Demetrios Matheou
Bio
Demetrios Matheou is the film editor of theartsdesk. He's also the film critic for The Sunday Herald and a London correspondent for Indiewire. His writing has appeared in The Guardian and Observer, The Times and Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday and Sight & Sound. He is the author of The Faber Book of New South American Cinema, and a contributor to Cinema: The Whole Story and Ten Bad Dates With De Niro. He is also a film programmer and has served on the juries of a number of international film festivals.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor, RSC, Barbican review - panto Sha...
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Lizzie review - murder most meticulous
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Albums of the Year 2018: Erland Cooper - Solan Goose
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Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica, RNCM, Manchester review – mus...
The Royal Northern College of Music’s December opera production was the useful double bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi ...
The Double Dealer, Orange Tree Theatre review - high spirits...
It's been 40 years since The Double Dealer last had a major airing (indeed, perhaps any airing) in London, so on the basis of novelty...
Mrs Wilson finale, BBC One review - stranger than fiction
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CD: Aloe Blacc - Christmas Funk
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Thomas Adès, Wigmore Hall review - playful and erratic Janáč...
Janáček has been an abiding passion for Thomas Adès. As both composer and performer, Adès revels in the whimsical and the absurd, and he finds...
Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and in Private, ITV re...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review - a new hope for th...
After Sam Raimi’s original mixed-bag trilogy, Andrew Garfield’s all too familiar outing as the webslinger, and last year’s Spider-Man:...