31st January 2012
BFI Video has this week released Jack Hazan's 1974 feature about David Hockney and his circle, A Bigger Splash. Available as a dual format DVD and Blu-ray, this fascinating and complex film has never looked better,
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20th January 2012
At the end of each year our friend and colleague Michael Jackson - formerly Chief Executive of Channel 4 and now living and working in the United States - compiles a list of films he's discovered and appreciated in the
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16th January 2012
Although I have no easy way of checking, there must be hundreds of films - and quite likely thousands - that feature David Hockney. By the end of the week, with the opening of David Hockney RA: A
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10th January 2012
Headline: while The Mystery of Edwin Drood, part one of which we saw on BBC Two tonight, has much to recommend it, the television treat of the evening - and indeed most certainly of the year to
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7th January 2012
To BFI Southbank on Friday evening for two screenings in the wonderful Dickens on Screen season. First up was The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Alberto Cavalcanti's adaptation for Ealing released in 1947. After
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