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The Sounds of the Silents in Britain, edited by Julie Brown and Annette Davison. (Oxford University Press, 2013). 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0199797615 (hardback), £65; ISBN: 978-0199797547 (paperback), £22.50....
2012. GB. DVD. 107 minutes (plus 2 hours of extras). BFI Home Video. Certificate 18. Price: £19.99 About the Author: Dr Brian Hoyle lectures in film studies at the University of Dundee and is currently...
1968 saw the release of Her Private Hell, a low budget British feature that has now been given a new lease of life on video as part of the BFI Flipside series of releases rescuing obscure movies from...
The Fall of the House of Usher. GB. 2013. Blu-ray. 85 minutes + 90 minutes extras. £13.99 About the reviewer: Andrew Ormsby is the BUFVC Information Officer and is also Content Co-ordinator on the...
Digital Disruption: Cinema Moves On-line Edited by Dina Iordanova and Stuart Cunningham (St Andrews Film Studies), 223 pages ISBN: 978-0956373090 (hardback), £35 ISBN: 978-0956373076 (paperback),...
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...
The Adventure of the Real – Jean Rouch and the craft of Ethnographic Cinema, by Paul Henley (University of Chicago Press, 2010), 533 pages, ISBN: 978-0226327150 (paperback), £24; Kindle, price £19.38;...
2011. Blu-ray. Eureka Entertainment. 85 minutes + extras. Price: £19.99. Web: http://eurekavideo.co.uk Shogun Assassin (1980) tells the story of Itto Ogami and Diagoro, his infant son, on a journey of...
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...
Why are stars often called ‘gods’ or ‘goddesses’? How was antiquity used to boost the image of the developing film industry and its stars? What does this historical association tell us about...