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Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...
"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age Edited by Anthony Slide (Columbia University Press, 2015). 448 pages. ISBN: 978-0231167086 (hardback),...
Feature film. Set in a mime theatre in Paris in the 1820s, tells the story of a free-spirited young woman, Garance, and four men who fall in love with her. There are two scenes from Othello (including V...
100 Science Fiction Films by Barry Keith Grant (Palgrave Macmillan / British Film Institute, 2013). 216 pages. ISBN 978-1844574575 (paperback). £16.99 About the reviewer: James Chapman is Professor of Film...
Although the idea of film funding wasn't directly discussed in the Annan Report which led to the creation of Channel 4, it was a passion of the Channel’s first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. In Europe...