Sight and Sound #36:03
230 x 295 mm, 100 pages
London, UK
Published since 1932
Editor-in-chief: Mike Williams
Art director: Leo Field
The international film magazine from the British Film Institute, featuring reviews, interviews with filmmakers, profiles of film stars past and present, mega movie listicles and industry-focused news. It’s the solid movie magazine at the centre of the industry, around which the likes of Little White Lies can spin a more tangential approach to the subject.
This April 2026 special edition, titled ‘The Art of Acting’, opens with thoughts from editor-in-chief Mike Williams on the collision between pop stars and cinema, in light of the recent premiere of ‘The Moment’—a mockumentary starring Charli XCX as an exaggerated version of herself navigating the ‘post-Brat’ era—and considers whether pre-existing stars are needed to fill certain roles.
Also featured in this issue: ‘Hamnet’ star—and newly crowned Oscar winner—Jessie Buckley reflects on her acting journey in conversation with Mark Kermode, Ethan Hawke talks with Samuel Wigley about the movies that have perennially inspired him, and Kim Novak takes a retrospective look at her career ahead of new documentary, ‘Kim Novak’s Vertigo’. Elsewhere, Pamela Hutchinson takes a critical stance on the prospective use of generative AI to restore and ‘improve’ early cinema, and reviews of Emerald Fennel’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the new comedy drama ‘How to Make a Killing’ shed light on the contemporary zeitgeist.