Sam Wigley

Happy 25th bday to this all-timer. Did a piece with Wong Kar Wai.

What Marielle Knows review: Tales of a teen telepath What would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince.

What would you do if your child could listen in to your private conversations? Frédéric Hambalek’s dark but hilarious film about a teen with telepathic powers feels designed to make parents wince.

Sam Wigley reviews What Marielle Knows from #Berlinale2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Blue Trail review: voyage of the gran Director Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the grating sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies.

Director Gabriel Mascaro’s fantastical odyssey about a woman on the run from an ageist authoritarian government avoids the sentimentality of so many late-life renaissance movies.

Sam Wigley reviews The Blue Trail, Grand Jury Prize winner at #Berlinale2025 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

I am very excited to announce that I am writing a BFI Film Classics book on Mani Kaul's USKI ROTI / A DAY'S BREAD (1969, India) and it will be published by Bloomsbury. It will be the first title on Indian Parallel Cinema.
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John Bleasdale on The Magic Hours Writers on Film · Episode

Publication Day has finally arrived and The Magic Hours: the Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is finally available. Writing it has been a wonderful experience and yes here is a new special episode of Writers on Film to celebrate open.spotify.com/episode/6xZX...

Where to begin with Guy Maddin As his wild new satire Rumours is unleashed into cinemas, we take a trip into the frantic, archaic, half-remembered dream worlds of the one and only Guy Maddin.

My latest "Where to begin with..." piece for the BFI, and by some distance the one that I had the most fun writing.

The real locations from Watership Down: how they look today When making the classic film of Watership Down, the animators based their drawings on actual places in the English countryside. But have these locations been spared the bulldozers?

This is wonderful www.bfi.org.uk/features/wat...

Atom Egoyan: how we made Exotica – 25th anniversary A quarter of a century after it became a defining 1990s indie hit, we speak to Atom Egoyan about the unusual genesis of his puzzlebox strip-club drama Exotica.

Five years ago today, my BFI interview with Atom Egoyan about EXOTICA at 25 was published. Resharing it now with a 30th anniversary hook. Still one of my favourite pieces I've ever done.

www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/e...

David Lynch on music, innovation and his future as a filmmaker: “I like to call it experimentation” Not content with being one of the great iconoclasts of modern cinema, David Lynch has also been a trailblazing musical adventurer – and in recent years, it is music that has come to dominate his creat...

My interview with David Lynch from the summer is now online. For what it's worth, it never said he was retiring. It actually says the exact opposite! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Early Christmas gift? Thanksgiving miracle? Take your pick, it's wonderful news.