Scott Jordan Harris is Editor of the international film magazine The Big Picture and Co-Editor of The Spectator Arts Blog. He is a staff writer for both the print and online editions of Film International and has also contributed to many leading magazines, websites and journals, including Fangoria and Rugby World. Roger Ebert includes @ScottFilmCritic on his list of top ‘movie people’ to follow on Twitter, alongside David Lynch, Sir Michael Caine and Judd Apatow, and featured Scott in his article ‘The Golden Age of Movie Critics’ as one of the critics he believes is contributing to that golden age. Scott also writes A Petrified Fountain, a blog that evangelises the joys of great films and was named alongside /Film, Kermode Uncut and Roger Ebert’s Journal as one of the web’s 12 ‘best movie blogs’ by Running In Heels
Reviews
Tuesday, June 7 2011
Jan Švanmajer's 'Alice' Confounds Expectations and Excites the Imagination
Jan Švankmajer’s movie is as enchanting and unforgiving as a Brothers Grimm fairytale and, as such, it is an ideal adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
Wednesday, February 16 2011
'Private Road' Is, We Fear, Rather Middle of the Road
Hitchcock said ‘drama is life with the dull bits cut out’; Private Road shows two lives with the dull bits left in.
Tuesday, December 14 2010
'Shadows of Progress' Is a Testament to the Best in Documentary Filmmaking
This is one of the best DVD releases of the year. It's so substantial, and so thorough, that it becomes not so much a DVD collection as a small, single-subject library of film.
Monday, October 11 2010
Small Time and Where’s The Money Ronnie!
There is a particular pleasure in returning to the early work of an artist when one knows that the potential evident in their work has already been realised.
Wednesday, July 28 2010
If You Revere Film Pioneers, You'll Revere the Film Pioneers of 'Secrets of Nature'
These films are of enormous interest -- but only to those who are enormously interested in the early development of natural history films.
