John Wyver writes: To BFI Southbank yesterday for an accidental double bill. I hadn't planned it this way, but it happened that I watched Marcel Carné's Le Quai des brumes, 1938 (above), just before the silent High Treason, 1929, the more
John Wyver writes: With the new year upon us, and with less than a week to go before the first screening, I thought it might be a moment to look at the sales for the BFI Magic Rays of more
John Wyver writes: As noted earlier in the week, I have curated a screening season at BFI Southbank in January to tie in with the publication by Bloomsbury and the BFI of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of more
John Wyver writes: Exciting news just released by the British Film Institute: throughout January BFI Southbank has a season of documentaries and early feature films linked to the publication of my monograph Magic Rays of Light: The Early more
Tomorrow night, Friday 1 March, BFI Southbank, under the title 'European Connections', begins a rich season of British television productions of classic European plays. A time there was when both the BBC and ITV produced exceptional presentations of more