Sight and Sound Summer 2025
On the cover: 1975, the year that changed cinema forever. From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman
Inside: Cannes 2025 bulletin, Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest, David Cronenberg interviewed by Erika Balsom and we revisit Peter Wollen's 1993 article on Jurassic Park.
1975
Jaws and Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. The length of their titles – one an evocative flash of teeth, the other a woman’s name and address in full – tells a story in itself. Between those two films, both released in 1975, all the rest of cinema sits, a spectrum between aggression and exhilaration on the one hand, duration and repetition on the other. One reinvented Hollywood in its image, spawning five decades of summer blockbusters; the other, a challenge to preconceived notions of the ‘cinematic’, is now crowned Greatest Film of All Time by Sight and Sound’s poll.
On the cover: 1975, the year that changed cinema forever. From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman
Inside: Cannes 2025 bulletin, Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest, David Cronenberg interviewed by Erika Balsom and we revisit Peter Wollen's 1993 article on Jurassic Park.
1975
Jaws and Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. The length of their titles – one an evocative flash of teeth, the other a woman’s name and address in full – tells a story in itself. Between those two films, both released in 1975, all the rest of cinema sits, a spectrum between aggression and exhilaration on the one hand, duration and repetition on the other. One reinvented Hollywood in its image, spawning five decades of summer blockbusters; the other, a challenge to preconceived notions of the ‘cinematic’, is now crowned Greatest Film of All Time by Sight and Sound’s poll.
On the cover: 1975, the year that changed cinema forever. From Jaws to Jeanne Dielman
Inside: Cannes 2025 bulletin, Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest, David Cronenberg interviewed by Erika Balsom and we revisit Peter Wollen's 1993 article on Jurassic Park.
1975
Jaws and Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. The length of their titles – one an evocative flash of teeth, the other a woman’s name and address in full – tells a story in itself. Between those two films, both released in 1975, all the rest of cinema sits, a spectrum between aggression and exhilaration on the one hand, duration and repetition on the other. One reinvented Hollywood in its image, spawning five decades of summer blockbusters; the other, a challenge to preconceived notions of the ‘cinematic’, is now crowned Greatest Film of All Time by Sight and Sound’s poll.
