ICO: A Contemporary Perspective on Margarethe von Trotta

For the Independent Cinema Office's restoration of her films, I wrote about veteran New German Cinema filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta from a contemporary perspective. The ICO's tour of four of her movies (The Personal is Political: The Films of Margarethe von Trotta) is ongoing through the year. You can learn more and read my piece on their website, here.

BFI: Pauline Kael & the Men from Dream City

This year sees both legendary film critic Pauline Kael's centenary and an August season of films at BFI Southbank celebrating Cary Grant. Given Kael's seminal New Yorker essay about Grant, The Man From Dream City, I examined her writing on male stardom and male beauty for a piece at BFI. Check it out here.

AnOther Magazine: Remembering Piero Tosi, Visionary Costume Designer to Visconti and Fellini

    I wrote about the amazing perfectionism and detail of costume designer Piero Tosi, who worked with Luchino Visconti on ten films including The Leopard and Death in Venice. He passed away aged 92 earlier this month, so for AnOther Mag, I looked at his work in this piece.

Little White LIes: The Vietnam War Film They Wanted You to Forget

In time for the 50th anniversary of the summer of 1969 - and to tie in with my BBC Arts essay film on the subject - I wrote about Vietnam War doc Winter Soldier and how it disappeared very quickly because of the radical subject matter it contained. You can read about the doc here at Little White Lies online, or you can watch my Inside Cinema essay film on BBC iPlayer. 

BBC Arts / Inside Cinema: Nixon's America - A Country Divided

The essay film I wrote and did voiceover for is now on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h0qbz