Ian Christie is a film historian, curator, broadcaster and consultant, and Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written and edited books on early film, Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam; and worked on exhibitions ranging from Film as Film (Hayward, 1979), Eisenstein: His Life and Art (MoMA Oxford, 1988) and Twilight of the Tsars (Hayward, 1991) to Spellbound: Art and Film (Hayward, 1996) and Modernism: Designing a New World (V&A, 2006). He also contributes regularly to radio and television programmes on cinema.
He is a vice-president of Europa Cinemas and member of its Experts Committee, a member of the Steering Group of London’s Screen Archives Regional Network, an adviser to the London Film Museum, and a member of the Intellectual Property Office’s advisory committee.
He tweets at @ianchris.
Articles by Ian Christie
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ABC in Sound: László Moholy-Nagy’s rediscovered experiment in visual sound
Thought to be lost for years, this playful film combines abstract geometry and textures to create a visible soundtrack, and even features the fingerprints of the director himself, writes Ian Christie.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
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They Shall Not Grow Old review: Peter Jackson brings controversial colour to WWI footage
Does Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s colourising of archive film of WWI soldiers make them more or less real to us? The critics and archivists who argue it’s a travesty have got it wrong, says Ian Christie.
Friday, November 9, 2018
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Willie Doherty’s Loose Ends review: revolution remembered
The Northern Irish artist’s deceptively serene, detached diptychs relate a little-told story of Dublin’s Easter Rising, which begins on the Donegal island of Gola, writes Ian Christie.
Friday, July 14, 2017
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A nomad in Paris: revisiting the films of Ra(o)ul Ruiz
As the Cinémathèque Française takes a two-month journey through the extraordinary career of Raúl Ruiz, Ian Christie reflects on how the filmmaker never lost contact with Chile, even after Pinochet’s military coup forced him into exile.
Monday, April 18, 2016
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Designing dreams and nightmares: Ken Adam on his finest sets
The late, great movie production designer reflects on his most indelible set constructions, from Dr. No to Dr. Strangelove, in these excerpts from a 2012 interview with Ian Christie.
Monday, March 14, 2016
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Our late editor, in the words of her colleagues.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
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An epic revisited: Jeremy Thomas on The Last Emperor 3D
The producer of the 1987 Oscar-winning epic The Last Emperor tells Ian Christie about its recent 3D post-conversion.
Monday, March 10, 2014
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The leading stereography supervisor discusses the lessons learnt from his work on Gravity and the way forward for 3D with Ian Christie.
Monday, March 10, 2014
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Lessons from Gravity: the state of 3D cinema
After Alfonso Cuarón’s highly decorated space drama, what now for the promise and prospects of total cinema, asks Ian Christie?
Monday, March 10, 2014
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From the Magazine
At a time when television drama is reckoned to be superior to most film releases, we look at how 50 top-drawer film directors, from Robert Altman to Orson Welles, made their impact on the smaller screen. Introduced by Henry K. Miller.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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