Nick Roddick
Nick Roddick is a Cannes veteran, a former editor of Screen International and Moving Pictures International and has been Sight & Sound’s Mr Busy since circa 1993. He also long ago wrote a book about Warner Bros in the 1930s which he likes to think is still worth reading.
Online articles
Cannes Film Festival 2012
The Sight & Sound blog
Follow Nick James and our correspondents on the Croisette. Read the collated entries, or see the index of individual posts. Web exclusive, May 2012
Controlling the story:
Michael Winterbottom on fiction, observation and Trishna
For his 20th film in 17 years – and third Thomas Hardy adaptation – Michael Winterbottom took Tess of the D’Urbervilles to modern-day India. Filming begets filming, he tells Nick Roddick. Web exclusive, March 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
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
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
Wojciech Has: curiouser and curiouser
Nick Roddick blew his mind in the early 1970s. He tracks down the culprit, the late Polish director Wojciech Has. Web exclusive, September 2009