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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
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Our cover girl. The new issue of Sight and Sound Magazine dives deep into KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS with new essays by Mark Kermode, Linda Ruth Williams, and @RealGDT.
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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
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Also in the issue: The best of Venice film festival, from Werner Herzog and Lee Chang-dong to docs on Elon Musk and Jorge Luis Borges Paweł Pawlikowski on the style and sensibility of Fatherland, his exploration of post-war German cultural identity, by way of Thomas Mann and family @BootsRiley on smuggling revolutionary dialectics into Hollywood with I Love Boosters, his radical satire of ownership and class The rediscovery of an extraordinary scrapbook detailing the making of F.W. Murnau’s 1926 fantasy Faust + a tribute to Jeremy Thomas; Marie Kreutzer on Gentle Monster; Dracula restored; an archive conversation between Billy Wilder and Saul Bass
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Read the full contents here: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/n… Get your copy now: shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so… With subscribers on Monday
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“A sort of Gen Z, Hamburg-set variation on Wings of Desire (1987), Fatih Akin’s Ghost Song is an ambitious, striking and largely persuasive metaphysical romance” @BohemiaStable reviews Ghost Song, the opening night film at @sansebastianfes bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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Zach Cregger’s pared back take on Resident Evil is a rare video game adaptation that “wryly deconstructs the visceral – and maddening – experience of playing the games, and the intensifying learning curve that accompanies it” Matthew Taylor reviews bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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Sherman's March director Ross McElwee channels his grief over the loss of his child into a powerful memory archive of home movies, clips from previous films, and footage shot by his late son, Adrian. Imogen Sara Smith reviews Remake, in cinemas this week. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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“The nouvelle vague has become a rather dirty word these days. First of all, what is the New Wave? The new wave of what?” — Claude Chabrol, interviewed by S&S in 1970 Read here: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/i…
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“[May] El-Toukhy has mastered the art of building tension, but here the tension works on us in a mechanical way, rarely connecting to anything deeper” @jessicakiang reviews Venice Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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“It is possible to read My Imaginary Country as a poetic dialogue with Patricio Guzmán’s two earliest films, which depicted the optimism of Salvador Allende’s first months in power” Maria Delgado on Patricio Guzmán’s final film bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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“I never made a movie to just go make a movie, it was always an exploration of filmmaking” Last year, we sat down with Tom Cruise to look back over his career, from a childhood play pretend as Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne, to the culmination of the decades-spanning Mission Impossible series – and the Iñárritu collaboration beyond Link below
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Director Lance Oppenheim attempts to crawl into the psyche of Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), 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 bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/r…
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Patricio Guzmán, 1941-2026 The Chilean maker of radically political documentaries, including the landmark Battle of Chile trilogy (1975-79) has died aged 85 In tribute, we republish a 2012 interview on Nostalgia for the Light, a film which connects Chile’s political memory with its landscape (link below)
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