John Wyver writes: for your consideration - a selection of recent cinema-related stuff that I have found engaging and enriching. • Newspaper women and the movies in the USA, 1914-1925: the great scholar Richard Abel writes for the Women Film more
I wish, I wish I had been in Pordenone for the 35th edition of that northern Italian town's Silent Film Festival. I have been on several occasions in the past, and the event's intense week of screenings combined with Italian more
To Middleham Castle on Saturday evening for a unique 'performed screening' of a 1911 silent film version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Sited in the glorious Yorkshire dales, the impressive castle, now in the care of English more
On Friday Netflix made available simultaneously all thirteen episodes of its House of Cards re-make (above). The serial, starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher, has had a mixed press - Alessandra Stanley for The more
I am indebted to Stuart Ian Burns (@feelinglistless) and his estimable Hamlet Weblog for pointing out that - remarkably - BBC Worldwide has made available in full on YouTube seven plays from The BBC Television more
I have seen a future for dance film and its name is All This Can Happen. Siobhan Davies and David Hinton's new 50-minute film premiered at Dance Umbrella recently and was revealed as thrilling and touching more
There is a significant sense in which early and silent cinema is less finished than features and television today. The film world on show in Pordenone at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto is, for much of the time, more
Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there. So begins Maxim Gorky's famous description of watching a film in July 1896. The whole experience of being at the Silent more
So I'm excited. Over the weekend I booked my flight, and today I have confirmed my hotel reservation. This time next week I'll be in Pordenone for the best part of a week of early and silent cinema. Which to more
I know I am coming late to this, but tonight I am off to the Clapham Picturehouse to see Joe Wright's Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley (above). Despite the so-so reviews, I am intrigued to see how more