Journalism
Alongside my filmmaking, I have been working as a freelance film journalist since 2008.
Publications that I have written for include The BFI website, The Guardian, Silent London, The Skinny, The Independent Cinema Guide, Filmuforia, Directors Notes, Britflicks, Hope Lies at 24fps, Cinetalk, MUBI, Nonfics, Mostly Film, Electric Sheep, Experimental Conversations, The Quietus and Night on Planet Earth. A selection of these works is listed below.
I have also given introductions and appeared on a panel at the BFI Southbank, hosted a Q&A at Bertha DocHouse, recorded an audio commentary for the distributor Flicker Alley, written booklet essays for Radiance and the BFI Bluray label, and served as a peer reviewer for the publishing company McFarland and Company, Inc. I have also been a guest on several podcasts, including The Boxing Move Podcast. A transcript of my episode was later included in the book Knockout Movies!: A History of Cinematic Boxing.
If you are interested in commissioning me to write for your own publication, please feel free to contact me.
BFI
• 10 great films about Christianity
• 10 great films set in one location
• 10 great German Expressionist films
• 10 great shorts that became features
• 100 years of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Why we’re still living in its shadows
• Béla Tarr on Sátántangó at 30 (Interview)
• Early Bergman: the genius of the angry young man
• Eight key actors in the Ingmar Bergman universe
• Four hard-and-fast rules of filmmaking... and how The Passion of Joan of Arc breaks them
• Horrible lover, great director – Jane Magnusson on the paradox of Ingmar Bergman
• How Weimar cinema influenced six modern genres
• Ingmar Bergman: 10 essential films
• Ordet at 70: the humanity behind one of cinema’s supreme spiritual achievements
• Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini’s great leap for realism on screen
• Seven reasons to celebrate The Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergman’s medieval masterpiece turns 60
• The hidden history of Swedish queer cinema
• Vampyr at 90: how Carl Dreyer conjured a waking nightmare
• What does 'Bressonian' really mean?
• Where to begin with Akira Kurosawa
• Where to begin with Alain Resnais
• Where to begin with Basil Dearden
• Where to begin with Béla Tarr
• Where to begin with Carl Dreyer
• Where to begin with Ingmar Bergman
• Where to begin with Jack Clayton
• Where to begin with Jamil Dehlavi
• Where to begin with Jean Cocteau
• Where to begin with Liv Ullmann
• Where to begin with Martin Scorsese
• Where to begin with Mai Zetterling
• Where to begin with Pedro Costa
• Where to begin with Richard Linklater
• Where to begin with Robert Bresson
• Where to begin with Roberto Rossellini
• Where to begin with Steven Soderbergh
• Where to begin with Tim Burton
• Where to begin with Val Lewton
• Why Carl Theodor Dreyer’s unmade Jesus film is one of cinema’s great ‘What ifs’
Silent London
• Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames - Book Review
• Danish and German Silent Cinema - Book Review
• The Cheaters - LFF Review
• Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché - LFF Review
• Lubitsch In Berlin - Disc Review
• Wings - Disc Review
• The Passion of Joan of Arc - Disc Review
Filmuforia
• Catherine Breillat - Interview
• Chris Mason Johnson - Interview
• Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor - Interview
• Dracula Through the Ages
• George Clooney Lost the Bet
• Gothic Cinema and the Expressionist Stage
• Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani - Interview
• Martin Scorsese: An Alternative Top Five
• Notions of Reality in Cinema
• Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit - Interview
• The Innocents: Madness and Desire in Gothic Cinema
• Tomasz Wasilewski - Interview
Directors Notes
• A Roundup of Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018
• A Roundup of the 62nd London Film Festival
• EIFF2011: The Passion of Béla Tarr
• EIFF2014: Festival Roundup
• Joe Swanberg Talks Directing, Acting & Getting His Bigger Budget Brew on for 'Drinking Buddies'
• Life Just Is: Beyond Completion
• Life Just Is: Finishing the Film
• Life Just Is: From Paper Cut to Fine Cut
• Life Just Is: Taking the Plunge
• Playing to the Crowd