Director Gary Dauberman’s long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s small town vampire story plays with vampire conventions to create suspense rather than surprise.

An amnesiac pieces together fragments of his life and lost love in Weightless. Italian director Sara Fgaier tells us about her ambitious use of archive footage to evoke a passing era.

The grotesque pantomime killings of Art the Clown reach new extremes with this gory Christmas addition to the Terrifier franchise.

Rising star Madison electrifies as sex worker Ani in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning screwball romance. She explains what went into the role, which she crafted alongside Baker.

Lovestruck Agnes is relentlessly reincarnated as Georgian aristocrat, Victorian teacher and fan of an 80s pop star as she pursues her ‘true love’ through time in Alice Lowe’s macabre comedy subversion ...

Can’t decide what to make time for at BFI London Film Festival 2024? Discover some of the most intriguing films on the programme, reviewed and recommended by Sight and Sound critics.

The events surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s declaration of independence and the subsequent assassination of prime minister Patrice Lumumba are laid out with cool precision to a ...

Cinema founded itself in documentary, but how did the form develop an alternative visual language to that of the fiction film? Is it, as pioneer Joris Ivens claimed, “a creative no-man’s land”? From ...

In the late 1940s and 50s, comedy horror was dominated by a series of films bringing Universal’s top-billing comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into corny collision with various old-school ...

Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.”Jackie Chan From the first instance that film cameras first started rolling, the ...

Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival, the Spanish auteur’s mesmerising bullfighting documentary shows the beauty and the barbarism of the controversial tradition.