Leigh Singer
@leighsinger.bsky.social
Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
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“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
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· Jan 13
“A key strength of James Mangold’s film is its occasional attempt to nimbly navigate actuality, to get at a more impressionistic idea of the truth.”
Leigh Singer reviews upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. In cinemas Friday.
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Leigh Singer reviews upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. In cinemas Friday.
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
A Complete Unknown review: ballad of a freewheelin man
Timothée Chalamet’s commitment is admirable and director James Mangold’s choice to focus to Dylan’s 1960s rise to fame pays off, but this film struggles to balance the conventional notes of a music bi...
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“How does it feeel…?”
Might as well start this Bluesky account by sharing my @sightsoundmag.bsky.social review of Dylan biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN and how, despite good intentions, it gets Tangled Up in Bob.
Might as well start this Bluesky account by sharing my @sightsoundmag.bsky.social review of Dylan biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN and how, despite good intentions, it gets Tangled Up in Bob.
Wild to think it's a whole spin around the sun since #DavidLynch left us, just a year and four days shy of his 80th birthday, which would’ve been today.
Here's my video essay on my favourite of his films, MULHOLLAND DR., and why it epitomises his whole body of work.
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Here's my video essay on my favourite of his films, MULHOLLAND DR., and why it epitomises his whole body of work.
vimeo.com/223150206?sh...
MULHOLLAND DR. - THE ESSENTIAL DAVID LYNCH FILM
Why Mullholland Dr. is the essential David Lynch film. Examining how Lynch 2001's film combines and expands upon many of his visual, aural, stylistic and thematic…
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January 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Wild to think it's a whole spin around the sun since #DavidLynch left us, just a year and four days shy of his 80th birthday, which would’ve been today.
Here's my video essay on my favourite of his films, MULHOLLAND DR., and why it epitomises his whole body of work.
vimeo.com/223150206?sh...
Here's my video essay on my favourite of his films, MULHOLLAND DR., and why it epitomises his whole body of work.
vimeo.com/223150206?sh...
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Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER is my favourite film from last year. You can watch it now on BFI Player alongside this really warm, generous and insightful interview with Hadžihalilović by @leighsinger.bsky.social about the film and her creative collaborators: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Watch The Ice Tower - Extended Q&A - BFI Player
Writer-director Lucile Hadžihalilović explains how she spun her own dark fairy tale out of Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen.
player.bfi.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER is my favourite film from last year. You can watch it now on BFI Player alongside this really warm, generous and insightful interview with Hadžihalilović by @leighsinger.bsky.social about the film and her creative collaborators: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Such a pleasure to talk in depth with Lucile Hadžihalilović about her hypnotic film (and one of my favourites of 2025), The Ice Tower.
Interview available for free on BFI Player (and so is the film)!
Interview available for free on BFI Player (and so is the film)!
January 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Such a pleasure to talk in depth with Lucile Hadžihalilović about her hypnotic film (and one of my favourites of 2025), The Ice Tower.
Interview available for free on BFI Player (and so is the film)!
Interview available for free on BFI Player (and so is the film)!
Inconceivable.
RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.
RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Inconceivable.
RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.
RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
And for the director of my favourite comedy of all time, as well as many other great films he directed, and facilitated through Castle Rock, an incredibly tragic end to an incredibly meaningful life.
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A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
an absolute honour to talk with one of the most significant creative forces in American film & TV for over 50 years. James L. Brooks on making his kind of comedy-dramas today, his fave Simpsons episode, Wes Anderson Jack Nicholson is coming back anytime soon & more…
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...
James L. Brooks on his return to directing: “The word ‘content’ is not my favourite”
From The Simpsons to Broadcast News and the Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks has been a driving force in American film and TV for more than half a century. As Ella McCay, his ...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
an absolute honour to talk with one of the most significant creative forces in American film & TV for over 50 years. James L. Brooks on making his kind of comedy-dramas today, his fave Simpsons episode, Wes Anderson Jack Nicholson is coming back anytime soon & more…
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...
www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...
For anyone not familiar with Lucile H’s haunting body of work, I also wrote a primer for BFI online. And don’t sleep on Innocence (2004), one of the best films of the 2000s.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For anyone not familiar with Lucile H’s haunting body of work, I also wrote a primer for BFI online. And don’t sleep on Innocence (2004), one of the best films of the 2000s.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
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Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.
@leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The Ice Tower review: Through the looking glass
Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.
www.bfi.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Marion Cotillard’s impressive performance as a glacial screen diva is matched by newcomer Clara Pacini in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s coolly calibrated vision of The Snow Queen.
@leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
@leighsinger.bsky.social reviews The Ice Tower, out today. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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🎥 32 years ago today, Peter Weir’s Fearless hit theaters—a profound journey through trauma, survival & rebirth.
Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive:
cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/
Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive:
cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
🎥 32 years ago today, Peter Weir’s Fearless hit theaters—a profound journey through trauma, survival & rebirth.
Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive:
cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/
Revisit this underrated masterpiece in our deep dive:
cinephiliabeyond.org/fearless/
@lffstubs.bsky.social
1 ticket to the sold out screening of THE TRAVELERS, Friday 17th October, 12:00pm at BFI Southbank. Face value £13.00 ono
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1 ticket to the sold out screening of THE TRAVELERS, Friday 17th October, 12:00pm at BFI Southbank. Face value £13.00 ono
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
The Travelers | BFI London Film Festival 2025
David Bingong’s personal film is an intimate and hopeful account of the dangerous journey taken by a group of migrants from Cameroon to Europe.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@lffstubs.bsky.social
1 ticket to the sold out screening of THE TRAVELERS, Friday 17th October, 12:00pm at BFI Southbank. Face value £13.00 ono
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
1 ticket to the sold out screening of THE TRAVELERS, Friday 17th October, 12:00pm at BFI Southbank. Face value £13.00 ono
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
@lffstubs.bsky.social
I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A.
Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A.
Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
Landmarks | BFI London Film Festival 2025
Artistic ambition and political advocacy meld in Lucrecia Martel’s documentary, a bold and beautiful reflection on the death and legacy of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
@lffstubs.bsky.social
I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A.
Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
I have 1 ticket going for Lucrecia Martel's LANDMARKS screening this evening at 18:00 Thursday 16th October @BFI Southbank, NFT1, with director Q&A.
Ticket face value £18.00, ono, get in touch asap!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
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Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.
September 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just a reminder of what an absolute c*nt Farage is: he wants to scrap the benefits of people who legally work and pay their taxes in Britain, yet the greasy f*cker happily slurps down his fat EU pension - paid for by the very European citizens he spent years spewing bile at. Parasite in a suit.
pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.
September 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
pleasure to be back on the @lwlies.com Truth & Movies podcast, talking The Long Walk and the longer trudge that is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to one of my all-time favourites that flirts with a certain infamous two-word review.
It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get?
And the answer is… none.
None more disappointed…
As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.
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And the answer is… none.
None more disappointed…
As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review: Metal fatigue
Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.
www.bfi.org.uk
September 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It’s like, how much more disappointed could you get?
And the answer is… none.
None more disappointed…
As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
And the answer is… none.
None more disappointed…
As a devoted Tap-head, this isn’t at all the review I wanted to write but here are my thoughts on Spinal Tap II - The End Continues for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”
September 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
More of Kirk’s “reasonable opinions”
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Charlie Kirk was a private citizen
Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN
No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence
Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN
No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence
September 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Charlie Kirk was a private citizen
Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN
No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence
Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN
No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence
“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)
HBD New German Cinema legend Werner Herzog!!
Daring choices in a career of relentless exploration
More:
Spectacular interview: nyti.ms/3doO4Tu
Novel - rev via @msorrento.bsky.social: filmint.nu/werner-herzo...
@leighsinger.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
Daring choices in a career of relentless exploration
More:
Spectacular interview: nyti.ms/3doO4Tu
Novel - rev via @msorrento.bsky.social: filmint.nu/werner-herzo...
@leighsinger.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
Where to begin with Werner Herzog
A beginner’s path through Werner Herzog’s visionary cinema of eccentric adventure and ecstatic truth.
www.bfi.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.” Werner Herzog (Happy Birthday!)
It’s that time again…
A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival.
Meantime, feast yer eyes!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival.
Meantime, feast yer eyes!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It’s that time again…
A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival.
Meantime, feast yer eyes!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
A pleasure as ever to be involved in selecting films for the #LFF. Among the high-profile draws there are some real unsung gems that I’ll flag up closer to the festival.
Meantime, feast yer eyes!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...
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Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that
August 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hit like if you read film criticism weekly and repost if you read film criticism more than that
Met him once to talk about his… chocolates. But such a down-to-earth guy, zero pretensions & talent to burn that, despite impressive credits, you felt was often under appreciated. Still, Billy Budd, Collector, Teorema, Madding Crowd, Superman II, The Hit, Priscilla QOTD, The Limey… RIP Terence Stamp
August 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Met him once to talk about his… chocolates. But such a down-to-earth guy, zero pretensions & talent to burn that, despite impressive credits, you felt was often under appreciated. Still, Billy Budd, Collector, Teorema, Madding Crowd, Superman II, The Hit, Priscilla QOTD, The Limey… RIP Terence Stamp
Pravda.
This shameful photo will haunt Americans for centuries.
“Depressing and disgusting sight: U.S. soldiers on their knees, laying out the red carpet for a murderous fascist dictator. The United States has fallen so very low, so very quickly.”
“Depressing and disgusting sight: U.S. soldiers on their knees, laying out the red carpet for a murderous fascist dictator. The United States has fallen so very low, so very quickly.”
August 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pravda.
This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.
In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
August 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
This is so depressingly true re: the arts / of criticism. But in the bigger picture I also go back to shitheel Tory politician Michael Gove’s phoney Brexit shibboleth that British people “have had enough of experts” to justify anti-intellectual, knee-jerk populism & how to control / profit from it.
Et tu, @bsky.app?
If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here.
filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...
If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here.
filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...
August 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Et tu, @bsky.app?
If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here.
filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...
If this stellar, heartfelt Walter Chaw WEAPONS review is indicative of what can get you suspended on this site, have to question whether it’s worth sticking around here.
filmfreakcentral.net/2025/08/weap...
“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience… have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience… have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This is fantastic, urge you to listen, especially if you think Still Bill is one of the most underrated albums out there…
The season finale of Strong Songs is about "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers. 🎶
It's also about Withers' music more broadly, and why such a seemingly ordinary guy might write such extraordinary songs. I think it was a great note to go out on.
I hope you all dig it - thanks, as always, for listening!
It's also about Withers' music more broadly, and why such a seemingly ordinary guy might write such extraordinary songs. I think it was a great note to go out on.
I hope you all dig it - thanks, as always, for listening!
S07E10 - "Lean On Me" by Bill Withers
For the Season Seven finale, Kirk takes a look at Bill Withers' enduring hit "Lean On Me." In the process, he takes a broader look at a bunch of Withers' other most famous songs to better understand h...
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August 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is fantastic, urge you to listen, especially if you think Still Bill is one of the most underrated albums out there…