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Ken Adam, 1921-2016: a tribute in pictures
The production designer Ken Adam, who created the stages for both Stanley Kubrick and James Bond, has died at the age of 95. We look back at his extraordinary work in sketches and photographs, accompanied by Adam’s own quotes from the Sight & Sound archive.
Friday 11 March 2016 -
Mirror, mirror: Jacques Rivette, the Marx Brothers and the plays we game
Brad Stevens on what links Duck Soup’s celebrated nightdress pantomime and Jacques Rivette’s multidimensional actresses – an anarchic scepticism about the very possibility of stable identity.
Friday 4 March 2016 -
Numb and number: where The Big Short falls short
Adam McKay’s pop reenactment of the Noughties credit crisis couldn’t be more insistently in-your-face. But will we need a sequel, asks Ann Pettifor?
Sunday 28 February 2016 -
Elephants in the auditorium: A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, or ‘slow cinema’ revisited
Lav Diaz’s latest is 485 minutes long, and your best chance to see it is likely to be a day out at a film festival. Does that count as a challenge? A privilege? An imposition, asks Jonathan Romney.
Thursday 25 February 2016 -
Author of some of the cinema’s most delirious visions, the Polish-French director Andrzej Żuławski provided the likes of Romy Schneider, Isabelle Adjani and Sophie Marceau with their most memorable roles, writes David Thompson.
Tuesday 23 February 2016 -
From real-life entanglements with the Nazis to Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark via the heyday of Ealing Studios, the veteran cinematographer Douglas Slocombe saw and filmed the whole gamut. By Nick Bradshaw.
Tuesday 23 February 2016 -
A visual homage to some of the key figures in film who passed away in 2015, to accompany the roll call in our March 2016 issue.
Tuesday 9 February 2016 -
After the party: highlights from Rotterdam 2016
A darkening holiday drama from the shores of Greece and a stirring new examination of ‘the new abduction of Europe’ from Catalan master Pere Portabella were two highlights at a festival attempting to reestablish its focus, reports Edward Lawrenson.
Tuesday 9 February 2016 -
Jonathan Romney on the most covert of all the French New Wave gang, a visionary who juggled themes of performance and plot while opening up film form to the experience of duration in films like Céline and Julie Go Boating and the monumental Out 1.
Sunday 31 January 2016 -
Out-ward bound: Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 in the Arctic circle
Flying back from presenting Jacques Rivette’s “profound, dormant monster” Out 1 to an audience of 12 in a wintry Tromsø, Norway, David Thomson ponders the lifelikeness of a film that is boring – in the best sense.
Sunday 31 January 2016
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