Neil Mitchell

Neil Mitchell is a writer and editor based in Brighton. He is the author of Devil’s Advocates: Carrie for Auteur Publishing and the editor of the London, Melbourne and Sydney editions of Intellect Books’ World Film Locations series. He is also Film Co-Ordinator for the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts.

Articles by Neil Mitchell

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10 great anthology horror films

With autumn upon us, and Ghost Stories now on BFI Player, we celebrate the spooky tradition of the multi-story horror movie.

Friday, September 7, 2018

Lists
10 strange and iconic kids in Stephen King movie adaptations

“Come play with us, Danny. Forever… and ever… and ever.”

Monday, August 21, 2017

Lists
Nicole Kidman: 10 essential films

On her 53rd birthday, we celebrate some of the highlights from the luminous career of Nicole Kidman.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Lists
50 modern classics

How many of these 21st-century greats on BFI Player have you seen?

Friday, November 18, 2016

Lists
Carrie: five films that influenced Brian De Palma’s teen-horror classic

“If you got a taste for terror, then you have a date with Carrie…”

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Features
1976: Where was British cinema in the year punk exploded?

Anarchy and agitation arrived in UK record shops in 1976. At the cinema, not so much…

Monday, August 22, 2016

Features
17 rare times when a director made five or more great films in a row

Here’s to cinema’s winning streaks, when an unstoppable director made one belter after another.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Lists
10 great films set in Soho

Sin, sleaze and swing hold sway in these evocative movies set in and around Soho.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Lists
Where to begin with Peter Watkins

Your next obsession: the uncompromising docudramas of Peter Watkins.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Features
Taxi Driver: five films that influenced Scorsese’s masterpiece

On 8 February 1976, a very special movie with a very disturbed protagonist pulled into American cinemas… Forty years later, we look at some of the filmic influences on Martin Scorsese’s brilliant psychodrama Taxi Driver.

Monday, February 8, 2016

Features