Sight and Sound

01/09/2026

“The film, for a time, becomes an insightful two-hander between this older man hesitating on the doorstep of his second chance and this not-quite-young-any-more woman running on the fumes of her first”

Jessica Kiang reviews Kent Jones’s Late Fame https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/late-fame-kent-joness-playful-drama-pokes-gentle-fun-new-york-literary-circles-old-new

28/08/2026

“Gregg Araki manages to bring a spirit of transgression back to the screen, complete with colour, pop music and a wink-wink plot”

B. Ruby Rich reviews I Want Your S*x, in cinemas today. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-want-your-s*x-gregg-arakis-wild-art-world-satire-unspools-enjoyable-kinky-s*x-detective-yarn

27/08/2026

NEW ISSUE! 🧡

Jane Schoenbrun talks identity, reality and building Camp Miasma 🏕

+ Schoenbrun’s filmography, from the beginning to the future, in their own words

+ the aesthetics and influences of Camp Miasma

Also in the issue: Nicolas Winding Refn and Dario Argento in conversation; a trip to the movies with Salman Rushdie; the revolutionary cinema of Sarah Maldoror; interviews with Gregg Araki, Georgia Oakley, Lance Hammer, David Ayer, Jennie Livingston and more

Available now from the BFI Shop now: https://shop.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound-october-2026/

See what else is inside: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/news/sight-sound-october-2026-issue

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25/08/2026

“We just didn’t want to go into that usual drug world where things are so appalling that you can’t even watch it. It just wears you down. We wanted the film to have a vibrancy – a humour, an outrageousness, we always wanted it to be larger than life really. You can get away with so much with humour, smuggle so much in.”

— Danny Boyle on Trainspotting, now 30 years old

Read our 1996 interview with Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald on the S&S site now: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/we-wanted-film-have-vibrancy-be-larger-than-life-danny-boyle-trainspotting

24/08/2026

“Ketchup Entertainment come out swinging with Coyote vs. Acme, a genre-bending blend of animation and live-action film that is one of the smartest critiques of US politics in years”

Catherine Wheatley reviews. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/coyote-vs-acme-toon-courtroom-drama-one-smartest-critiques-us-politics-years

24/08/2026

The female gaze: 100 overlooked films directed by women

In 2015, we asked 100 critics and filmmakers, including Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda and Tilda Swinton to nominate a film by a female director they believe has been forgotten or unfairly overlooked

How many have you seen?

See the list in full on our Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag/list/the-female-gaze-100-overlooked-films-directed/

20/08/2026

“Wise, kind, and playful about s*x and cinema, Schoenbrun’s elastic, open-hearted feature wants us to get out of our heads and enjoy the ride”

Blake Simons reviews Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma, in UK cinemas tomorrow. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/teenage-s*x-death-camp-miasma-jane-schoenbruns-open-hearted-slasher-playful-about-s*x-cinema

17/08/2026

One of the most innovative yet still undersung of filmmakers, Harlem native William Greaves sought to challenge limitations from race to film form. As a retrospective pays tribute, we retrace his career via ten key works.

One of the most innovative yet still undersung of filmmakers, Harlem native Greaves sought to challenge limitations from race to film form. As a retrospective pays tribute, we retrace his career.

13/08/2026

“Lady, much like the aristocrat at its centre, is an odd duck: erratic at first sight, but ultimately possessed of a tender heart and scrappy spirit”

Gayle Sequeira reviews Samuel Abrahams’s mockumentary Lady, in cinemas tomorrow. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/lady-oddball-mockumentary-about-narcissistic-aristocrat-strangely-moving