Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker from The Wirral, currently based in London. He is studying for a PhD in film music and transcendental style at the University of Liverpool and Goldsmiths. He has produced film and art criticism for more than 20 digital and print publications including The Times and The Guardian, runs the Blog North Awards-nominated website Celluloid Wicker Man, and has had film work screened at FACT, The Everyman Playhouse, Hackney Picturehouse and Manchester Art Gallery. In 2015, he worked with Robert Macfarlane on an adaptation of his Sunday Times bestseller, Holloway. At present he is filming a number of projects on super-8 film including a collaboration with Iain Sinclair, and working on a book on folk horror for Auteur Publishing.
Articles by Adam Scovell
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Where to begin with Andrew Kötting
On his 60th birthday, we salute a uniquely British visionary by suggesting a pathway through the wayfaring, psychogeographical films of Andrew Kötting.
Monday, December 16, 2019
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Witch reports: Unearthing two occult films of the hippie era
In time for Halloween, two rediscovered documentaries shed bizarre new light on the rise of witchcraft and occult practices in Britain after the end of the 1960s.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
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10 great lesser-known folk horror films
Phantoms on the marshes, lonely lighthouses and dangerous country paths feature in our Halloween list of buried folk-horror treasures.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
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Chris Petit on Radio On: ‘In a world dedicated to waste, the act of driving becomes a moral choice’
As the seminal British road movie turns 40, we sat down with director Chris Petit to talk Wim Wenders, ‘windscreen cinema’ and that soundtrack.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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Project surrealism: the urban spaces of La Haine
As a season of 1990s cinema kicks off at BFI Southbank, we look back at the suburban landscapes of Mathieu Kassovitz’s vital portrait of the Paris suburbs.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
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Alan Clarke’s borstal drama will have done 40 years come September. We explore how the film – an indictment of the Thatcher government’s treatment of young inmates – swerved classism, Mary Whitehouse and a nervy BBC to become a hard-hitting classic.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
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Where to begin with Claude Chabrol
Discover some wickedly entertaining genre kicks with our guide to the cinema of New Wave star, Claude Chabrol.
Monday, June 24, 2019
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My Night with Maud: The winter of relationships
As Eric Rohmer’s conversational classic turns 50, we look back at its frosty take on love.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
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As the suave British star turns 80, we picked out 10 of his greatest performances.
Thursday, May 16, 2019
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Where to begin with Marguerite Duras
As her screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour turns 60, take a dive in to the radical, sensual cinematic experiments of Marguerite Duras.
Monday, May 13, 2019
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