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Lillian Crawford
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Freelance Writer, Little White Lies
London
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Biography
Lillian Crawford is a freelance film and culture writer for publications including Little White Lies, Sight & Sound, Empire, The Guardian, GQ, TLS, Curzon Journal, Picturehouse Recommends, MUBI Notebook, Composer, Plinth, MASSIVE, PinkNews, and BBC Culture. She is Contributing Writer to Girls on Tops, co-host of the Autism Through Cinema podcast, and runs the blog and podcast Listen to Lillian about British cinema. She makes regular appearances on BBC Radio and TV, including Front Row and Free Thinking, where she also contributes quiz questions to programmes including Counterpoint and formerly University Challenge. She also delivers introductions and hosts Q&As, including curating the relaxed screening programmes at the BFI and the Garden Cinema. Lillian’s recent published works include booklet essays for the BFI’s The Camera Is Ours DVD boxset, the BFI’s Jules et Jim, The Trial of Joan of Arc, EO, Western Approaches, and Bluebeard’s Castle Blu-rays, Second Sight’s The VVitch 4K boxset and Mean Streets Blu-ray, and Radiance’s She Dies Tomorrow Blu-ray. Lillian can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd @lillcrawf.
opera, books theatre, cultureFilm, literature ballet, arts
I will cover anything but I have the least experience with economic reporting.
Content
By Lillian Crawford, Nicolas Rapold Verified, Jessica Kiang, Sam Wigley| Sight & Sound Verified The stage musical Wicked is relentless. One song bleeds into the next, with little respite to catch breath as the first act hurtles its way towards the events of The Wizard of Oz. What will strike audiences while watching the movie adaptation of Wicked is that this film is only the musical’s first act, and yet at 160 minutes it is almost the same length as the entire stage production. This is a good thing
Alan Hollinghurst: The Booker Prize-winning writer whose novels unbutton the sex lives of Britain's gay social elite
By Lillian Crawford| BBC Verified Ever since his 1988 debut The Swimming-Pool Library caused a stir, Hollinghurst has captured the hedonism of affluent gay men with both candour and literary elegance. "He looks battered, but is smiling, / like an old seaman, nearly at rest. / A gold-haired boy twirls upside-down on rings." These lines come from Alan Hollinghurst's poem Isherwood is at Santa Monica, published in 1975 while he was reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford
By David Parkinson Verified, Lillian Crawford, Bertolt Brecht, David Parkinson Obituaries| BFI@ “That girl has a magic,” Kenneth Williams confided to his diary while appearing in Peter Shaffer’s twinned 1962 plays The Private Ear and The Public Eye opposite Maggie Smith. He also noted that Smith had “a deftness of touch in comedy that makes you really grateful”. But Smith herself, who has died aged 89, had mixed feelings about her gift. “I got pigeonholed in humour,” she told The Guardian in 2004. “If you do comedy, you kind of don’t count
Company Info
Little White Lies
London, United Kingdom