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“ Tarkovsky's Lasting Gift: Sculpting Time ”

Posted on Tue 5 July 2016 by James King

The Zone is a place of unblemished value. It is one of the few territories left–possibly the only one–where the rights to Top Gear have not been sold: a place of refuge and...

“ Up Close and Personal: Anthony Harvey and The Lion in Winter ”

Posted on Mon 4 July 2016 by James Harrison

The Lion in Winter (1968) can be found on a long list of historical, period films that were made in the 1960s. El Cid (1961), Tom Jones (1963), Cleopatra (1963), Becket (1964), The...

“ Celebrating Cinema: The Greatest Place on Earth ”

Posted on Thu 30 June 2016 by Mark Fuller

A young married couple inherit a surprise legacy from an unknown distant relative. But with the cinema they receive come challenges, and responsibility...At the time, this must...

“ The Talented Robert Hamer: A Forgotten Figure of British Cinema ”

Posted on Wed 29 June 2016 by James Harrison

David Lean, Michael Powell, Alfred Hitchcock and Humphrey Jennings; four key names in the history of British Cinema. One drowned his mind in his epic surroundings, one turned...

“ The Colours of Oz ”

Posted on Mon 27 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

With a brilliant cast of exciting characters, a wonderful story, iconic costumes, sets and spectacular colours, The Wizard of Oz (1939) has become one of the most popular and...

“ Beneath The Dust in Afghanistan: interview with Pietra Brettkelly ”

Posted on Fri 24 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

As Afghanistan teeters on an unpredictable future, A Flickering Truth unwraps the world of three dreamers, the dust of a hundred years of war and the restoration of 8000 hours...

“ A Film For All Time: A Man For All Seasons ”

Posted on Tue 21 June 2016 by Ian Christie

Garlanded with awards, and built around one of the greatest of Paul Scofield's relatively few screen performances, you might assume that A Man for All Seasons was a considered a...

Still from Man All Seasons

“ The Future of Cinema is its Past ”

Posted on Mon 20 June 2016 by Mark Cosgrove

What is the future for the cinema? And what future for films, being shown in the cinema to appreciative audiences? Introducing Cinema Rediscovered...

Still form Room At The Top

“ Room at the Top: Angry Young Men in the British New Wave ”

Posted on Thu 16 June 2016 by Tara Judah

Adapted from John Braine’s novel of the same name, Room at the Top is the story of one man’s disillusionment with class and society in post-war Britain.

“ Cinema by Candlelight: Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon ”

Posted on Tue 14 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

Stanley Kubrick is famed for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and A Clockwork Orange (1971). Rarely is his...

“ Unusual Choices in Nagisa Ôshima's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence ”

Posted on Sat 11 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

A Japanese film starring David Bowie as a prisoner of war might at first sound like an odd idea, but the lesser known Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983) was, and still is,...