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@sightsoundmag.bsky.social“Though the fourth wall remains intact, there is a Peter Watkins element both to the film’s handheld style and to its aspirations to class analysis”
Henry K Miller reviews Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialEva Marie Saint, 1924-2026 Among the last icons of the golden age of Hollywood, Saint was never quite a movie star in the conventional sense. The Oscar-winning actress leaves behind a career defined less by celebrity than by generosity, craft and an abiding faith in the ensemble
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialThe BFI London Film Festival starts tomorrow! Discover some of the most intriguing films on the programme, reviewed and recommended by Sight and Sound contributors
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social“As unwieldy, unsubtle and unfunny as it frequently is, Digger remains compulsively watchable, and there’s plenty to admire in its audacity and craft”
Philip Concannon reviews Digger, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialAlex Gibney’s fascinating documentary captures Salman Rushdie’s courage and humour in the wake of a brutal attack on his life.
Philip Concannon reviews Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, in cinemas this week. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialAlso in the issue: The best of Venice film festival The Faust Bible rediscovered Paweł Pawlikowski on the style and sensibility of Fatherland Boots Riley on smuggling revolutionary dialectics into Hollywood with I Love Boosters An archive conversation between Billy Wilder and Saul Bass
May contain graphic violence
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KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS
Sex, power, hysteria and sacrilege – the masterpiece returns as you’ve never seen it before
Featuring new writing from @kermodemovie.bsky.social, @lindaruthwilliams.bsky.social and @realgdt.bsky.social
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@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialAlso in the issue: The best of Venice film festival Paweł Pawlikowski on the style and sensibility of Fatherland Boots Riley on smuggling revolutionary dialectics into Hollywood with I Love Boosters The Faust Bible rediscovered An archive conversation between Billy Wilder and Saul Bass
May contain graphic violence
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialNEW ISSUE!
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS
Sex, power, hysteria and sacrilege - the masterpiece returns
Featuring new writing from Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and @realgdt.bsky.social
+ an unearthed 1995 interview with Russell, and behind-the-scenes imagery from the BFI National Archive
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social“A sort of Gen Z, Hamburg-set variation on Wings of Desire (1987), Fatih Akin’s Ghost Song is an ambitious, striking and largely persuasive metaphysical romance”
Neil Young reviews Ghost Song, the opening night film at @sansebastianfestival.com www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialA life coaching Ponzi scheme causes a man’s world to unravel in this disarming first feature from Scottish director Tom Nicoll.
@brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Salvation from #TIFF26 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialZach Cregger’s pared back take on Resident Evil is a rare video game adaptation that “wryly deconstructs the visceral – and maddening – experience of playing the games, and the intensifying learning curve that accompanies it”
Matthew Taylor reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social“A theme running through is the idea of documentary becoming fiction… A couple may divorce, but in the video of their wedding they still promise to stay together until death. Is the recording now a lie?”
Imogen Sara Smith reviews Ross McElwee’s Remake www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social“The nouvelle vague has become a rather dirty word these days. First of all, what is the New Wave? The new wave of what?” — Claude Chabrol, interviewed by S&S in 1970
@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialLa Bola Negra, from directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, has won the People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival.
Read Elisabet Cabeza’s review of the film here #TIFF26 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social“[May] El-Toukhy has mastered the art of building tension, but here the tension works on us in a mechanical way, rarely connecting to anything deeper”
@jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Venice Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@sightsoundmag.bsky.social@sightsoundmag.bsky.socialSince 2014, we've been asking writers to spotlight great films that were impossible to find on disc or streaming services in our monthly 'Lost and found' column All 118 are now compiled into one list. How many have you seen?
