Ellen E Jones
@ellenejones.bsky.social
Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
Join us at The Garden Cinema this coming Monday, where I’ll be intro-ing BABYLON (1980) and in conversation afterwards, part of LRB Screen series www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Join us at The Garden Cinema this coming Monday, where I’ll be intro-ing BABYLON (1980) and in conversation afterwards, part of LRB Screen series www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
My Empire mag interv/w with David Jonsson is now live. If you’ve seen him in RYE LANE or ALIEN:ROMULUS or INDUSTRY or the upcoming Stephen King adap THE LONG WALK, you know what a talent he is. If you don’t know, get to know… www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
August 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My Empire mag interv/w with David Jonsson is now live. If you’ve seen him in RYE LANE or ALIEN:ROMULUS or INDUSTRY or the upcoming Stephen King adap THE LONG WALK, you know what a talent he is. If you don’t know, get to know… www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
Oooooooooh, there’s a new Screenshot episode, wherever you get yer podcasts! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
July 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Oooooooooh, there’s a new Screenshot episode, wherever you get yer podcasts! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Wrote a thing about the racial politics of SATC spin-off And Just Like That for today’s Guardian…
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
June 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote a thing about the racial politics of SATC spin-off And Just Like That for today’s Guardian…
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
I’m reviewing films in The Observer today…(Don’t @ me, Wes Anderson fans. It had to be said.) observer.co.uk/culture/film...
May 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I’m reviewing films in The Observer today…(Don’t @ me, Wes Anderson fans. It had to be said.) observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Come help (anti-)christen London’s new DIY grindhouse screen The Nickel in Farringdon with me on Jun 19th! It’s a screening of THE LANDLORD (1970) plus I’ll being doing a talk about how it relates to the themes of mah book, SCREEN DEEP. Tix at thenickel.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Come help (anti-)christen London’s new DIY grindhouse screen The Nickel in Farringdon with me on Jun 19th! It’s a screening of THE LANDLORD (1970) plus I’ll being doing a talk about how it relates to the themes of mah book, SCREEN DEEP. Tix at thenickel.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Here’s our SCREENSHOT Easter special from a few years back, featuring The Long Good Friday star Helen Mirren, the great @annodracula.bsky.social on British gangster flicks and Sexy Beast screenwriter Louis Mellis 🐣
April 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Here’s our SCREENSHOT Easter special from a few years back, featuring The Long Good Friday star Helen Mirren, the great @annodracula.bsky.social on British gangster flicks and Sexy Beast screenwriter Louis Mellis 🐣
Awards season is murder on the ego. A rollercoaster. One minute you’re being snubbed (yet again) for the Best Actress BAFTA, the next you’re winning Best Radio Presenter and laffing it up with Britain’s finest political commentator (thanks very much BPG! Very nice!)
March 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Awards season is murder on the ego. A rollercoaster. One minute you’re being snubbed (yet again) for the Best Actress BAFTA, the next you’re winning Best Radio Presenter and laffing it up with Britain’s finest political commentator (thanks very much BPG! Very nice!)
I enjoyed talking to Sam Reid of @fieldzine.bsky.social about race and racism in film and TV, and my book SCREEN DEEP (now out in paperback! www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...) Have a listen here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
March 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I enjoyed talking to Sam Reid of @fieldzine.bsky.social about race and racism in film and TV, and my book SCREEN DEEP (now out in paperback! www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...) Have a listen here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Bong Joon Ho, relatable king 👑. Read my interview with the Oscar-wing director of Parasite on his new one, Mickey 17 here www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
February 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Bong Joon Ho, relatable king 👑. Read my interview with the Oscar-wing director of Parasite on his new one, Mickey 17 here www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
I’m going to be in conversation with BAD GAL FILM CLUB re my book Screen Deep in Manchester, Sunday March 16th and tix are free! Get yours here…🍿💅https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-ellen-e-jones-author-screen-deep-tickets-1246726956889?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
February 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I’m going to be in conversation with BAD GAL FILM CLUB re my book Screen Deep in Manchester, Sunday March 16th and tix are free! Get yours here…🍿💅https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-ellen-e-jones-author-screen-deep-tickets-1246726956889?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1
A great evening launching Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western at BFI Southbank last night 🤠
February 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A great evening launching Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western at BFI Southbank last night 🤠
If you don’t know, get to know: Florynce ‘Flo’ Kennedy was my pick for BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives last night, and now on BBC Sounds….❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027bny?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
January 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you don’t know, get to know: Florynce ‘Flo’ Kennedy was my pick for BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives last night, and now on BBC Sounds….❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027bny?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Oooh, I’m so excited to read this book! Even the back cover is gorgeous! Thank you @sareetadomingo.bsky.social ! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
January 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oooh, I’m so excited to read this book! Even the back cover is gorgeous! Thank you @sareetadomingo.bsky.social ! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Enjoyed my chat with the courageous and fascinating Oscar nominee Anjanue Ellis Taylor for @guardian Growing up Black in 1970s/80s Mississippi is no joke! And she’s phenomenal in Nickel Boys www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
January 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Enjoyed my chat with the courageous and fascinating Oscar nominee Anjanue Ellis Taylor for @guardian Growing up Black in 1970s/80s Mississippi is no joke! And she’s phenomenal in Nickel Boys www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
🙀🙀🙀🙀 The Chase x Screenshot
January 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🙀🙀🙀🙀 The Chase x Screenshot
So, the way to this man’s heart is a nice bowl of porridge…Read my full interview with Aaron Pierre aka the new Lion King in today’s @theguardian.com 🦁👑🥣 www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
December 14, 2024 at 1:43 PM
So, the way to this man’s heart is a nice bowl of porridge…Read my full interview with Aaron Pierre aka the new Lion King in today’s @theguardian.com 🦁👑🥣 www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
Some nice pics (all by the v talented @pushgilbey.bsky.social ) of Monday evening’s sparkling MUBI x London Review of Books event at the magnificent Regent Street Cinema, a screening of Guadagnino’s new film QUEER. (Yes, Daniel Craig laughed at all my jokes)
December 12, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Some nice pics (all by the v talented @pushgilbey.bsky.social ) of Monday evening’s sparkling MUBI x London Review of Books event at the magnificent Regent Street Cinema, a screening of Guadagnino’s new film QUEER. (Yes, Daniel Craig laughed at all my jokes)
Is this the most attractive book cover of the year already?! I think it must be! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @lanre-bakare.bsky.social Can’t wait to get stuck in! www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...
December 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Is this the most attractive book cover of the year already?! I think it must be! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @lanre-bakare.bsky.social Can’t wait to get stuck in! www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...
There’s been so much fuss over whether Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie really “did it” that, over the years, it’s threatened to overshadow the brilliance of the scene, a cinematic demonstration of grief and how it reveals the essential non-linearity of time itself!
December 6, 2024 at 7:54 PM
There’s been so much fuss over whether Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie really “did it” that, over the years, it’s threatened to overshadow the brilliance of the scene, a cinematic demonstration of grief and how it reveals the essential non-linearity of time itself!
No SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 tonight, so here’s a clip to remind you of the treasures that await wherever you pod. It’s Don’t Look Now (1973) co-writer and longtime Nic Roeg collaborator Allan Scott giving the definitive answer on that controversial sex scene…
December 6, 2024 at 7:54 PM
No SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 tonight, so here’s a clip to remind you of the treasures that await wherever you pod. It’s Don’t Look Now (1973) co-writer and longtime Nic Roeg collaborator Allan Scott giving the definitive answer on that controversial sex scene…
Today we made pilgrimage to Bristol to explore the 21,000+ collection at @20thcflicks.bsky.social the world’s longest running video rental shop! Listen out for owner David on Screenshot. He’s got a copy of every film you can think of on VHS/blu-ray/DVD/Laserdisc! Long live physical media!👍🏼
December 4, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Today we made pilgrimage to Bristol to explore the 21,000+ collection at @20thcflicks.bsky.social the world’s longest running video rental shop! Listen out for owner David on Screenshot. He’s got a copy of every film you can think of on VHS/blu-ray/DVD/Laserdisc! Long live physical media!👍🏼
God bless the good ship ‘BFI Bookshop’, and all who sail in her, for putting my book ‘Screen Deep’ on display 😍😍 . Great place to do your Christmas shopping!
November 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM
God bless the good ship ‘BFI Bookshop’, and all who sail in her, for putting my book ‘Screen Deep’ on display 😍😍 . Great place to do your Christmas shopping!
I’m chairing a pre-screening Q&A with the star and creators of QUEER Daniel Craig, Justin Kuritzkes and Luca Guadagnino on Dec 9th in LDN. It’s for London Review of Books, so we’ll be focusing on the relationship with Burroughs’ novella. ❤️🔥📚🎬 Tix here www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/previe...
November 26, 2024 at 10:50 AM
I’m chairing a pre-screening Q&A with the star and creators of QUEER Daniel Craig, Justin Kuritzkes and Luca Guadagnino on Dec 9th in LDN. It’s for London Review of Books, so we’ll be focusing on the relationship with Burroughs’ novella. ❤️🔥📚🎬 Tix here www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/previe...