Sight & Sound articles
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Iranian cinema now: ancient mythologies in a modern medium
A season of recent Iranian films emphasises poetry over politics, foregrounding the lyrical and universal strengths of work by a new generation of filmmakers, writes Ben Nicholson.
Tuesday 2 April 2019 -
From the Magazine
Dumbo review: Disney’s remake takes on dead weight
Reteaming with his studio alma mater, former misfit laureate Tim Burton fails to breach the corporate glass with either wit or weird, says Alex Dudok de Wit.
Monday 1 April 2019 -
From the Magazine
S&S contributors reflect on the late artist and filmmaker as cinematic pioneer, (self)portraitist, joy-maker, word poet, cartographer, multimedia artist and visual stylist, from our 90th birthday tribute issue.
Monday 1 April 2019 -
From the Magazine
At Eternity’s Gate review: Julian Schnabel brings Vincent van Gogh closer to God
Willem Dafoe plays the visionary painter as a gnarled and lonesome mystic in the latest of Schnabel’s portraits of tortured greats, says Graham Fuller.
Sunday 31 March 2019 -
Art within the machine: how machinima turns the camera on videogames
People having been making movies out of videogame graphics since the technology first allowed players to press record. Whether fan homages shared online, pointed critiques or gallery pieces, these works are part of a thriving and fast-evolving practice, writes Matt Turner.
Saturday 30 March 2019 -
“A glorious and ridiculous ride”: Steve Sullivan on excavating Frank and the Chris Sievey story
Director Steve Sullivan shares the story of his years-long quest to uncover and understand the man behind Frank Sidebottom, the cult comic figure with the papier-maché head, with Leigh Singer.
Saturday 30 March 2019 -
Agnès Varda obituary: a luminous art of an illuminated life
An unstoppably playful radical, Agnès Varda channelled a war-swept childhood into the determination to cherish and honour the personal, the marginal and the vital, records So Mayer.
Friday 29 March 2019 -
Disrupting the director: when an auteur meets the Method
What do you do with an actor who refuses to take direction? Marlon Brando was too wild for Stanley Kubrick, whereas Arthur Penn built The Missouri Breaks around his performative anarchism. But perhaps Kubrick had already learned the lesson working around Peter Sellers on Lolita, writes Brad Stevens.
Monday 25 March 2019 -
From the Magazine
Jordan Peele on Us: “I knew I was gonna forge new ground in the pantheon of doppelganger tales”
Us, Jordan Peele’s horrifyingly entertaining follow-up to Get Out, is an allegorical portrait of the state of the Union, set in a sun-kissed California peopled with evil doppelgangers – an ingenious vision that offers a tantalising array of interpretations. He talks to Simran Hans.
Friday 22 March 2019 -
From the Magazine
The films of Straub and Huillet: images richer than words
The films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have seldom found distribution in the UK, on account of their perceived difficulty. Yet their half-century of working together shows an unparalleled commitment to intense human experience, as Tag Gallagher explains.
Wednesday 20 March 2019
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