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She is here and she is beautiful! New

is available now and filled to the brim with goodness. Alice Diop! Paul Mescal! Cate Blanchett! Thrilled to be within these gorgeous pages defending the great Giancarlo Esposito from the not-so-great Kaleidoscope.

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Though its approach – applying a Dogme 95 aesthetic to a Richard Curtis sort of set-up – is rewarding on paper, this slew of turgid improvised rambles ends up an unintentional testament to all the work that goes into good films before shooting even begins.

She Is Love review: self-indulgent rambling

Rather than capturing the electric potential of well-rehearsed actors in the throes of impassioned improvisation, this jumpy, poorly prepared, shoddily executed film leaves its performers hopelessly...

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Morvern Callar placed =243th in the #SightAndSoundPoll

The Greatest Films of All Time

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed....

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“Lynne Ramsay’s amalgamations of image and sound are quite unforgettable, in the sense that their effects won’t easily fade, like a sore that refuses to heal”

Escape artist: Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar is a modern-day fairytale featuring self-reinvention, female fun and rave culture, argues this feature from our October 2002 issue.

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Shot in stark monochrome, this poignant, engrossing documentary looks in detail at the migrant experience, situating its study of the sheer friction of asylum-seeking within a broader interrogation of global boundaries.

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Geology of Separation review: poignant migration doc

Using two asylum seekers as a focal point, Yosr Gasmi and Mauro Mazzocchi’s documentary, shot in black and white, interrogates the nature of borders, Europe’s approach to migrants, and the existent...

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If you love seeing donkeys represented on screen but ‘Eo’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ haven’t scratched your itch, perhaps Edgar Honetschläger’s latest feature – a winsome ecological essay film narrated by a moke named Baldassare – will do the trick.

Le formiche di Mida review: eccentric Marxist animism

Edgar Honetschläger’s whimsical essay film combines shaggy-dog allegory and vivid natural imagery in the service of a contemplative, unmistakably green social critique.

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With a loose and playful style that recalls ‘Slacker’-era Linklater and ‘The Lobster’-era Lanthimos, Jude Chun’s feature debut sees UFOs hovering over Seoul and asks: are we the aliens? Travis Jeppesen reviews from

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Unidentified review: fanciful UFO satire

With generous lashings of absurdism, Jude Chun’s debut feature, which literalises the concept of alienation to ask questions of modern society, gets an A for ambition – and though its narrative is...

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Isabel Stevens

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Go see Saint Omer and then read Alice Diop & Claire Denis in conversation in the latest

S/o to

for moderating such a thoughtful discussion which ranges from transcendence, motherhood and sound accidents to dissing polls bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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Combining close observation and imaginative dream-narrative, this Lebanese documentary hybrid – largely shot in black and white – is an elliptical, philosophical portrait of a seasoned Beirut car mechanic and those who work in his yard.

Thiiird review: the haunting beauty of the everyday

Reminiscent of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 1997 debut, this documentary hybrid evokes the strange poetry of the downbeat and the ordinary as it follows a grizzled car mechanic at work in Beirut.

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“An animal can move the audience even more strongly than any humans” Eo director Jerzy Skolimowski tells us about his Robert Bresson-inspired odyssey into the mysterious subjectivity of a donkey

Jerzy Skolimowski on his surreal donkey drama Eo: “I took Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar like a...

The director of Deep End and Moonlighting tells us about his Robert Bresson-inspired odyssey into the mysterious subjectivity of a donkey.

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With its strong script, elegant cinematography and moments of real profundity, Sakamoto Junji’s sensuous tale of two manure merchants is less nauseating than one might expect – and may yet enjoy a long festival afterlife, writes Travis Jeppesen from

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Okiku and the World review: shit’s a wonderful life

A tale of two manure-slingers, Sakamoto Junji’s film - whose less savoury textures are offset by the beautiful black-and-white photography – may well break out of the festival circuit.

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Alice Diop interviewed by Claire Denis for

👀 They talk fiction, motherhood, the #sightandsoundpoll and Diop's new film, Saint Omer + Blanchett, Mescal & Poitras interviewed Tributes to Hodges, Honigmann, Badalamenti & more The best films of last year, ranked🚨

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Full of re-enactments, re-stagings and cinematic sleights of hand that create the illusion of reality, this follow-up to the 2016 documentary ‘The New Man’ is a pointed, self-reflexive look at the marriage of its makers,

@JoshAppFilm

and Devorah Baum.

Husband review: sharp, self-reflexive marital portrait

Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum’s follow-up to their disarmingly personal 2016 documentary ‘The New Man’ is a pointed critique of the gender dynamics in a modern marriage.

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Thomas Flew

@thomasflew

An absolutely outstanding cover feature moderated, introduced and translated by

❤️‍🔥 + lots and lots and lots more

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Alice Diop interviewed by Claire Denis for @SightSoundmag

They talk fiction, motherhood, the #sightandsoundpoll and Diop's new film, Saint Omer + Blanchett, Mescal & Poitras interviewed Tributes to Hodges, Honigmann, Badalamenti & more The best films of last year, ranked

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Lou Thomas

@London_Lou

Read a large portion of this issue last night. It’s a right banger.

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Alice Diop interviewed by Claire Denis for @SightSoundmag

They talk fiction, motherhood, the #sightandsoundpoll and Diop's new film, Saint Omer + Blanchett, Mescal & Poitras interviewed Tributes to Hodges, Honigmann, Badalamenti & more The best films of last year, ranked

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Miryam Charles

@miryam_charles

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Sight and Sound: the Saint Omer issue

Alice Diop in conversation with Claire Denis

Find out what's inside here and in the

below: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

Order your copy: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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Sight and Sound: the Saint Omer Issue

🟢 Read the full contents of the Saint Omer issue: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun 🟡 Order your copy:

shop.bfi.org.uk

In this issue: Alice Diop in conversation with Claire Denis, Cate Blanchett and Todd Field on Tár and Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the BloodshedPlus: the Best Films of 2022, our annual In...

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🟡 Our annual In Memoriam feature pays tribute to those who died in 2022, including Mike Hodges, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Heddy Honigmann and Angelo Badalamenti

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🟢 A deep dive into the best films of 2022, including: Marie Kreutzer on Corsage S.S. Rajamouli on RRR Jerzy Skolimowski on Eo Charlotte Wells, Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio on Aftersun

The 50 best films of 2022

From Iranian runaways to Indian revolutionaries, Tom Cruise’s flyer to Brazilian gasolinheiras – the 50 best films that more than 90 of our critics saw in cinemas, at festivals and online in 2022.

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🟡 Cate Blanchett and Todd Field on Tár, their provocative study of a spiky, morally compromised conductor. Interviewed by

@GuyLodge

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🟢 Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed explores the life and work of photographer and activist Nan Goldin The director discusses documentary, direct action and doubt with

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🟡 Alice Diop speaks to her friend and mentor Claire Denis about friendship, filmmaking and the #SightAndSoundPoll in a wide-ranging conversation moderated by

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Arjun Sajip

@ArjSaj

Just look at this absolute BEAUT of a cover 😍 Also inside: ✍️Remembering those we lost in 2022 ✍️

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interviews Cate Blanchett & Todd Field ✍️

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interviews Laura Poitras ✍️Ira Sachs’s Greatest Films ballot w/ comments ✍️In-depth 1981 interview with Kurosawa

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Rafa Sales Ross

@rafiews

This is immense

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Alice Diop interviewed by Claire Denis for @SightSoundmag

They talk fiction, motherhood, the #sightandsoundpoll and Diop's new film, Saint Omer + Blanchett, Mescal & Poitras interviewed Tributes to Hodges, Honigmann, Badalamenti & more The best films of last year, ranked

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Jason Wood

@jwoodfilm

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Alice Diop interviewed by Claire Denis for @SightSoundmag

They talk fiction, motherhood, the #sightandsoundpoll and Diop's new film, Saint Omer + Blanchett, Mescal & Poitras interviewed Tributes to Hodges, Honigmann, Badalamenti & more The best films of last year, ranked

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Catherine Wheatley

It was an absolute joy to be present for this conversation between two of the most important directors working today. Seeing their mutual fondness and respect was really moving. Thanks for the opportunity

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Alice Diop interviewed by Claire Denis for @SightSoundmag

They talk fiction, motherhood, the #sightandsoundpoll and Diop's new film, Saint Omer + Blanchett, Mescal & Poitras interviewed Tributes to Hodges, Honigmann, Badalamenti & more The best films of last year, ranked

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Most biopics chart the lives of their subject; Edgar Pêra’s latest film maps out its subject’s mind, as it follows the various fully-fledged personalities that peopled the headspace of renowned Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Não Sou Nada – The Nothingness Club review

Edgar Pêra delivers a vision of the inner lives of the poet Fernando Pessoa that is equal parts luminous and lurid.

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TV series? Film? Both? Whatever it is, Twin Peaks: The Return was deemed worthy of a place in the #SightAndSoundPoll Top 250 by our voters bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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Commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Steve McQueen’s new art installation is a rich, complex exploration of ideas and themes that have long engrossed the Turner Prize-winning director: race, heritage and film history.

Sunshine State review: a haunting art installation

Using repetition, intertextual play and the formal opportunities afforded by a two-channel installation, Steve McQueen fashions a moving exploration of race, heritage, film, and the intersections...

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helenlp

@Drhelenlp

I’ve been watching & loving this show over past week - an insight into a world I know so little about. Also such a celebration of food and friendship, especially among women. On Netflix.

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It’s a continuing mystery that Netflix gives such little promotion to such beautiful shows as this, the latest work by Koreeda Hirokazu – a charming portrait of a household of apprentice geishas in Kyoto, and the young girl that becomes their chef. buff.ly/3jkxZG6

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Michael Doyle

@DoyleofDarkness

Check out this fascinating archive review of ALIEN from the good people at

. It was written by Philip Strick (1939-2006), author of SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES, one of my favourite film books as a child. #horror #scifi #movies #reviews #alien

Our original 1979 review of Alien: “a spectacularly British xenophobia” | Sight & Sound

If there is a distinguishing feature of British science fiction films, it would have to be (although the description is all too glib) their insularity. Whereas the American cinema tackles the...

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The Master of Suspense vs The Archers With six films apiece in the #SightAndSoundPoll Top 250, Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger are our most featured directors bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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It’s a continuing mystery that Netflix gives such little promotion to such beautiful shows as this, the latest work by Koreeda Hirokazu – a charming portrait of a household of apprentice geishas in Kyoto, and the young girl that becomes their chef.

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House review

Co-written and co-directed by Koreeda Hirokazu, this Netflix series, about a household of apprentice geishas in Kyoto and one girl’s experience as their chef, is a gentle, warming delight.

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My

op-ed from last year on The Poll ended up not being a million miles off! bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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Chris Herrington

@ChrisHerrington

This was a pleasant surprise after Hawks was shut out of the Top 100. Lots of really great stuff in that 101-150 range.

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Howard Hawks was a conspicuous absence from the #SightAndSoundPoll Top 100, but four of his films were just a handful of votes from hitting that milestone =101st: Rio Bravo =108th: Bringing Up Baby =122nd: Only Angels Have Wings =129th: His Girl Friday bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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Adapting Paul Tremblay’s 2018 novel ‘The Cabin at the End of the World’, a home-invasion-cum-apocalyptic-nightmare thriller, M. Night Shyamalan dials down the gore and ups the psychological, philosophical ante – but still can’t figure out a decent ending.

Knock at the Cabin review: by-the-numbers Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest proves he’s still handy with the nuts and bolts of intimate thrillers – but will he ever be bold enough to really lean into the darkness?

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Ryan Raitt

@ryan_raitt

And the already rich list of 100 grows richer!!! Two Twin Peaks entries! (although "The Return's" inclusion will be VERY controversial in some circles) Texas Chain Saw, The Thing, Godfather Part II, Come and See, & The Matrix so close to the top 100 is beautiful!!

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The Matrix, Twin Peaks: The Return, Soleil Ô, Petite Maman… Find out what critics have voted as the Greatest Films of All Time in the #SightAndSoundPoll, as we complete our Top 250: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun

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Peter Benson

@bensonpeter20

The bfi website now lists the top 250 films from their poll. An even richer mix than the top 100, it includes several films I too would have chosen: India Song Wavelength Suspiria The Wild Bunch

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