Guys I’m clearing space and here trying to sell this brand new JW Anderson / Luca Guadagnino hoodie and happy to take offers. Hit me up: www.vinted.co.uk/items/578934...

70 years today since James Dean left the planet, much too young. Rebel Without a Cause changed my life, and I even knew that was the case when I was first watching it on repeat at thirteen years old. Here's some writing on the film for @letterboxd.social: letterboxd.com/cmnewland/fi...

I interviewed Jim Jarmusch: www.vulture.com/article/jim-...

On sale next week - tickets to my hour-long BFI lesson on the crime genre. Join me for a whirlwind trip from Yakuza to mafioso, Michael Mann to Jean-Pierre Melville: whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

If this monstrosity ever gets built, it's where their Nuremberg trials should be held before we put them in jail & tear it down.

On sale next week - tickets to my hour-long BFI lesson on the crime genre. Join me for a whirlwind trip from Yakuza to mafioso, Michael Mann to Jean-Pierre Melville: whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

If I ever saw either one of my sons doing this to a woman, for ANY reason—let alone because she's frantic with worry—first I would disown him. And then I'd walk into the sea because nothing else I do could make up for that kind of maternal failure.

Pleased to have contributed to this @criterion.bsky.social @criterionchannl.bsky.social piece about some lesser-loved Robert Altman films. My pick: his attempt at lampooning the fashion industry, Pret-a-Porter. www.criterion.com/current/post...

Pleased to have contributed to this @criterion.bsky.social @criterionchannl.bsky.social piece about some lesser-loved Robert Altman films. My pick: his attempt at lampooning the fashion industry, Pret-a-Porter. www.criterion.com/current/post...

For the new @empiremagazine.bsky.social I spoke with director Rebecca Miller about her excellent new five part documentary series on Mr. Scorsese. It’s out in October!

Can't believe I'm writing another post like this: RIP to a cinema giant. Claudia Cardinale was maybe the most beautiful woman in film history, but more, her unforgettable feline presence graces some of the greatest movies of all time, from Visconti to Leone to Comencini. :(

In time for the BFI season on Anna May Wong, I spoke with her biographer @kayteesal.bsky.social about her key style moments, for The Face Magazine: theface.com/culture/the-...

(Double posting, so what) Someone call for help, she’s got her kooky 70s auntie glasses on

From @studiocanal.co.uk - a new beautiful 4K of Mike Nichols' still perfect The Graduate, with an essay from me and plenty of extras! hmv.com/store/film-t...

On another PTA banger, One Battle After Another. For @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/culture/film...

On another PTA banger, One Battle After Another. For @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/culture/film...

Absolutely beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL piece on Robert Redford here by the one and only @christinalefou.bsky.social. I loved every line of this.

It's really interesting to read this 2019 piece back, where I address some of the critiques of Redford. Especially because I love him so dearly, I tried to be frank about his creative flaws & why they sometimes worked to his advantage (and sometimes did not!) www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Robert Redford, 1936-2025 In 2019, @christinalefou.bsky.social paid tribute to an actor who, in charismatic performances of immense restraint over more than half a century, blended traditionalism, predictability and inscrutability to great effect www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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LWL were lucky enough to have @christinalefou.bsky.social speak to Redford at TIFF 2018 about The Old Man & The Gun and I think it's a lovely interview lwlies.com/interviews/r...

Coupla recs from me for BFI London Film Festival: Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent [70s crime/spy larks against a vast sociopolitical tapestry] + Harry Lighton's debut feature Pillion [tender, surprising, funny Brit BDSM romcom]

Very much looking forward to chatting all things SOFIA COPPOLA, my new book on the filmmaker out in Nov, on panel 'The Director's Chair' at London Film Festival! Sun 12 October: whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

This is a charming piece. on.ft.com/4nARnua

In time for the BFI season on Anna May Wong, I spoke with her biographer @kayteesal.bsky.social about her key style moments, for The Face Magazine: theface.com/culture/the-...

Me, writing on all the amazing films that came out in 1975, for @vulture.com: t.co/5ZpJulQDNz

BOTD Elia Kazan MCCT5 5)Streetcar 4)Boomerang 3)Face/Crowd 2)Panic/Streets 1)Waterfront Pre-HUAC EK: "Actors are afraid to act, writers are afraid to write" As he then showed. More: @hiltzikm.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/business/sto... @christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...

Me, writing on all the amazing films that came out in 1975, for @vulture.com: t.co/5ZpJulQDNz

RIP Giorgio Armani, king of making movie stars look cool as hell.

Spud looks like me when I take a turn (small, ferocious)

💿December Announcements💿 Rounding off the year with our December announcements are perfect cinephile presents, including a daring work of Korean modernism and Dostoyevsky adaptations by both Bresson and Visconti. Plus, a new volume of our exclusive Dirty Arthouse zine!

Oh god, absolutely the fuck not

For the first monthly edition of my curated 'Christina Picks' for Park Circus Films, I chose a 50th anniversary banger: 3 Days of the Condor, starring Robert Redford, Max Von Sydow (always great), and Faye Dunaway. Read here: parkcircus.com/latest/P2855...

#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 1 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com 'one of the best of the many adventurous, probing, & bracing films [American New Wave] Hollywood made' Todd McCarthy www.criterion.com/current/post... DOWNHILL RACER @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/08/capi...

BOTD Ingrid Bergman!!! MCCT5 5)Journey to Italy 4)Gaslight 3)Autumn Sonata 2)Casablanca 1)Notorious More: @pamhutch.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... @christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/ingrid... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

Our glorious double-disc release of Visconti's opulent SENSO - featuring two different aspect ratios as well as a previously rare English-language version of the film - is out now. This LE includes removeable OBI, reversible cover-art and a booklet essay by @christinalefou.bsky.social

For the first monthly edition of my curated 'Christina Picks' for Park Circus Films, I chose a 50th anniversary banger: 3 Days of the Condor, starring Robert Redford, Max Von Sydow (always great), and Faye Dunaway. Read here: parkcircus.com/latest/P2855...

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And for @theipaper.com I reviewed the brutally funny Eddington, Ari Aster’s dark descent into the inchoate madness of 2020. Out this weekend in the UK: inews.co.uk/culture/film...

For @vulture.com I wrote up a list of the finest films starring the late, great Terence Stamp: t.co/3ozqk29uPR

A lovely surprise today upon returning home - an advance copy of my book from Quercus / Greenfinch! Available from 6 November at all good bookstores. You can pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...

So pleased to be asked by Park Circus to curate a monthly film pick from their extensive catalog which is available for screening in the UK and with programme notes from yours truly. First choice drops soon!

Wrote about one of my favorite films, and the woman behind it, for @indiewire.com '70s week. Tried to capture the spirit of the thing. www.indiewire.com/features/bes...

So pleased to be asked by Park Circus to curate a monthly film pick from their extensive catalog which is available for screening in the UK and with programme notes from yours truly. First choice drops soon!

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HBD Robert Redford!!! From Us: Overview: midcenturycinema.org/2016/08/18/n... On Condor, via @cineastemagazine.bsky.social: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... More @christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/robert... @elazic.bsky.social: lwlies.com/article/robe...

Back at Cannes, for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, I also reviewed Highest 2 Lowest, which isn't perfect but has such verve and great Spike energy and moments of transcendent brilliance (aka the Denzel x ASAP Rocky meeting): www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

For my sins, I enjoyed Materialists. You either go in for the artificial / cerebral quality or find it unbearable, I think - but I found it v satisfying. For @theipaper.com: inews.co.uk/culture/film...

Terence Stamp was Angel and Devil on screen. Interviewing him was a wicked pleasure. But seeing him around town, on the bus with his Eric Morecambe flat cap, sitting at the old heel bar at Piccadilly, was best of all. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...