Nick James
Editor, Sight & Sound
BFI
Nick James is Editor of Sight & Sound.
He studied at St. Martin’s School of Art and was a singer in rock bands from the late 1970s until the mid 80s.
He joined the listings magazine City Limits in 1989 and by 1991 was Editor of the Film Section. James has written on film, literature and art for the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, US Vogue, Time Out, the London Review of Books and The Literary Review.
His book on Michael Mann’s Heat was published in 2002, and he was the presenter of the BBC documentary British Cinema: The End of the Affair that same year. In 2011 he received the Telluride Film Festival’s special medallion on behalf of Sight & Sound for its outstanding work.
Writing
Nick James
Valeria Bruno-Tedeschi's A CASTLE IN. ITALY Wants us to know the rich suffer too. It has panache but is a tad self-indulgent #cannes2013
5 hours 52 min ago.
Nick James
More details on Shield of Straw: 2 cops have to get a child rapist across Japan against all odds. The film is never plausible #cannes2013
13 hours 25 min ago.
Nick James
RT @PeterBradshaw1: The plot-hole in Straw Shield (dir. Takashi Miike) is so huge there is no solid ground around the outside. It's just a …
13 hours 30 min ago.
Nick James
Miike Takashi's cop mission drama SHIELD OF STRAW is the first real stinker of the festival #cannes2013
13 hours 33 min ago.
Nick James
I'm allergic to carved figurines but Rithy Panh's personal recall of Pol Pot's genocide THE MISSING PICTURE uses them tellingly #cannes2013
15 hours 53 min ago.
Nick James
Alec Baldwin and James Toback make a great act raising finance in SEDUCED AND ABANDONED but would you give these guys money? #cannes2013
16 hours 39 sec ago.