Sight & Sound articles

Sight & Sound articles

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  From the Magazine

  Film of the week: Frank

  Lenny Abrahamson’s biopic manqué of Frank Sidebottom shows us the impenetrable layers of papier-mâché between us and our heroes, says Ryan Gilbey.

  Ryan Gilbey
  Friday 9 May 2014

  Reviews and recommendations

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  From the Magazine

  The owl’s legacy: in memory of Chris Marker

  Chris Marker was so much more than just a ‘documentary filmmaker’. He was photographer, essayist, activist, cartoonist, interactive pioneer – and mentor. Catherine Lupton, Agnès Varda, Thom Anderson, Chris Petit and more pay tribute.

  Catherine Lupton, Thom Andersen, Chris Petit, Jem Cohen, John Gianvito, Patrick Keiller, Sarah Turner, Kodwo Eshun, José Luis Guerín, Agnès Varda
  Friday 9 May 2014

  Features

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  Free anime: Mizue Mirai, wizard of blobs and blocks

  Japan’s answer to the likes of Oskar Fischinger and Norman McLaren talks to Jasper Sharp about his synaesthetic “cell animation”, why he hand-draws computer-animated lookalikes and his one-man Exquisite corpse-style motion epic Wonder.

  Jasper Sharp
  Friday 9 May 2014

  Interviews

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  From the Magazine

  Film of the week: Blue Ruin

  The wages of vengeance: Trevor Johnston hails an expertly turned, classically fashioned revenge thriller from second-time writer-director Jeremy Saulnier.

  
  Monday 5 May 2014

  Reviews and recommendations

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  Wrestling realities

  Robert Greene seeks lessons in truth-craft from big men in tights.

  Robert Greene
  Wednesday 30 April 2014

  Unfiction

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  Bridges in time: Istanbul 2014

  On the anniversary of the city’s Gezi Park protests, and the centenary of the first-ever Turkish film, old and new made strange bedfellows at this year’s Istanbul Film Festival, reports Kaya Genç.

  Kaya Genç
  Wednesday 30 April 2014

  Festivals

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  From the Magazine

  Film of the week: Exhibition

  Joanna Hogg explores process, sick artists syndrome and the ghosts of modernism in a gleaming London live/work house. By Andrew Tracy.

  Andrew Tracy
  Saturday 26 April 2014

  Reviews and recommendations

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  Shelter from the storm: the Orphan Film Symposium 2014

  This year’s convention of ‘archivists, artists and scholars’ dusted off curios including a Polish typewriter camera, a bonfire of valve radios, Josephine Baker in clogs and the eye-popping Gasparcolor system. Ian Francis reports.

  Ian Francis
  Saturday 26 April 2014

  Festivals

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  From the Magazine

  Review: Transcendence

  Johnny Depp takes over the internet in a rickety nightmare of the Now, says Michael Atkinson.

  
  Saturday 26 April 2014

  Reviews and recommendations

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  Tribeca 2014: basketball and the city

  Nick James reports on the best of Manhattan’s budding movie showcase, starring the New York Knicks, Nas, Raf Simons, gorillas, New Orleans millennials, listless Mexican drifters and the Edward Snowdens of the 1970s.

  
  Wednesday 23 April 2014

  Festivals