Ealing and after
After celebrating East End boy Alfred Hitchcock through the summer, the BFI is now looking to the west of London - to Ealing Studios. As you can see from the trailer, this month and next there is a compendious (and tremendous) more
After celebrating East End boy Alfred Hitchcock through the summer, the BFI is now looking to the west of London - to Ealing Studios. As you can see from the trailer, this month and next there is a compendious (and tremendous) more
I have lost count of the number of times that I have linked to David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's exemplary blog about the history and art of film. Now David Bordwell has scripted and narrated a video essay, more
... till it's gone. Today, Wednesday 31 October, is the last day of the first six months of The Space. Fortunately, this Arts Council England/BBC collaboration has been such a success that the project is continuing (see more
I have seen a future for dance film and its name is All This Can Happen. Siobhan Davies and David Hinton's new 50-minute film premiered at Dance Umbrella recently and was revealed as thrilling and touching more
There is a significant sense in which early and silent cinema is less finished than features and television today. The film world on show in Pordenone at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto is, for much of the time, more
Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there. So begins Maxim Gorky's famous description of watching a film in July 1896. The whole experience of being at the Silent more
So I'm excited. Over the weekend I booked my flight, and today I have confirmed my hotel reservation. This time next week I'll be in Pordenone for the best part of a week of early and silent cinema. Which to more
I know I am coming late to this, but tonight I am off to the Clapham Picturehouse to see Joe Wright's Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley (above). Despite the so-so reviews, I am intrigued to see how more
A time there was when I posted weekly a group of links to things that I recently read or watched online. Then I stopped for a while. And now - I think - I am going to start again. Maybe more
You will have noticed that I have not been blogging much over the past two months. I have been planning posts, writing parts of them in my head, even jotting down drafts. There is one that I want to offer more