Sunday, 26 January 2020

High signs… Slapstick Festival Day Two & Three, Bristol Watershed and Cathedral

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Paul McGann stood in the pulpit of Bristol Cathedral not unlike Lars Hanson’s priest in The Saga of Gosta Berling and he told it, wit...
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Friday, 24 January 2020

All kinds of funny… Slapstick Festival Day One, Bristol Watershed and Cathedral

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They call it Slapstick and you may start the day laughing at a man diving through the Earth to China and finish it with another trying t...
Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Lady of Spain… A Romance of Seville (1929), Network Blu-ray

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Finding a British silent film on Blu-ray is a rare treat and so, with no knowledge of the contents, I didn’t hesitate to bung £8 to the st...
Saturday, 18 January 2020

Alien nation… Fellini Satyricon (1969), BFI Fellini Centenary

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There is nothing as blatantly false as unconvincing statements made by men and nothing as blatantly unconvincing as their fake seriousn...
Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Talk on the wild side… Cosh Boy (1953), BFI Flipside hits 40, BFI screening and discussion

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Cosh Boy is the 40 th release in the BFI’s Flipside series that has specialised in unearthing the best and the quirkiest films from oft...
Monday, 13 January 2020

Wasted youth… I Vitelloni (1953), BFI Fellini Centenary

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Seven years before La Dolce Vita , another of Federico Fellini’s characters formed an innocent relationship with a youth that may or ma...
Thursday, 9 January 2020

Be wonderful… Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018), BFI preview with Pamela B Green and Cosima Littlewood

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"What kept me going was Alice herself, but also the people surrounding the film…because they wanted Alice’s story told.” Pamela B...