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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 Follow us on Letterboxd:
“This is unquestionably one of the most intelligent films to appear for many years. No one who is really interested in the cinema can afford to miss it.” Citizen Kane, reviewed by ‘E.H.L.’ in Monthly Film Bulletin, December 1941 Read in full: letterboxd.com/sightsoundma...
While discussing The Odyssey for our latest cover, Christopher Nolan and Christopher Frayling referenced 27 films How many of them have you seen? letterboxd.com/sightsoundma...
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 + Matt Johnson on Tony + tributes to Tony Rayns and Sam Neill Get yours: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
“The viewer is edged towards a genuine sympathetic understanding of this seemingly unremarkable woman” On our Letterboxd page, we're revisiting our original reviews of the Greatest Films of All Time. Head there to read John Pym’s original review in full: letterboxd.com/sightsoundma...
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?
Sight and Sound magazine is officially on @letterboxd.social ! Follow our account at the link below, where you’ll find watchlists, reviews and features, with new and archival material dropping every week. letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
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? letterboxd.com/sightsoundma...
In 2014, we asked hundreds of documentary experts to vote for the Greatest Documentaries of All Time. These were the results? How many of the top 50 have you seen?
101 hidden gems: the greatest films you’ve never seen As chosen by Mike Leigh, Benny Safdie, Ngozi Onwurah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Laura Mulvey, Abel Ferrara, Radu Jude and more How many have you seen?
NEW ISSUE! 🤖 21st century sci-fi special 🚀 Featuring new writing by Michael Atkinson, Jeff VanderMeer, Emily Inkpen, Sophie Mackintosh and more 🖋 Cover artwork by Butcher Billy 🎨 Get your copy now from the BFI Shop shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... See what's inside www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Our newest issue pays tribute to the great actor: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The top 10 films of #cannes2026, as selected by our editors, from the competition and beyond Look for more S&S reviews of Cannes titles in the coming days, and extended coverage of the festival in our upcoming Summer 2026 issue
In 1951, Sight and Sound created a special 74-page supplement to accompany the Festival of Britain's film programme Seventy-five years later, it is now available to be read online in full for the first time Read here for free: www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...
NEW ISSUE! 🧡 Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada and the alchemy of analogue Get your copy now: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... Read the full contents: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... Out for subscribers on Monday
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 💥 The art of acting, featuring new interviews with Wagner Moura, Jodie Foster, Renate Reinsve, Kim Novak, Jessie Buckley, Daniel Day-Lewis and more PLUS: cinema's greatest performances, as chosen by Jacob Elordi, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Ayo Edebiri and more
Robert Duvall, 1931-2026 (The Godfather Part II, dir. Coppola, 1974)
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON is the cover star of the new issue of Sight and Sound Available digitally from Monday 9th February and on newsstands from Thursday 12th February Pre-order your copy now: www.mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sight...
PLUS – 2026’s cinema previewed – Kaouther Ben Hania on The Voice of Hind Rajab – Idles’ Joe Talbot on his Caught Stealing score – Legendary French New Wave DP Raoul Coutard from the archive – 25 pages of reviews
EDGAR WRIGHT in conversation with STEPHEN KING Edgar Wright, director of a new version of King’s dystopian thriller The Running Man, talks to the author about media manipulation, the attractions of genre and how far reality has come to reflect fiction
A BAND APART Richard Linklater offers a cinephile’s guide to the key figures of the New Wave, and the assorted hangers-on, who populate Nouvelle Vague, his big-screen celebration of an extraordinary era. Interview by Jonathan Romney
‘I NEED TIME FOR DREAK WORK’ Having made her name tackling the expansive canvases of the contemporary American West, with Hamnet the director Chloé Zhao has produced a domestic period drama – but in this wrenching film, the stakes don’t feel any smaller. By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Park Chan-wook’s pitch-black satire of modern capitalism No Other Choice, sees its bumbling everyman driven to murder to secure employment Here Park discusses masculinity, identity and the beguiling screen presence of the film’s star Lee Byung-hun
LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ interviewed by PETER STRICKLAND Strickland has long admired Hadžihalilović’s haunting, dreamlike films of. As her dark fairytale The Ice Tower arrives, the pair sat down to discuss dreams, artifice and meaning and why there is a kinship in their cinematic sensibilities
IN MEMORIAM Our annual feature paying tribute to those who died in 2025, including Terence Stamp, Peter Watkins and Phyllis Dalton
We count down the 50 best films of the year, featuring: Interviews with Ryan Coogler, Christopher Blauvelt, Jafar Panahi, Eva Victor New writing on winning film One Battle After Another Year-in round-ups of horror, docs, TV, books and discs