My Long Take column for the April 2024 issue of Sight and Sound is devoted to the late, great film … More
Tag: film history
Watching The Watermelon Woman
Really honoured to be asked to contribute to Club Des Femmes’ Culture Club series. My piece is on the lessons … More
Hollywood and history
I wrote this feature for the Guardian’s G2 section about how Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood manipulates film history.
S&S November 2019
In the November 2019 issue of Sight & Sound I wrote a short feature about how ageing film stars are … More
30-Second Cinema
Very proud of this beautiful book and the fantastic writers who contributed to it. I edited 30-Second Cinema, an illustrated … More
Female cinematographers
The great news that Rachel Morrison has become the first woman to be nominated for a Cinematography Oscar prompted a … More
Moguls and starlets
In the light of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the wave of stories about other film industry professionals that … More
Women in filmography
For Sight & Sound, I looked at the stories behind the numbers about female filmmakers in the new BFI filmography … More
Sisters of Cinema
I can’t share a link for this, but I was on BBC Persian TV recently, discussing female film pioneers on … More
Sight & Sound August 2014
In this month’s Sight & Sound, I have written a feature about what it was like to go to the … More