Thursday, 29 November 2018

Home truths... Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), New restoration on BFI Bluray and DVD

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“It’s hard to believe that one man could have caused so much suffering and all these years later I make a film about him, it’s extraordi...
Monday, 26 November 2018

Love thy neighbour… The Cohens and Kellys (1926), Barbican with Dermot Dunne, Nick Roth, Cora Venus Lunny and Adrian Mantu

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"An Uproarious Knockout! -- A Thousand Laughs!" Well. That was a right laugh! I hadn’t high hopes to be perfectly honest, ...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

Comrades in films… Silent Guns, Kennington Bioscope Great War Centenary Day

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There’s film of history and film as history: films that are essentially primary source in themselves, how else to view almost any cinem...
Friday, 16 November 2018

Days of future past… City Without Jews (1924), Barbican with Olga Neuwirth and PHACE Ensemble conducted by Nacho de Paz

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In the pre-screening Q&A with Bryony Dixon, composer Olga Neuwirth mentioned that she had just heard Theresa May say that political ...
Thursday, 15 November 2018

DJ Midas vs DJ Canute… The Man from Mo'Wax (2018), BFI DVD and Blu-ray

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“Create your own universe, find your own identity. The rest is the product of your environment…” This film made me relive the same h...
Monday, 12 November 2018

The haunted screen… The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), BFI with Stephen Horne

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“It is there, that she lives…” There is a house and it’s got Ushers in it but any resemblance between this film and Edgar Allen Po...
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