Sight and Sound #36:09
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 November 2026 edition leads with a cover story on a new restoration of Ken Russell’s divisive 1971 X-rated feature ‘The Devils’, which became the subject of a notorious censorship scandal following cuts stipulated by the BBFC ahead of its release. Inside, Mark Kermode ‘tells the story of its suppression, survival and revival’—drawing from his own conversations with Russell over the years, including an extract from the first interview back in 1995—and Guillermo del Toro pays homage to the film’s marriage of ‘darkness and light’. Elsewhere, Sight & Sound’s editors share their pick of this year’s BFI London Film Festival, and Arjun Sajip interviews ‘I Love Boosters’ director Boots Riley.