Leigh Singer
@leighsinger.bsky.social
Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
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
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
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 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...
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
🚨new video essay 🚨
How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?
The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…
How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.
Full video here:
youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...
How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?
The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…
How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.
Full video here:
youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...
August 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🚨new video essay 🚨
How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?
The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…
How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.
Full video here:
youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...
How deep is your love - and memory - of Saturday Night Fever?
The original is closer to Mean Streets than Grease, but that’s not how most people think of it…
How Saturday Night Fever was remodelled for a PG audience
for @lwlies.com.
Full video here:
youtu.be/KSniVr7-2_c?...
New album cover art drop, courtesy of the fab European Film Festival Palić, FIPRESCI jury
July 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New album cover art drop, courtesy of the fab European Film Festival Palić, FIPRESCI jury
A highly personal look at three films that get more resonant and poignant as time goes by, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE… trilogy.
New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here:
youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...
New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here:
youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...
June 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A highly personal look at three films that get more resonant and poignant as time goes by, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE… trilogy.
New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here:
youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...
New video essay for @lwlies.com, full link is here:
youtu.be/7My0TSarYqA?...
Delighted to have my new video essay ’From Lethal Weapons to Nice Guys: How Shane Black Reinvented the Buddy Movie’ featured on the stellar new Blu-Ray release of THE NICE GUYS from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Delighted to have my new video essay ’From Lethal Weapons to Nice Guys: How Shane Black Reinvented the Buddy Movie’ featured on the stellar new Blu-Ray release of THE NICE GUYS from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social
Loved hosting the @regentstcinema.bsky.social Q&A of THE END with @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social and George Mackay at the weekend.
Such an insightful and eloquent discussion of a film that grows in resonance on a repeat viewing and feels so prescient and human. Go see it where you can.
Such an insightful and eloquent discussion of a film that grows in resonance on a repeat viewing and feels so prescient and human. Go see it where you can.
March 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Loved hosting the @regentstcinema.bsky.social Q&A of THE END with @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social and George Mackay at the weekend.
Such an insightful and eloquent discussion of a film that grows in resonance on a repeat viewing and feels so prescient and human. Go see it where you can.
Such an insightful and eloquent discussion of a film that grows in resonance on a repeat viewing and feels so prescient and human. Go see it where you can.
I’m hosting a Q&A tonight at @regentstcinema.bsky.social with @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social and George Mackay for their haunting apocalyptic musical THE END.
A few tickets still left, come on down!
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-en...
A few tickets still left, come on down!
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-en...
March 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I’m hosting a Q&A tonight at @regentstcinema.bsky.social with @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social and George Mackay for their haunting apocalyptic musical THE END.
A few tickets still left, come on down!
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-en...
A few tickets still left, come on down!
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/the-en...
Interviewed Sandhya Suri for her excellent feature debut SANTOSH for the new @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.
Sandhya’s earlier documentary I FOR INDIA is an all-time favourite of mine, can’t recommend it highly enough.
Sandhya’s earlier documentary I FOR INDIA is an all-time favourite of mine, can’t recommend it highly enough.
March 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Interviewed Sandhya Suri for her excellent feature debut SANTOSH for the new @sightsoundmag.bsky.social.
Sandhya’s earlier documentary I FOR INDIA is an all-time favourite of mine, can’t recommend it highly enough.
Sandhya’s earlier documentary I FOR INDIA is an all-time favourite of mine, can’t recommend it highly enough.
V pleased to have my new video essay ‘Anger Management: Cronenberg’s Brood & the Shapes of Cinematic Rage’ on the gorgeous new @secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of the seminal body horror / divorce metaphor.
Made me wonder what Dave could’ve done with the Hulk…
Made me wonder what Dave could’ve done with the Hulk…
March 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
V pleased to have my new video essay ‘Anger Management: Cronenberg’s Brood & the Shapes of Cinematic Rage’ on the gorgeous new @secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of the seminal body horror / divorce metaphor.
Made me wonder what Dave could’ve done with the Hulk…
Made me wonder what Dave could’ve done with the Hulk…
Out today, BLACK BAG is exactly the sort of smart, stylish, witty, grownup crowdpleaser, with beautifully shot stars looking & sounding gorgeous that we always rue isn’t made any more. So, go support it at the cinema and be treated to one of Steven Soderbergh’s (and writer David Koepp’s) very best.
March 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Out today, BLACK BAG is exactly the sort of smart, stylish, witty, grownup crowdpleaser, with beautifully shot stars looking & sounding gorgeous that we always rue isn’t made any more. So, go support it at the cinema and be treated to one of Steven Soderbergh’s (and writer David Koepp’s) very best.
Another #Oscars, another year of blatant Category Fraud, this time in two of the most locked sets of nominees.
Which is why this video essay I made 10 whole years ago, analyzing the sorry, but highly effective ploy, is an evergreen.
Link to the full video below:
vimeo.com/155094133
Which is why this video essay I made 10 whole years ago, analyzing the sorry, but highly effective ploy, is an evergreen.
Link to the full video below:
vimeo.com/155094133
March 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Another #Oscars, another year of blatant Category Fraud, this time in two of the most locked sets of nominees.
Which is why this video essay I made 10 whole years ago, analyzing the sorry, but highly effective ploy, is an evergreen.
Link to the full video below:
vimeo.com/155094133
Which is why this video essay I made 10 whole years ago, analyzing the sorry, but highly effective ploy, is an evergreen.
Link to the full video below:
vimeo.com/155094133
Just one of the best to ever do it. Precisely because you never, ever caught him doing it.
Thank you, Gene Hackman. RIP.
Thank you, Gene Hackman. RIP.
February 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Just one of the best to ever do it. Precisely because you never, ever caught him doing it.
Thank you, Gene Hackman. RIP.
Thank you, Gene Hackman. RIP.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Eisenberg, RaMell Ross, Daniel Craig… impressed and proud of so many of the selections of my fellow @londoncritics.bsky.social voters
February 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Eisenberg, RaMell Ross, Daniel Craig… impressed and proud of so many of the selections of my fellow @londoncritics.bsky.social voters
The only news about the orange turd that I’m looking at today.
January 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The only news about the orange turd that I’m looking at today.
David Lynch’s oneiric, shapeshifting art exhilarated, haunted and inspired me, Mulholland Dr. perhaps most of all. A few years back I made a video essay trying to unpack why. Sharing it below in tribute.
Thank you, David Lynch. In dreams, you walk with us.
vimeo.com/223150206
Thank you, David Lynch. In dreams, you walk with us.
vimeo.com/223150206
January 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
David Lynch’s oneiric, shapeshifting art exhilarated, haunted and inspired me, Mulholland Dr. perhaps most of all. A few years back I made a video essay trying to unpack why. Sharing it below in tribute.
Thank you, David Lynch. In dreams, you walk with us.
vimeo.com/223150206
Thank you, David Lynch. In dreams, you walk with us.
vimeo.com/223150206
essential reading, as ever from @mangiotto.bsky.social for Film Freak Central, The 50 Best Films of 2024.
filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/the-...
filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/the-...
January 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
essential reading, as ever from @mangiotto.bsky.social for Film Freak Central, The 50 Best Films of 2024.
filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/the-...
filmfreakcentral.net/2024/12/the-...