Showing posts with label BFI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BFI. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 October 2017

Gloria Grahame

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Gloria Graham (1923-1981) is being celebrated by a two-part season at London's BFI.  The season will tie in with the release of F...
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Wednesday, 18 October 2017

"100 thrillers to see before you die"

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Here's a doozy for lovers of lists and thrillers. The British Film Institute has come up with 100 listed alphabetically. See them all a...
Thursday, 8 December 2016

New Goodfellas trailer

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Personally approved by Scorsese, for its re-release, as we await the arrival of his lauded new film SILENCE. 
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

End of year ...

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The new "award season" will soon be underway, with a lot of prestige titles jostling for inclusion. As ever we have to wait a w...
Thursday, 8 September 2016

La La Land, Tom & Isabelle at LFF ,,,

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Another year, another bulky LFF (London Film Festival) brochure arrives for the October feast of new films, as another award season gets un...
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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

The night manager's pass, 2016

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Should one rave about a new BBC serial after just one episode? I feel like doing so after catching the first episode of new Sunday night 6-...
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Friday, 23 October 2015

New Dr Zhivago trailer

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A confession: I have never seen DR ZHIVAGO at the cinema, or all the way through on television - though I have the DVD for all those ext...
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Monday, 19 October 2015

Cate at the BFI

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Cate Blanchett receives her BFI Fellowship from LOTR co-star Ian McKellen, marking the climax of the LFF London Film Festival junketing. ...
Monday, 4 May 2015

Marilyn at the BFI ...

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Marilyn Monroe finally gets a retrospective season in June at London's BFI Southbank cinema - viewing her, accordng to the programme ...
Sunday, 29 March 2015

Dirk Bogarde: 10 essential films.

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The BFI (British Film Institute) has an interesting selection of " 10 Best Films of ... ." on their website. Dirk Bogarde is the ...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Kate and Maggie at the BFI

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The British Film Institute is now doing a two part retrospective on Katharine Hepburn during February and March, but in fact are showin...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

2001 rides again

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2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY : Kubrick's trippy 1968 space opera, spanning millions of years of human evolution and set to music by Strauss, ...
Thursday, 4 September 2014

BFI LFF 2014

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It gets bigger every year: The London Film Festival , run by the BFI (British Film Institute). This year's brochure arrived on the do...
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Friday, 9 August 2013

James Mason (and I) at the BFI, 1971

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The BBC here occasionally show a series of interviews they did with various stars back in the '70s, titled TALKING PICTURES (previous...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Dirk, talking pictures ...

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Unseen photo of Dirk in Paris BBC here has been running an intriguing weekly series " Talking Pictures " featuring archive in...