Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Godfather’s Day… Happy Birthday, Mr Paul!, with Ian Christie and John Sweeney, BFI

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“… the idea that any single person invented cinema is essentially absurd… it was a relay race, a group effort, a product of the spirit ...
Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Jenny from the dock... Docks of Hamburg (1928), with Stephen Horne, Cambridge Film Festival 2019

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"I love you. For the first time, I love someone. And I do not care about everything else…" Emmanuel College was founded i...
Sunday, 20 October 2019

Time for sacrifice… How I Won the War (1967) and Plod (1971), BFI Dual Format, out now!

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John Lennon’s in How I won the War on this new BFI Blu-ray set, yeah, yeah, yeah… but Mike McGear, John Gorman and Roger McGough are ...
Sunday, 13 October 2019

The Avenger: Endgame… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone Day Eight

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Watching Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger, a Story of the London Fog (1927) for the third time on the big screen, I can’t help wondering a...
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Saturday, 12 October 2019

Joan in a state of grace… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone Day Seven

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“If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.” It was the age of the epic, films as battleships of desire arm...
Friday, 11 October 2019

All around the world… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone Day Six

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Day six and we’ve reached peak Pordenone with a united nations of silents taking us from Denmark to Japan via Russia, Germany and of co...
Thursday, 10 October 2019

Revolution in the head… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone Day Five

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With all this talk of Todd Phillip’s latest talkie, Joker (pronounced Joke-err …) perhaps it was appropriate that two of today’s most ...