Sight & Sound

Is this the best movie magazine on the planet? What is Sight and Sound? Sight and Sound is published montly by the British Film Institute (BFI). Cover price is £3.95, but an annual subscription is available for £38. For that, you get a well-designed, clearly laid-out, 100 page film magazine, offering reviews by some of the world's most interesting and insightful critics. Coverage The reviews section is the main reason for buying Sight and Sound. It's no exaggeration to say that it often carries the most interesting appraisals of Hollywood blockbusters and European arthouse published anywhere. However its scope goes far ...

Unlike most of the film magazines on the market today, Sight and Sound remains consistently focused on the more academic, aspects of film. As a film student myself, i have found it invaluable to my studies, both as a resource for specific essays and assignments, and as a general tool for increasing my knowledge and awareness of film. Not only does it review EVERY new film released in a way far surpassing the typical opinion of the reviewer, but it also allows space for essays on past directors, genre and focus on different countrys cinematic offerings. The avaiability of the magazine is incredibly problematic, at least it appears to be around my ...

Sight and Sound --------------- Film magazine stalwart Sight and Sound (S&S) certainly comes with a long pedigree. It was first published in 1935, when it was published on a quarterly basis. Meanwhile, a second mag, The Monthly Film Bulletin (MFB), had appeared in 1934, running monthly. In May 1991 the two publications climbed into the teleport together and fused to become a monthly mag with Sight and Sound as the title from that point on. Both publications have always lent towards the academic reader with a fondness for big words and foreign (paticularly French) turns of phrase. The MFB was essentially a list of all the movies ...