Isabel Stevens
@IsStevens
Managing editor @SightSoundmag | commissions features and Opening Scenes front section | author of the Natural History column 📖 🖋 🎞 🐈 | Opinions all mine
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For @SightSoundmag I spoke to Olena Honcharuk at Ukraine’s national film archive @dovzhenkocentre about their work during the war and how the archive tells a vital story of Ukraine’s cultural identity and its independence bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
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And the winner is… ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics Anderson responds to winning the poll: “Fuck yeah! It takes my breath away a bit, honestly. I remember reading Sight and…
Went to Terry Gilliam’s house to interview him for @BFI. The result of our 95-minute chat is this career interview, which clocks in at just under 5,000 words and is the longest single piece of written journalism I’ve had published in my career. bfi.org.uk/interviews/ter…
The Animation at War season at @BarbicanCentre is expanding! In October, we're screening József Gémes's medieval epic, HEROIC TIMES. This is a glorious painted masterpiece of Hungarian animation, and to our knowledge this is the first time the film has been screened in the UK.
Pamela Hutchinson previews the Film on Film Festival, which includes a rare showing of an original print of Star Wars, among other treasures + the S&S team pick their most anticipated screenings of the festival bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
Very pleased to be in @SightSoundmag talking about the storied Film Society, a hundred years to the month since it was announced to the world on the front page of the Daily Express
I interviewed Tom Cruise! Find all 7800 words of our two conversations in @SightSoundmag June issue - out this Thursday We talked about Val Kilmer, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, working with Stanley Kubrick, his own adventures in directing and more ✨
“I never made a movie to just go make a movie. It was always an exploration of filmmaking” World exclusive – @TomCruise talks @isstevens through his fascinating career in an in-depth interview. Only in the new Sight and Sound Get your copy here: mmslondon.co.uk/shop/p/sightan… Out for…
Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/9qg-
Not sure how that happened but last night I was named the British Society of Magazine Editors (@bsmeinfo) Editor of the Year for the 3rd year in a row 😱. Very proud and all credit to my genius team @SightSoundmag for making me look good 🙏❤️ #BSMEAwards2024
And the winner is… ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Payal Kapadia’s delicate, dreamlike tale of loneliness and fellowship has been voted the best film of the year by our critics
me telling you Marielle Heller's NIGHTBITCH deserves more love than it's been getting – honoured to have reviewed it for @SightSoundmag and it's now online: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
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Nightbitch review: Mothermorphosis
Amy Adams brings wholehearted empathy to Mother, an exhausted suburban woman whose frustrations with parenthood lead to an animalistic transformation.
“With her bold bone-structure and the curtain of her wheat-gold Jackie O coif, Gena Rowlands is the classic Hollywood icon that got away” An ode to the legendary actress, who has died aged 94, written for our October 1995 issue buff.ly/3Hrt9OW
🔔Move Madly is growing🔔 I'll post more often from now on, with the extra posts behind a paywall. The newsletter has grown faster than I'd dared imagine. A huge thanks to all readers: you've helped nurture this young platform for writing about animation. Sign up below… (1/2)
my latest @SightSoundmag contribution, on Franz Kafka and his impact upon cinema. bfi.org.uk/features/kafka…
25 writers each pick a film of the century plus me & others on Cannes and much more Bit of a summer cracker really
21ST-CENTURY CINEMA SPECIAL New writing on 25 of the most significant films of the century + archive interviews with Agnès Varda, David Lynch, Park Chan-wook + much more… Out on Monday ✨ Get your copy: buff.ly/4chKhF6 Find out what’s inside: buff.ly/3yY8OAx
Online @FilmComment now, my reflections (rant?😶🌫️) on Cannes 2024: on A.I. anxieties, police states, the cognitive dissonance of film fests these days, & some movies too—LAW AND ORDER, SANTOSH, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT ⚡️ filmcomment.com/blog/cannes-20…
Was a pleasure to review the latest Grand Prix winner at Cannes, ‘All We Imagine as Light’, for @SightSoundmag bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
I recorded nine podcasts and one panel at Cannes. All the pods are now online @FilmComment; panel is coming soon. Thanks to all the lovely critics who joined, and to all the listeners who’ve been following along 💕 filmcomment.com/blog/category/…
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For a glimpse behind the scenes of comp jury duty at Cannes, do seek out @Hanifkureishi’s latest newsletter on judging 2009’s selection & how he wanted Audiard’s A Prophet to win: hanifkureishi.substack.com/p/jury-duty?ut…
Amazing news that @BFI will be releasing the highlight of the Cannes competition for me - Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light - in the UK. Now for the Palme… 🤞
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