The Sight

Sep 3, 2007 — Ataxi, without a client in the car or anywhere else in sight, goes around Helsinki’s Senate Square, a place that resonates with history, having seen more patriotism, class struggle, and celebration than any other place in faraway Finland. It stood...

Apr 26, 1999 — At some point in their lives, probably every sleepless person has switched on the TV in the wee hours of a weekend morning and chanced upon a fishing show. Invariably, a beefy, half-forgotten retired athlete shares a boat with some...

Elena Lazic is a French freelance film writer based in London, and the founder and editor of the online film magazine Animus. She has written for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, MUBI’s Notebook, the Guardian, and Cahiers du cinéma,...

Jun 21, 2019 — Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?

May 14, 2018 — Few critics come to the defense of this story of an all-female Kurdish combat unit.

Jun 26, 2025 — This is the season for catching 35 mm and 70 mm prints of classics and rarities.

Jan 17, 2025 — Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Dec 20, 2024 — Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.

Mar 12, 2024 — The thirteenth edition offers twenty features, new short films by Kevin Jerome Everson and Nathaniel Dorsky, workshops and more.

Jan 23, 2024 — In the first ten years of her extraordinary career, the Belgian filmmaker used the raw materials of quotidian, marginal lives to spark a radical reinvention of cinema.