Mar Diestro-Dópido

Mar Diestro-Dópido is a film critic based in London. She is a regular contributor to, and researcher for, Sight & Sound, and has also written for publications including Little White Lies, Dazed & Confused and Vertigo, as well as various academic books and journals.

She is currently completing a PhD on film festivals, and is also a qualified and active art and media translator.

Writing

Film of the week: Frankenweenie

Tim Burton’s third animated feature resurrects both his own early student experiments and the black art of hand animation – and marks an electrifying return to form, says Mar Diestro-Dópido.

19 October 2012

LFF blog: The pain in Spain

Mar Diestro-Dópido cuts her own Spanish pathway across the festival’s Cult, Experimenta and Dare strands to find a trio of films steeped in loneliness, memories and death.

15 October 2012

Pere Portabella: from Buñuel to Lorca

Mar Diestro-Dópido talks to an elusive Catalan film legend.

11 July 2011

Women on film: Critics’ inspirations

Our female writers offer thumbnail descriptions of their own film-world inspirations.

8 April 2011