film writing
From 2001-13, Gilda Williams reviewed films for London-based Sight & Sound, the film magazine of the British Film Institute.
2022
Journey of No Return, dir. Mitra Tabrizian, for ‘Another Screen: Films from Iran, for Iran’.
2021
El Planeta (‘a comedy about eviction’), dir. Amalia Ulman, in Artforum.com, Feb
2013
‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’, Sight and Sound, November 2013
‘Fire in the Night’, Sight and Sound, August 2013
2009
‘Stuck’, Sight and Sound, March 2009
2008
‘How Ohio Pulled it Off’, Sight and Sound, December 2008
‘Shotgun Stories’, Sight and Sound, April 2008
‘[REC]’, Sight and Sound, March 2008
2007
‘Billabong Odyssey’, Sight and Sound, December 2007
‘Like Minds’, Sight and Sound, July 2007
‘Fracture’, Sight and Sound, July 2007
‘Infamous’, Sight and Sound, February 2007
‘The Heart of the Game‘, Sight and Sound, February 2007
‘Rampage’, Sight and Sound, January 2007
2004
‘Mambo Italiano’, Sight and Sound, October 2004
‘Stoked, The Rise and Fall of Gator’, Sight and Sound, June 2004
‘L’ultimo bacio: The Last Kiss’, Sight and Sound, April 2004
‘Laurel Canyon’, Sight and Sound, January 2004
2003
‘Historia Minimas’, Sight and Sound, August 2003
2002
‘Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood’, Sight and Sound, November 2002
‘Tortilla Soup’, Sight and Sound, September 2002
‘Dancing at the Blue iguana’, Sight and Sound, July 2002
‘Dogtown and the Z-Boys’, Sight and Sound, July 2002 (read here)
‘The Princess Diaries’, Sight and Sound, February 2002
2001
‘Women Talking Dirty’, Sight and Sound, October 2001