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Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen’s University, Belfast, author of Shakespeare and World Cinema, explores the contemporary significance of Shakespeare cinema outside the Hollywood and UK mainstream. About...
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 British Film Institute continues its re-evaluation of the British documentary tradition with Visions of Change, an extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s. Dr Ieuan...
Messages from Poland: Using, losing and resurrecting 'A Different World' In 1987 Channel 4 broadcast the nine-part documentary series, The Struggles for Poland. One of its parts, A Different World, is now...
About the Author: Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage and Screen Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It - The Making of the Epic Movie...
[caption id="attachment_435" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Spirit of Marc Karlin Exhibition Flyer"][/caption] Last month (on the weekend of the 13th-15th April) I attended a fascinating conference...
The Artist's Cut On 12th October Northern Film & Media & Channel 4 previewed the first fruits of the Artist's Cut initiative (see Part 1 of this article) - two new shorts by contemporary visual...
In the wake of the interest around Film4 productions such as Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, a recent Guardian article by Jane Graham identifies what she sees as a...