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The ‘city symphony’ became a popular type of urban documentary during the last decade of the silent era. LONDON SYMPHONY pays homage to that subgenre. Its director, Alex Barrett, shot the film silent,...
Documentary about director and producer Antonia Bird whose career spanned theatre, television and film, taking her from the Royal Court Theatre to the BBC and eventually a career in Hollywood. [90 minutes]
Steve James creates a portrait of influential Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert. Officially an adaptation of Ebert’s bestselling memoir of the same name, the documentary uses Ebert’s struggle...
Fiction film about a film-programmer who is forced to change his way of life when the cinémathèque where he works is closed down. The character of Jorge is played by real-life film critic Jorge Jellinek.
Video podcast hosted on Faculti. King’s College, London PhD student Alissa Timoshkina explains her groundbreaking work on representations of the Holocaust in Soviet cinema. [9 minutes]
The subject of Elsaesser’s lecture is the question of whether it makes sense to consider the cinema under a somewhat different aspect from the approaches that have dominated discussion in the first...
Film director Stanley Kwan traces the evolution of his identity as a gay man through the films he grew up with, demonstrating that Chinese cinema (from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China) has dealt with...
Celebrates and debates the idea that films need not tell stories. Offers an illustrated overview of a tradition of ‘abstract’ film-making, from the earliest decades of the century to the present....
A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...
British Pathé has re-released all 39 episodes of the classic 1959 documentary series TIME TO REMEMBER, unabridged and in HD for the first time. The series presents scenes from life at the turn of the...
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