begin with Aki Kaurismäki
Festivals

The view from Thessaloniki 2023

By Georgia Korossi

The view from Thessaloniki 2023
From the Sight and Sound archive

A monumental reckoning: how Abel Gance’s Napoleon was restored to full glory

By Paul Cuff

A monumental reckoning: how Abel Gance’s Napoleon was restored to full glory
All about...

All about... how we archive television

By Lisa Kerrigan, Charles Fairall and others

All about... how we archive television
Features

Watching Black Narcissus in Lahore

By Nasheed Qamar Faruqi

Watching Black Narcissus in Lahore
Features

May December and our obsession with scandal

By Ibrahim Azam

May December and our obsession with scandal
The NHS at 75

Nurses on film: a story of unequal representation

By Xavier Alexandre Pillai

Nurses on film: a story of unequal representation
Features

Kings of the movies: Martin Scorsese on Powell & Pressburger

By Philip Horne

Kings of the movies: Martin Scorsese on Powell & Pressburger
Then and now

60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations

By Adam Scovell

60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
Where to begin

Where to begin with kaiju monster movies

By Matthew Thrift

Where to begin with kaiju monster movies
Features

Flick lit: writing in the dark

By Nicole Flattery

Flick lit: writing in the dark
Festivals

Despatches from Mumbai Film Festival 2023

By Lou Thomas

Despatches from Mumbai Film Festival 2023
Features

The art of the painted backdrop, from Black Narcissus to Raiders of the Lost Ark

By Bruno Savill De Jong

The art of the painted backdrop, from Black Narcissus to Raiders of the Lost Ark
Features

Staying with the trouble: the ending of Wanda

By Becca Voelcker

Staying with the trouble: the ending of Wanda
The NHS at 75

The NHS on the box: in praise of the great British hospital soap

By Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan

The NHS on the box: in praise of the great British hospital soap
From the Sight and Sound archive

“The ecstasy of existing”: Kenneth Tynan on Greta Garbo

By Kenneth Tynan

“The ecstasy of existing”: Kenneth Tynan on Greta Garbo
Features

A weakness for dragons: Michael Powell and the cinema of fantasy

By Ian Christie

A weakness for dragons: Michael Powell and the cinema of fantasy
Features

Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece

By Pamela Hutchinson

Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece
Features

What would our Pressure be?

By Clive Nwonka

What would our Pressure be?
Features

“I am burning, everyone is burning, the universe is burning”: Derek Malcolm on the films of Ritwik Ghatak

By Derek Malcolm

“I am burning, everyone is burning, the universe is burning”: Derek Malcolm on the films of Ritwik Ghatak
Then and now

The Blood on Satan’s Claw: unearthing the locations for the witchy British folk horror classic

By Adam Scovell

The Blood on Satan’s Claw: unearthing the locations for the witchy British folk horror classic
Features

Halloweens gone by: British rituals and traditions captured on film

By George Bass

Halloweens gone by: British rituals and traditions captured on film
Talkies

Cine wanderer: Daughter of the Nile

By Phuong Le

Cine wanderer: Daughter of the Nile
Features

Finding Audrey Amiss: Carol Morley on Typist Artist Pirate King

By Sinéad Gleeson

Finding Audrey Amiss: Carol Morley on Typist Artist Pirate King
From the Sight and Sound archive

Blaxploitation, from Shaft to Original Gangstas

By Mike Phillips

Blaxploitation, from Shaft to Original Gangstas
Then and now

Powell and Pressburger’s Kent: finding the mystical locations of A Canterbury Tale

By Adam Scovell

Powell and Pressburger’s Kent: finding the mystical locations of A Canterbury Tale
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