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Christina Newland

Feeling Seen: Guys & Dolls

By Christina Newland
February 4, 2020
Boys will be boys: there are only hustlers and patsies in the world of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1955 musical

Short Takes: Knives Out

By Christina Newland
November 6, 2019
Johnson constantly upends expectation, creating a collapsible murder mystery where each potential cliché implodes and evolves into something else entirely

False Idols

By Christina Newland
June 7, 2019
David Essex’s sly, self-aware performance in That’ll Be The Day goes well beyond the usual dictates of a star vehicle

Interview: Jerry Schatzberg

By Christina Newland
March 21, 2019
Parklife: the director of Panic in Needle Park and Scarecrow on his long career depicting the emotional lives of those on the margins

Short Take: Lords of Chaos

By Christina Newland
February 4, 2019
(Jonas Åkerlund, UK/Sweden, Gunpowder & Sky, Opening February 8)

Review: Tyrel

By Christina Newland
December 4, 2018
(Sebastián Silva, USA, Magnolia Pictures, Opening December 6)

Interview: Beatriz Seigner

By Christina Newland
May 30, 2018
Troubled waters: the Brazilian director discusses her refugee story Los Silencios, screening February 8 as part of Film Comment Selects