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Sam Wigley
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Digital features editor at BFI. Sight and Sound. Booklet essays for Arrow / Radiance / Indicator. Q&As, intros. Critics Circle member. Pitch me sam.wigley@bfi.org.uk
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My interview with David Lynch from the summer is now online. For what it's worth, it never said he was retiring. It actually says the exact opposite! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
David Lynch on music, innovation and his future as a filmmaker: “I like to call it experimentation”
Not content with being one of the great iconoclasts of modern cinema, David Lynch has also been a trailblazing musical adventurer – and in recent years, it is music that has come to dominate his creat...
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Happy 25th bday to this all-timer. Did a piece with Wong Kar Wai.
May 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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What would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince.

Sam Wigley reviews What Marielle Knows from #Berlinale2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
What Marielle Knows review: Tales of a teen telepath
What would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince.
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February 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Director Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies.

Sam Wigley reviews The Blue Trail, Grand Jury Prize winner at #Berlinale2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The Blue Trail review: voyage of the gran
Director Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the grating sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I am very excited to announce that I am writing a BFI Film Classics book on Mani Kaul's USKI ROTI / A DAY'S BREAD (1969, India) and it will be published by Bloomsbury. It will be the first title on Indian Parallel Cinema.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Publication Day has finally arrived and The Magic Hours: the Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is finally available. Writing it has been a wonderful experience and yes here is a new special episode of Writers on Film to celebrate open.spotify.com/episode/6xZX...
John Bleasdale on The Magic Hours
Writers on Film · Episode
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December 3, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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My latest "Where to begin with..." piece for the BFI, and by some distance the one that I had the most fun writing.
Where to begin with Guy Maddin
As his wild new satire Rumours is unleashed into cinemas, we take a trip into the frantic, archaic, half-remembered dream worlds of the one and only Guy Maddin.
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December 2, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Five years ago today, my BFI interview with Atom Egoyan about EXOTICA at 25 was published. Resharing it now with a 30th anniversary hook. Still one of my favourite pieces I've ever done.

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Atom Egoyan: how we made Exotica – 25th anniversary
A quarter of a century after it became a defining 1990s indie hit, we speak to Atom Egoyan about the unusual genesis of his puzzlebox strip-club drama Exotica.
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November 27, 2024 at 11:34 PM
My interview with David Lynch from the summer is now online. For what it's worth, it never said he was retiring. It actually says the exact opposite! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
David Lynch on music, innovation and his future as a filmmaker: “I like to call it experimentation”
Not content with being one of the great iconoclasts of modern cinema, David Lynch has also been a trailblazing musical adventurer – and in recent years, it is music that has come to dominate his creat...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Early Christmas gift? Thanksgiving miracle? Take your pick, it's wonderful news.
November 25, 2024 at 6:45 PM