Emma Simmonds
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- Bio
- Emma is a film and TV critic whose words have appeared in Time Out, Total Film, Little White Lies, The List, The Spectator and Popmatters, amongst many others. She is also a contributor to the London, New York and Glasgow volumes of the World Film Locations book series. She occasionally blogs as The Perpetual Picturehouse and is the arts desk's Film Editor.
Articles by Emma Simmonds
Before Midnight
Monday, 17 June 2013
Before Midnight is the third part in Richard Linklater's romantic series starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as star-crossed lovers Jesse and Celine. It's a sequence of films that began in 1995 with... Read more... |
The Iceman
Monday, 03 June 2013
Ariel Vromen's third film, and his first to command a major cast, is the story of mob contract killer Richard Kuklinski who, from his incarceration in 1986 (charged with just a fraction of the... Read more... |
Populaire
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Writer-director Régis Roinsard's feature debut is a perky French rom-com which brings together the talented, easy-on-the-eye trio of Déborah François, Romain Duris and Bérénice Bejo. Set in the late... Read more... |
Byzantium
Monday, 27 May 2013
Byzantium is a vampire flick which in look and tone seems fashioned to resemble Tomas Alfredson's magnificently humane (if that's the right expression when speaking of the undead) Let the Right One... Read more... |
DVD: I Wish
Friday, 24 May 2013
The latest film from acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Still Walking) tells the story of two young brothers who are separated when their parents divorce and who attempt to bring their... Read more... |
Mud
Monday, 06 May 2013
There are few films of which you can say there's something for everyone - but there is something for everyone in Jeff Nichols's third film. Mud gives us Hollywood stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: A.C.O.D.
Monday, 29 April 2013
Occasionally an ensemble cast comes along that makes you want to get down on your knees and give praise to the movie gods; A.C.O.D. (Adult Children of Divorce) has such a cast. The directorial debut... Read more... |
I'm So Excited
Monday, 29 April 2013
"What makes you think all this is funny?" businessman Ricardo Galán (Guillermo Toledo) snaps after a particular high-spirited episode in Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's latest, and it's... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Fearlessly smart, honest and philosophical, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is the striking, sometimes breathtakingly beautiful second film from Italian-American writer-director Francesca... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: Upstream Color
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Unburdened by conventional narrative sense, Upstream Color is a true curiosity. Seductively strange, woozily kinetic and above all romantic, Shane Carruth's second feature is a little film with big,... Read more... |
Bernie
Monday, 22 April 2013
"There are people in town that would have shot her for five dollars." Those are the shocking but undeniably comic words of a resident of Carthage, Texas, who's nonchalantly describing the strength of... Read more... |
Sundance London 2013: Preview
Monday, 22 April 2013
Bringing some much needed sunshine streaming into what has, so far, been a hit and miss spring is this year's Sundance London, which takes place from 25 - 28 April at The O2. Sundance is, of course,... Read more... |
Oblivion
Friday, 12 April 2013
Director Joseph Kosinski's second film feels dispiritingly like his first, the bastion of excitement and originality that is TRON: Legacy. That film was an empty shell which at least managed not to... Read more... |
The Place Beyond the Pines
Monday, 08 April 2013
"If you ride like lightning you're going to crash like thunder" Robin Van Der Zee (Ben Mendlesohn) tells his reckless partner-in-crime Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling), who will later be dubbed the "Moto... Read more... |
Spring Breakers
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
Whilst Zac Efron is getting urinated on in The Paperboy, his High School Musical co-star Vanessa Hudgens is taking the piss in an entirely different sense. In Spring Breakers Hudgens and Disney... Read more... |
Trance
Monday, 25 March 2013
Pulsating and cinematically proud with an opulent urban palette, Trance positively storms onto the screen. Fast becoming a national treasure (if he hasn't broken through that particular ceiling yet)... Read more... |
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How to contact Emma Simmonds
- http://twitter.com/emmasimmonds
- personal website
- http://theperpetualpicturehouse.wordpress.com
