Dec 6, 2024 · We said: “From having their first single banned from Irish radio for ‘drug references and cursing’ to riling unionist politicians with their ‘Brits out’ slogan, Kneecap are unapologetically brash and republican. So is the film, which provokes the audiences with gleeful chants of ‘Tiocfaidh ár lá’ (‘Our day will come’) – the only phrase used more often may be ‘Fenian ...

Jan 9, 2025 · The UK ’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers, the BFI Future Film Festival 2025 returns from 20 February to 6 March with a hybrid format that maintains a tradition of live and in-person screenings and events at BFI Southbank (20 to 23 February) alongside a globally accessible online programme, kindly supported by main sponsors Netflix and Warner …

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Every decade since 1992, Sight and Sound has complemented its celebrated critics’ poll by formally sounding out the world’s leading directors on the ten films they believe to be the greatest of all time. Though it has always been global and inclusive in scope, the poll has expanded significantly each decade. In 1992, 101 directors voted; fast-forward to 2012, when 358 …

Dec 1, 2022 · Akerman’s film has leapfrogged from 36th place in 2012 to take the top spot a decade later. The prestigious once-a-decade poll is Sight and Sound’s eighth, and the most ambitious to date, with more than 1,600 of the most influential international film critics, academics, distributors, writers, curators, archivists and programmers voting, almost double the number of …

The international film magazine. Sight and Sound presents the auteur series: Chantal Akerman. In a new edition of the series celebrating the work of the greatest auteur directors in history, we delve into our archives to revisit the radical cinema of Chantal Akerman, whose film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, was voted Greatest of All Time in 2022.

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edition (its eighth) is the largest ever, with 1,639 participating critics, programmers, …

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Nov 13, 2024 · A centrepiece of the BFI season will be the BFI Distribution re-release of Visconti’s operatic and poignant story of brotherhood, Rocco and His Brothers (1960), in select cinemas nationwide from 3 January. This hypnotically beautiful tale of relocation, loss and sacrifice charts the fortunes of a family who move from a farm in the rural south to find work in modern Milan.