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 2011The 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

Lawrence of BelgraviaIt’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

A Cat in ParisToons 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 2010The 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

Journals and RemarksIt’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 2009The 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

Every doc for itselfSheffield 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

‘Underground’, overgroundLondon 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

Last Updated: 10 May 2012