Sight & Sound articles
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Albert Finney obituary: an icon who stayed true
The talismanic young star of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning never lost touch with his roots, or indeed the youth in all of us, and was gracious a collaborator as he was graceful an actor, writes Thirza Wakefield.
Tuesday 12 February 2019 -
Mr. Jones first look: Agnieszka Holland reprises the exposé of Stalin’s Ukrainian genocide
Agnieszka Holland’s period biopic honours Welsh journalist Gareth Jones’s muck-raking reporting on the 1930s Holodomor genocide-famine in unsurprising but deft ways, says Nick James.
Monday 11 February 2019 -
Fourteen first look: etching an unstable friendship
Dan Sallitt’s first feature since 2012’s wonderful The Unspeakable Act follows a fissile teenage friendship across its prolonged adult half-life, writes Jamie Dunn.
Monday 11 February 2019 -
Öndög first look: a winding portrait of a tough dame on the Mongolian plain
Out on the Mongolian steppe, Wang Quan’an fashions a shaggy-camel story that dispenses with its police-procudural clothing to probe the heart of a gnarly herdswoman, writes Andrew Gutman.
Monday 11 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: The Golden Glove wallows in obscenity
Fatih Akin’s relentless rendition of the sexual sadism of 1970s Hamburg serial killer Fritz Honka plumbs the lowest depths of human turpitude, says Jessica Kiang.
Sunday 10 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: Earth presents a symphony of Anthropogenic destruction
Austrian nonfiction monumentalist Nikolaus Geyrhalter attends to seven hi-tech Western mining sites busy ravaging our planet, observes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Sunday 10 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: The Blue Flower of Novalis is verité portraiture to reckon with
Gustave Vinagre and Rodrigo Carneiro’s raw, ribald chronicle of the ebulliently gay Marcelo has wit and pathos to match its bare-faced cheek, writes Giovanni Marchini Camia.
Saturday 9 February 2019 -
Berlinale first look: The Kindness of Strangers is a misty-eyed Manhattan McFlurry
Lone Scherfig’s hokey fairy tale delivers Zoe Kazan’s runaway family into an entirely spurious New York, says Jessica Kiang.
Friday 8 February 2019 -
From the Magazine
If Beale Street Could Talk review: a thwarted romance in slow-motion
Barry Jenkins’s languorous follow-up to Moonlight is a lovingly observed story of two young people who come together in a hazy 1970s New York, before being torn apart by rough justice, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Thursday 7 February 2019 -
Erick Stoll on América: “We all have a responsibility to care for one another”
When a documentary subject suddenly had to start looking after his elderly grandmother, the filmmakers followed him and his brothers through this new, often painful challenge instead. The result is a remarkably warm and sensitive movie. Sophie Brown spoke to one fo the directors.
Thursday 7 February 2019
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