propaganda

Our First Digi-Issue Launches Today: Minema Edition 4.1

by Helen Cox 29 February 2012

New Empress Magazine’s Minema titles are a mini-digi-dose of film commentary, flashbacks and review.

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In Review: Went the Day Well? Out now on DVD and Blu-ray

by Helen Cox 29 July 2011

By Helen Cox Went the Day Well? is an unofficial propaganda film produced in 1942. Based on a short story by Graham Greene it realises a wartime nightmare as the small, fictional village of, Bramley End becomes overrun with Nazi invaders. Cut off from the outside world by their captors the villagers are left to [...]

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In Review: The Halfway House on DVD (1944)

by David Katz 18 June 2011

By David Katz Fans of classic British cinema should definitely seek out the DVD debut of The Halfway House (1944), a charming little film occupying a rare midpoint between ghost story and propaganda.

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