Sight & Sound articles
Strangers in a strange land: how films are reframing the refugee experience
Ben Sharrock’s Limbo is a tragicomic portrait of a group of asylum seekers passing time on a remote Scottish island. As it arrives in UK cinemas, we examine a growing body of films over the past two decades that have sought to reframe our understanding of 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
Salaam Bombay! ranks with the masterpieces of neo-realism
By Alex Dudok de Wit
Hell freezes over: the Coen brothers on Fargo
By Lizzie Francke
Killers in the mist: the final scene of Gun Crazy
By Beatrice Loayza
Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
By Janet Bergstrom
Vile VHS: unspooling the history of the ‘video nasty’ controversy
By Kim Newman
Revisiting pioneering transgender documentary A Change of Sex 40 years on
By Rachel Pronger
Against the rules: anarchist cinema then and now
By Richard Porton
An archive-only BBC Four means losing a platform for quiet documentary storytelling
By Jeanie Finlay
Call me by my name: Thandiwe Newton and the whitewashing of film stars’ names
By Christina Newland
“Rearrange their faces and give them all another name”: on Bob Dylan and I’m Not There
By Michael Gray
Quarantine foreseen: the films that accidentally predicted the pandemic
By Jonathan Romney
Cinema paradiso: a tour through the BFI Southbank’s history
By Pamela Hutchinson
On beauties and their beasts
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