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For the week ending 24th September 2010. After charting last week at number 2, this week's clear winner is 'The Young Ones', the BBC's documentary experiment where six famous faces including Liz Smith,...
2010. GB. DVD (region free). 113 minutes. Mr Bongo Essential World Cinema. Price: £17.99 About the author: Alice Black is Head of Cinema at Dundee Contemporary Arts. www.dca.org.uk Despite a successful...
Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain 1951-1977. 2010. GB. DVD. British Film Institute. 851 minutes + extras (42minutes). £34.99 About the reviewer: Dr James Mansell is Assistant...
100 Silent Films by Bryony Dixon (BFI, 2011). 227 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573080 (paperback). £16.99 About the reviewer: Michael Hammond took his BA in History at California State University Los Angeles, his...
2013. GB. DVD/Blu-ray. BFI. 172 minutes (+ extras). Certificate 12. RRP £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr Jane Thomas is Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at...
2007. Argentina. DVD (Region 2 PAL). 98 minutes. Dogwoof Pictures. £14.99 About the Reviewer: Josephine Botting is a fiction curator at the BFI National Archive where she programmes film seasons and hosts...
Penelope Spheeris’ mammoth trio of documentaries devoted to the alternative rock scene and the lives of young people in Los Angeles, originally released between 1981 and 1998, is now on Blu-ray. Dr Helen...
The Imperial War Museum’s Student Film Festival, to be renamed the 'IWM Short Film Festival', will return in 2014 after the IWM's closure for major refurbishment. Toby Haggith, Senior Curator in the...
Dr Lee Broughton is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds. His fellowship’s three-year research project, 'Interpreting Representations of...
Hugh Robinson, Curriculum Quality Leader at Henley College Coventry, reflects on his experience of getting young students to engage critically with film history. Many years ago, I was a tyro lecturer in...