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Simran Hans
@heavier_things
Writer and film critic. Read me in The Guardian, The New York Times, New Statesman, GQ, Dazed & Confused etc.
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Old, young, veteran talent, rising stars, people right at the start of their careers, loved by the establishment, TikTok famous (coming soon)... I love talking to all of them.
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I'm really enjoying doing more features writing. Have updated my website with some recent clips, including profiles of musicians, comedians, actors, filmmakers, fashion designers, authors and TV showrunners ;)
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thank you for giving me the space to share the world build!! 🌾🌾
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I’m on the cover of the !! This is the first in depth conversation I’ve had about the record - we wandered around the Heath with coffees, talked about Olga Tokarczuk, nature and forward motion, I was also truly a magnet to every single dog we saw lol
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SAINT OMER in UK cinemas today don't miss it!!!
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Good morning I have written today's cover story. It is a profile of , whose new album is v special & who I enjoyed taking a romantic stroll around Hampstead Heath with recently. Read it in print or online here
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WITH not TO this why I don’t tweet anymore
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Solidarity to everyone striking today. Do read these stories about how the privatisation of our NHS, education system, criminal justice system, transport and postal services is failing everyone. Reported by the brilliant
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I can’t wait to turn 31 next week
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I physically cannot stop talking about SAINT OMER and now I have written about it
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Suella Braverman proved it again: racism is a fire the Tories love to play with. My column
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What a thrill to interview thee about documentary ethics, and their forthcoming film about for
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Obsessed with all my current assignments, hating the new Twitter, hoping to catch a matinee of M3GAN at the multiplex this weekend, most likely surrounded by teens
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Watching MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS with my mum, on the sofa, Bonne Maman crème brûlée in hand, as God intended
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It's time to divest from list culture......
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If I had known THE QUIET GIRL was based on a Claire Keegan story I would’ve watched it sooner???????
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I've written a book! Reach For The Stars is an oral history celebrating UK pop from 1996 - 2006 featuring over 100 new interviews with the great and good of that era, including popstars, songwriters, PRs, directors, fans and Louis Walsh. Out 30 March, link to pre-order in bio
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Portrait is by the wonderful Tom Jamieson instagram.com/tom__jamieson?
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Here's my profile of for . One of my favourite stories I've written this year, featuring a Spice Girl and an MP :) nytimes.com/2022/12/16/art
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After many years of writing mostly criticism, I am finding reporting to be extremely fun?
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Don't know what's funnier, Nick recommending crocs, Angela suggesting a solid gold crisp packet-shaped clutch or Ruby advocating for a box of 48 creme eggs in fab gift guide. I've got a silly cookbook rec in there too
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Had an absolute blast profiling one of our national treasures, Warwick Davis, for
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Sorry to report but Dua Lipa is sounding good on her podcast, and this interview is actually very thoughtful
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Saw it at in Leeds some years ago. Formative screening, different experience seeing it huge and uninterrupted with other people. But it’s on BFI Player now. twitter.com/NeilRamjee/sta
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The other day I watched a movie in which the protagonist attends a screening at what is clearly Curzon Mayfair then steps out onto the southbank, overlooking Waterloo Bridge, outside the BFI. What I'm saying is, I noticed.
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The new series of Articles of Interest is so good. Personal, clever, rich storytelling, has a point of view, doesn't treat audience like an idiot but not insider-y either, doesn't sound like its ideas were mined from Twitter or Wikipedia! I want to make a podcast like that.
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You are watching the World Cup, I am watching a DVD of 9 1/2 WEEKS, we are not the same
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Solidarity with & power to my friends and colleagues in academia striking today!
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Absolutely beautiful piece by about her friend 's deeply personal 1:1 performance piece As Mine Exactly, and how it ties into his body of work (Beyond Clueless, Fish Story Personal Truth etc), for .
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To all the people whose DMs I’ve slid into over the past 13 years, and to those who have slid into mine
Thnks fr th Mmrs
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Not very often you get to write about your friends' work but then not very often your friends' work makes you cry (in a good way). A conversation with about AS MINE EXACTLY
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"AS MINE EXACTLY... is part one-to-one performance, part desktop documentary, using the contemporary technology of VR to build the kind of intimacy that such technology seems to deny."
writes on the latest work by her friend .
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There is also SELENA GOMEZ: MY MIND AND ME (on Apple TV) which is directed by Alek Keshishian can you believe! Ngl it choked me up.
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Two very interesting and formally inventive movies in UK cinemas today - Saul Williams' defiant anticolonial musical NEPTUNE FROST (which I have reviewed in the latest issue of Sight & Sound) and the gorgeous CETTE MAISON via
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N Plus One bookmatch quiz AND five new SAULT albums dropped? Wtf the abundance is shining
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