Sight & Sound articles
On beauties and their beasts
Disney’s animated 1991 version of the classic tale is fuelled by women’s erotic impulses and a view of men as monsters – as are so many other versions, from Jean Cocteau to Angela Carter, as Marina Warner explored in our October 1991 issue.
By Marina Warner
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
When the lights went out: cinemas during World War II
By Henry K Miller
“You never stop moving! You never go anywhere!”: the final scene of Shampoo
By Sheila O'Malley
“American audiences’ greater education seems to have evaporated”: Jack Nicholson interviewed in 1974
By John Russell Taylor
There’s a good girl: Promising Young Woman and the virgin/whore trope
By Hannah McGill
Believe the hype? What NFTs mean for film
By Pamela Hutchinson
No success like failure – a natural history of the film maudit
By J. Hoberman
By us, about us, for all: why films by trans people matter for everyone
By Thomas Flew
A chance to catch eight shorts by documentary pioneer and poet Cecilia Mangini
By Ruairí McCann
Pimple and the tramp: the fickle fortunes of a silent comedy star
By Bryony Dixon
Mapping calamity in real time: the first wave of pandemic documentaries
By Adam Benzine
Handling the truth: documenting conspiracy in the age of misinformation
By Jonathan Romney
In the beginning: cinema’s murky origin story
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
“You gotta really get the politics right”: Shaka King on filming Black Power and protest
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