Penelope Houston
PENELOPE HOUSTON is a British film critic and journal editor. She was one of the founders of the film journal Sequence, edited Sight & Sound, the journal of the BFI, and was a regular contributor to the Monthly Film Bulletin. She has also been a film critic for The Spectator, deputised as critic for The Times, has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, and is also the author of The Contemporary Cinema (1963) and Keepers of the Frame: Film Archives (1994). GEOFF BROWN, long...See more
PENELOPE HOUSTON is a British film critic and journal editor. She was one of the founders of the film journal Sequence, edited Sight & Sound, the journal of the BFI, and was a regular contributor to the Monthly Film Bulletin. She has also been a film critic for The Spectator, deputised as critic for The Times, has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, and is also the author of The Contemporary Cinema (1963) and Keepers of the Frame: Film Archives (1994). GEOFF BROWN, long associated as a critic with The Times, curated BFI Southbank's Cavalcanti retrospective in 2010, edited the book collection Alistair Cooke at the Movies (2009), and has published widely on British cinema. He is an Associate Research Fellow at the Cinema and Television Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester. See less
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