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Sight & Sound: the June 2016 issue
Whit Stillman on his acid-tongued Jane Austen adaptation Love & Friendship. Plus Richard Linklater’s college daze, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Innocence, late Terrence Malick, modern Turkish fairytale Mustang, Aferim! and a decade of Romanian cinema, Green Room and Kathleen Collins’ overlooked indie gem Losing Ground.
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2015 in review
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The top movies of the year, as chosen by 168 critics from around the world.
Friday 27 November 2015 -
The best films of 2015 – all the votes
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The best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2015
Twenty-six critics and connoisseurs recommend their five best home-cinema releases of the past year.
Tuesday 12 January 2016 -
The best of 2015 in cinematic nonfiction
Robert Greene tenders his canon of the year’s top documentaries – 25 films that spoke deeper amidst the modern media clamour.
Monday 18 January 2016 -
The best indie animation of 2015
As the awards season counts down, three of our critics pick their highlights of 2015’s animated shorts.
Friday 5 February 2016
The Greatest Films of All Time
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The 50 Greatest Films of All Time
846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors have voted – and the 50-year reign of Kane is over. Our critics’ poll has a new number one.
Wednesday 1 August 2012 -
Directors’ 10 Greatest Films of All Time
The ten best films of all time, as chosen by 358 directors from around the world.
Thursday 2 August 2012 -
The Greatest Films of All Time 2012
Nick James introduces our Greatest Films of All Time poll – plus all our coverage.
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The year’s best in new features, home-cinema releases and revivals, documentaries, animation and more…
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The Greatest Documentaries of All Time poll
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Which are the most inspirational five books about film ever written? This was the question we asked 51 leading critics and writers and the results may surprise you…
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More recent stories from Sight & Sound
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From our archives: Purple Rain, reviewed
Before Prince wrote about ‘Cynthia Rose’, Cynthia Rose wrote about Prince – reviewing Purple Rain for the Monthly Film Bulletin in 1984.
Monday 1 October 1984 -
Film of the week: The Brand New Testament
God, bothered: His daughter clears out the cobwebs in Belgian fabulist Jaco Van Dormael’s puckish world-makeover fantasy, notes Leigh Singer.
Friday 15 April 2016 -
Just dry lighting: Roberto Minervini on The Other Side
The US-Italian documentarist’s immersive, poetic, hyperrealist portraits from America’s underbelly offer his characters a frank stage to show themselves. He tells Wendy Ide how he creates an empowering safe zone.
Tuesday 19 April 2016 -
A nomad in Paris: revisiting the films of Ra(o)ul Ruiz
As the Cinémathèque Française takes a two-month journey through the extraordinary career of Raúl Ruiz, Ian Christie reflects on how the filmmaker never lost contact with Chile, even after Pinochet’s military coup forced him into exile.
Monday 18 April 2016 -
William Fowler and William Raban pay tribute to modernist master of both flicker film and drone music, who brought an effortlessly human charm and idiosyncrasy to bear in his live art.
Monday 18 April 2016 -
Jessica Jones: the antihero we need
Marvel’s TV series brings us the superhero as super survivor, says Charlotte Richardson Andrews.
Friday 1 April 2016 -
Keeping one’s mouth shut in Turkey: rediscovering Tongue Twister
A lost gem of collective melancholy, Solakhan’s 1985 snapshot of Istanbul under the shadow military oppression made its belated local premiere last month – in a city still not used to seeing its own past reflection, says Neil Young.
Friday 1 April 2016 -
Rave and fall for a Spaniard in Berlin: Sebastian Schipper’s propulsive drama shoots a long night of the soul in one long take, says Lisa Mullen.
Thursday 31 March 2016 -
Tenderise the night: Batman v Superman v the raw world
V for vitiated: Tim Hayes on the solemn decadence of Warner-DC’s superhero universe, and Zack Snyder’s millenarian vision.
Thursday 31 March 2016 -
The Night Manager: shaken, not stirred
The BBC set the standard for John le Carré adaptations in the 1970s and 80s. But its attempt to play keep-up in the era of the globalised TV drama shades close to the fantasias of a very different spy master, says Theo Tait.
Monday 28 March 2016 -
Toon of the Month: Pineapple Calamari
Chris Robinson on Kasia Nalewajka’s surrealist portrait of grief at the races, as extraordinary as Vertigo crossed with Creature Comforts.
Friday 25 March 2016 -
Pablo Larraín’s festering drama imagines the limbo on earth in which the Catholic Church hides its priests of ill-repute, says Tony Rayns.
Friday 25 March 2016 -
Michael Brooke on one of Czech cinema’s most prodigious talents and uncompromising nonconformists, whose career was derailed by the post-1968 repression of the Prague Spring.
Tuesday 22 March 2016 -
Cinema’s depictions of the country’s recent political turmoil has been a whitewash, argues Celluloid Liberation Front.
Saturday 19 March 2016 -
Watch the opening five minutes of The Club
An exclusive look at the opening scenes of Pablo Larraín’s new drama about a twilit ‘club’ of guilty Catholic priests.
Wednesday 16 March 2016 -
Film of the week: The Pearl Button
Maria Delgado embraces the contemplative poetry of Patricio Guzmán’s personal and political journey across the history and psyche of his Chilean homeland, in which water serves as an agent of life, freedom, memory, justice – and their opposites.
Thursday 17 March 2016
Video
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Video essay: Lines of resistance – Anne-Marie Miéville’s The Book of Mary
Counterpointing Godard: Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin offer a taste of Anne-Marie Miéville’s cinema, and a look at the patterns at play in her prologue to her partner’s Hail Mary.
Friday 26 February 2016 -
Video essay: Kicking against the chick flicks – reclaiming the Hollywood romcom
Homogenised, segregated and stupefied, the mainstream romantic comedy has never been less sexy. Leigh Singer on how to get its freak back on.
Friday 18 December 2015 -
Robert Greene essays a love letter to the “magical imitation of reality”.
Thursday 7 August 2014 -
Video essay: What is neorealism?
kogonada pits the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind on the same movie material.
Friday 17 May 2013
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