In Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice', Joaquin Phoenix plays a stoner detective in a Californian hippie culture soured after the Manson Killings. Cover screen print by Kate Gibb.
A simple illustration for a complicated article on how new laws in the UK requiring the classification of previously exempt films risk adding to the financial woes of niche distributors.
The October issue of Sight&Sound includes an editorial on the recent death of Richard Attenborough. In particular what a colossus the actor-director was when representing and lobbying for the British film industry, and who would now fill his shoes. Our regular illustrator Simon Cooper provided the following sketch.
Although good fun we all agreed, Simon included, that in this instance we should be more respectful to such an important figure. The final illustration was modified as shown below.
What are the greatest documentaries ever made? Sight&Sound polled 340 critics, programmers and filmmakers in the search for authoritative answers. We present the votes and thoughts of 100 of our respondents in the September 2014 issue on the right, cover artwork by Why Not Associates. While on the left, the cover from September 2007 where we explored if cinema can force change in '10 Documentaries that shook the world', artwork by Alex Williamson.
The new cover for Sight&Sound features an illustration by Jimmy Turrell for the film 'Boyhood'. Filmed by the acclaimed film director Richard Linlater over 12 year in order to capture its protagonist from childhood through to college.
In 2012 Sight&Sound celebrated it's 80th year, we also redesigned the magazine and launched a digital edition. To celebrate we released this ad made by WhyNot Associates and featuring the voice of our advertising manager Ronnie Hackston.
The last item written for Sight&Sound each month is the editorial. Nick James, the editor, likes to do it when everything else is done and his mind is clear to think about what he wants to say. This is great for him, but not so good for the illustrator for this column, Simon Cooper, who has a short time to turn the words and often complex themes into a humorous illustration. Each time he manages to achieve this with aplomb. Examples below.
Britain's pre-eminent television dramatist produced a body of work unmatched for the range of its polemical concerns. Pioneering the use of experimental techniques designed to shake viewers from their passive slumber on the sofa, his barbed, darkly comic work laid bare his own demons as he sought to shine a light on the nation's spiritual longings, sexual anxiety and political malaise. Illustration by Jimmy Turrell for the July 2014 issue of Sight&Sound.
This month's issue features Amma Asante's 'Belle' on the cover. The film presents a fictionalised account of the true tale of a multi-race aristocrat in 18th-century England. It is a delicate portrait of the complexities of race and racism that strives to show that nothing in life is ever simply black and white.
The late Polish director may have alienated some critics with his idiosyncratic career trajectory – travelling from masterful short animations and the visual poetry of his early features 'Goto, Isle of Love' and 'Blanche' to the dismal softcore travesty of 'Emmanuelle 5' – but his perverse, confrontational narratives are now ripe for reappraisal. Excellent illustration of Walerian Borowczyk by Jimmy Turrell for the May 14 issue of Sight&Sound
New Sight&Sound cover, on the left. Up to the day before we went to press it was going to be the version on the right.
A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. Created by Ben Barrett-Forrest © Forrest Media - 2013 http://www.forrestmedia.org http://www.facebook.com/forrestmedia http://twitter.com/benbf Information Sources: Thinking in Type by Ellen Lupton Just My Type by Simon Garfield If this video sparks any ideas, I would love to hear about them!
It takes me 40 mins to teach but this does it much better in 5 mins
