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British writer and critic; author of The Lonely City (2016), Everybody (2021) and The Garden Against Time (2024), the essays Funny Weather (2020) and the novels Crudo (2017) and The Silver Book (2025).
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PerformanceOther Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
If we’re talking about the souring of the 1960s, there is no better account than Performance, a gangster film drenched in paranoia that is really about the untethering of identity itself.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Olivia Laing, the entry for Performance.
2025-11-10·criterion.com ↗
I Know Where I’m Going!Other Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
I could also have picked A Canterbury Tale or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp from the Powell and Pressburger canon, but I Know Where I’m Going! edges ahead for sheer buoyancy.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Olivia Laing, the entry for I Know Where I’m Going!.
2025-11-10·criterion.com ↗
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