Sight & Sound articles
In the beginning: cinema’s murky origin story
Everyone knows that the Lumière brothers invented cinema, right? Well, up to a point: the story is more complicated than that…
By Peter Domankiewicz
“Bogarde is exactly ripe for this role”: on the set of Visconti’s Death in Venice
By Margaret Hinxman
Kawase Naomi: looking from the outside in
By Jasper Sharp
“I am NOT going to write my memoirs!”: Gloria Swanson talks pictures
By Rui Nogueira
Power to the people: Shaka King on Judas and the Black Messiah
By Nicholas Russell
Tokyo rising: how Japan’s new wave rose – and broke
By Donald Richie
Rotterdam round-up: the best of the 2021 IFFR
By Kambole Campbell
Funeral in Berlin: Marlene Dietrich and Germany
By Gertrud Koch
Eight new visions of Japan on screen in 2021
By Jasper Sharp
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
A good bird: remembering Barbara Windsor
By Hannah Mackay
The needle and the damage done: Paul Thomas Anderson on Phantom Thread
By James Bell
The departed: the filmmakers we lost in 2020
By Bob Mastrangelo
Sarah Maldoror was a trailblazer in anti-colonial cinema with an engagingly eclectic oeuvre
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Witness to a killing: the Maysles brothers on Gimme Shelter
By Robert Phillip Kolker
The legendary Artavazd Pelechian unveils a much-anticipated new film
By Michael Atkinson
Alex Wheatle shows us that history is not enough
By Jay Bernard
Les bon temps rouler: rolling with Les Blank’s good-time movies
By Nick Pinkerton
Red, White and Blue shows us the loneliness of the Black police reformer
By Gary Younge
“Welcome to the circle. Bang bang”: Iain Sinclair on King of New York
By Iain Sinclair
Lovers Rock is a precious hand-me-down of hazy weekends past
By Candice Carty-Williams
Blood and redemption: Lizzie Borden on Raging Bull and male inhibition
By Lizzie Borden
Blackness, labour, place: the radical cinema of Kevin Jerome Everson
By Elena Gorfinkel
Mangrove gives voice to Black British Power
By Kehinde Andrews
Małgorzata Szumowska on American movies and communist Krakow
By Malgorzata Szumowska