Ellen Cheshire

Up in London to stay with a friend and catch a couple of shows, I managed to bookend the weekend with some of my bucket list must-sees. On Friday, I battled the chilly wind and rain at the tail end of Storm Goretti to reach Bermondsey and tick off London’s only dedicated LGBTQ+ cinema, The Arzner , tucked into Bermondsey Square. I was in the area for theatre later, but arrived rather buffeted and windswept at this incredibly stylish independent cinema of around 50 seats, comp

Jane Campion was born on this day in 1954. To celebrate this great filmmaker make May the month where you'll catch up with her short...

Since 1952, the British Film Institute through its magazine, Sight and Sound, has conducted a poll of film critics every decade to find...

One of my fave podcasts, The Cinematologists , recently celebrated its 100th episode. I've been a fan from the outset enjoying both the episodes built around a single film, and the bonus episodes. All episodes feature an intro with hosts Dr Dario Llinares (@dariodoublel) & Dr Neil Fox (@drneilfox) enjoying a wide-ranging catch-up of recent films watched, as well as conversations around the nature of podcasts, film study etc. I was delighted when they asked me to introduce a

Jane Campion photo by By New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General - https://gg.govt.nz/file/12859, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91235992 On Jane Campion's birthday, I thought I'd take some time-out to trace my history and fascination with her extraordinary body of work. I first saw The Piano (1993) in screen one of the Barbican Cinema when it was first released. I was working there at the time, and so had been looking at the striki

2018 saw the publication of my book In the Scene: Jane Campion (Supernova Books/Aurora Metro, 2018). A book that has been 25 years in the...