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Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll.

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NEW ISSUE! 🧨

Action auteur Kathryn Bigelow on A House of Dynamite

+ Laura Mulvey, Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay, Pillion, True Crime and more

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“Careful the things you say; children will listen. That’s the well-trodden and evocative theme of Shih-Ching Tsou’s solo debut feature”

@brofromanother.bsky.social reviews Left-Handed Girl, in cinemas today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Left-Handed Girl review: the devil is in the digits
A five-year-old girl in Taipei becomes convinced the devil is working through her left hand in Shih-Ching Tsou’s debut feature, an electric family drama co-written and edited by Sean Baker.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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“Above all, Train Dreams is the tale of the end of one era and the dawning of another, as the land of Emerson, Thoreau and Frost bleeds into that of Steinbeck, Evans and Agee.”

Catherine Wheatley reviews. Out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Train Dreams review: Ballad of a railroad man
Joel Edgerton gives a career-best performance as a travelling labourer in Clint Bentley’s extraordinary film about a period of extraordinary change in early 20th century America.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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With Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love out now, we revisit the director’s second feature Morvern Callar, a modern-day fairytale infused with music, magic and metamorphosis

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Escape artist: Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar
As Die My Love hits UK cinemas this week, we revisit Lynne Ramsay's second feature Morvern Callar, a modern-day fairytale infused with music, magic and metamorphosis. From our October 2002 issue.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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“Daniel Day-Lewis throughout feels like glimpsing someone in public in the aftermath of a fight or a cry; he bristles with the real”

@nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Anemone. Out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Anemone review: Brothers grim
Daniel Day-Lewis brings potent realism to an otherwise uneven debut about a broken veteran, directed by the actor’s son Ronan Day-Lewis.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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“When I wrote The Running Man, 2025 seemed so far in the future that I couldn’t even grasp it in my mind”

We bring together @stephenking.bsky.social and @edgarwright.bsky.social for an exclusive conversation, ahead of the release of Wright’s #RunningManMovie

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Stephen King in conversation with Edgar Wright: “When I wrote The Running Man, 2025 seemed so far in the future that I couldn’t even grasp it in my mind”
In a bumper year for screen adaptations of Stephen King’s work, the director of The Running Man, a dystopian thriller about a bloodthirsty TV gameshow, talks to the author about media manipulation, th...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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“When I wrote The Running Man, 2025 seemed so far in the future that I couldn’t even grasp it in my mind”

We bring together @stephenking.bsky.social and @edgarwright.bsky.social for an exclusive conversation, ahead of the release of Wright’s #RunningManMovie

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Stephen King in conversation with Edgar Wright: “When I wrote The Running Man, 2025 seemed so far in the future that I couldn’t even grasp it in my mind”
In a bumper year for screen adaptations of Stephen King’s work, the director of The Running Man, a dystopian thriller about a bloodthirsty TV gameshow, talks to the author about media manipulation, th...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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“Above all, Train Dreams is the tale of the end of one era and the dawning of another, as the land of Emerson, Thoreau and Frost bleeds into that of Steinbeck, Evans and Agee.”

Catherine Wheatley reviews. In cinemas today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Train Dreams review: Ballad of a railroad man
Joel Edgerton gives a career-best performance as a travelling labourer in Clint Bentley’s extraordinary film about a period of extraordinary change in early 20th century America.
www.bfi.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Kinda love the impossible-to-love DIE MY LOVE
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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“The story is a thin, juddering downward spiral, told in the cinema of smithereens, with the energy of a bottle hurled at a mirror.”

@jessicakiang.bsky.social reviews Die My Love, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Die My Love review: a ferocious film from Lynne Ramsay
The intense relationship between newlyweds Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) drastically unravels after the birth of their baby in Lynne Ramsay’s ferociously maximalist psychodr...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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“Palestine 36 addresses [Annemarie Jacir’s] trademark themes – identity, the weight of history – on a much larger scale, combining the conventions of classic period drama with a thorough unpacking of the geopolitical failures”

Rachel Pronger reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Palestine 36 review: an engaging historical drama
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s sweeping period film tackles a moment of profound change: the year 1936, when the Great Palestinian Revolt broke through the complacency of British rule.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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NEW ISSUE! 🧨

Action auteur Kathryn Bigelow on A House of Dynamite

+ Laura Mulvey, Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay, Pillion, True Crime and more

On sale now, out on Monday

Get your copy: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Riz Ahmed stars as Ash, a go-between for corporate whistleblowers, in Justin Piasecki and David Mackenzie’s smart surveillance conspiracy.

Kim Newman reviews Relay, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Relay review: Riz Ahmed is an action hero enigma
Ahmed stars as Ash, a go-between for corporate whistleblowers, in Justin Piasecki and David Mackenzie’s smart surveillance conspiracy plot.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Peter Watkins, 1935-2025

The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90

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Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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NEW ISSUE! 🧨

Action auteur Kathryn Bigelow on A House of Dynamite

+ Laura Mulvey, Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay, Pillion, True Crime and more

On sale now, out on Monday

Get your copy: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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“Satire is arguably the most difficult mode to pull off in narrative, and Lanthimos has clearly mastered its blackest, most classic principles”

Travis Jeppesen reviews Bugonia, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Bugonia review: Help! I think my CEO is an alien
Emma Stone stars as a CEO who is kidnapped and accused of being an alien in Lanthimos’s dark and schlocky class-warfare thriller.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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“Radu Jude continues with an ongoing project of including what might be referred to as the trash of life – the absurd indignities and intrusions of the modern condition”

@nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews Kontinental ’25, out Friday. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Kontinental ’25 review: ballad of the sad bailiff
Romanian director Radu Jude's spiky social satire about a bailiff who faces a crisis of conscience when one of her evictees dies by suicide may be his most radical and despairing film yet.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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“Guillermo del Toro joins the Frankencanon with a messy but gloriously visceral melodrama which understands that at its core Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about awful parenting”

Catherine Bray reviews www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Frankenstein review: del Toro’s grand gothic fairytale
Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi are superb as Victor Frankenstein and the creature in del Toro’s lavish, melodramatic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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“François Ozon’s The Stranger is a faithful adaptation of Albert Camus’s 1942 novella, yet with a subtle revisionist slant”

Jonathan Romney reviews. Playing tonight at #LFF2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The Stranger review: an insightful re-reading of Camus
Actor Benjamin Voisin stars as Camus’ naive anti-hero Mersault, a man who is ill at ease with his desire, in this beautifully shot black and white rendition of this classic of existentialism.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general. By @jessicakiang.bsky.social

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Hall of mirrors: the ending of All About Eve
The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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“One can only hope that this fantastic film finds the audiences most in need of its message.”

Ben Nicholson reviews Souleymane’s Story, in cinemas tomorrow. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Souleymane’s Story review: Down and out in Paris
The French director centres the plight of Souleymane (Abou Sangaré), an asylum seeking bicycle courier fighting to survive in contemporary Paris.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London, began one century ago this month, and ran until 1939

Henry K Miller outlines seven ways it played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art

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A century of cinephilia: the legacy of the Film Society
The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London between 1925 and 1939, played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art. Here are seven ways it did so, fr...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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“One is tempted to call it a masterpiece”

Read our review of The Secret Agent, playing at #LFF tonight, in association with Sight and Sound

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The Secret Agent review: Tropical thriller
The Brazilian director’s stellar filmmaking and sharp storytelling make this portrait of life under dictatorship as politically incisive as it is entertaining.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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“This is a tale of the fantastic, but rooted in the bleak political realities of 2020s Britain.”

Jonathan Romney reviews Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, screening tonight at #LFF www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Rose of Nevada review: Tide travel
Vividly shot on 16mm, Mark Jenkin’s film about two Cornish fishermen who return from sea to find they have slipped 30 years in the past is a tale of the fantastic, but it’s rooted in the bleak politic...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Good Boy “uses doggy-vision tricks – even dreams from a dog POV… It’s a good, quiet little horror film – a study in creeping dread rather than shocks”

Kim Newman reviews. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Good Boy review: Chasing Styx
Director Ben Leonberg adopts a dog’s POV for a crafty little haunted house horror that makes the most of its endearing canine star.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films are still seeking a distributor for UK theatrical release

Here, we select eight titles you might not get a chance to see anywhere else #LFF

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Eight under-the-radar LFF films
In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films – some by established auteurs, others by exciting new voices – are still seeking a distributor...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM