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The British Film Institute launched its popular series of compact 'BFI Classics' guides devoted to seminal films twenty years ago. The BFI Film Classics range is a series of expertly written and well...
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...
On the desk in front of me as I as write is a half-page advertisement from The Times of 10 October 1979. This treasured clipping, now creased and yellowing, is headed ‘The Fourth Television Channel:...
The British Universities Film & Video Council were pleased to receive the following entries to the 2011 Learning on Screen Awards: 303 Squadron Fish in a Bottle for Channel 4 The Abbey Road...
Both the Old and the New Testament continue to be a rich sources of inspiration for the cinema. Dr Miles Booy considers a new history of some of the progenitors of the genre. About the author: Dr Miles Booy...
As Channel 4 draws the curtain on the eleven-year success of the Big Brother franchise, it continues to reap the rewards of being the producer of some of the most popular shows on television, including...
[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...
[caption id="attachment_324" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="David Hare in conversation. Image courtesy Museo Reina Sofia "][/caption] David Hare’s Page Eight, which premiered at the Edinburgh...
JS: Aside from your established track record in television, you’d done a stint as Head of the BFI Production Board in the late 1970s. Was film always a personal passion? What were your reasons for...
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