Sight and Sound #36:06
230 x 295 mm, 144 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 and others can spin a more tangential approach to the subject.
This is the ‘Summer Double Issue’, delving into the evolution of sci-fi in the 21st century. Peter Bradshaw opens the issue with a look at Sara Dosa’s ‘Time and Water’, a prescient tribute to Iceland’s thawing glaciers. Elsewhere, Brad Bird, the director behind nostalgic favourites ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘Ratatouille’, teases his latest project ‘Ray Gunn’—a neo-noir, futuristic animation inspired by private detective thrillers and made for adults; critics and authors of speculative fiction introduce 26 pioneering entries to the genre, presenting a film from every year since the millennium—from the release of ‘Donnie Darko’ in 2001, to this year’s ‘Synthetic Sincerity’; plus, discover an extensive low-down on Cannes 2026, including a spotlight on the festival’s controversies and Sight and Sound’s ones to watch.
