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.
Reposted by Christina Newland
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-...
Reposted by Christina Newland
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...
Reposted by Christina Newland
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...
This eve! Tune in from 7.15 :)
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 (!!!)
October 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Christina Newland
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.
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 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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.
Reposted by Christina Newland
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...
Christina Newland Presents #2: Wattstax | Park Circus
Brand new programme notes on Mel Stuart's legendary concert film!
parkcircus.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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 (!!!)
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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 (!!!)
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...
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
inews.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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...
On del Toro’s Frankenstein for @theipaper.com which is open-hearted and sad and sweeping in ways that only grew on me as I thought about it: inews.co.uk/culture/film...
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is profound and passionate
Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth star in this gory adaptation, which mines rich vulnerability from the much-told story
inews.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
On del Toro’s Frankenstein for @theipaper.com which is open-hearted and sad and sweeping in ways that only grew on me as I thought about it: inews.co.uk/culture/film...
Reposted by Christina Newland
Remembering Montgomery Clift on his birthday 🎂
📷 Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1952
"His sexually ambivalent, vulnerable characters were both revolutionary and ingenious; his influence invaluable to successive generations of actors."
- Christina Newland
@christinalefou.bsky.social
📷 Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1952
"His sexually ambivalent, vulnerable characters were both revolutionary and ingenious; his influence invaluable to successive generations of actors."
- Christina Newland
@christinalefou.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Remembering Montgomery Clift on his birthday 🎂
📷 Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1952
"His sexually ambivalent, vulnerable characters were both revolutionary and ingenious; his influence invaluable to successive generations of actors."
- Christina Newland
@christinalefou.bsky.social
📷 Norman Parkinson for Vogue, 1952
"His sexually ambivalent, vulnerable characters were both revolutionary and ingenious; his influence invaluable to successive generations of actors."
- Christina Newland
@christinalefou.bsky.social
Thanks to @criterionchannl.bsky.social I just watched Any Number Can Win, the Alain Delon/Jean Gabin heist flick set at a Cannes casino. Witty, stylish, and *what* a goddamn ending.
Plus Gabin in dark sunglasses strolling around to 60s jazz = the actual coolest
Plus Gabin in dark sunglasses strolling around to 60s jazz = the actual coolest
October 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thanks to @criterionchannl.bsky.social I just watched Any Number Can Win, the Alain Delon/Jean Gabin heist flick set at a Cannes casino. Witty, stylish, and *what* a goddamn ending.
Plus Gabin in dark sunglasses strolling around to 60s jazz = the actual coolest
Plus Gabin in dark sunglasses strolling around to 60s jazz = the actual coolest