James Saynor
Bio
James writes about film and says he thinks about the Joni Mitchell song “Both Sides Now” when reflecting on his relationship to movies. After covering film and TV when younger, he jumped through the screen and worked as an executive in the film industry for a while. Now he’s back criticising movies again. He doesn’t think you go easier on films having helped to make them once. And having looked at film from both sides now, perhaps he should follow the pattern of the Mitchell song and conclude, “I don’t know film at all”. But then, for everyone, movies may be a life-long study.
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