Sight & Sound #36 - March 2026
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Sight & Sound #36 - March 2026
On the cover: Multi-award-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson on One Battle After Another and his life in the movies. Inside the issue: Tributes to the late Béla Tarr; Kristen Stewart finds new expression as writer-director of The Chronology of Water; an interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho, director of The Secret Agent; Sirāt director Oliver Laxe on his intuitive, sensorial filmmaking; Mona Fastvold on The Testament of Ann Lee; Josh Safdie, director of Marty Supreme talks dreams, drive and delusions; Mary Bronstein returns with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Plus, reviews of new releases and a look back at the work of Andrzej Wajda, ten years after his death.
“Since its release last September, the film has been a Molotov cocktail thrown into the contemporary cultural debate, when the stakes for the American project have rarely seemed higher. Reviews by right-wing commentators like Ben Shapiro have condemned it as dangerous leftist propaganda. On the other side have come arguments that it plays to the right’s concocted fear of a coordinated antifa network working to bring down the America they imagine. Anderson himself has sidestepped such debates, refusing to be drawn either way, and insisting instead that the film is less about the immediate moment than it is about a more ongoing tension in American life – a recurring “disease”, as he puts it – and that, in any case, most audiences have responded to it as the barrelling action thriller it undoubtedly is.”
— James Bell on One Battle After Another, in our cover interview