Josh Slater-Williams

Josh Slater-Williams is a freelance writer currently based in Kent. He has contributed to BFI, Sight & Sound, Variety, Little White Lies, Hyperallergic, Filmmaker, and SciFiNow, among others. He tweets as @jslaterwilliams

Articles by Josh Slater-Williams

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GFF20 vs. COVID-19: four takeaways from Glasgow Film Festival 2020

This year’s Glasgow Film Festival achieved record attendances even as the coronavirus outbreak was beginning to affect international travel, if not public engagement. But there were other dangers for the unwary, as well as confirmed discoveries, on screen, reports Josh Slater-Williams.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Festivals
Five Bruce Springsteen songs and how they influenced my drag-racing drama Run

Director Scott Graham tells us how the music of Bruce Springsteen played into Run, his new tale of joyriding and broken dreams in the Scottish fishing town of Fraserburgh.

Friday, March 13, 2020

Interviews
10 things to watch at the Glasgow Film Festival 2020

Some stepping stones through the stacked programme for this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, which ends with the premiere of Caitlin Moran memoir How to Build a Girl.

Monday, February 3, 2020

Features
Atom Egoyan: How we made Exotica – 25th anniversary

A quarter of a century after it became a defining 1990s indie hit, we speak to Atom Egoyan about the unusual genesis of his puzzlebox strip-club drama Exotica.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Interviews
Judy & Punch: Mirrah Foulkes gives the puppet-show a 21st-century twist

The director of a twisted new puppeteering fable tells why it’s a good time to probe the underlying violence in many of our cultural tales.

Friday, November 22, 2019

Interviews
Ad Astra director James Gray’s American masterpiece... and why UK audiences never saw it

While watching the new Brad Pitt deep-space adventure Ad Astra, spare a thought for director James Gray’s lost classic The Immigrant, the acclaimed Marion Cotillard melodrama that never came out in Britain.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Features
Between London, Lagos and Lincolnshire: Shola Amoo on The Last Tree

The writer-director behind A Moving Image is back with The Last Tree, a story of a Nigerian boy being fostered in rural Lincolnshire. Shola Amoo explains why upending audience expectation is all part of his plan.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Interviews
A Girl Missing review: Koji Fukada examines the complexities of guilt

In this compassionate drama from the director of Harmonium, parallel timelines show how Tsutsui Mariko’s protagonist becomes drawn into her nephew’s crime of abduction, writes Josh Slater-Williams.

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Reviews and recommendations
Sophie Hyde on Animals: ‘We don’t just come of age once and then we’re adults forever. We keep coming of age.’

As her sophomore fiction feature hits UK cinemas, we sat down with Australian filmmaker Sophie Hyde to talk adaptation, casting and shooting in Ireland’s capital.

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Interviews
The bitter and the sweet: British features at Edinburgh 2019

The Scottish showcase is a traditionally a good place to see new work by up-and-coming UK directors. This year, the selection was decidedly mixed but contained a few triumphs and some promising debuts, reports Josh Slater-Williams.

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Festivals