Originally posted on Phoebe Parke:
Amy: The girl behind the name will be released on July 3rd in UK and US cinemas. The documentary film, which uses unseen archive footage to tell the tragic story in Winehouse’s own words, received rave reviews at Cannes film festival in May. But not everyone is thrilled by the…
National Media Museum film programmer Tom Vincent, who leaves Bradford – and UK – after Tuesday, certainly goes out with a bang, with a remarkable series of “must see” movies! The Picturehouse organisation takes over programming at the Museum from November 1, so the following trailers are a powerful farewell for Tom and the NMeM … Continue reading
Originally posted on Political Review:
♦ Tony Benn – Will and Testament ♦ Miners’ strike: Still the Enemy Within ♦ Nazi death camps: Night Will Fall Tony Benn, the longest serving Labour MP in history, is also, arguably, the most popular UK politician of all time. Across the globe and in particular over the last five…
A challenging new book by Paul Street, They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Paradigm Publishers, September 2014, £10.56 from Amazon UK) links present-day concerns with the foresight of John Carpenter’s classic sci-fi, They Live, which depicted the United States as subject to invasion and control by alien invaders wearing corporate suits, distributing wealth and power upward, subverting democracy, … Continue reading
Originally posted on We are all Palestinians:
NUN WA ZAYTUN trailer from issa freij on Vimeo. Emtiaz Diab’s film is a docudrama that follows Murad, the cinema-lover who has made it his mission to bring Palestinian cinema to Palestinians in forgotten and marginal communities in the West Bank. The film will be premiered in Jerusalem…
With special guest Al Pacino It was supposed to be a Q&A with Al Pacino after the nationwide satellite transmission of his two Salome-based movies. But it turned out to be The Stephen Fry Show, with Pacino as his special guest. Why do they get thesps to interview other thesps when everyone knows actor egos … Continue reading
British films screening at Toronto Film Festival The Imitation Game, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing The Theory of Everything – Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking The Riot Club, a big screen adaptation of the hit West End play Posh, a fictionalised version of Oxford University’s Bullingdon Club. Mr Turner – Timothy Spall as the painter, JMW … Continue reading
FULL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED FOR CELLULOID SCREAMS 2014 Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival, Friday 24 – Sunday 26 October 2014, returns to Showroom Cinema for its sixth edition, with a weekend packed full of premieres, previews, special guests and more. We are very pleased to announce the programme for Celluloid Screams 2014 in what is … Continue reading
Until regular BCB Movietime broadcasts resume, we shall be posting occasional reviews here. For some reason, this Youtube trailer has French subtitles. Stefan Zweig’s novella, Journey into the past, is remarkably cinematic in its form. It begins at the very end, then flashes back to the beginning, and then flashes back and forward in time … Continue reading
Video version of my Movietime BCB radio show covers the new print of A Hard Day’s Night, the briliant Palestinian noir, Omar, Mrs Brown’s Boys – d’Movie, Walking on Sunshine, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, the dead parrot sketch from Monty Python, and plans to reshoot a live-action version of Walt Disney’s Dumbo. NOTE: All movie clips are … Continue reading
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