I reviewed the new Toy Story film from Disney Pixar for Sight & Sound magazine. The review is online here.…
Gigi in Bologna
Gigi (1958) is screening from a vintage Technicolor print at Il Cinema Ritrovato this year. I wrote the entry for…
Kael on Klute
As part of this epic Guardian tribute to Pauline Kael, I chose one of my favourites from her reviews: her paean…
The Signal Tower in S&S
For the July 2019 issue of Sight & Sound I wrote about the fantastic restoration of Clarence Brown’s The Signal Tower,…
Early women filmmakers
For the BFI website, I wrote this short guide to starting to explore the work of the first female film…
The B word
Inspired by the new BFI Southbank season Playing the Bitch, I looked at the cultural history of the word and…
Lillian Gish
I wrote this for the Guardian about the university in Ohio that has voted to remove Lillian Gish’s name from…
The Heiress for Criterion
I wrote the booklet essay for Criterion’s gorgeous new edition of William Wyler’s The Heiress. The disc is released later…
Claire Denis in S&S
A big thrill to interview Claire Denis about High Life for the cover of the June 2019 number of Sight…
Weimar cinema on Radio 4
I was invited on to Radio 4’s The Film Programme to discuss gender fluidity in Weimar cinema, ahead of the…
