Olivia Laing
British writer and critic; author of The Lonely City (2016), Everybody (2021) and The Garden Against Time (2024), the essays Funny Weather (2020) and the novels Crudo (2017) and The Silver Book (2025).
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Loved I Know Where I’m Going!
I could also have picked A Canterbury Tale or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp from the Powell and Pressburger canon, but I Know Where I’m Going! edges ahead for sheer buoyancy.
criterion.com 10 Nov 2025
Loved Performance
If we’re talking about the souring of the 1960s, there is no better account than Performance, a gangster film drenched in paranoia that is really about the untethering of identity itself.
criterion.com 10 Nov 2025
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