Author Tessa Chudy

I started reading Pam Cook’s study of Nicole Kidman at the same time that I started listening to the new David Bowie album. The song, “The Stars (Are out Tonight)”, with its arch and scathing portrait of remote...

The films of Roman Polanski make a provocative and challenging body of work, but one which is also difficult to separate from the almost melodramatic details of Polanski’s own life. It is also difficult to alig...

The fabulous and fascinatingly contested thing that is film noir is not only alive and kicking, it appears to be undergoing something of a re-evaluation in critical thought. Gone is the stubborn insistence that...