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Documentary, directed by Chris Marker, which records his days on location with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of RAN. Narrated by Robert Kramer, the film is divided into segments such as battles’,...
Stanley Forman, the documentary producer, distributor and founder of ETV Films (Educational Television Films) and a longtime friend to BUFVC has died after several years of ill health. His funeral will...
Musical comedy. A young man (Green) aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist’s daughter (Lockwood). He then adds several talented friends to his act and...
Fiction short. `...as fine an example of the producer’s skill as we have seen. The management of the riotous crowds, the costly splendour of the costumes, and the perfectly artistic spirit in which the...
Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...
War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...
Robin Ray introduces three ballets from Europe: Love the Magician danced by the Ballet of Madrid, The Moor’s Pavane, danced by the Royal Danish Ballet and Apollo from West Germany. Bruce Marks is The Moor....
Eight-part television series on the history of the English language, written and presented by Melvyn Bragg. Episode 4 discusses some of the greatest English texts, including the first English dictionary and...
Arts programme which includes a twenty-minute review of Noble’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth (1986). Presented by Russell Davies with excerpts from rehearsals. Contains interviews with...
Television drama. A sequel to The Taming of the Shrew written by Elaine Morgan which depicts, in cod-Shakespearean blank verse, how Katharina and Petruchio have fared after a year of marriage. Baptista has...