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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

Rosie Taylor, Co-Director and Co-Curator of South West Silents shares some thoughts

 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

Ian Christie shares some thoughts

 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...

 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

Rosie Taylor, Director/Co-curator of South West Silents shares some thoughts

 Unusual Choices in Nagisa Ôshima's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence 

Posted on Sat 11 June 2016 by Rosie Taylor

Rosie Taylor, Director/Co-curator of South West Silents shares some thoughts