Reviews
Materialists: a rickety, unsettling rom com
Celine Song’s second feature about a matchmaker for rich New Yorkers aims for screwball velocity, but the dialogue keeps missing the mark.
By Adam Nayman
Materialists: a rickety, unsettling rom com
Features and reviews
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Interviews
Dorothy Dandridge: biographer Donald Bogle interviewed on her stardom and legacy
By Miriam Bale
Rarities of British cinema
Edward G. Robinson’s rare British film: remembering 1930s fish-out-of-water drama Thunder in the City
By Josephine Botting
News
Programme details announced for the inaugural We Crip Film Festival 2025
Programme details announced for the inaugural We Crip Film Festival 2025News
David Lynch season announced for January 2026
David Lynch season announced for January 2026News
Sight and Sound: the Summer 2025 issue
Sight and Sound: the Summer 2025 issueFeatures
70 years of Hammer’s The Quatermass Xperiment: a very British alien invasion movie
By George Bass
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Offers more hope than any other British film of the 1980s so far”: Local Hero reviewed in 1983
By Nick Roddick
Reviews
Juliet & Romeo: a hollow Shakespeare musical
By Violet Lucca
Reviews
Lollipop: an emotional rollercoaster through the UK’s Kafka-esque social housing system
By Catherine Wheatley
10 great
10 great British animated feature films
By Jez Stewart
Interviews
“Sometimes you don’t need to have gone to film school”: Daisy-May Hudson on her debut fiction feature Lollipop
By Rachel Pronger
News
Sam Riley thriller Islands to be released by BFI Distribution in the UK and Ireland
Sam Riley thriller Islands to be released by BFI Distribution in the UK and IrelandReviews
How To Train Your Dragon: Like a special edition of an old favourite
By Andrew Osmond
Interviews
Backwards through the backwoods: music editors Dean Hurley and Lori Eschler on Twin Peaks
By Sam Davies
Festivals
Celluloid celebration: the BFI Film on Film Festival 2025
By Pamela Hutchinson
Then and now
60 years of Repulsion: how the London locations look today
By Adam Scovell
News
Using iterative possibility research sprints to redevelop our cinema websites
By Olivia Gerber
Black Film Bulletin
Black Rodeo: the cinematic wild west re-envisioned
By Mia Mask
Black Film Bulletin
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra at 100: a quiet construction
By Tambay Obenson
Interviews
Takeshi Kitano, a rare interview: “There are diverse patterns of queerness in Japanese society”
By Blake Simons
Black Film Bulletin
Blacks Britannica: ‘storm chasing’ in search of Black Britishness
By Lanre Bakare
From the Sight and Sound archive
“One thing this endlessly prurient film never shows is female sexual pleasure”: Showgirls reviewed in 1996
By Claire Monk
News
Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka appointed as BFI Professor in Practice
Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka appointed as BFI Professor in PracticeNews
BFI and CoSTAR launch report on generative AI for the screen industries
BFI and CoSTAR launch report on generative AI for the screen industriesInterviews
The game of observation: a new interview with Darling and Eyes Wide Shut screenwriter Frederic Raphael
By Alex Ramon
News
Future Film goes full-time: BFI launches the year-round Future Film Programme for 16 to 25s
Future Film goes full-time: BFI launches the year-round Future Film Programme for 16 to 25s10 great
10 great films set in Las Vegas
By Rory Doherty
Reviews
Ballerina: a lifeless John Wick spin-off
By Adam Nayman
From the Sight and Sound archive
“I’m telling the story of me... it might set a trend”: George Lucas on the set of Star Wars
By Philip Strick