Chris Milton - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

I am a stylish, adaptable writer, and a talented, meticulous editor. I have written articles and reviews for The Idler, Little White Lies, Cinema Retro, Bright Lights Film Journal, 3am, New Empress, Limb by Limb, and the Covent Gardener. I write regularly for the photography journal Source. I have worked as a sub-editor and proofreader for, amongst others, Kagan World Media, Charterhouse, the Independent, and Centaur, and I edited the trade magazine Digital Display Printing. I also write the monthly blog The Ragged Wood.

Content

Total articles 3

• HITCHCOCK'S "FRENZY" AT 50

  By Chris Milton, Cinema Retro| Cinema Retro@ Anotherinfluence on Hitchcock overlooked in discussions of the Lustomord – sexmurder – theme in Hitchcock is his time spent living and working in Berlin. Hewas there from 1925 to 1927 working as Assistant Director on an Anglo-Americanproduction called The Blackguard (1925) and later as Director of TheMountain Eagle (1926) at Berlin’s Ufa Studio.

  By Chris Milton, Cinema Retro · Cinema Retro

  Aug. 06, 2024

• Rosemary’s Baby: The World as Coven

  By Chris Milton| Bright Lights Film Journal Verified Rosemary’s Baby has been seen as eerily prescient, predictive, but in fact it looked back; Polanski already knew evil and horror, and specifically the horror of the giant covens of Nazi Germany and communist Eastern Europe. For just as the “banality of evil” can be reversed to the “evil of banality,” so “collective madness” can be reversed to the “madness of the collective,” and this is the true theme of this film.

  By Chris Milton · Bright Lights Film Journal

  Jul. 27, 2023

• Wild Imagination: Forty Years of The Thing

  By Chris Milton| Bright Lights Film Journal Verified * * *It took decades for John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) to find an audience, on home video and cable. Blade Runner was released the same year and elicited a similarly lacklustre critical and audience response. Yet both went on to be two of the most highly regarded, influential, and beloved sci-fi horror movies, not merely genre but cinematic landmarks.

  By Chris Milton · Bright Lights Film Journal

  Oct. 26, 2022

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