Henry K. Miller
Henry K. Miller is has written for Film Comment, Cinema Scope and Framework, among other publications, and blogs occasionally for the Guardian. He contributed a foreword to the 2010 edition of Raymond Durgnat’s A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’, and helped devise the BFI DVD/Blu-ray package ‘The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail’.
He hardly ever tweets as @henrykmiller
Online articles
The lost continent: opening up British silent film history Festival postcard
Conventional wisdom says Britain’s few canonised directors of the late silent era learned more from the Soviet cinema than their native culture. The true history, reports Henry K Miller from the British Silent Film Festival, is not so black and white. Web exclusive, May 2012
Infernal combustion: The Robinson Institute’s magical machine montage Review
Patrick Keiller’s reworking of his ‘Robinson’ trilogy as an installation at Tate Britain is a study of British industry’s own uncanny vanishing act. Henry K Miller sees the artist update his beloved Humphrey Jennings – again. Web exclusive, May 2012
Doing time: ‘slow cinema’ at the AV Festival Postcard
Henry K Miller takes a deep breath, pulls up a seat and surrenders to a festival that celebrates slowness in music and the visual arts. Web exclusive, March 2012
The DVDs of 2011 Poll
23 critics and curators pick out their releases – and rediscoveries – of the year. Web exclusive, January 2012
The films of 2011 Poll
In a strong year for arthouse cinema, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life emerged as the clear winner of the S&S poll of international critics’ best films of 2011, says Nick James. From S&S January 2012
Super 8 Review
Henry K. Miller on expert retromaniac J.J. Abrams’ homage to 1970s backyard filmmaking, “a Spielberg pastiche of uncanny precision and sublime pointlessness.”
The best film books Survey
51 leading critics and writers nominate their top five films books. A clear-cut top five emerges – and film writing may have found its Citizen Kane. from S&S June 2010
Slow bloom: Joseph Strick’s Ulysses Interview
Joseph Strick tells Henry K. Miller about his four-decade-long journey to bring James Joyce’s ‘unadaptable’ modernist masterpiece to the screen. Web exclusive, November 2009
Boys’ own stories Feature
In the last decade a talented collection of players – including Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson – have brought their own brand of improvisational comedy and wry humour to the big screen. It’s time we threw out the old categories of highbrow and lowbrow and settled down to enjoy what Indiewood – or the Frat Pack – has to offer, says Henry K. Miller. from S&S March 2008
Container Review
From S&S November 2006