Simran Hans
@heavier_things
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Writer and film critic. Read me in The Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman, GQ, Dazed & Confused etc.
London
Joined March 2009
Went for a Turkish breakfast on Green Lanes with Deborah Levy, for the New York Times. Truly a dream assignment. Thank you also to Vicky Krieps, Xiaolu Guo and @HamishH1931 for speaking to me for this profile
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The author writes about “the body in the world.” In her new book “August Blue,” she explores the split self via the story of a woman confronted with her double.
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Mike Leigh is the only person who could make me break my silence #OnHere I AM SEATED AND READY TO WRITE ABOUT THIS FLM
For the first time since their award-winning "Secrets & Lies," legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh and Oscar-nominated actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite for HARD TRUTHS, a compassionate story about family and the thorny ties that bind us. Coming soon to theaters. #HardTruths
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I need to see the Annie Baker movie this is a SIMRAN EMERGENCY
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I see there are still tickets to see TÓTEM on Monday at LFF, IMO it is a stunner
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Monocle on Culture: @RobertBound is joined in the studio by @heavier_things and @Willjhodgkinson to discuss the new @A24 4K restoration of ‘Stop Making Sense’ and if it is the greatest concert movie of all time
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We celebrate the 40th anniversary of ‘Stop Making Sense’ – Jonathan Demme’s film with Talking Heads – which is often regarded...
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Popping in for a brief stroll over the coals of this platform's dying embers... If you see me around the London Film Festival, say hello! I am still writing about movies just not #onhere :)
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Wrote this piece for @nytimes on the lovely SCRAPPER, talking to the v talented Charlotte Regan, Lola Campbell and Danny Leigh also 🔧
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Charlotte Regan’s debut feature “Scrapper” is part of a lineage of British social-realist films, but its pastel palette and surreal humor resist the genre’s dreariness.
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EXCITED FOR THIS
1 week to go until the opening night of the Yvonne Rainer retrospective at @ICALondon! The season runs from 17- 27 Aug, kicking of with Lives of the Performers (1972) + Q&A with Rainer herself. UK wide tour to follow https://t.co/wmKHFAVSuC
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I have a review of the gorge PAST LIVES in this issue
Hi Barbie! 👋 Greta Gerwig’s smash hit takes the cover of a packed (pink) issue, out on Monday Find out what's inside here and in the 🧵 below: https://t.co/Lhg3QCzq3M Order your copy now: https://t.co/L2jqQZRUyV
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I took part in a watch party of the adorable new series of HEARTSTOPPER with a group of brilliant and whip-smart teens I met via @TheMosaicTrust. Then we discussed. For @nytimes, one of my fave stories I’ve done in AGES
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Three British 16-year-olds took an advance look at Season 2. There was popcorn, giggling and more than a little eye-rolling.
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This broken app is blocking links from a certain newsletter platform but @jemjemdesi on Sinead O'Connor, the pain we inherit and carry, and the people who do and don't hold us is so beautiful and vulnerable, a tribute to the artist in the spirit of her
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Very good piece by @ManiLazic about how critical thinking and film criticism have been devalued and de-incentivised. It has changed SO much since I started writing about movies 10 years ago
Who needs film critics when studios can be sure influencers will praise their films?
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Jessica DeFino on BARBIE, beauty culture, 'awareness' and 'empowerment' https://t.co/M2pk4lmFxv
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ALSO I am frankly shocked at how many people in my COMMUNITY have forgotten about LIFE SIZE
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The speechifying is fucking grating, however, I am not convinced Greta Gerwig's feminism has evolved beyond the specific moment FRANCES HA was released into, a problem for me unforch!
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Despite sending Anna three separate voice notes telling her all the things that annoyed me about BARBIE, I do quite like it, especially the jokes, and Margot Robbie's performance, and this specific outfit. The Billie Eilish song is deployed with cynical precision and it works.
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Told mum I didn’t get Eras tour tickets and she said “Well at least you’ve seen Beyonce” and tbh SHE’S RIGHT
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Fantastic start to the @WhileWeWatched Q&A tour! Heartening to see the response. Next stop with @ravishndtv & Vinay: @riocinema, Wed 12 July, moderated by @heavier_things. 🎟️:
A full house at Curzon Soho for our first @WhileWeWatched Q&A tonight! Book now for special events this week in London, Bristol, Lewes, Birmingham & Manchester https://t.co/h1xaK3rNM4
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This brought me so much joy 🥹
📢 NEW EPISODE 👨🍳 -- everybody's feeling warm and bright because we have @demarionunn and @BizK1 on to discuss whether our biggest celeb chef is PUKKA or just cringeworthy, school dinners, dodgy Jamaican accents, New Labour and so much more https://t.co/HVjk3zItSl
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