Nick Bradshaw
Nick is Web Editor at Sight & Sound.
Previously a film editor at Time Out London and the late plan b, he has also written for the Guardian online, the Independent, the Telegraph, the Times, Sunday Times, LA Weekly, the Village Voice and Vertigo, and is co-author with Tim Robey of The DVD Stack (Canongate, 2006/07).
He is also an occasional documentary filmmaker, with a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Follow him on Twitter @nicholasb
Online articles
On the Bowery DVD
Nick Bradshaw revisits Lionel Rogosin’s pioneering 1956 drama-doc shot on the mean streets of New York.
from S&S April 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
Encounters short film festival: Circumnavigating the world (and some time travel) Report
At Bristol’s short film expo, Nick Bradshaw and Dylan Cave encounter Mark Cosgrove’s philosophy of festival programming, the magical early silents of Segundo de Chomón and short highlights from Britain, Scandinavia and the Ukraine.
Web exclusive, November 2011
It’s a wrap
London Film Festival blog post
Our writers tally their best discoveries, on- and off-screen moments and personal encounters of the festival.
Web exclusive, October 2011
Toons for all
London Film Festival blog post
Dylan Cave and Nick Bradshaw survey the festival’s short animations for kids and adults.
Web exclusive, October 2011
Vérité visions: Sheffield Doc/Fest
Festival postcard
Nick Bradshaw on a rescheduled festival blessed by the sun, Lifetime Achievement awardee Albert Maysles, and his Direct Cinema heirs.
Web exclusive, June 2011
Le quattro volte Review
Goats and their herdsmen, fir trees, dust and the Pythagorean philosophy of reincarnation are considered in the round in Michelangelo Frammartino’s remarkable portrait of rural Calabria. Nick Bradshaw is beguiled.
from S&S June 2011
The films of 2010 Poll
The Social Network and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives head our round-up of the films and highlights of the year, as voted by 85 critics and curators. from S&S January 2011
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2010 highlights Documentary reviews
New films from Patricio Guzmán, Penny Woolcock and John Gianvito – plus Jeff Malmberg’s festival favourite and Morgan Matthews’ latest Audience Award winner. Web exclusive, November 2010
It’s a wrap: we tally our festival experiences
London Film Festival blog post
The Sight & Sound team sum up their best discoveries, on- and off-screen moments and personal encounters of the festival. Web exclusive, October 2010
Off the rails: Jamie Thraves’ Treacle Jr. and Peter Mullan’s Neds
London Film Festival blog post
Nick Bradshaw sees two new films by slow-working British auteurs on a theme of dropping out.
Web exclusive, October 2010
Ivul Review
Andrew Gallivant Kötting takes to the trees in his first film from Swiss exile. Nick Bradshaw admires a tone poem of landscape, bodies and madness.
from S&S August 2010
Muck and brass: Bill Morrison
and Jóhann Jóhannsson Interview
The American filmmaker and Icelandic composer on The Miners’ Hymns, their archival take on colliery bands and the underground culture of Britain’s miners.
Web exclusive, July 2010
John Smith: of process and puns Interview
The inimitable British movie artist who makes the mundane strange and the avant-garde funny.
Web exclusive, June 2010
Me and Joseph Brodsky Interview
Animation master Andrey Khrzhanovsky talks to Nick Bradshaw about his adaptation of the exiled Russian poet’s childhood memoir Room and a Half.
Web exclusive, May 2010
Me and Orson Welles Review
from S&S January 2010
The best online videos of 2009 Poll
With the web hosting more, and more diverse, moving images than ever, we invited critics and curators to recommend the year’s best online viewing. Nick Bradshaw surveys the tally, led by Phantoms of Nabua, It Felt Like a Kiss and Please Say Something
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009: Every doc for itself Festival report
Documentaries with attitude, and film-makers with vision: the worst and best of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009.
Web exclusive, November 2009
Where there’s pomp: Cristian Muniu Interview
The director of Tales from the Golden Age on the absurdities of life in Ceausescu’s Romania.
Web exclusive, November 2009
London 2009: ‘Underground’, overground Report
This year’s London Film Festival brought archive films up onto the streets, and the Tube back onto the screen. We caught two of the festival’s archive showcases.
Web exclusive, October 2009
On a wing and a lark: Shane Meadows Interview
Nottingham’s favourite son talks to Nick Bradshaw about his improvised ‘five-day feature’ Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee. Web exclusive, October 2009