Christina Newland
@christinalefou.bsky.social
~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
Forthcoming book SOFIA COPPOLA from Greenfinch/Quercus Nov 2025.
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
Forthcoming book SOFIA COPPOLA from Greenfinch/Quercus Nov 2025.
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BDSM romance Pillion is “a funny and touching and weird love story”, says Alexander Skarsgård.
“[The sex scenes] are dramatically quite interesting,” he tells Empire. “There’s lust, but also jealousy and confusion and pain.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
BDSM romance Pillion is “a funny and touching and weird love story”, says Alexander Skarsgård.
“[The sex scenes] are dramatically quite interesting,” he tells Empire. “There’s lust, but also jealousy and confusion and pain.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
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.
Everyone say: hello Ernie!
January 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Everyone say: hello Ernie!
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Have just so happened to watch The Shop Around the Corner and When Harry Met Sally in the past three days, and my god, the romcom was simply never better than in these two perfect motion pictures. Having a lotta feelings.
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Have just so happened to watch The Shop Around the Corner and When Harry Met Sally in the past three days, and my god, the romcom was simply never better than in these two perfect motion pictures. Having a lotta feelings.
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As part of our tribute to the late Peter Watkins, I've paired with ICA London to screen his dystopian anti-war film Punishment Park, a chilling vision of the American gov't interring domestic radicals. This Sunday at 2pm, w/ a recorded video intro from me:
www.ica.art/films/punish...
www.ica.art/films/punish...
ICA | Punishment Park
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...
www.ica.art
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As part of our tribute to the late Peter Watkins, I've paired with ICA London to screen his dystopian anti-war film Punishment Park, a chilling vision of the American gov't interring domestic radicals. This Sunday at 2pm, w/ a recorded video intro from me:
www.ica.art/films/punish...
www.ica.art/films/punish...
As part of our tribute to the late Peter Watkins, I've paired with ICA London to screen his dystopian anti-war film Punishment Park, a chilling vision of the American gov't interring domestic radicals. This Sunday at 2pm, w/ a recorded video intro from me:
www.ica.art/films/punish...
www.ica.art/films/punish...
ICA | Punishment Park
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...
www.ica.art
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As part of our tribute to the late Peter Watkins, I've paired with ICA London to screen his dystopian anti-war film Punishment Park, a chilling vision of the American gov't interring domestic radicals. This Sunday at 2pm, w/ a recorded video intro from me:
www.ica.art/films/punish...
www.ica.art/films/punish...
Was really pleased to have written a brand-new essay for this Vinegar Syndrome release of Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills' odd, spritely kitchen-sink film of awkward juvenile rebellion in '69 London:
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/bro...
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/bro...
Bronco Bullfrog
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This special limited edition slipcover
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December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Was really pleased to have written a brand-new essay for this Vinegar Syndrome release of Bronco Bullfrog, Barney Platts-Mills' odd, spritely kitchen-sink film of awkward juvenile rebellion in '69 London:
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/bro...
vinegarsyndrome.com/products/bro...
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Thrilled to have contributed an essay to the 4K UHD premiere to one of the greatest (and bleakest) neo-noirs ever made, CUTTER’S WAY. And I’m honored to share space with such killer fellow contributors: @meganabbott.bsky.social, @christinalefou.bsky.social, @jordanharper.bsky.social and more.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thrilled to have contributed an essay to the 4K UHD premiere to one of the greatest (and bleakest) neo-noirs ever made, CUTTER’S WAY. And I’m honored to share space with such killer fellow contributors: @meganabbott.bsky.social, @christinalefou.bsky.social, @jordanharper.bsky.social and more.
Jfc aaaaahhhh
Cinémathèque Française closed for rest of year over bedbug infestation after sightings of the blood-sucking creatures, including during a master class with Sigourney Weaver
Bedbugs force closure of prestigious Paris cinema
The Cinémathèque Française, a renowned film archive and cinema, said it would temporarily close its four screening halls for a month from Friday after a series of reported bedbug sightings.
www.lemonde.fr
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Jfc aaaaahhhh
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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...
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...
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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...
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...
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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/...
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).
letterboxd.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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/...
Reposted by Christina Newland
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.
EXCLUSIVE 🚲
BDSM romance Pillion is “a funny and touching and weird love story”, says Alexander Skarsgård.
“[The sex scenes] are dramatically quite interesting,” he tells Empire. “There’s lust, but also jealousy and confusion and pain.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
BDSM romance Pillion is “a funny and touching and weird love story”, says Alexander Skarsgård.
“[The sex scenes] are dramatically quite interesting,” he tells Empire. “There’s lust, but also jealousy and confusion and pain.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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 -
BOTD Gene Tierney!! M
MCC v #Noirvember T5: 5)Advise & Consent 4)Whirlpool 3)Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger x3) 2)Night & the City (Dassin) 1)Laura (Preminger)
More:
@meganabbott.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
MCC v #Noirvember T5: 5)Advise & Consent 4)Whirlpool 3)Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger x3) 2)Night & the City (Dassin) 1)Laura (Preminger)
More:
@meganabbott.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
@christinalefou.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Gene Tierney and the pitfalls of being 'the most beautiful woman in movie history'
Film star Gene Tierney was worshipped for her looks – but they were also a poisoned chalice. Nearly a century on, has the way we consider beauty changed all that much?
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wrote this last year about the conondrum of beauty in Hollywood -
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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-...
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...
www.ica.art
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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-...
www.ica.art/films/peter-...
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-...
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...
www.ica.art
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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-...
www.ica.art/films/peter-...
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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...
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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...
Reposted by Christina Newland
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/...
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 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.
mubi.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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/...
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/...
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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...
The 8 Music Biopics We Want to See Next
Hollywood hasn’t made movies about these artists — yet.
www.vulture.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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...
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...
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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...
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
'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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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...
www.filmcomment.com/blog/feeling...
Feeling Seen: Guys & Dolls
Boys will be boys: there are only hustlers and patsies in the world of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1955 musical
www.filmcomment.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...
www.filmcomment.com/blog/feeling...
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...
Programme Notes: Hester Street | Park Circus
Brand new programme notes by Dr. Julia Wagner!
parkcircus.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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...
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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...
Read our interview with the director on giving new life to his cult classic: thefilmstage.com/i-made-it-so...
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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...
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
October 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Nights are drawing in by 4 aka Adrienne Lenker weather
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...
www.nowtv.com/watch/classi...
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.
www.nowtv.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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...
www.nowtv.com/watch/classi...
Reposted by Christina Newland
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...
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...
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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...
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...