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GODZILLA IS BACK!
On our cover for the very first time: the star of Godzilla Minus Zero
Featuring:
A new interview with Minus Zero director Yamazaki Takashi
A look back over the kaiju’s 70-year career by Jim Shepard
Every Godzilla film rated by Kim Newman
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo discuss La bola negra, poetry, passion and the complicated freedoms of modern Spain
Lee Chang-dong on Possible Love, a film which asks a multitude of quiet questions in its reckoning with inequality
Quentin Tarantino pays tribute to the bare-budget, experimental thriller Murder à la Mod, a flawed but key early work in Brian De Palma’s career
Lance Oppenheim on Primetime, his and Robert Pattinson’s portrait of Chris Hansen as a journalist turned TV presenter and anti-paedophile crusader
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Director Lance Oppenheim attempts to crawl into the psyche of Chris Hansen, star of the real-life true crime series To Catch a Predator, but Primetime never gets below the surface of the show’s motivations.
John Bleasdale reviews Primetime. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
This month, The Devils became the 524th film to be on the cover of Sight and Sound
How many have you seen? List below…
ON SALE NOW
Our new issue celebrating Ken Russell's The Devils
Featuring new writing by Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and Guillermo del Toro
+ an exclusive 1995 interview with Russell himself
Available at all good newsagents
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“The documentary is a towering achievement of cinéma vérité, capturing a period that influenced [William] Greaves and many others – the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s”
@ME_Says reviews Once Upon a Time in Harlem bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
Jordan Firstman’s debut stays true to his irreverent humour while leaving just enough room for sincerity in its sweet story of a queer NYC club promoter who discovers he has a 10-year-old son.
@blevitt93 reviews. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
Amanda Kramer delivers a wry commentary on the objectification of women and commodity fetishism by turning Juliette Lewis into a piece of designer furniture.
Tara Judah reviews By Design, out now. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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“One thing I remember very clearly was hitting [the Evening Standard’s long-time critic] Alexander Walker with his own review of The Devils because there were two instances to which he referred which were simply not in the film.
“One was that we see Oliver Reed’s penis being crushed. Well, that may be wishful thinking, but it simply is not in the film.”
— Ken Russell, speaking to Mark Kermode in 1995
Sight and Sound magazine retweeted
NEW ISSUE!
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS
Sex, power, hysteria and sacrilege - the masterpiece returns as you’ve never seen it before
Featuring new writing from Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams and @RealGDT
+ an unearthed 1995 interview with writer-director Russell, a new interview with continuity supervisor Ann Skinner, and behind-the-scenes images from the BFI National Archive
“Destined to be pored over by acting students for years to come, this simply mounted two-hander effectively ended the 2027 Best Actress race when The Debut premiered”
@BohemiaStable reviews Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, the closing film tonight at #LFF bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
Sight and Sound magazine retweeted
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
“Clio Barnard’s latest continues the director’s deep commitment to exploring working-class characters, this time set in Birmingham and lodged in a group of long-time pals” – B. Ruby Rich
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“One thing I remember very clearly was hitting [the Evening Standard’s long-time critic] Alexander Walker with his own review of The Devils because there were two instances to which he referred which were simply not in the film.
“One was that we see Oliver Reed’s penis being crushed. Well, that may be wishful thinking, but it simply is not in the film.”
— Ken Russell, speaking to Mark Kermode in 1995
Read in full here: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/i…
Sacrilege and censorship: a Ken Russell’s The Devils watchlist – get Devils ready with a list of further viewing, selected by the S&S team
How many have you seen?
The list in full
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“While Koreeda has adapted from manga before, Look Back’s source material is more commercial... The director brings that style down to a simmer, playing in a subtler, characteristically naturalistic mode”
Blake Simons reviews. Premiering tonight at #LFF bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…