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What was documentary? An elegy for Robert Gardner

Is it time to put away this mirage of ‘nonfiction’ cinema, asks Kevin B. Lee?

Kevin B. Lee
Thursday 28 August 2014

Sight & Sound video
Back to school with Frederick Wiseman, Krzysztof Kieslowski et al

‘Tensions in the process’ arise as Robert Greene invites the Direct Cinema master into his classroom via Skype.

Robert Greene
Thursday 28 August 2014

Unfiction
Top ten nonfiction lessons – for those who take the time…

Instead of voting in our Documentary Poll, the Austrian Film Museum’s director Alexander Horwath sent us this proposal for a screening programme…

Alexander Horwath
Wednesday 27 August 2014

Reviews and recommendations
Two Days, One Night review

The Dardenne brothers and Marion Cotillard aim to thaw out wage-slave society, says Tony Rayns.

Thursday 21 August 2014

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

Film of the week: The Unbeatables

Goooooooooooooooooooal animación argentina, says Matthew Taylor (more or less).

Saturday 16 August 2014

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

From the S&S archives: To Have and Have Not – the review, the trailer

“Poor stuff”, wrote our original reviewer (and worse) in 1945. But come the YouTube age, our critic was already scrutinising multiple unheralded angles on that famous Bogart-Bacall kiss…

Herman G. Weinberg, Gary F. McMahon
Wednesday 13 August 2014

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

From the S&S archives: Notes on The Big Sleep, 30 years after

James Monaco weighs the merits of this “fullest, richest and most resonant” private eye movie, and places it at the “nodal point in the tide that was Hollywood”.

James Monaco
Wednesday 13 August 2014

Features
From the Magazine

Left-handed cinema

Can even small, apparently insignificant, details – such as whether a character is left-handed – affect how we read a film? By David Thomson.

Wednesday 13 August 2014

Features
Checkpoint Karlovy Vary 2014

A serio-comic debut from backwater Albania and an absurdist metaphysical comedy from Hungary stood out at this year’s Czech showcase of films East of the West. Lydia Papadimitriou reports.

Lydia Papadimitriou
Monday 11 August 2014

Festivals
From the Magazine

Film of the week: Lilting

Ashley Clark admires a tender, potent study of loss and loneliness in fly-by-night London.

Friday 8 August 2014

Reviews and recommendations