Thirza Wakefield is a freelance journalist, whose essays on film and poetry have appeared in Sight & Sound, Granta, The Guardian and The White Review. She is currently undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD, researching the working-class cultural identity of the East Midlands. She was born and lives in Nottingham.
She tweets @thirzawakefield.
Articles by Thirza Wakefield
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Albert Finney obituary: an icon who stayed true
The talismanic young star of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning never lost touch with his roots, or indeed the youth in all of us, and was gracious a collaborator as he was graceful an actor, writes Thirza Wakefield.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
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Night animals: the women of Woodfall
How British films of the 1960s brought working-class women characters blinking into the light after decades of being ignored.
Friday, May 25, 2018
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Listen to the actress: Annette Bening, directly
Against the backdrop of breaking Harvey Weinstein disclosures, the star of The Grifters and Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool held forth on stage at the London Film Festival – bringing home how rare it is for women in the industry to be truly heard, writes Thirza Wakefield.
Friday, November 24, 2017
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Feet in the water: Flatpack 2017 goes back to nature
From a canal-focused Gongoozling Day to celebrations of film naturalists Jean Painlevé and F. Percy Smith, the 11th Flatpack Film Festival transported audiences on a series of hypnotic encounters with nature and the aquatic, reports Thirza Wakefield.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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From the Magazine
Terence Davies’s biopic of the aberrant American poet gives free reign to an artist impeded in her lifetime, says Thirza Wakefield.
Friday, April 7, 2017
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Raise your glasses to the class of 46 – these 70-year-old classics were highlights from a year when the war was over and box offices boomed.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
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Sidney Lumet: 10 essential films
As his raging TV satire Network turns 40, we celebrate the brilliant dramas of Sidney Lumet, from 12 Angry Men to Dog Day Afternoon.
Friday, November 25, 2016
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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
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Come show off with us: Flatpack’s ten years of public spaces and spirits
Birmingham’s peerlessly eclectic Flatpack Film Festival marked its first decade with more of the regional and communal celebration that makes it special. Thirza Wakefield rounds up three rum portraits of 1970s community-art action, 80s Nottingham breakdancing and 1990 video stars in Blyth.
Friday, May 27, 2016
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From the Magazine
Film of the week: Love & Friendship
Schemes and schemata: Kate Beckinsale makes an indelible drawing-room puppet mistress in Whit Stillman’s excellently acerbic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, says Thirza Wakefield.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
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