In this issue: Paul Verhoeven interviewed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Benedetta star Virginie Efira, Liv Ullmann at the movies, Doris Day at 100 by Christopher Frayling, Molly Haskell on motherhood and the movies. Plus David Thomson deliberates on how to vote in Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films poll, the view from Ukraine’s film archive, all the latest news and reviews and much more…
“There are no films quite like Paul Verhoeven’s” writes Brazilian critic turned director Kleber Mendonça Filho in our latest issue. Mendonça Filho, a longtime admirer of the Dutch filmmaker, visited the set of Verhoeven’s latest, Benedetta, his film about a 17th-century lesbian nun, back in 2018 and couldn’t resist the opportunity to sit down with him when Sight & Sound asked if he’d like to interview Verhoeven. The two discuss Verhoeven’s early years growing up in Holland during WWII, the different phases of his 50 year career as he moved between Europe and Hollywood, and how movie directors today need to look to Eisenstein.
Elsewhere in this issue: Robert Eggers reflects on The Northman; Christopher Frayling recalls Doris Day giving her first career interview; Liv Ullmann looks back on the films that inspired her; Molly Haskell explores a host of current films – among them The Worst Person in the World, The Lost Daughter, Bergman Island – that put motherhood under the microscope.
All of this, plus an archive interview with slapstick legend Buster Keaton, the view from Ukraine’s film archive, all the latest news and reviews and much more…
