Sight & Sound articles
“You throw Black people in a western and it’s like sci-fi”: Director Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall
The exuberant blood-spattered western The Harder They Fall offers a corrective to the whitewashed clichés of the genre’s past, with a starry cast including Idris Elba, Regina King and LaKeith Stanfield, and a soundtrack co-written by Jay-Z and director Jeymes Samuel
By Christina Newland
Mike Leigh: the naked truth
By Andy Medhurst
Gallivanting with Andrew Kötting, Big Granny and little Eden
By Iain Sinclair
Jean-Paul Belmondo: the face of the New Wave, the body of popular cinema (1933-2021)
By Ginette Vincendeau
“It was a solid Black middle-finger to the racist American film industry”: Merawi Gerima on Haile Gerima
By Merawi Gerima
“Giving voice to the common individual”: Zak Ové on Horace Ové
By Zak Ové
Horace Ové: reflection on a thirty-year experience
By June Givanni
“Sometimes nearly serious, always wildly funny”: Penelope Houston on Preston Sturges
By Penelope Houston
Dea Kulumbegashvili recalls her cinephile education at the Cinema House in Tbilisi
By Dea Kulumbegashvili
Locarno round-up: the best of the 2021 festival
By John Bleasdale
In the realm of Censor: Mark Kermode speaks to director Prano Bailey-Bond
By Mark Kermode
The method and madness of Nicolas Cage
By Manohla Dargis
Nicolas Roeg: the last British romantic
By Nick James
Bone of contention: the final scene of Bringing up Baby
By Molly Haskell
“We will never see that Hollywood again”: Bette Davis, grande dame of cinema
By Margaret Hinxman
The Cannes dispatch: notes from the riviera
By Isabel Stevens
Strangers in a strange land: how films are reframing the refugee experience
By Agnes Woolley
Cannes 2021: Un Certain Regard round-up
By Jonathan Romney
Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976
By Penelope Houston
Up in flames: the ending of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop
By Adam Solomons
“I’m only interested in honest stories”: people watching with Márta Mészáros
By Michael Brooke
“I'm a minimalist”: the dramatic stillness of Mads Mikkelsen
By Ryan Gilbey
The sprawling brilliance of Robert Altman’s Nashville
By Geoff Andrew
The long goodbye: has cinema finally learned how to depict dementia?
By Guy Lodge
Tanu Muino has conquered the music video world – and she’s just getting started
By Sydney Urbanek