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Reviews
The Sweet East: a risky, uncompromising road movie
A high school student falls in with strange and sinister characters as she drifts through America’s East Coast in a surreal picaresque from Sean Price Williams that revels in ideological chaos.
By Catherine Wheatley
The Sweet East: a risky, uncompromising road movie
News
38th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival wraps with audiences up, global talent attendance and 5 world premieres
38th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival wraps with audiences up, global talent attendance and 5 world premieresFrom 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
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this Easter weekend – 29 March to 1 April
By Sam Wigley
News
Melanie Hoyes appointed as BFI Director of Inclusion
Melanie Hoyes appointed as BFI Director of InclusionNews
First call for projects tackling critical challenges for UK screen sector
First call for projects tackling critical challenges for UK screen sectorReviews
Mothers’ Instinct: maternal grief turns deadly in this intense but predictable psychological thriller
By Kate Stables
Interviews
Silver Haze: how we made our arson-attack survivor drama
By Leigh Singer
Reviews
Opus: Sakamoto Ryuichi performs his swan songs
By Sam Wigley
Reviews
Late Night with the Devil: an underwhelming horror with an ingenious concept
By Adam Nayman
From the Sight and Sound archive
Naked miracles: Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves
By Stig Björkman
Reviews
Baltimore: thrilling heist movie tells the story of Rose Dugdale, a British heiress turned IRA member
By Katie McCabe
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 22 to 24 March
By Sam Wigley
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Scorsese has become the threnodist of frustration”: After Hours reviewed in 1986
By Richard Combs
Reviews
Immaculate: Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a giallo in a convent
By Anton Bitel
Interviews
Alice Lowe on her time-skipping mortality comedy Timestalker: “Why don’t we make more fantastical things in the UK?”
By Lou Thomas
Reviews
The Delinquents: a bank robbery movie that plays like an existential epic
By Adam Nayman
Interviews
Robot Dreams: how we made our animated love letter to 1980s New York
By Lou Thomas
From the Sight and Sound archive
Survival instincts: the cinema of Jaume Collet-Serra
By Nick Pinkerton
Interviews
The Summer with Carmen: Zacharias Mavroeidis on his metafictional gay comedy
By Georgia Korossi
Reviews
Robot Dreams: Pablo Berger’s touching silent animation shows how swiftly a bond of affection can mark a life
By Alex Dudok de Wit
Interviews
“Everything was ass-backwards”: Griffin Dunne on shooting After Hours with Martin Scorsese
By Brogan Morris
Obituaries
In memory of David Bordwell, the ‘Aristotle of cinema study’
By James Naremore
Interviews
Onir on landmark Indian gay film Pine Cone: “Despite being the world’s largest filmmaking country, not even 1% of our films tackle queer themes”
By Arun A.K.
Reviews
Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness
By Anton Bitel