Author Spotlight

Nick Roddick

Nick Roddick (1945–2019), a former editor at Screen International, taught film and theater at universities in the UK, Ireland, and the U.S. before becoming a journalist in the early 1980s. He contributed regularly to the London Evening Standard and Sight and Sound.

2 Results
Kings of the Road: Keep on Truckin’ . . .

Kings of the Road is the most “roadish” of Wenders’s road movies, a film about travel as a form of escape for two German men and the transitory bond they form along the way.

By Nick Roddick

Essays— Jun 2, 2016
Paris, Texas: On the Road Again

If Paris, Texas is a love letter to America and American cinema, it now also has something of the feel of a farewell: the world to which Wenders pays homage is vanishing fast.

By Nick Roddick

Essays— Jan 26, 2010