Sight & Sound, December 2023

“It looks like a fairytale, she’s got everything a woman could want, but it’s lonely.” Sofia Coppola is speaking to Nicole Flattery about Priscilla for our cover feature, her beautiful biopic of Mrs Presley, which spans the couples tumultuous relationship. This exploration of teenagedom and young adulthood affected by proximity to superstardom has all of the delicate accents that make Coppola’s films so distinct, as the pair discuss in a fascinating conversation.

Elsewhere in this packed issue: Isabel Stevens speaks to Emma Seligman about Bottoms, her boisterous high-school comedy starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Adebiri; Jonathan Romney hears from David Fincher about his stripped-back revenge film The Killer; Amy Taubin interviews Todd Haynes for the compelling and provocative May December; Justine Triet on her Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy of a Fall; and Roger Luckhurst takes a trip to the movies with Joanna Hogg, digging into her inspirations and influences.

Plus: tributes to two icons of British cinema, Horace Ové and Terence Davies; Agniia Galdanova on the documentary Queendom; Maite Alberdi on The Eternal Memory; dozens of pages of reviews.