Song for Marion
Terence Stamp is on impressively dour form in Paul Andrew Williams’ modest film, writes Gavin Midgley.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Counting down to Valentine’s Day with the ADDICTED TO LOVE theme. AI is a tale of unrequited love: maternal love, childhood love, innocent love.
BSFF 2012: The Ghost That Never Returns
Abram Room’s Soviet propaganda piece is proof that cinema was exploring some very interesting places before talkies came along, writes Gavin Midgley.
Interview with Jeff Blyth
The memorable opening sequence from THE SHINING was shot by Jeff Blyth, a photographer and director with over 40 years’ experience in Hollywood. We caught up with him to find out how he got started.
End of Watch
Has the found-footage approach reinvigorated the cop movie genre? Gavin Midgley takes a look at David Ayer’s gritty LA-set thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Shining
If you’re looking for cheap tricks and jump scares, you won’t find them in the hypnotically unnerving THE SHINING, recently re-released with an extra 24 minutes. Gavin Midgley reviews.
The Birds
Hitchcock’s other great horror masterpiece, THE BIRDS remains an extraordinarily effective exercise in apocalyptic terror, writes Gavin Midgley.
The Extraordinary Voyage
This slice of film geek nirvana charts the attempts to restore a colour version of Georges Méliès’ A TRIP TO THE MOON, one of the greatest and most influential films from the silent era.
Not-So-Silent Movies with Neil Brand
Neil Brand talked us through the world of silent cinema at this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, offering commentary as well as a terrific musical soundtrack to a variety of short films.
The Ring
A rarity among Alfred Hitchcock’s films in that he wrote as well as directed it, THE RING is perhaps his first fully rounded feature. Nearly two hours in length, this absorbing tale concerns two boxers competing for the love of a girl, and the resulting emotional see-saw is quite compelling, despite an utterly conventional plot. … Continue reading The Ring