Sukhdev Sandhu is the Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities and Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of books including London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, I’ll Get My Coat and Night Haunts: A Journey through the London Night.
The former chief film critic for the Daily Telegraph, he lives in New York and London and and is a regular writer for publications including Sight & Sound, the London Review of Books, Modern Painters, the Times Literary Supplement, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Du, the Wire, Bidoun, Gastronomica, the Australian, Modernism/Modernity, New York and the Guardian.
He tweets at @autumnfarewells.
Articles by Sukhdev Sandhu
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The Street review: East London locals reflect on austerity’s effects
Photographer Zed Nelson’s documentary takes a detached, minimal approach to present-day problems in the UK through the prism of one London street.
Monday, December 2, 2019
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What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? review – New Orleans as gothic carnival
In his latest missive from the American South, Roberto Minervini leans in on a poetic portrait of Southern black life in all its grace, mystery and darkness – but falters the further he ventures from his wonderful heroine Judy Hill, says Sukhdev Sandhu.
Friday, October 18, 2019
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Faces Places review: Agnès Varda pastes her playfulness over French landscapes
Teaming up with street artist JR, the legendary director goes in search of friends new and old in this intuitive caper, which veers between moments of collective joy and great personal poignancy, writes Sukhdev Sandhu.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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Around India with a Movie Camera review: a past that refuses to know its place
Sandya Suri’s thrilling compilation film rejects cinematic diplomacy in favour of a fascinating, occasionally ironic odyssey through the final years of colonial rule, writes Sukhdev Sandhu.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
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Doc around the clock: BBC Arena celebrates 40 years in a day
The BBC’s indefatigable flagship arts programme celebrates its latest anniversary with a magnificent act of expanded television and self-repurposing. By Sukhdev Sandhu.
Friday, September 11, 2015
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From the Magazine
American refugees: Bill Morrison’s The Great Flood
Bill Morrison, expert aesthetician of decay and disappearance, turns his attention to the forgotten flood that devastated interwar America. By Sukhdev Sandhu.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
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Film of the week: Before Midnight
Life – middle-aged, familial, digital – has caught up with Before Sunset’s Jesse and Celine; but their love is not quite eclipsed, sees Sukhdev Sandhu.
Friday, June 21, 2013
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Yi Seung-Jun’s tenderly observed documentary belongs in the pantheon of cinema about blindness, says Sukhdev Sandhu.
Friday, June 22, 2012
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The best film books, by 51 critics
Which are the most inspirational five books about film ever written? This was the question we asked 51 leading critics and writers, and their answers are printed here in full.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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