I appear on the first episode of the new season of the Mubi podcast, Tailor Made, looking at the deathless … More
Tag: Women in film
Asta Nielsen in Istanbul
I programmed this short season of Asta Nielsen films for Beykoz Kundura in Istanbul, back before the earthquake. So happy … More
S&S October 2023
I have lots of reviews in the October 2023 edition of Sight and Sound: new Blu-rays of Stroheim’s Foolish Wives … More
Cate Blanchett at CIFF
The recent Chichester International Film Festival held a retrospective of films starring Cate Blanchett. As part of the season I … 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
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
Pleased as anything to have contributed two commentaries and two even shorter notes to this wondrous box set from Kino … More
Norma Talmadge for Sight and Sound
My Long Take column in December’s Sight and Sound is on the joy of Norma Talmadge and particularly watching her … More
The greatness of Cléo from 5 to 7
For the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll, I wrote about the wonders of Agnès Varda’s Cléo … More
She Said on Today
I appeared on Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, to talk about the new film about the New York Time … More