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Features
Bye Bye Love, 50th anniversary: this gender-fluid couple-on-the-run movie had no precedent in Japanese cinema
It has taken 50 years for pioneering Japanese indie feature Bye Bye Love to be ‘discovered’ and screened, happily while its writer-director Fujisawa Isao (now 82) remains active. Its first-ever screening in London closes this year’s Queer East Festival.
By Tony Rayns
Bye Bye Love, 50th anniversary: this gender-fluid couple-on-the-run movie had no precedent in Japanese cinema
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Her charisma, her presence, was a lot to do with her eyes”: Asif Kapadia on Amy
By Nick James
From the Sight and Sound archive
My father the hero: Víctor Erice’s El sur
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
Features
Classroom politics and the new grade of teacher movies
By Bruno Savill De Jong
From the Sight and Sound archive
“We will never see that Hollywood again”: Bette Davis, grande dame of cinema
By Margaret Hinxman
Features
Conflict zone: on Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech
By Jonathan Romney
Features
New ways to grab the attention: the year’s best charity films
By Patrick Russell and Rebecca Vick
Then and now
25 years of Wonderland: revisiting the locations from Michael Winterbottom’s millennial London drama
By Adam Scovell
From the Sight and Sound archive
“The conclusion we came to about equality is that nobody really wants it”: Krzysztof Kieślowski on the Three Colours trilogy
By Tony Rayns
From the Sight and Sound archive
Survival instincts: the cinema of Jaume Collet-Serra
By Nick Pinkerton
Obituaries
In memory of David Bordwell, the ‘Aristotle of cinema study’
By James Naremore
Then and now
Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance
By Adam Scovell
Festivals
Trans films in the spotlight as BFI Flare returns
By Ben Walters
Where to begin
Where to begin with Warwick Thornton
By Stephen Morgan
Features
The Taviani brothers on Bicycle Thieves: “It was like a course in directing”
By Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
Features
After the end? Exploring the BFI National Archive in the wake of Covid-19
By Dr Kelechi Anucha