Graham Fuller

London, New York

Editor at The Arts Desk

Editorial Associate at Cineaste Magazine

Editorial Associate at Cineaste; Film Editor at The Arts Desk

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Articles

Good One review - a life lesson in the wild with her dad and his pal

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Good One is a generation-and-gender gap drama that mostly unfolds during a weekend hiking and camping trip in the Catskill Forest Preserve in upstate New York. A putative indie classic, writer-director India Donaldson’s psychologically acute feature debut focuses on a self-contained, observant young woman, Sam (Lily Collias), whose skepticism about hard-wired male attitudes grows exponentially over the weekend.
Reflections on 'Echoes' in Pink Floyd's Restored Pompeii Performance Film and as a Vinyl Hit Single From Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”, the ineffable progressive rock epic that occupies side two of 1971’s Meddle, is having a new moment. Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets released a sensational one-sided 12-inch vinyl version of the track on Record Store Day, April 12. Recorded at the Centennial Hall in Frankfurt last August, the 23.04-minutes single – which plays from the centre outwards – reached number six in the vinyl chart, dropped, and is rising again.
Reflections on 'Echoes' in Pink Floyd's Restored Pompeii Performance Film and as a Vinyl Hit Single by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”, the ineffable progressive rock epic that occupies side two of 1971’s Meddle, is having a moment. Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets released a sensational one-sided 12-inch vinyl version of the track on Record Store Day, April 12. Recorded at the Centennial Hall in Frankfurt last August, the 23.04-minutes single – which plays from the centre outwards – reached number six in the vinyl chart, dropped, and is rising again.
Restless review - curse of the noisy neigbours

2 months ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Horror comes in many forms. In writer-director Jed Hart’s feature debut Restless, it’s visited on middle-aged nurse Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) by thirtyish Deano (Aston McAuley), the superficially affable toxic male who moves in next door with two mates and holds raves in their living room, “all night and every night”. A single mother whose son has just left for university, Nicky is pressed by her boss to work extra shifts at the understaffed care home for the elderly that employs her.
Restless review - curse of the noisy neighbours

2 months ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Horror comes in many forms. In writer-director Jed Hart’s feature debut Restless, it’s visited on middle-aged nurse Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) by thirtyish Deano (Aston McAuley), the superficially affable toxic male who moves in next door with two mates and holds raves in their living room, “all night and every night”. A single mother whose son has just left for university, Nicky is pressed by her boss to work extra shifts at the understaffed care home for the elderly that employs her.
Misericordia review - mushroom-gathering and murder in rural France

2 months ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

“Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” The Aesop-ian maxim roughly applies to Jérémie Pastor (Félix Kysyl) in Alain Guiraudie's Misericordia. Though unemployed Toulouse baker Jérémie doesn’t acquire the business that was run by his deceased mentor Jean-Pierre, the film’s ambiguous ending suggests he might still share it with the widow, Martine (Catherine Frot). Unless or until the gendarmes come calling.
theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on his apocalyptic musical 'The End'

2 months ago | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Joshua Oppenheimer made his name directing two disturbing documentaries, The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), that dealt with the aftermath of the brutal anti-communist massacres in Indonesia in 1965-66. Those films addressed how people lie to themselves in order to live with guilt and trauma. Oppenheimer's first fiction film, The End, is a radical continuation of the same idea.
Album: Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt - Loose Talk

Mar 30, 2025 | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

On the spoken word LP Loose Talk, Amelia Barratt reflects on her or other women’s experiences, real or imagined, over enhanced tunes drawn from Bryan Ferry’s demos, some from early in his career. To hear his instantly recognizable sound applied to a female sensibility, especially that expressed with such confiding intimacy by the painter, writer, and performance artist Barratt, makes for a unique and satisfyingly unsettling listen.
Album: Steven Wilson - The Overview

Mar 13, 2025 | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Steven Wilson’s cinematic concept album The Overview is named for the cognitive shift required of astronauts and others who’ve observed Earth from space and been humbled by both its beauty and its – and their – inconsequentiality. Wilson’s grappling with the existential questions raised by what he calls “cosmic vertigo” evidently inspired him musically.
On Falling review - human cogs in a merciless machine

Mar 7, 2025 | theartsdesk.com | Graham Fuller

Alienation, isolation, and instability are the fruits of working as a “picker” in the chilling labour drama On Falling. The first feature written and directed by the Porto-born, Edinburgh-based filmmaker Laura Carreira presents post-industrial gig economy work as a dystopia. It is the kind of hell that Blake or Dickens would have excoriated, but instead of fiery red, Carreira and her cameraman, Karl Kürten, saturate their imagery in metallic blue, including most of the pickers’ clothes.