A review of the Bluray release of John Waters’s outrageous 1970 proto-punk masterpiece starring Divine and the Dreamland gang.
A quick update
For me, the past couple of months have been very busy and rewarding in terms of my own work and, as for many people, very challenging and upsetting on a political level. This post is just a quick update regarding the former since, among other things, I use this blog as a tally of what I’ve […]
Review: Hail, Caesar!
J.M. Tyree and I review the Coens’ new film for Sight & Sound, suggesting it is not only a love letter to the movies but also a work that is unusually interested in technical virtuosity, and in systems of belief.
Review: Orson Welles One Man Band for Sight and Sound
Magnificently out of whack: a review of the third volume in Simon Callow’s biography of Orson Welles
Orson, mon amour
To mark the start of the two-month BFI Welles season I co-curated, here’s my Sight & Sound cover story on some of his unknown works
Five highlights from BFI Flare 2015
Festival report on BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2015 including Dressed as a Girl, The New Girlfriend, Tab Hunter Confidential, 54: The Director’s Cut, Save the Tavern and Something Must Break
Mother love: Xavier Dolan interview for Sight & Sound
An interview for Sight & Sound with Xavier Dolan, the young Quebecois director whose films are marked by domestic powerplay, exuberant aestheticism, lustful violence and his recurring obsession, mother love
Sight & Sound article about older LGBT people on film
An article from the March 2015 issue of Sight & Sound about the recent rise in visibility of older LGBT characters in film
Meet Ernst and Röbi, real-life stars of gay-rights docudrama The Circle
I’ve been a bit obsessed this year with the idea of a ‘backward turn’ in LGBTQ cinema – a spike in interest in stories about the past, expressed through attention to period dramas, documentaries about historic subjects and greater screen presence for older LGBTQ people. (Here’s the Guardian piece where I set the idea out.) […]
Pride review for Sight & Sound
This review of Pride, released today in the UK, appears in the October 2014 issue of Sight & Sound. I recently argued in the Guardian that LGBT cinema is currently undergoing something of a ‘backward turn’: an increasingly sizeable body of work has emerged over recent years comprising films that could be considered retrospective in […]
