Articles relating to: cinema
Moving Stories: Type Motion at FACT, Liverpool
I have a friend who has just finished training as an archivist. I have an idea what this means: I think it involves blowing cobwebs off boxes of old photos while wearing a pair of rave-style white gloves, then occasionally appearing on Who Do You Think You Are? and talking Richard Madeley through his tear-jerking past.
Read the full story..Film Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
There is a moment in Rupert Wyatt‘s 2011 reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes that stops the viewer in their tracks. A moment when a good film becomes a great one, a moment rarely seen in slam-bang, effects-driven blockbusters in these franchise-saturated times.
Read the full story..Edwyn Collins: The Possibilities are Endless
On February 20, 2005, Edwyn Collins collapsed at home while suffering from a major brain haemorrhage.
Read the full story..Mining Visions of Strife at Ilkley Film Festival
It’s 30 years since Yorkshire was torn apart during the year-long miners’ strike. Now that anniversary is being marked by the Ilkley Film Festival.
Read the full story..Fancy a feminist horror film? Then Devoured is for you
Horror films can be a curious thing.
Read the full story..Digital Theatre – the way forward?
Over the past five years, the landscape of theatre has been digitalised by live cinema broadcasting thanks to the National and the New York Met.
Read the full story..Something Wicker This Way Comes…
Ahead of a new re-mastered release, Ian Winterton chats paganism, Christopher Lee and Nicolas Cage in a bear-suit with Wicker Man director Robin Hardy.
Read the full story..Before Midnight at The Cornerhouse, Manchester
Just about the closest cinematic parallel to Richard Linklater’s ongoing story of Jesse and Celine, as chronicled at roughly nine-year intervals in Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and now Before Midnight, is the late Francois Truffaut’s wonderful Antoine Doinel series.
Read the full story..Behind the Candelabra at Cornerhouse, Manchester
There’s really no better way to spend a sunny, Sunday afternoon in Manchester in June – in my humble and correct opinion – than in the dark. Not everyone likes the sun, you know.
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