Christina Newland

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New To Us: Jacques Deray's Symphony for a Massacre
A slice of Melville via Elevator to the Gallows
Possibly his best film!
Excellent @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration w/ @aheartofgould.bsky.social commentary & new @christinalefou.bsky.social intro: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/sym...

films in conversation with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER A list of 14 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Born in Flames (1983), The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973), Citizen Ruth (1996), Bulworth (1998) and How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022).

i think this list of films in conversation with OBAA from @judysquirrels.bsky.social is really lovely. i might do that for bugonia. letterboxd.com/riotglasses/...

I loved this film a lot, and I loved talking to director Harry Lighton & stars Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling about it even more. You can find out more below, and check out the full feature in the latest Empire Mag.

Wrote this last year about the conondrum of beauty in Hollywood -

ICA | Peter Watkins: Privilege + introduction The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

So pleased have curated a film tribute to the late Peter Watkins with ICA London. First up, 22 Nov, his film Privilege, a swinging 60s artefact which hobbles the swinging. At its centre, a rock-star-as-empty-messiah, played by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones. More soon!

www.ica.art/films/peter-...

ICA | Peter Watkins: Privilege + introduction The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

So pleased have curated a film tribute to the late Peter Watkins with ICA London. First up, 22 Nov, his film Privilege, a swinging 60s artefact which hobbles the swinging. At its centre, a rock-star-as-empty-messiah, played by Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones. More soon!

www.ica.art/films/peter-...

Spotted at BFI Southbank bookshop 🫶🏼

I wrote a little book, pals. 'SOFIA COPPOLA: The Complete Unofficial Guide' is out today from @quercusbooks.bsky.social/ Greenfinch and in all good bookstores. I loved delving into Sofia's prettified & melancholy worlds. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...

The Shapeshifting Beauty of Alain Delon To see the feline countenance of Alain Delon is to immediately understand his movie stardom. A New York retrospective surveys his career.

BOTD Alain Delon!!
MCCT5: 5)Purple Noon 4)L'Eclisse 3)La Piscine 2)Mr. Klein 1)JPM x3: Samourai/Circle/Flic
More:
@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/in-...
@davidlfear.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
@christinalefou.bsky.social: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

The 8 Music Biopics We Want to See Next Hollywood hasn’t made movies about these artists — yet.

This is a brilliant feature idea, asking the biographers of eight prominent music acts to pick the moments of an artist's life they'd turn into movie biopics and who they'd cast. www.vulture.com/article/eigh...

Ah thank you!

Thanks Dan! And congrats to you too!

A cheeky extract 🎀

I wrote a little book, pals. 'SOFIA COPPOLA: The Complete Unofficial Guide' is out today from @quercusbooks.bsky.social/ Greenfinch and in all good bookstores. I loved delving into Sofia's prettified & melancholy worlds. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/sofia-c...

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I wanted to include this in the opening, but word count stopped me - from Suzanne Scanlon's great book 'Committed'.

'She's a beast': Jennifer Lawrence’s extreme new role is a radical portrayal of a woman on the edge Die My Love features a full-throttle performance from Jennifer Lawrence as a young mother having a mental breakdown. It's an extraordinary depiction of the challenges women can face.

For BBC Culture, I spoke with Lynne Ramsay about her gorgeous relationship drama Die My Love, and how maybe the only sane choice under patriarchy is insanity:

www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

Feeling Seen: Guys & Dolls Boys will be boys: there are only hustlers and patsies in the world of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1955 musical

Guys & Dolls, one of my most-rewatched films of all time, a film my sister and I cherish, the comfort film par excellence for me, is 70 years old this year. I wrote about it a while back for old Film Comment (bsky.app/profile/film...)

www.filmcomment.com/blog/feeling...

Programme Notes: Hester Street | Park Circus Brand new programme notes by Dr. Julia Wagner!

Shout out to Park Circus Films and Dr. Julia Wagner for this new 4K of Joan Micklin Silver's remarkable Hester Street, one of the great underseen flicks of the 70s and a female-focused answer to the big masculine turn-of-the-century immigrant films of this period. parkcircus.com/latest/P2862...

A Japanese poster for the new restoration of Tarsem's #TheFall.

Read our interview with the director on giving new life to his cult classic: thefilmstage.com/i-made-it-so...

Nights are drawing in by 4 aka Adrienne Lenker weather

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and guests deliver their verdict Tom and guests review Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Harper Lee's new book.

You can listen back here. Our verdicts were mixed to negative, but I still had to admit being tearful at the gruff fragility of Jeremy Allen White's Springsteen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Watch Classic Movies: The Story Of Season 4 Episode 2: Classic Movies: The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp on NOW Released in 1943, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, is an extremely exceptional epic, which is exactly what makes it a masterpiece.

The new season of Sky Arts ‘Classic Movies: The Story of…’ is available to watch now on television and on NOW TV, with myself talking to camera with a gang of critics led by Ian Nathan. This time we're talking Hitch, Powell & Pressburger, John Carpenter, and more:
www.nowtv.com/watch/classi...

10/24/62 John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate
Laurence Harvey + Leigh, Lansbury & Sinatra
More
@lukebuckmaster.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/culture/2022...
@christinalefou.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/culture/2022...
@rockmarooned.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/culture/2022...

This eve! Tune in from 7.15 :)

I loved this film a lot, and I loved talking to director Harry Lighton & stars Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling about it even more. You can find out more below, and check out the full feature in the latest Empire Mag.

I LOVED Pillion, a most unexpected and unpredictable film, a singular, eye-opening BDSM comedy-drama. The ever-perceptive @christinalefou.bsky.social interviewed director Harry Lighton and his actors (Alexander Skarsgård & Harry Melling) for a glorious 6 pages in Empire. Stoked to have it in there.

Christina Newland Presents #2: Wattstax | Park Circus Brand new programme notes on Mel Stuart's legendary concert film!

Attention all cinema exhibitors and programmers! My second pick from Park Circus Films’ juicy catalog is here, with programme notes to go with it. It’s underseen concert film Wattstax, ft Richard Pryor, Isaac Hayes, and a lot of groovy outfits: parkcircus.com/latest/P2860...

Very excited to be making my first appearance on BBC Front Row this coming Thursday, where we'll be chatting new items on the literary and stage scenes, but also the new Bruce Springsteen flick (!!!)

I've seen every Martin Scorsese film - these are the seven best As a new documentary about the filmmaker premieres on Apple TV+, it's the perfect time to dive into his extensive oeuvre

Was asked by @theipaper.com to round up my favourite seven Scorsese movies, in time for the new 5-part doc about him. Difficult choices, fun writing: inews.co.uk/culture/film...