Author Spotlight

Chris Darke

Chris Darke is a writer and film critic based in London. His work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Trafic, and the Independent. He is also the author of Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, a monograph on Godard’s Alphaville, and Cannes: Inside the World’s Premier Film Festival (with Kieron Corless). He has directed occasional works, including a video portrait of Chris Marker for Criterion’s release of Marker’s La Jetée and Sans Soleil.

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Hunger: On the Threshold
The feature film debut of British artist Steve McQueen, Hunger dramatizes the final weeks in the life of Irish Republican Army commander Bobby Sands and his death by hunger strike, aged twenty-seven, in 1981. Combining intense formal control and extr…

By Chris Darke

Essays— Feb 17, 2010
Vagabond: Freedom and Dirt

While Agnès Varda was prescient in picking up on the new social phenomenon of France’s young female drifters, she also anticipated the culture of extreme individualism that has come to dominate Western society since the 1980s.

By Chris Darke

Essays— Jan 22, 2008