Sight & Sound articles
Pasta as prologue: the Spaghetti House siege on film
Two different dramatisations of the 1975 siege of a Knightsbridge restaurant by Black British radicals remind us that history also needs its agitators.
By Charlie Shackleton
Critics’ talk: an introduction to anime (for BFI at Home)
By Michael Leader, Kambole Campbell and others
Portraits of young women on fire: Céline Sciamma on female art, identity and intimacy
By Leigh Singer
Bong Joon Ho’s rampaging metaphors – a video essay
Bong Joon Ho’s rampaging metaphors – a video essayGotta film dance! The evolution of the movie musical – a video essay
By Leigh Singer
Gotta film dance! The evolution of the movie musical – a video essay
By Leigh Singer
Maurice Pialat: three steps to magic – a video essay
By Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
Video essay: Maurice Pialat – three steps to magic
By Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
Criticism in the age of TikTok – a video essay
By Charlie Shackleton
A horror in the breach: Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day
A horror in the breach: Claire Denis’s Trouble Every DayBlackface, whitewashing and the grey zone – a two-part video inquiry
By Leigh Singer
Watch the new re-release trailer for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Watch the new re-release trailer for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombThree Colours Silver: Europe 25 years after Kieslowski’s trilogy – a video essay
By Leigh Singer
Women on a Bergman screen – a video essay
By Leigh Singer
In her eyes: notes on Gloria Grahame (a video essay)
In her eyes: notes on Gloria Grahame (a video essay)“Once upon a pair of wheels”… Edgar Wright on Baby Driver and the classic car movies
By Leigh Singer
Wrapped in plasticity: Twin Peaks’ myriad Laura Palmers
By Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
Hollywood icon/oclast: the art of Jack Nicholson
By Leigh Singer
Hollywood icon/oclast: the art of Jack Nicholson
By Leigh Singer
The superhero movies of 2016: brawl without end?
By Leigh Singer
Video: A tour through French noir
By Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
Video: Haunted memories – the cinema of Víctor Erice
By Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López
The freewheelin’ music documentary: D.A. Pennebaker looks back at Bob Dylan and Dont Look Back
By Leigh Singer