Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 6

by Liz Mannion 30 April 2011

By Liz Mannion of the Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. Clockwork Mice (Vadim Jean, 1995) – The Song of the Ungirt Runners, C H Sorley. Clockwork Mice is a little-known British gem starring Ian Hart who starts a running club at a challenging school. It is through […]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 5

by Liz Mannion 27 April 2011

By Liz Mannion of the Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. The 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002) – To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell.  Take a film directed by Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton as , convicted New York drug dealer, Monty Brogan living out his final day […]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 4

by Liz Mannion 26 April 2011

By Liz Mannion of The Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. Must Love Dogs (Gary David Goldberg, 2005) – Brown Penny, W B Yeats. W B Yeats’s poem creates an amazing oasis of calm in a seriously mediocre John Cusack RomCom that is possibly even more vanilla than […]

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Movie Musings: Is cinema making a spectacle of itself?

by Kezia Tooby 26 April 2011

By Kezia Tooby Tom Gunning coined the term ‘the cinema of attractions’ in his 1986 essay ‘The Cinema of Attractions, Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde’. Gunning considers early film, pre-1906, to be an attraction primarily due to the use of new and exciting technology, the main thrill for audiences was the abilities of […]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 3

by Liz Mannion 25 April 2011

By Liz Mannion of The Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Poetry in Motion (Pictures) posts are part of a series. Sophie’s Choice (Alan J Pakula, 1982) – Ample Make This Bed, Emily Dickinson.  Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline star in this book-to-film adaptation. It is a movie of suffering, atonement and redemption and the narrative […]

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Sci-Fi-London Parade Pics

by Helen Cox 24 April 2011

The Sci-fi-London Festival held their first ever Easter Parade today. An impressive number of science-fiction fanatics gathered, many of them in fancy dress, to take a stroll along London’s Southbank in the sun. They were lead by a zombie Will and Kate who shuffled and lunged their way between the BFI and the London Film […]

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Poetry in Motion (Pictures): Part 2

by Liz Mannion 24 April 2011

By Liz Mannion of The Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Yesterday I began looking at some of the best uses of poetry in the pictures. Below you can find the second instalment. A touching choice, if I do say so myself.

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In Focus: Poetry in Motion (Pictures)

by Liz Mannion 23 April 2011

By Liz Mannion of The Ritz Cinema, Thirsk. Mention poetry in the movies to most people and they will instantly start ranting about the funeral scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). W H Auden’s Funeral Blues – aka Stop all the Clocks –  gave depth to what was, on the surface, a frothy […]

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In Focus: Deception and Distraction in The Informant! (2009)

by Michael Ewins 22 April 2011

By Michael Ewins “Every edit is a lie” – Jean-Luc Godard. For years before I saw Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! (2009) I wondered what Godard had really meant by that quote. I concluded that it was about the moments occurring between frames, meaning that the edit isn’t so much a lie as a deception which […]

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In Review: The Fast and the Furious 5

by Stewart Terry 20 April 2011

By Stewart Terry This series really has mileage; it keeps driving on and on and now it’s hit fifth gear! There are myriad clichés that could be used to describe the longevity of the The Fast and the Furious franchise (and let’s be honest most of them turn up in The Fast and the Furious […]

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New Empress Magazine stocked at the BFI

by Helen Cox 16 April 2011

In addition to being stocked in Wardour News in Soho as of 3pm on 16th April 2011 you’ll be able to pick up a copy at the British Film Institute  (BFI) shop on the Southbank in London. The BFI houses a world-renowned archive of TV and film so the fact that they’ve given New Empress […]

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