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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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NEW ISSUE!

Featuring an epic new interview with Christopher Nolan

+ Pedro Almodóvar on Bitter Christmas
+ Maite Alberdi on A Child of My Own
+ Gary Owens on Effi o Blaenau
+ Becca Voelcker on Taxi Driver and News from Home
+ Matt Johnson on Tony
+ tributes to Tony Rayns and Sam Neill

With subscribers on Monday, and on newsstands from Thurs

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“You could call Ish a coming-of-age story. But if that tag tends to suggest a completed process, this film depicts the start of a gradual change: coming of age as a fall from the grace of childhood”

@JonathanRomney reviews Imran Perretta’s Ish. https://t.co/nzsEr0HWOs

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Reviewed by John Pym in Sight and Sound’s sister publication Monthly Film Bulletin, April 1979

On our Letterboxd page, we're revisiting our original reviews of the Greatest Films of All Time. Head there for the review in full

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

“The full title of Jeanne Dielman appears on the credit sequence in the form of an envelope address. And, while the film itself is not laid out in epistolary form, it is largely made up of that common ingredient of everyday correspondence: a long and seemingly trivial catalogue of domestic incidents. The film's singularity – for those not exasperated by Chantal Akerman's minimalist style – stems in the main from the director's skilfully orchestrated transformation of the viewer from an outsider, unable to interpret the catalogue, into an insider, a member of the family, who can tell what Jeanne is going to do before she does it, and who can recognise the significance of the slightest change in her regulated behaviour.
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“The film effectively establishes the fabric of its heroine's daily existence: many of Jeanne's tasks are filmed in real time, and by the end we know, as Akerman intends, just what it feels like – and how long it takes – to make a meatloaf or fold up a sofabed. The viewer is edged towards a genuine sympathetic understanding of this seemingly unremarkable woman. Matters are helped immeasurably by Delphine Seyrig, who plays Jeanne with that eloquent catatonic silence which she has made peculiarly her own.”

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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

How many of them have you seen?

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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.

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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