Sheila Johnston
Bio
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
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The Adulterer, Channel 4 review – atmospheric, addictive and...
It has taken a good half-decade for the Dutch series ...
Blindness, Donmar Warehouse review – a beautifully haunting...
Wowee! Twenty weeks after the last time I set foot in a theatre, I was able to visit a venue once more. Hello again...
The Encore, Opera Holland Park review – stylish return for a...
As Dvořák’s "Song to the Moon" from ...
Album: Tanya Donelly and The Parkington Sisters
It’s exciting to come to an album with no preconceptions and no context and find you fall immediately in love with it. Tanya Donelly is probably...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears"
Whether explicitly or indirectly, what’s written on a master tape box can tantalise. Revealing part of a picture creates a desire to want to know...
Blu-ray: Buster Keaton: Three Films, Vol. 3
Every great artist can have an off day, and the the best moments in Eureka’s latest collection of Buster Keaton features are good enough to make...
Heart's Delight, Opera Holland Park review - a classy h...
Nostalgia of all kinds played a part in this summer evening’s divertissement. Some audience members were probably remembering when operetta held a...
Perfect 10 review - a small movie with a big heart
We first see Leigh (Frankie Box), the cheeky heroine of Scottish...
Alex Halberstadt: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union review -...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been a collective examination of its past, with Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich at...