Ben Walters has contributed to Sight & Sound since 2001 and also writes on film for the Guardian and blogs about cabaret, moving image, and queer and DIY culture at www.nottelevision.net. He was Time Out London’s cabaret editor from 2009 to 2013, and produces BURN, the platform for moving images by cabaret artists.
Ben co-directed the feature documentary This Is Not a Dream and has written books on Orson Welles, The Office and (with JM Tyree) The Big Lebowski, the latter two for BFI Classics.
He tweets at @not_television.
Articles by Ben Walters
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Oliver Hermanus on Moffie: “Apartheid created a very binary code”
Skin colour wasn’t the only marker of difference weaponised for repression under South African Apartheid. Oliver Hermanus tells Ben Walters about the male sexual stigma and fear imposed under military service that he has dramatised in his new film Moffie.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
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Welcome to the closet! BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom 2020 are online now
While we’re all in isolation, BFI Flare and the British Council’s latest annual compilation of new queer shorts makes a great window on the world, and its newly pressing questions of privacy and outreach, says Ben Walters.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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From the Magazine
And Then We Danced review: finding a new rhythm as a gay man in Georgia
Radical choreography, queer resistance and national identity combine in Levan Akin’s sophisticated and rich drama about a young performer fighting to express himself on and off the dancefloor, writes Ben Walters.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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What were the movies like in the 2010s? We offer you 26 takes on the decade.
Sunday, February 2, 2020
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Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s wild garden
An unlikely oasis on a spit of the Kent coastline, Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage became his creative inspiration, showcase and sanctuary. After the death of his partner Keith Collins, a new campaign aims to raise the funds to maintain it for more generations of wild artist, as Ben Walters reports.
Monday, January 27, 2020
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From the Magazine
Film of the week: 120 BPM is an enthralling, devastating call to action
Robin Campillo’s superb story of Aids activists in the 1990s is more than just a revelatory period piece, it’s a celebration of sex, dance and the invigorating value of collective resistance, writes Ben Walters.
Thursday, April 5, 2018
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Podcast: three critics discuss the best of BFI Flare 2017
Alex Davidson, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters discuss the best of the year’s London LGBT film fiesta – from the half-century commemoration of the Sexual Offences Act to The Untamed’s alien sex octopus.
Friday, March 31, 2017
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Look back in wonder: FLARE 2016 critics’ roundtable
On its thirtieth anniversary, the erstwhile London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival had plenty to reflect on, from biopics and revionist histories and rereleases to the new places queer cinema is going. Claire Kurylowski, Sophie Mayer and Ben Walters share notes in this podcast.
Monday, June 20, 2016
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From the Magazine
Film of the week: Hail, Caesar!
At your service: the Coens salute the circus mastery of Golden-Age Hollywood, write J.M. Tyree and Ben Walters.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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FLARE 2015 critics’ roundtable
From queer bodies in sports to the life online, this year’s London LGBT film festival suggested gay cinema is growing up and out of both tragedy and feelgood transcendence, according to Sophie Mayer, Frances Morgan and Ben Walters.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
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