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Richard Armstrong

Richard Armstrong has written for websites and magazines on three continents, including the Times Higher Education Supplement, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Uncut and Metro, Australia's leading film magazine. His first book, Billy Wilder, made the top ten non-fiction list in Uncut. He is a major contributor, with Tom Charity and Jessica Winter, to The Rough Guide to Film (2007). He currently supervises undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge.

in issue 57

Notes on a Scandal: On Film Criticism and Its Teachers — Will the twain ever meet?

in issue 53

The Image-Makers, at Dusk: On the Documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography — Glassman uncovers networks of influence and inference, whole microhistories around the camera . . ."

in issue 50

To Dance Without Warning: Reliving The Last Days of Chez Nous
You can go home again

in issue 45

Millions Like Us: Bereavement in British Cinema
"All the lonely people, where do they all come from?"

in issue 40

They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste
"I can't believe you let these people put pictures on your skin." — C. W.'s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde

in issue 37

South of the Chocolate Mountains: Scattered Impressions of the Hitchhiker
Ida Lupino: Mother of us all!

in issue 36

The King Steps Out: Goodbye to Billy Wilder
"A brain full of razor blades and a heart full of chutzpah"

The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin, and Censorship
Jane Mills reiterates the role of politics and polemics in film criticism

in issue 35

"It’s Only a Movie!": Films and Critics in American Culture
Raymond J. Haberski Jr.'s account of American film criticism's first golden age

in issue 34

The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey
John Saunders' introduction to the western

in issue 33

France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema
A collection of academic essays, edited by Lucy Mazdon

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