Kelli Weston

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Podcast: Widows, Ash Is Purest White and three more highlights of the 2018 London Film Festival

What does Steve McQueen’s new heist thriller Widows tell us about race and class in contemporary America? Plus Ash Is Purest White, Joy, Support the Girls and Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Festivals
Wake work: how Spike Lee’s soulful documentaries explore personal and public grieving

The BlacKkKlansman director’s nonfiction films earnestly and cathartically portray black vulnerability, showing how those left behind take up the legacy of their dead, writes Kelli Weston.

Friday, August 24, 2018

Unfiction
From the Magazine

BlacKkKlansman review: Spike Lee fails to get to the heart of racist America

Spike Lee recounts the true story of a black police officer who went undercover in the KKK in this sweeping, clumsy parable, more concerned with landing jokes than interrogating racial hatred, writes Kelli Weston.

Friday, August 24, 2018

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

Film of the week: Whitney is a deeply sensitive portrait of a troubled singer

Kevin Macdonald’s documentary chronicles the fall of a woman denied authorship of her own image, while pausing to marvel at her remarkable talent, writes Kelli Weston.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Reviews and recommendations
Film highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

The 25th edition of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival was something of a feast of new nonfiction. We invited five of our contributors in attendance to tip us to their top finds.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Festivals
Podcast: Six highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018

Kelli Weston hosts a conversation with Sophie Brown, Simran Hans and Ben Nicholson to discuss some of the picks of this year’s Sheffield documentary festival.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Festivals
From the Magazine

Black Panther review: an electrifying, Afrofuturist superhero movie

Ryan Coogler’s spectacular film diverges from one tradition while honouring another, in the process becoming a unusually poignant, political entry in the Marvel franchise, writes Kelli Weston.

Friday, February 16, 2018

Reviews and recommendations
The serial killer variations: David Fincher on Mindhunter at the 2017 LFF

The Seven and Zodiac director took to the stage at the BFI London Film Festival to discuss his latest riff on the serial-killer genre, working with actors and his changing attitude to the thematics of his films. By Kelli Weston.

Friday, October 27, 2017

Festivals
Lemonade review: Beyoncé’s tribute to black female artists

In the iconic singer’s visual album, marital infidelity prompts a retreat to a poeticised world of women in the American South, where she rewrites traumas of black history, finds Kelli Weston.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Reviews and recommendations