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
RT @noahlightbox: Yay! Agnes Varda : 1st recipient of FIAF award for contributions to preservation of cinema at CNC patrimonial lunch http:…
9 hours 19 min ago.
Nick James
RT @JustinCChang: ONLY GOD FORGIVES. And even that's being generous, really. Worthless. #Cannes
13 hours 14 min ago.
Nick James
Ryan Gosling does his usual thing of saying nothing and looking cool - even beaten up with panda-eyes from bruises #cannes2013
13 hours 40 min ago.
Nick James
Exquisitely art directed, empty, pretentious, nihilistic, ripoff of all Asian cinema, a slo-mo zombie movie: ONLY GOD FORGIVES #cannes2013
13 hours 47 min ago.
Nick James
RT @JonathanRomney: Once again, the phrase 'style over substance' proves woefully inadequate - though the images are so beautiful they're v…
13 hours 53 min ago.
Nick James
That last tweet came to you from the dog tired and braindead corporation.
15 hours 44 min ago.