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30 great films of the 2000s

As the century’s first decade ends, Sight & Sound assesses the directors, the countries, the trends and technological changes that are shaping the new global cinema. Here we select 30 key films that defined the decade.

Sight & Sound Editors
Friday 29 January 2010

Polls and surveys
Bedlam in brief: Encounters Short Film Festival 2009

Nick Bradshaw picks a hatful of the best movies at Bristol’s Encounters Short Film Festival.

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Festivals
Best of herd: the 2010 British Animation Awards

Nick Bradshaw previews the 2010 BAA’s Public Choice offerings.

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

The best films of 2010

David Fincher and Apichatpong Weerasethakul vying for the top spot in the S&S annual poll proves at least that auteur cinema is alive and well across the globe, says Nick James.

Thursday 31 December 2009

Annual round-ups
Movies to Mohammad: Mark Cousins’ The First Movie

In times of Troubles, Mark Cousins finds reality at the movies. Here he reveals what happened when he brought video cameras and projectors to the children of Goptapa in northern Iraq.

Monday 14 December 2009

Comment
Eastern dusk: Aurora 2009

Norwich’s Aurora festival has been at the forefront of recent artists’ moving-image appreciation in the UK. George Clark reports from its sudden wake.

George Clark
Friday 11 December 2009

Festivals
A curious faith: on Depeche Mode doc The Posters Came from the Walls

Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams’ documentary depicts the obsessive fandom of Depeche Mode fans around the world. Owen Hatherley on a sad, funny portrait of pop music’s multiple confusions.

Owen Hatherley
Thursday 3 December 2009

Features
Every doc for itself: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009

As documentary watchers and makers came together to survey the state of the art – and get into a fight about it – Nick Bradshaw picks through the sloganeering, then went back to the screen for enlightenment.

Tuesday 1 December 2009

Festivals
Play away: Andrew Kötting on Ivul – Sight & Sound’s Young Journalism Competition 2009 interview

Jamie Chadd, 18, from Blandford Forum, the joint winner of our Young Journalist Competition, talks to Andrew Kötting about film art, Ivul and life in the French tree-tops.

Jamie Chadd
Thursday 26 November 2009

Interviews
Young Journalism Competition 2009: Grim up Norfolk

Kate Smith, 17, from Grimsby, the joint winner of our Young Journalist Competition, interviews Tom Harper about his debut feature The Scouting Book for Boys.

Kate Smith
Wednesday 25 November 2009

Interviews