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Jazlyn Pinckney

“ Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It?-inspired Playlist ”

Posted on Thu 27 Oct 2016 by Jazlyn Pinckney

Jazlyn Pinckney - who knows a thing or two about championing women in music - presents a cracking playlist inspired by the great Tina Turner...

Adam Murray

“ Jimi: All Is By My Side-inspired Playlist ”

Posted on Thu 27 Oct 2016 by Adam Murray

Go on a journey from Hendrix to hip hop as Come The Revolution co-curator Adam Murray introduces a playlist inspired by Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side.

Space

“ Embrace Your Black Star ”

Posted on Thu 22 Sept 2016 by Edson Burton

Come The Revolution Curator Edson Burton on the Bristol season, and why we should all - regardless of race or background - learn to embrace our inner Black Star...

Image from Voor Film (2015), courtesy of LiMA Archive

“ Rediscovering form as content: Experiments in Aesthetics ”

Posted on Thu 28 July 2016 by Tara Judah

Rediscovering cinema is not only about unearthing filmic gems from the past, it’s also about advances in the conversation about and practices of cinema now.

“ Telling The Story of Film ”

Posted on Mon 25 July 2016 by Dr Peter Walsh

Outside of the hour and a half to two hours you spend in front of a film, the context within which you meet the film, and the opportunity you have to process it afterwards can make...

“ Slocombe's Adventures in the South West: The Titfield Thunderbolt ”

Posted on Fri 22 July 2016 by James Harrison

In the spring of 1952 a car was making its way through the lanes of the Somerset countryside. Seated in the car were film director Charles Crichton and cinematographer Douglas...

“ Rediscovered Silent Colour ”

Posted on Fri 22 July 2016 by Dr Peter Walsh

Still image courtesy of Il Cinema Ritrovato. Silent cinema was full of colour.It’s important to state this clearly, as decades of poor TV broadcasts, ropey home video releases,...

Still image from The Host (2015) dir. Miranda Pennell

“ The Personal is Political: Women in Archives ”

Posted on Wed 20 July 2016 by Tara Judah

At the intersection of personal memory and political and social change there are hosts of women's archives.

Photo of the interior of Curzon Cinema Clevedon

“ The Art of Cinema-Going ”

Posted on Mon 11 July 2016 by Tara Judah

Cinema-going still exists and in it is a craftsmanship all its own; an experience that is both immersive and cognitive, one that presents and presumes a combination of surrendering and activism in viewing.

“ Stanley Kubrick: Journey to the Heart of England ”

Posted on Fri 8 July 2016 by Bill Lawrence

The world of the Bronx, New York in the 1930s is probably as far as you can get from English aristocracy of the 18th Century, but this is the journey that saw Stanley Kubrick from...

The Servant

“ Risky Reflections: Slocombe's cinematography in The Servant ”

Posted on Thu 7 July 2016 by Amy Sargeant

Dr. Amy Sargeant reflects on The Servant