Isabel Stevens is the production editor of Sight & Sound. She writes on cinema and photography for a range of publications, including the Guardian, Aperture and Icon magazine.
She tweets @IsStevens.
Articles by Isabel Stevens
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No man’s land: Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire
In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma’s exquisite love story set in pre-Revolutionary France, the director presents a female-centred vision of equality, solidarity, romance and sex. Here she explains to Isabel Stevens why she was determined to up-end the clichés and assumptions of traditional cinema.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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Our inaugural critics’ poll of the top ten television series of 2019 offers a tantalising mix of comedy, horror and drama – and holds up a mirror to our age. See how 37 television critics judged the year, including Molly Haskell’s extended take on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Monday, January 6, 2020
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From the Magazine
Costume drama: Sandy Powell on designing the costumes for The Irishman
Sandy Powell, costume designer by appointment to Derek Jarman and Todd Haynes, talks to Isabel Stevens about designing for The Irishman.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
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From the Magazine
“When you hold a mirror to society it rebels”: Katharina Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut
Katharina Kubrick talks to Isabel Stevens about her early poster designs for the film – and why her father thought it was his greatest work.
Monday, November 4, 2019
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Alejandro Landes on Monos: “Leave your prejudices at the door”
Alejandro Landes’s surreal, unsettling war story follows a squad of adolescent guerrillas fighting for an unknown cause in an unnamed country. The director talks to Isabel Stevens about the challenges of a remote shoot and why he was determined not to trade on pity in his portrait of child soldiers.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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Introducing the 2019 BFI London Film Festival: the top titles to see
Isabel Stevens talks to LFF director Tricia Tuttle about the festival’s premieres of some of the most exciting new films around – including new titles by directors from Céline Sciamma to Martin Scorsese – as well as surprises from debut filmmakers and some forgotten gems from the archives.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
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What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?
It wasn’t to be the second year a female director won Cannes’s top prize, but our contributors certainly fancied it as much as Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Isabel Stevens introduces thoughts from ten of our contributors.
Saturday, May 25, 2019
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Parasite first look: Bong Joon-ho builds a wicked bridge over the class divide
Bong Joon-ho fuses home-invasion thrills with a searing critique of social inequality in this rip-roaring con-family comedy, says Isabel Stevens.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
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From the Magazine
I Lost My Body review: the touching tale of a manus on a mission
O body, where art thou? A French animation about a dismembered hand won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes. Imagine if The Thing from The Addams Family had its own action franchise, says Isabel Stevens.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire first look: Céline Sciamma conjures an oasis of female freedom
Sciamma’s rapturous costume romance finds a halcyon space without men for its artist and her subject to look and love their own way, says Isabel Stevens.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
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