Sight and Sound Volume 33 Issue 4 (May 2023)

Sight & Sound Volume 33 Issue 4 (May 2023) Shinkai Makoto on Suzume

After super-sized anime smash hits Your Name and Weathering with You, Shinkai Makoto returns with Suzume, described by Nick Bradshaw in our cover feature as “another signature Shinkai blockbuster: opulent, openhearted, mixing contemporary realism with supernatural fantasy and folklore as it follows its eponymous teen heroine through literally earthshaking peril in the shadow of geological disaster.” To celebrate, we pair a conversation with the director (and accompanying exclusive concept artworks) with an A to Z of contemporary anime.

Elsewhere within this issue are a look back through Dracula’s cinematic past, a new issue of the Black Film Bulletin, interviews with Dario Argento, Mia Hansen-Løve, Pacifiction director Albert Serra and Rye Lane director Raine Allen-Miller. Plus all of the latest news from festivals, reviews of new releases, new Talkies columnists and much more.