Sight & Sound articles
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A wider view: CinemaScope today
In the age of widescreen 1.85:1 televisions, letterboxed ’Scope can look as strange as the severity of Academy Ratio, and what was once an illusion of reality has become a vision of artificiality, writes Brad Stevens.
Monday 19 August 2019 -
Horror gets real: the limits of fantasy at FrightFest 2019
Anton Bitel picks ten literal-horror highlights at this year’s genre showcase.
Sunday 18 August 2019 -
The Fever review: Maya Da-Rin dreams a migrant Amazonian’s heartache
Former documentarian Da-Rin continues to innovate with this elliptical fiction feature about an indigenous Brazilian worker drawn mysteriously back in to the rainforest, writes Laura Davis.
Thursday 15 August 2019 -
Vitalina Varela review: Pedro Costa serenades his haunted heroine
In his seventh feature, the Portuguese master and his community of Lisbon castaways continue their otherworldly incantations of lives lost and sundered, writes Christopher Small.
Thursday 15 August 2019 -
Maternal review: motherly care in sisterly solidarity
Maura Delpero’s portrait of young women who find a haven to raise their families in a religious community is disarmingly funny and moving, writes Katherine McLaughlin.
Thursday 15 August 2019 -
Echo review: a mosaic of an Icelandic Christmas
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s collage film captures the celebrations, vexations and conflagrations of the festive season in 56 deft vignettes, writes John Bleasdale.
Thursday 15 August 2019 -
From the Magazine
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood review: Quentin Tarantino unleashes his nostalgic fetishes
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt play a fading star and his stunt double whose rambling exploits in late-60s Hollywood run into a real-life tragedy in Tarantino’s luminous meta-western, writes Adam Nayman.
Wednesday 14 August 2019 -
Ring theory: GLOW grapples with the arrival fallacy
In the third season of the Netflix show about female wrestlers in the 1980s, the characters throw down the American dream by getting to grips with the illusion that success brings infinite happiness, writes Ella Kemp.
Friday 9 August 2019 -
From the Magazine
Stones Have Laws review: this Maroon documentary listens to the voice of the gods
This compelling documentary by a mixed Dutch and Surinamese directing team explores the history and the spiritual life of a Surinamese Maroon community, honouring its animist traditions and relaying its warnings, writes Ben Nicholson.
Thursday 8 August 2019 -
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: the Sight & Sound Interview
The early, groundbreaking films of the late D.A. Pennebaker are undisputed masterworks of American cinéma vérité; and with filmmaker Chris Hegedus he went on to create a formidable body of work documenting almost 40 years of political and cultural change. Eric Hynes interviewed the pair in 2016.
Monday 5 August 2019
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