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Sight & Sound: the June 2021 issue
Mark Kermode and Prano Bailey–Bond talk Censor and the 80s British censorship massacre. Read if you dare! Plus the history of ‘video nasties’, Kelly Reichardt on First Cow, Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom, the sprawling brilliance of Robert Altman’s Nashville, and vintage Jack Nicholson.
Charlatan diagnoses fear and malady in post-war Czechoslavakia
By Carmen Gray
On beauties and their beasts
By Marina Warner
Zana explores a Kosovan town obsessed with a woman’s fertility
By Lisa Mullen
Cowboys rides all guns blazing into its transgender childhood story
By Alex Davidson
Barry Jenkins is rebuilding American history with The Underground Railroad
By Devika Girish
Antebellum is an unpleasantly brutal depiction of anti-Black racism
By Leila Latif
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Our May 2021 issue
In our current issue, Barry Jenkins talks truth, justice and his powerfully resonant series adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winner The Underground Railroad. Plus Promising Young Woman and the virgin/whore trope, Aubrey Plaza on Black Bear, Martin Scorsese’s discovery of Joe Pesci, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning, and a classic Satyajit Ray interview.
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The second in our Auteurs series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history tells the full career story (so far) of Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest living filmmakers, via classic features, iconic images and incisive reviews.
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
By Nick Broomfield
Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
By Katie McCabe
Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
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From our archives
The dewdrop on a blade of grass: Satyajit Ray in conversation
By Folke Isaksson
“Monte Hellman made westerns unlike any before or since”: Quentin Tarantino hymns Ride in the Whirlwind
By Quentin Tarantino
“American audiences’ greater education seems to have evaporated”: Jack Nicholson interviewed in 1974
By John Russell Taylor
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