Ken Wilson

@kenwilson84

Ken is a feature writer award-winning editor covering subjects as diverse as the arts and design, film, the law, health and popular culture.

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Marlene Dietrich – “A monument made famous by transcending time”

With a retrospective boxset about to be released, Ken Wilson looks back at the life of the beautiful, bewitching, bisexual German-American megastar

The New World

Terrence Malick applies his transcendent, immersive vision to the tale of Pocahontas

Safe Spaces

Professor gets drawn into the university battleground of the culture war in incisive comedy

The Night Porter

Controversial concentration camp romance is tamer than you may remember

Girlfriends

Influential movie about love, work and finding yourself anticipates the mumblecore movement

The Sheltering Sky

Twisted and tragic romance in ravishing north Africa

Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful

Photography meets hagiography in portrait of dated porn-deluxe snapper

The Times of Harvey Milk

Tragic yet hopeful doc on a time when LGBT+ rights were fought hard for

I Spit on Your Grave: the Complete Collection

Reprehensible 70s slasher and equally vile sequels and remakes

Tesla

Gruesomely self-indulgent docudrama told in baffling postmodern style

LX 2048

Dystopian drama with clones, virtual reality and sexbots that doesn’t quite come off

Resisterhood

Powerful and moving documentary on resistance to the Trumpocalypse

The Garden Left Behind

Supercharged primer on the very real threats faced by trans people every day

Stage Mother

Jacki Weaver inherits a drag club in twerking tearjerker

Female Trouble

Pre-punk art school shocker that still delivers electric jolts

Criss Cross

Compelling, densely-plotted thriller full of atmosphere

Dance, Girl, Dance

Backstage romance from pioneering female director

The Apu Trilogy

Intoxicating Indian classic trilogy

Society

La Dolce Vita: Seven Days of Night

A look back at Fellini’s classic as it reaches 60 years young

Lola Montes

Flawed but delirious historical kitsch

The Prince of Tides

Beautifully shot if claggy and pretentious tragi-romance

Standing Up, Falling Down

Likeable bromantic dramedy

Scandal

Glossy retelling of true sex scandal and hypocrisy in high places

The Son of the Sheik

The exotic East revisited in silent era Hollywood epic