Sight and Sound October 2023

We mark the release of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon with an honest, insightful and wide-ranging interview with the director, in which he discusses how he came to make the film, his respect for the Osage Nation and his Greatest Films poll picks. Elsewhere in the issue are Celine Song on her quiet but powerful directorial debut Past Lives, Ken Loach on what may be his final film, The Old Oak, and Shane Meadows looking back at Dead Man’s Shoes twenty years on.

Plus: Lorenza Mazzetti, an Italian director in London; Ira Sachs’s Passages and sex on screen; a classic Bernard Herrmann interview; and much, much more below…