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The entire newsreel archive of British Movietonews has been published on a Movietone YouTube channel by AP Archive who manage the collection. What does this mean? The publication of thousands of news...
The Politics of Documentary by Michael Chanan (British Film Institute, 2008), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-1-84457-226-7, £16.99 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1-84457-227-4, £50.00 (hardback) About the reviewer: Dr....
Until the 1990s, the majority of British TV was shot on video in the studio, with film used only for exterior sequences. What impact did physical space have on both changing modes of production and...
Dr Alexander Fisher re-examines the work of pioneering Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene in the light of high definition. About the Author: Dr Alexander Fisher is a Lecturer in the School of Arts,...
Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema by James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull, (I.B. Tauris, 2013), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-1-78076-410-8 (paperback), £14.99 About the reviewer: Mark Bould...
Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard, 6-10 October 2010 My first day at the 21st British film festival enabled me to catch a film part-funded by Film4 which won the special jury prize here two years...
From its inception in 1982 to its demise in 1998 (with the launch of the subscription service FilmFour, now Film4 on Freeview), Film on Four was the flagship broadcast strand for new feature films...
Following on from Ieuan Franklin's excellent blog which discussed such mind-bendingly psychedelic Films on Four as Born of Fire (Jamil Dehlavi, 1987), Shadey (Phillip Saville, 1987) and Silent Scream (David...
A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown (BFI Publishing, October 2007), 368 pages, ISBN: 9781844572052 (paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1844572045 (hardback), £50.00 Channel 4: The...
British Horror Rises from the Tomb: In the UK there has been a major resurgence in the production of horror movies in the last few years. Jonathan Rigby, author English Gothic – Classic Horror Cinema...