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Isabel Stevens
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Managing editor Sight and Sound | commissions features and Opening Scenes front section | author of the Natural History column 📖 🖋 🎞 🐈 | Opinions all mine
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Reading the (excellent) Tom Cruise interview in the latest Sight and Sound, I’m delighted that the writer (Isabel Stevens) also sees the root of Cruise’s interest in performing his own stunts in the pool sequences in The Color of Money boxd.it/9Bo1jL
A ★★★★★ review of The Color of Money (1986)
I have come out of this film completely elated. I admire Scorsese enormously but often find it hard to love his films as I don’t have a strong stomach for violence. Here (almost) all the violence is o...
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May 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I interviewed Tom Cruise!

Find all 7800 words of our two conversations in our June issue - out this Thursday

We talked about Val Kilmer, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, working with Stanley Kubrick, his own adventures in directing and more ✨
“I never made a movie to just go make a movie. It was always an exploration of filmmaking”

World exclusive – Tom Cruise talks us through his fascinating career in an in-depth interview. Only in the new Sight and Sound

Get your copy here: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...
May 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Quite flabbergasted to open up bsky and see my own name staring back from the cover of S&S alongside people who had *slightly* more to do with IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE than I did. Grateful to the eds for the honour (not so much for the immediate tailspin of self-doubt).
💛 In the Mood for Love at 25 💛

Our latest issue celebrates Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece

Featuring new interviews from Wong, Maggie Cheung, William Chang, Christopher Doyle and more, plus a fresh reflection on the film by @jessicakiang.bsky.social

Get your copy: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This was an issue of the mag that went right to the press wire... but was so worth it:

An oral history of In the Mood for Love, including a very rare interview with Maggie Cheung! And insights from Wong Kar Wai, Christopher Doyle and William Chang
PLUS a beautiful essay by @jessicakiang.bsky.social
💛 In the Mood for Love at 25 💛

Our latest issue celebrates Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece

Featuring new interviews from Wong, Maggie Cheung, William Chang, Christopher Doyle and more, plus a fresh reflection on the film by @jessicakiang.bsky.social

Get your copy: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM