The Sight

Nick James is the former editor of Sight and Sound magazine. His book on Michael Mann’s Heat was published in 2002. He has written for many publications and is a frequent contributor to Sight and Sound and the Observer.

Chris Darke is a writer and film critic based in London. His work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Trafic, and the Independent. He is also the author of Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, a monograph...

Michael Atkinson writes regularly for the Village Voice and Sight and Sound, and teaches at Long Island University. His books include Exile Cinema (SUNY Press) and Blue Velvet (British Film Institute), which was reissued in a new edition in 2021.

Terrence Rafferty is the author of The Thing Happens: Ten Years of Writing About the Movies. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Nation, GQ, and Sight and Sound, and taught at Columbia...

Dec 9, 2023 — This week we’re revisiting the work of Tolkin, Bogdanovich, and Borowczyk and reading profiles of Isabelle Huppert and Nicolas Cage.

May 29, 2020 — This week we’re learning about one of the world’s first tracking shots and catching up with Guy Maddin, Lewis Klahr, Sarah Cooper, and Steve Buscemi.

Dec 12, 2018 — Selection to the registry ensures that “these films will be preserved for all time.”

Jan 6, 2009 — Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-winning film is not just an epic but also a small film, one in which, somehow or other, the scope of David Lean has been enriched with the vision of Ozu.

Mar 4, 1989 — Alec Guinness used his new-found prominence and clout to initiate a long-cherished ambition, to bring Joyce Cary’s most famous novel to the screen.

Jan 23, 2026 — This week: Max Ophuls, Erich von Stroheim, David Lynch, the Biden years, and the best of 1935.