I appear on the first episode of the new season of the Mubi podcast, Tailor Made, looking at the deathless … More
Tag: film
10 great films from 1924
For the BFI, I chose 10 important films from a century ago.
Musée Lumière in Sight and Sound
In the Winter 2023-24 edition of Sight and Sound I interviewed Thierry Frémaux and reported from the reopening of the … More
Thelma Schoonmaker and Theda Bara in Sight and Sound
For the November 2023 issue of Sight and Sound, I interviewed the wonderful Thelma Schoonmaker about the films of Powell … More
The Red Shoes
My new BFI Film Classic on The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948) is out now, from BFI … More
Free Thinking: The Red Shoes
I joined a panel of experts on Radio 3’s Free Thinking to discuss Powell and Pressburger’s magisterial The Red Shoes, … More
Weimar Noir: GW Pabst
Fantastic new website WeimarCinema.org publishes new essays journal-style, and I was thrilled to be able to write about ‘Weimar Noir: … More
Asta Nielsen in Feminist Media Histories
Delighted to say that I interviewed Asta Nielsen scholar Julie K Allen for the Spring 2023 issue of Feminist Media … More
Recipes for disaster
In the new issue of Sight and Sound, I had a ball writing my column on the feminist energy of … More
Ginger Rogers
BFI Southbank is currently hosting a Ginger Rogers retrospective, curated by Heather Osborn. For the Guardian, I wrote this article … More