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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Star-filled and velvet black - Film on Film 2025 (Part Two), BFI

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When people ask me what’s the difference between watching a nitrate print and another… I commonly use the analogy of a photocopy of a pict...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Hot media... Film on Film 2025 (Part One), BFI

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  The hottest day of the year and we were all indoors staying cool with the nitrate as The Man Who Would Be Compo made like a cockney Cag...
Saturday, 31 May 2025

Marion Davies keeps moving... The Restless Sex (1920), Grapevine Blu-ray

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This was Marion Davies’ ninth film and she was still only 23, with an established stage career begun in 1914 leading into films starting wit...
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Monday, 26 May 2025

Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years (1928), Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray

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“We never tried to get very far from what was real… (the Derby hats) … gave what we felt these characters’ needed: phoney dignity! There’s...
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Thursday, 24 April 2025

Stage-coaching… The California Mail (1929), Kennington Bioscope with Cyrus Gabrysch

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  There were some outstanding shots – glorious panoramas of the rugged West, cameras placed beneath horses pounding hooves, above them fro...
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It's pronounced "Ithank-yew!" as one word, Big Hearted Arthur Askey's catch phrase. Why? Because I needed a blog name for a friend and it stuck. My real name is Paul Joyce.
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