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Director Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel about a group of young Edinburgh heroin addicts, is ‘an era-defining work, a film that captured and shaped a moment of popular culture...
Caliban's words from Shakespeare's The Tempest have provided artistic director Danny Boyle with the inspiration for the Olympics opening awards ceremony theme: 'Isles of Wonder'. For details about...
Profile one of the most inventive and important talents in British cinema, the director of films including Don’t Look Now, Performance, Walkabout and The Man Who Fell To Earth
This 5 DVD set features both the entire opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as over seven hours of selected highlights from the games themselves, including the gold...
Documentary looking at the current state of the film industry, as it finds itself in a transition period between traditional celluloid and the possibilities offered by new digital technology. The film...
The New Scottish Cinema by Jonathan Murray, (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-1845118617, (hardback), £69.00. About the reviewer: Simon Brown is Associate Professor of Film and Television at...
The project’s research has involved three elements: a 30-year history of Film4 as a feature film producer, a survey of the breadth of Channel 4’s broadcast film content (including purchased 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...
Are these ‘glorious’ times for the British film industry? At a recent debate at Goldsmiths College on the 3rd of February 2011, four panellists lined up to discuss this motion. Producer Robert Jones...
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...
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