Sight and Sound #36:08
230 x 296 mm, 100 pages
London, UK
Published since 1932
Editor-in-chief: Mike Williams
Art director: Leo Field
Design: Pentagram
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 October 2026 edition leads with a cover story on Jane Schoenbrun, the American filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed psychosexual meta-slasher feature ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’, starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson as an eager young director and the original ‘final girl’ of the film she has been tasked with rebooting. Alongside a conversation with Katie McCabe, touching on ‘identity, reality,’ and the recurring themes populating their oeuvre, Jane unpacks four films that influenced ‘Camp Miasma’—from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror ‘Psycho’, to Steven Shainberg’s 2002 comedy drama ‘Secretary’.
Elsewhere, editor-in-chief Mike Williams pens a reverential editorial on Salman Rushdie, making a plea for a screen adaptation of the author’s ‘most notorious novel’ following a sustained censorship campaign, and Nicolas Winding Refn sits down with Dario Argento to discuss their shared penchant for the Italian giallo subgenre.