BFI: Kirk Douglas: Ten Essential Films — by Christina Newland on

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      For Kirk Douglas' 99th birthday, I wrote about ten of his best films for the BFI. 

Top 10 Films of 2015 — by Christina Newland on

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10. Crimson Peak, dir. Guillermo del Toro 9. Girlhood (Bande des filles), dir. Celine Sciamma 8. Whiplash, dir. Damien Chazelle ...

Canvas by Grolsch: An Interview with Jeanie Finlay on Orion: the Man Who Would be King — by Christina Newland on

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I spoke to Nottingham-based documentarian Jeanie Finlay about her BIFA-winning film Orion: The Man Who Would be King over at Grolsch Ca...

Little White Lies: Do Movies Turn Women into Masochists? — by Christina Newland on

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    I explored my dubious love for Peckinpah's heist thriller The Getaway in spite of its treatment of women over at Little White ...

BFI: Ten Films set in Period New York — by Christina Newland on

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 I wrote about ten of my favourite films set in the New York of yesteryear - from Leone's Once Upon a Time in America to Kazan'...

Movie Mezzanine: The Bold Melodramas of Nicholas Ray — by Christina Newland on

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   For the 60th anniversary of Rebel Without a Cause, I wrote about it and Nicholas Ray for Movie Mezzanine -- you can find it here. 

BFI London Film Festival: Liveblog — by Christina Newland on

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 I spent a handful of days at this year's London Film Festival, doing some capsule coverage and interviews over at the BFI's li...

Preview: Mayhem Film Festival 2015 — by Christina Newland on

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The time has come again -- it's October, and even the most skittish of moviegoers (including myself) are in the mood to watch horror...

Watergate Cinematek: Exclusive Interview with Director Philip Kaufman — by Christina Newland on

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With a joyous soundtrack featuring Dion and Frankie Valli, The Wanderers  is among the finest of teen gang films. Set in the Bronx of ...

Watergate Cinematek Screening Notes: James Toback's Fingers (1978) — by Christina Newland on

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Fingers is the sort of film too unruly to be easily labeled — even over thirty years after its release. Writer-director Ja...

BFI: Ingrid Bergman: Ten Essential Films — by Christina Newland on

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 For the centenary year of her birth, I wrote about ten unmissable films from the career of the luminous Ingrid Bergman. You can find i...

Broadly: An Interview with Carol Morley - Where are the Women who want to Booze and Screw on Camera? — by Christina Newland on

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 I spoke to filmmaker Carol Morley, director of The Falling and The Alcohol Years , over at VICE's new women's interest site ...

BFI: Robert Redford: Ten Essential Films — by Christina Newland on

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   In celebration of his 79th birthday, I wrote a fun list of the essential films in Robert Redford's career, from Downhill Racer ...

BFI: 10 Lovers-on-the-Run Films — by Christina Newland on

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  I wrote about great lovers-on-the-run films --- from Visconti to Malick --- over at BFI. 

VICE: Romany Gypsies + Racism — by Christina Newland on

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I took a break from the cinema and wrote something rather personal over at VICE about my relationship with the Romany Gypsy communi...

Grolsch Film Works: Interview with Billy Corben — by Christina Newland on

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I talked to Florida-based documentary filmmaker Billy Corben (of Cocaine Cowboys fame) about his new film, Dawg Fight -- and capturing b...

Movie Mezzanine: Musical Martyrdom and Asif Kapadia's AMY — by Christina Newland on

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      I wrote about Asif Kapadia's documentary AMY  and the difficulty of making films about dead musical icons over at Movie Mezza...

BFI: Marilyn Monroe vs. 10 Great Directors — by Christina Newland on

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 I wrote about Marilyn Monroe and her work with 10 great directors - from Billy Wilder to Howard Hawks - over at BFI for their June Mar...

Movie Mezzanine: Junkies on Film - a 1990's Revival — by Christina Newland on

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  I wrote about junkies on film, the nineties obsession with heroin addiction, + the Safdie Brothers' new movie  Heaven Knows What ...

Grolsch Film Works: Everything you Need to Know about Jim Jarmusch's Secret Society — by Christina Newland on

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      Jim Jarmusch has a secret society and Tom Waits/Iggy Pop/Thurston Moore are all in it. If you want to know what it's all about...

Review: Girlhood — by Christina Newland on

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Girlhood [ Bande des Filles ]  Dir. Celine Sciamma  Something Sylvia Plath once wrote comes readily to mind when thinking of Celin...

BFI: Derby Film Fest 2015 Preview — by Christina Newland on

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  I wrote a festival preview for this weekend's start to Derby Film Festival, held at the QUAD cinema.    Have a peek at  BFI onli...

Grolsch Film Works: Female Hysteria on Film — by Christina Newland on

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I wrote about female hysteria, witchy women, and male directors being terrified of them for Grolsch Film Works. You can have a read a...

Review: The Falling — by Christina Newland on

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   The Falling , Dir. Carol Morley  There always was that one girl at school. The one who seemed preternaturally worldly, wearing expe...

Grolsch Film Works: The Hallmarks of the Southern Gothic Sub-Genre — by Christina Newland on

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This May, the BFI Southbank runs a season called 'Southern Gothic: Love, Death and Religion in the Deep South'. I wrote about ...

Verité Film Mag: Missing Welles - The Other Side of the Wind — by Christina Newland on

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For this month's issue of Verité Film Mag, I contributed to a section on the centenary birth year of the inimitable Orson We...

Brief Thoughts: Wild Tales + While We're Young — by Christina Newland on

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Wild Tales Dir. Damon Szifron Wild Tales , a series of darkly absurd vignettes from Argentinian director Damian Szifron, begins wi...

Grolsch Film Works: A Brief History of Hollywood's Bad Boy Movie Moguls — by Christina Newland on

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 I wrote about the tenacity and bravado of the old Hollywood studio heads over at Grolsch Film Works. Have a peek here. 

New Empress Mag: Town Without Pity (DVD Review) — by Christina Newland on

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I reviewed the Simply Media disc of the 1961 courtroom drama Town Without Pity - starring Kirk Douglas - over at New Empress Magazine....

Grolsch Film Works: The 1940's + the Glory Years of the Boxing Movie — by Christina Newland on

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I wrote about the great thread of social and class consciousness in boxing movies of the 1940's over at Grolsch Film Works. 

Grolsch Film Works: The Story of the Filmmakers who Escaped the Nazis — by Christina Newland on

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In response to the upcoming Robert Siodmak BFI retrospective in April, I wrote about the great European emigré directors who worked in ...

Review: Catch Me Daddy — by Christina Newland on

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Daniel and Matthew Wolfe's debut feature - the elegant and brutal Catch Me Daddy - is an exercise in opposing qualities. We'r...

Review: It Follows — by Christina Newland on

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In the brightly-lit, leafy green suburbia of middle-class Detroit, a teenager is pursued through the streets by an invisible force....

Canvas by Grolsch: How Katharine Hepburn Smashed the Patriarchy — by Christina Newland on

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  I wrote a little something about Katharine Hepburn in time for her BFI Southbank retrospective this month. You can find it over at C...