Features and reviews
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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
Features
Nuns, land girls, ballet dancers: the paradoxes of Powell and Pressburger’s women
By Rachel Pronger
From the Sight and Sound archive
A monumental reckoning: how Abel Gance’s Napoleon was restored to full glory
By Paul Cuff
All about...
All about... how we archive television
By Lisa Kerrigan, Charles Fairall and others
Features
May December and our obsession with scandal
By Ibrahim Azam
The NHS at 75
Nurses on film: a story of unequal representation
By Xavier Alexandre Pillai
Features
Kings of the movies: Martin Scorsese on Powell & Pressburger
By Philip Horne
Then and now
60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
By Adam Scovell
Where to begin
Where to begin with kaiju monster movies
By Matthew Thrift
Festivals
Despatches from Mumbai Film Festival 2023
By Lou Thomas
Features
The art of the painted backdrop, from Black Narcissus to Raiders of the Lost Ark
By Bruno Savill De Jong
Features
Staying with the trouble: the ending of Wanda
By Becca Voelcker
The NHS at 75
The NHS on the box: in praise of the great British hospital soap
By Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan
From the Sight and Sound archive
“The ecstasy of existing”: Kenneth Tynan on Greta Garbo
By Kenneth Tynan
Features
A weakness for dragons: Michael Powell and the cinema of fantasy
By Ian Christie
Features
Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece
By Pamela Hutchinson
Features
“I am burning, everyone is burning, the universe is burning”: Derek Malcolm on the films of Ritwik Ghatak
By Derek Malcolm
Then and now
The Blood on Satan’s Claw: unearthing the locations for the witchy British folk horror classic
By Adam Scovell
Features
Halloweens gone by: British rituals and traditions captured on film
By George Bass
Features
Finding Audrey Amiss: Carol Morley on Typist Artist Pirate King
By Sinéad Gleeson
From the Sight and Sound archive
Blaxploitation, from Shaft to Original Gangstas
By Mike Phillips
Then and now
Powell and Pressburger’s Kent: finding the mystical locations of A Canterbury Tale
By Adam Scovell