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Sheila Johnston

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Sheila worked on the launch of the Independent, where she was a writer-editor and film critic for 10 years. She has written on cinema for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Sight and Sound, Guardian, Libération, Interview and New York Daily News, among other places.

Articles By Sheila Johnston

An eruption of pop-up cinemas

Friday, 05 February 2010 Read more...

Raspberry ripples and Oscar oddities

Thursday, 04 February 2010 Read more...

Movie Gallery: Océans

Monday, 01 February 2010 Read more...

Wet Weather Cover, King's Head Theatre

Thursday, 28 January 2010 Read more...

Interview: Liz Mermin on Horses

Thursday, 28 January 2010 Read more...

Precious

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 Read more...

theartsdesk Masterclass: Jacques Audiard on A Prophet

Saturday, 23 January 2010 Read more...

Brothers

Thursday, 21 January 2010 Read more...

Six Degrees of Separation, Old Vic

Wednesday, 20 January 2010 Read more...

Up in the Air

Thursday, 14 January 2010 Read more...

Eric Rohmer 1920-2010

Monday, 11 January 2010 Read more...

Mugabe and the White African

Tuesday, 05 January 2010 Read more...

Film 2009-10: Boo for Hollywood

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 Read more...

The Queen of Spades

Saturday, 26 December 2009 Read more...

10 Minute Tales, Sky1

Monday, 21 December 2009 Read more...

theartsdesk in Artvin: A Film Festival on Wheels

Sunday, 20 December 2009 Read more...

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28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

RNCM International Diploma Artists, BBC Philharmonic, MediaC...

Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they call...

With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...

Classical CDs: Bells, whistles and bowing techniques

 

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Album: Yungblud - Idols

Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.

So, what musical...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...