Tony Rayns
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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
“The conclusion we came to about equality is that nobody really wants it”: Krzysztof Kieślowski on the Three Colours trilogy
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
The Goldfinger: an ostentatious Hong Kong crime thriller
By Tony Rayns
From the Sight and Sound archive
Lonesome tonight: Tony Rayns and Edward Yang on A Brighter Summer Day
By Tony Rayns
From the Sight and Sound archive
Kenneth Anger: inflammable desires
By Tony Rayns
Obituaries
Pema Tseden obituary: filmmaker who defined Tibetan cinema
By Tony Rayns
Features
Where the mountain meets the street: Terayama Shuji
By Tony Rayns
What to watch at LFF
Decision to Leave: the danger keeps spiralling in this tense tale of obsession
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
One Second: a heartfelt but compromised vision
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash: as juicy as it sounds
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Atlanta Season 3: a complex exploration of blackness and whiteness
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Revolution of Our Times: A powerful tribute to Hong Kong’s protest movement
By Tony Rayns
Features
Apichatpong on Memoria, his odyssey into the soundscapes of Colombia
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Balloon puts a Tibetan family in a birth-control bind
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Prisoners of the Ghostland sends Nic Cage on an uninspired action movie mission
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Choked takes in middle-class Indian life from the gutter to the stars
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Labyrinth of Cinema seeks peace through frenetic cinephilia
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
A Sun follows a Taipei family through thunder and loss
By Tony Rayns
From the Sight and Sound archive
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
Best of 2020
The Truth: Catherine Deneuve plays a monstrous movie star in Koreeda’s French adventure
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
To the Ends of the Earth is a soppy satire that finds nothing new on its travels
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
Rebecca returns to Manderlay, but no one’s home
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
The Eight Hundred review: a puffed-up reprise of the defence of Shanghai
By Tony Rayns
Interviews
“Alan Moore pushed me to think less about the killer and more about the spirit of the times”: Bong Joon Ho on Memories of Murder
By Tony Rayns
Poet of time: Wong Kar-Wai on Chungking Express
By Tony Rayns