Christina Newland is a journalist on film, pop culture and boxing at VICE, Sight & Sound, BBC, MUBI, Empire, and others. Her first book, an edited anthology called She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema, was published in March 2020. She tweets @christinalefou and you can find her work at www.thebetamaxrevolt.com.
Articles by Christina Newland
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Join Christina Newland for a watch-along viewing of The Diary of a Teenage Girl
In celebration of the launch of Female Desire on Screen on BFI Player, Christina Newland – season curator and editor of anthology She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema – will be live-blogging Marielle Heller’s sexy coming-of-age story The Diary of a Teenage Girl from 7pm.
Friday, April 24, 2020
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All I desire: women watching men at the movies
To mark the publication of Christina Newland’s new collection of women’s film writing She Found It at the Movies, here’s her manifesto for a proudly subjective, impressionistic and lusty female film criticism, from our October 2017 issue.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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Our inaugural critics’ poll of the top ten television series of 2019 offers a tantalising mix of comedy, horror and drama – and holds up a mirror to our age. See how 37 television critics judged the year, including Molly Haskell’s extended take on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.
Monday, January 6, 2020
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Why bad taste is over – An interview with John Waters
‘The Pope of Trash’ is on Criterion, Donald Trump is in the White House, and Scorsese is going after Marvel. As John Waters tells us, these are strange times for negotiating high and low culture.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
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Behind the smiles and fluff, a sense of mortality hovers over the great Hollywood musicals, says Christina Newland.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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Marriage Story review: Noah Baumbach’s divorce tale has the rueful ring of truth
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver play divorcing spouses struggling to take care of their son in Noah Baumbach’s reflective and occasionally devastating drama, writes Christina Newland.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
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Joker review: Joaquin Phoenix’s alienated antihero is no laughing matter
Todd Phillips’s dark origin story for Batman’s nemesis soars past its troubling ideological confusion on a cascade of Scorsese references and a killer performance from Joaquin Phoenix, writes Christina Newland.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
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Pauline Kael and the men from dream city
With our two-month season celebrating Cary Grant in full swing, we look back at The Man from Dream City, Pauline Kael’s seminal 1975 essay on the star, and investigate how the great critic saw other key leading men.
Monday, August 12, 2019
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Pretty young things: how Leo, Brad, Johnny and Winona redefined the 90s A-list
The 80s were over, the 90s had begun. Muscle was out, soul-searching introspection was in, and a new breed of movie star was born.
Monday, July 8, 2019
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50 films and TV series to see in 2019
All the biggest and best on-screen highlights from the year to come, featuring dynamite new talent and returning favourites.
Friday, January 4, 2019
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