I’ve been writing for MovieMail‘s monthly catalogue on and off since the late 1990s and regularly for at least the last five years. Given the purpose, these reviews are promotional rather than analytical or critical, but I generally don’t take on films that I dislike (there are two exceptions, but I hope they’re not obvious!). This list doesn’t cover everything – some of the very early pieces aren’t published online and I no longer have the printed versions for reference – but it gives a good general idea.

Features

• The GPO Film Unit Volume 1: Addressing the Nation
• Land of Promise

Reviews

• The Alastair Sim Collection
• Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958, Poland)
• Ashik Kerib (Sergo Paradjanov, 1988, USSR)
• The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia, 2007
• The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951, UK)
• The Browning Version (Mike Figgis, 1994, UK)
• Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986, UK)
• The John Cassavetes Collection
• A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929, UK)
• Distant Voices Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988, UK)
• The Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972-78, UK)
• Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007, UK)
• Elgar’s Tenth Muse (Paul Yule, 1995, UK)
• Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973, France)
• Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974, US)
• The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech J. Has, 1973, Poland)
• If…. (Lindsay Anderson, 1969, UK)
• The Aki Kaurismäki Collection Volume 1
• The Aki Kaurismäki Collection Volume 2
• The Last Mitterrand (Robert Guédiguian, 2005, France)
• Lemming (Dominik Moll, 2005, France)
• The Lost World of Friese-Greene (2006)
• Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil, 1967, Czechoslovakia)
• Molière (Laurent Tirard, 2007, France)
• The Errol Morris Collection
• My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007, Canada)
• 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976, Italy)
• Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, 2004, France)
• The Party and the Guests (Jan Němec, 1966, Czechoslovakia)
• A Passion for Churches (Edward Mirzoeff, 1974, UK)
• Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964, Italy
• The River (Jean Renoir, 1951, India)
• The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1965, Hungary)
• The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada)
• Silent Britain (David Thompson, 2006, UK)
• Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke, 2006, China)
• Summoned by Bells (Jonathan Stedall, 1976, UK)
• Jan Švankmajer: The Complete Short Films
• Theorem (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968, Italy)
• The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988, US)
• Transylvania (Tony Gatlif, 2006, France/Romania)
• Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970, Spain/France)
• Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970, Czechoslovakia)
• The Andrzej Wajda War Trilogy (1954-58, Poland)
• You, The Living (Roy Andersson, 2007, Sweden)