A blog started in 2011 by contributors to the now-dead Guardian talkboards, Mostly Film covers the arts from a variety of angles and has contributions from a eclectic range of great writers. The articles I've written for the site are linked below.
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2017 My third year in Bologna
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2016 My report on this year's festivities in Bologna
Disguises du Cinema Reviewing a new biography of Eric Rohmer
Ctrl+Alt+Action A look at a new form of interactive cinema
Tricks of the Trade A review of Paul Verhoeven's experimental drama Tricked
Orson Welles: One-Man Band A review of the latest installment of Simon Callow's biography
The Man Behind Man with a Movie Camera A look at the work of Dziga Vertov
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2015 Looking back at my first trip to Bologna
Forty Guns A review of Sam Fuller's ace western
A Fuller Life On a new documentary about Sam Fuller
Gregory's Boys Reviewing The Last Seduction
Diary of a Lost Girl A review of Louise Brooks' second collaboration with GW Pabst
Night Moves Kelly Reichardt's low-key thriller
Victim A look back at Basil Dearden's groundbreaking British drama
Too Late Blues An underrated studio drama from John Cassavetes
Barney and Friends An unforgettable weekend spent with Matthew Barney
The Piano Jane Campion's masterful love story
There’s a War on…Somewhere Revisiting Billy Wilder's acidic masterpiece Ace in the Hole
Berlin Alexanderplatz On Fassbinder's TV epic
One Day in Paradise A day spent watching Ulrich Seidl's trilogy
The Hothouse Harold Pinter's play revived at the Trafalgar Theatre
Tanner 88 Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Robert Altman's mix of fiction and reality
Under the Skin of The Singing Detective Discovering Denis Potter's groundbreaking miniseries
The Eyes Have It A look at Fritz Lang's iconic villain Dr. Mabuse
“It’s (almost) All True!” – Orson Welles’ F For Fake Revisiting Welles' last masterpiece
Lost in the Red Desert A look at Antonioni's first colour feature
London 2012 - The Olympic Shorts Reviewing the short films commissioned for the games
The Passionate Christ On Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ
Trishna Michael Winterbottom's India-set Thomas Hardy adaptation
Love, Sex, Betrayal & Spoons – A Night With Tommy Wiseau My introduction to the surreal majesty of The Room
Going Loco at the BFI Southbank The inaugural LoCo Comedy Festival
Rewriting History with Lightning – DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation On Griffith's notorious silent epic
Premiere Japan 2011 A weekend of new Japanese cinema at the Barbican
Undiscovered Country: The Films of Edward Yang Celebrating a great filmmaker at the BFI
The Only Way is Essex? On three British gangster films that tell the same story
Perfect 10 Looking back at Kieslowski's Dekalog
2011: A Film Odyssey Previewing Mark Cousin's ambitious TV series The Story of Film
The Passion of the Kinski A review of Klaus Kinski's outrageous autobiography
Looking Back into Darkness: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah A day spent watching Lanzmann's singular Holocaust documentary
Reopening Heaven's Gate Defending Michael Cimino's much-maligned flop
Kenji Mizoguchi - Japan's Forgotten Master A look at one of my favourite filmmakers
