Scribes on Screen: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

This instalment of Scribes on Screen looks at Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, one of the leading writers on Italian cinema working in Britain today. His 1967 book on Luchino Visconti is widely regarded as a seminal work on the director, while his 1997 contribution on Antonioni's L'avventura to the British Film Institute's Film Classics series is a model of brevity and insight.