In Spring

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

Max Linder and Betty Balfour in San Francisco

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

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

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

I have curated a BFI Southbank retrospective of the silent star Asta Nielsen. The season kicked off with my lecture, … More

For the Criterion website, I wrote this essay about discovering the true faces of the silent era, which may well … More

In the November 2021 issue of Sight and Sound, I wrote my column on the rights and wrongs of remakes. … More

In the October 2021 issue of Sight and Sound, I wrote my column The Long Take on the use of … More

For the Independent, I wrote up the incredible story of Europa, an anti-fascist avant-garde Polish film that was looted by … More

I delivered the 2021 Philip French Memorial Lecture on criticism at the Watershed Cinema in Bristol in July, as part … More