Christina Newland is the lead film critic at the i Newspaper and an award-winning journalist on film, pop culture, and boxing at many other publications, including: Sight & Sound Magazine, EMPIRE, BBC, The Guardian, VICE, Hazlitt, The Ringer, and others. She is also a print columnist with Little White Lies Magazine ('Threads'.) Her substack newsletter, 'Sisters Under the Mink', about the depiction of women in crime cinema and tv, won a UK Freelance Writing Award in 2021. Her first book, an edited anthology called 'She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire, and Cinema' was published by Red Press in 2020.

This interview is an excerpt from a longer conversation originally recorded in 2018.

The following interview is an excerpt from a longer conversation with Chiara Marañón recorded in 2018, in which we discuss Chiara’s personal journey with cinema from a memorable experience with Michael Haneke’s Funny Games to her enduring love for the work of filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

Chiara Marañón is the Director of Content at Mubi.