Sunday, 30 April 2023

Early Jerzy… Identification Marks (1965) and Hands Up! (1967), BFI Blu-ray out now

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The main thing is to be able to give something from oneself. Sometimes, conditions are hard. One has to risk it. That’s the main thing. ...
Friday, 21 April 2023

The shock of the old… BFI Film on Film Festival, 8th – 11th June 2023

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I must have been 14, fibbing about my age and sneaking with my mates into the Astra Cinema in Maghull, opened in 1930 as the Albany and wh...

The music of chance... Strolling Players (1925), with Cyrus Gabrysch, Kennington Bioscope

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  Sex and silent film, it’s full of objectification and attitudes that today we frown upon and yet… here we find four men sizing up young...
Monday, 17 April 2023

Hybrid horror… Full Circle: The Haunting of Julia (1978), BFI Flipside No. 46, Dual Format (4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray)

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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction . Isaac Newton's third law of motion   Richard Loncraine is as responsibl...
Monday, 10 April 2023

EO (2022), BFI Blu-ray/DVD out now.

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This film is made out of emotion… it’s our song of love for nature… Idea for a new streaming service: Jerzy Skolimowski being “interview...
Friday, 31 March 2023

Trick of a tail-ender… Jerzy Skolimowski in Conversation/The Shout (1978), BFI

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This was an extraordinary evening in the presence of a remarkable man who probably needed an all-nighter to get through all of his amazing...