Sam Wigley @sam-wigley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Happy 25th bday to this all-timer. Did a piece with Wong Kar Wai. 095
Reposted by Sam WigleySight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 23/02/2025What would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince. Sam Wigley reviews What Marielle Knows from #Berlinale2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...bfi.org.ukWhat Marielle Knows review: Tales of a teen telepathWhat would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince. 021
Reposted by Sam WigleySight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Director Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies. Sam Wigley reviews The Blue Trail, Grand Jury Prize winner at #Berlinale2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...bfi.org.ukThe Blue Trail review: voyage of the granDirector Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the grating sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies. 061
Reposted by Sam WigleyOmar Ahmed 🍉 @bressonian.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I am very excited to announce that I am writing a BFI Film Classics book on Mani Kaul's USKI ROTI / A DAY'S BREAD (1969, India) and it will be published by Bloomsbury. It will be the first title on Indian Parallel Cinema. . 3359
Reposted by Sam WigleyJohn Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 03/12/2024Publication Day has finally arrived and The Magic Hours: the Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is finally available. Writing it has been a wonderful experience and yes here is a new special episode of Writers on Film to celebrate open.spotify.com/episode/6xZX...open.spotify.comJohn Bleasdale on The Magic HoursWriters on Film · Episode 127930
Reposted by Sam WigleyMichael Brooke @marbleicehook.bsky.social · 02/12/2024My latest "Where to begin with..." piece for the BFI, and by some distance the one that I had the most fun writing.bfi.org.ukWhere to begin with Guy MaddinAs his wild new satire Rumours is unleashed into cinemas, we take a trip into the frantic, archaic, half-remembered dream worlds of the one and only Guy Maddin. 14213
Reposted by Sam WigleyNeil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 27/11/2024This is wonderful www.bfi.org.uk/features/wat...bfi.org.ukThe real locations from Watership Down: how they look todayWhen making the classic film of Watership Down, the animators based their drawings on actual places in the English countryside. But have these locations been spared the bulldozers? 3103
Reposted by Sam WigleyJosh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Five years ago today, my BFI interview with Atom Egoyan about EXOTICA at 25 was published. Resharing it now with a 30th anniversary hook. Still one of my favourite pieces I've ever done. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/e...bfi.org.ukAtom Egoyan: how we made Exotica – 25th anniversaryA quarter of a century after it became a defining 1990s indie hit, we speak to Atom Egoyan about the unusual genesis of his puzzlebox strip-club drama Exotica. 2225
Sam Wigley @sam-wigley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024My interview with David Lynch from the summer is now online. For what it's worth, it never said he was retiring. It actually says the exact opposite! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...bfi.org.ukDavid Lynch on music, innovation and his future as a filmmaker: “I like to call it experimentation”Not content with being one of the great iconoclasts of modern cinema, David Lynch has also been a trailblazing musical adventurer – and in recent years, it is music that has come to dominate his creat... 13514
Reposted by Sam WigleyFarran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Early Christmas gift? Thanksgiving miracle? Take your pick, it's wonderful news. 414437