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Sight & Sound: the June 2021 issue Mark Kermode and Prano Bailey–Bond talk Censor and the 80s British censorship massacre. Read if you dare! Plus the history of ‘video nasties’, Kelly Reichardt on First Cow, Suzanne Lindon’s Spring Blossom, the sprawling brilliance of Robert Altman’s Nashville, and vintage Jack Nicholson. 10 May 2021 Sight & Sound June 2021 issue It’s the issue they didn’t want you to read! Sight & Sound avoids the censor’s scissors, but...

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The Leather Boys (1964) Cannes won’t announce the lineup for its 2021 edition until May 27, but the annual round of speculation has already begun. Little White Lies’ Charles Bramesco offer overviews of the likeliest contenders, while the team at Screen goes all in with a comprehensive region-by-region guide to well over a hundred projects either on the verge of completion or standing by and waiting for a call. Even if less than half of them actually end up heading to France, Screen’s ...

Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up Monte Hellman, who has died in Los Angeles at the age of 91, was nothing short of a legendary figure in American independent cinema. From his start in the Roger Corman stable in the early 1960s, a veritable breeding ground for the talent that would emerge at the tail end of the decade, Hellman began his career with...

Monte Hellman obituary Ronald Bergan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy Whenever the name of the director Monte Hellman is mentioned, it is accompanied by the word “cult”. It is possible that Hellman, who has died aged 91, gained cult status because of his reputation as a maverick, like his favourite actors Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates, and because his films were so few and far between. After Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), his most accomplished and ...

Rolling Stone Oscars 2021: Wolf Howls, Da Butt and the Chadwick Boseman Tribute That Wasn’t Rob Sheffield on the Oscars ceremony that let the speeches go long, the ‘Fatal Attraction’ star get her freak on — and forgot to actually, y’know, be the Oscars By AMPAS/ABC Lord, that was ugly. The most flamboyantly unplanned and half-assed Oscar Night in recent history was a grind from beginning to end, with the premise, “Just wait till the finale — you’ll see people cl...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The Oscars are this Sunday, bringing an end to an extended awards season like no other. Besides his predictions in all 23 categories, awards columnist Glenn Whipp wrote a piece about what to look for during the ceremony, such as just how much history will be made among the winners, the extremely competitive lead actress race and whether there will be joy in Husavik, Iceland. Advertisement Th...

How Monte Hellman Beat the Devil: An Appreciation Steven Gaydos, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.” A decade earlier, filmmaker-critic Kent Jones wrote that “anything written in America about Monte Hellman … cinema’s most under-appreciated great director … must be a defense.” More from Variety Decades before Jones...

How Monte Hellman Beat the Devil: An Appreciation Variety 2 hrs ago On the release of what was to be the late Monte Hellman’s final feature film in 2011, critic Steve Erickson noted “Monte Hellman is the ultimate outlaw filmmaker.” A decade earlier, filmmaker-critic Kent Jones wrote that “anything written in America about Monte Hellman … cinema’s most under-appreciated great director … must be a defense.” More from Variety Decades before Jones’ astute assessment, film cr...