Filmic fragility

My Long Take column for the September 2022 issue of Sight and Sound was inspired by a viewing of Fritz…

Pre-code Hollywood: Rules are Made to be Broken

Critic Christina Newland and I have curated a package of five unmissable Pre-code talkies – all new remasters from Warner…

I wrote a feature for the Guardian about the relative freedoms afforded to female film stars on-screen in the Pre-code…

I wrote my latest Long Take column for Sight and Sound on a very special screening of Mikhail Kaufman’s In…

I reviewed Sophie Hyde’s excellent Good Luck to You, Leo Grande for Sight and Sound this month. You can read…

I was honoured to contribute two essays to the excellent catalogue for the 25th San Francisco Silent Film Festival: one…

For the second part of my Women’s PIctures of the 80s programme for The Cinema of Ideas, the ICO is…

For the June 2022 issue of Sight and Sound, I wrote my Long Take column on Titanic films, and my…

Another appearance on Radio 4, this time on the Friday evening film show Screenshot, to talk about cinematic nuns, in…

To mark the centenary of a horror classic, I wrote a deep dive feature on FW Murnau’s Nosferatu for Empire…