In memoriam Penelope Houston

Penelope Houston has died

Penelope Houston, Sight & Sound’s editor through three-and-a-half decades, has passed away at the age of 88.
Tuesday 27 October 2015

Penelope Houston: viewer at the top

From the spring of ‘Bergmania’ and the high summer of European cinephilia to the onset of home video, Sight & Sound’s longstanding editor elevated both her magazine and the art it championed, writes Henry K. Miller.
Thursday 12 November 2015

Remembering Penelope Houston

Our late editor, in the words of her colleagues.
Thursday 12 November 2015

Penelope Houston’s journals

Some observations by the late Penelope Houston, extracted from issues of Sight & Sound, which she edited from 1956 to 1990. Originally compiled in our Winter 90/91 issue to mark her retirement from the magazine.
Thursday 12 November 2015

Penelope Houston on Penelope Houston

Sight & Sound’s late editor of many decades looks back on her life and career, in an extended interview from 2006.
Friday 20 November 2015

Copy and paste: laying out Sight & Sound in the 1950s

David Robinson explains the strange things our editors used to do with glue.
Tuesday 24 November 2015