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Established in 1932. Published by @BFI. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll

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Set in a Welsh fishing community, Helen Walsh’s low-budget queer romance traces a tender, risky affair shaped by illness, family duty and the pressures of tradition.

Alex Davidson reviews On the Sea, in cinemas tomorrow. https://t.co/pPGgfVke3d

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“[Ben] Rivers has produced his most hopeful feature to date: a film suggesting that, to see, feel, and absorb this newly refurbished world, one must adopt unknowing eyes”

@joseph_fahim reviews Mare’s Nest https://t.co/PXXCV7UkLR

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521 films have been on the cover of Sight and Sound

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“Everything an Evil Dead fan could want – DP Philip Lozano’s camerawork, a toolshed of domestic weapons, and shrill ordeals always bordering on the comic – are present and correct, making it a welcome new member of the family”

Anton Bitel reviews https://t.co/0B8AvGwMGQ

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In 2022, we released the results of the #SightAndSoundPoll, which saw Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles take the top spot. How many of the top 100 films have you seen?

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Read tributes from other filmmakers who worked with or were supported by Rayns here

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A tribute to Tony Rayns from Bong Joon Ho:

Hearing the sad news on a rainy day in Seoul, I find myself drifting back through old memories. Back to the day I first met Tony, 32 years ago.

It was 1994. Tony was proofreading the English subtitles for my film school graduation project. He was the second – perhaps the third – person who genuinely liked my awkward little student film.

So much has happened since then.

London. Seoul. Hong Kong. Busan. Vancouver.

Countless days spent talking about movies.

But it wasn’t just talk.

Tony left a direct mark on some of my films, especially Memories of Murder and Snowpiercer. In a way, he shaped much of my life as a filmmaker. He was someone who never stopped reminding me how to love cinema, and how never to lose my sense of cinematic adventure.

Oddly enough, I can’t remember what we talked about the last time we met, five months ago.

But I remember his last walk away from me. His back disappearing down a narrow London street.

Goodbye for now, Tony.

Until we meet again.

Read tributes from other filmmakers here: https://t.co/wcc39pSEbd

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Tony Rayns, the British film critic, programmer, translator and tireless advocate for East Asian cinema, has died

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Sight and Sound magazine is officially on @Letterboxd ! Follow our account at the link below, where you’ll find watchlists, reviews and features, with new and archival material dropping every week. https://t.co/DIIBBxZry2

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Here’s how Tony Rayns voted in @SightSoundmag ‘s Greatest Films of All Time polls, from 1982 to 2022. 

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Over 90 years of our cover films, in one list! Track the history of cinema through the decades, and see which films made the cut

How many of the 522 films featured on the cover of Sight and Sound since 1932 have you seen?

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“Rosebush Pruning feels a decadent, debilitated affair, a re-run of starker, more focused former glories: in all its prestige lushness, it’s essentially the Condé Nast Traveller version of Dogtooth (2009)”

@JonathanRomney reviews. In cinemas this week. https://t.co/0zwxDsRFKm

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A tribute to Tony Rayns from Wong Kar Wai:

Night in Busan

My last encounter with Tony took place one evening in Busan many years ago. We were both far too drunk and never got the chance to properly bid farewell.

For decades, across the pages of Sight and Sound, Time Out and the independent journal Cinema Rising, Tony watched, wrote and translated. A free spirit in the realm of cinema, he guided festivals, shepherded audiences and preserved what might so easily have been lost: the nuance, the wit, the silence between words. He rendered the foreign familiar without ever stripping it of its soul.

Rest well, Tony. Thank you for your years of support and your unsparing honesty, for which I will remain forever grateful. — WKW

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Tony Rayns, the British film critic, programmer, translator and tireless advocate for East Asian cinema, has died

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A tribute to Tony Rayns from Apichatpong Weerasethakul:

Tony,

You were the first person who, at a cinema in Bangkok in 1999, welcomed a stranger with a VHS tape and actually watched it. You remained one of the first to see my films, offering advice and support over almost three decades. You’d say how hard it was to write about those films, yet you understood them more than me. My dear friend, you are the fuel that propels many of us forward. I thank you for our times in Tai Wu, and other Chinese meals across continents, over gossip about this messy film family of ours. I miss touching your belly as a silent way of asking ‘how are you, uncle?’ Nothing more. But the lights you have ignited remain in this quiet night.

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Tony Rayns, the British film critic, programmer, translator and tireless advocate for East Asian cinema, has died

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RIP Tony Rayns. When I'm flipping through an old magazine and it has an article by Tony Rayns, that's what I'm reading first. For example this fascinating report from the set of Zhang Yimou's To Live: https://t.co/F8Bmf725Fm
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Tony wrote for Sight and Sound for more than 50 years. You can find a selection of this writing online, including interviews with Edward Yang, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wong Kar Wai, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Bong Joon Ho: https://t.co/I40I9s2DD3

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Tony Rayns, the British film critic, programmer, translator and tireless advocate for East Asian cinema, has died