In Focus

London Archive Film Festival: Senna Q & A

by Ben Sheppard 8 May 2012

The inaugural London Archive Film Festival kicked off last Thursday with a screening of the extraordinary documentary Senna, attended by both the director and the archive producer, Asif Kapadia and Paul Bell. Now, hopefully, I don’t need to tell you how astounding this film is, because you should have already seen it.

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The New York Report: 92YTribeca

by Nicko V. Vaughan 10 November 2011

By Nicko V. Vaughan There are 92 reasons why Tribeca should be the main port of call for film nerds looking for interesting things to do in New York but I don’t have the space or the editorial power to list them all, so I’m just going to tell you about the best darn film [...]

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Tintin Origins: The Crab with the Golden Claws

by Anthony Nield 4 November 2011

By Anthony Nield There’s a famous tale relating to MGM and their 1944 adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight. Keen not to have any other version impinging on their success, the studio attempted not only to suppress the earlier British film from 1940, they reportedly even tried to destroy the negative.

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In Interview: Rose Bosch, writer and director of The Round Up (2010)

by David Katz 24 June 2011

By David Katz Rose Bosch’s The Round Up (2010) is one of the most notable recent success stories in French cinema, a moving and thought-provoking account of the Vel d’Iver round up in 1942. The round up was a mass arrest corroborated by the Nazi-occupied French government of 13,000 Parisian Jews, forcibly removed from their [...]

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Sheb Wooley: King of Screams

by Emma Hutchings 16 June 2011

By Emma Hutchings Fay Wray of King Kong (1933) fame may historically be known as the Scream Queen but the King of Screams is undoubtedly a less-talked-about star of the Western genre called Sheb Wooley; the man behind the voice of the Wilhelm scream. Not sure if you even know what the Wilhelm scream is? I promise you, [...]

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Beef with the BBFC: The Human Centipede II et cetera

by Lee Cassanell 8 June 2011

By Lee Cassanell Throughout the 80s a cousin of mine with a connection in Saudi Arabia was the proud owner of one of the greatest pirate video collections in the land. Not only did he receive the latest US cinema releases long before they hit the UK he also acquired an extensive collection of banned [...]

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Gatsby 3D?: No Kidding!

by Austin Raywood 26 May 2011

By Austin Raywood “And all the children are insane…” – Jim Morrison Right now; at this very moment Baz Luhrmann is deeply engrossed in pre-production on his new Great Gatsby film due for release in 2012. Although Luhrmann’s visionary directorial approach should have earned him the benefit of the doubt I must admit that I [...]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 10

by Liz Mannion 24 May 2011

By Liz Mannion of the Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) – Silence, Thomas Hood – Yes ok I’ve gone and saved the best till last; a personal favourite. Quite possibly the most stunning ending to a movie you could ever wish for as [...]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 9

by Liz Mannion 15 May 2011

By Liz Mannion of the Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. Memphis Belle (William Wyler, 1990) – An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, W B Yeats. When Eric Stoltz and his squadron go off on another bombing raid in World War II they understand they may never return.

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 8

by Liz Mannion 7 May 2011

By Liz Mannion of the Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. Seabiscuit (Gary Ross, 2003) – Emily Dickinson, We Never Know. Based on a novel about an underdog of a racehorce Seabiscuit is a film that beautifully documents an against-all-odds yarn during the tail end of The Great [...]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 7

by Liz Mannion 2 May 2011

By Liz Mannion of the Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson, 2005) – One Art, Elizabeth Bishop. Who would have thought that a drama about an old people’s home could have generated so much bittersweet emotion as In Her Shoes did? Cameron Diaz, [...]

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