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Tag Archives: BFI
Year End 2012
A few days ago I spent the evening with four friends at our annual get-together to discuss what we had seen during the past year. Back when I was first invited to join the group years ago, there would often … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Comedy, Criterion, Fantasy, Home Video, Ken Russell
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Flipside: The Black Panther (1977)
Released simultaneously with the Andy Milligan double-bill Nightbirds and The Body Beneath, the BFI Flipside edition of Ian Merrick’s The Black Panther (1977) resurrects an essentially lost British film which suffered a quick death because it took as subject something … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Crime, Directors, Exploitation, Flipside, Review
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Flipside: the Art of Andy Milligan
There’s far more stuff in the world than any of us can ever have complete first-hand knowledge of, so we often have to rely on second- and third-hand information about things we haven’t yet encountered. This leads to a tendency … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, DVD, Exploitation, Flipside, Horror
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The rise of boutique DVDs: The Flipside
Even with the tens of thousands of movies released on DVD since the format debuted in the late ’90s, vast amounts of film history remain untouched. Of course, home video has always been a commercial enterprise, the preservation and dissemination … Continue reading
Nuclear Madness
It’s probably difficult, if not impossible, for someone born in the last 20 or 30 years to understand the psychological atmosphere that prevailed at the height of the Cold War when the two superpowers were locked in a policy appropriately … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Documentary, DVD, nuclear war, Peter Watkins, Propaganda, Review, Stanley Kubrick
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Recent viewing, part 1
Since reading Chris Fujiwara’s book about Jacques Tourneur, The Cinema of Nightfall (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1998), I’ve been searching out films by the director, particularly ones unconnected with the genres he’s best known for, horror and … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, Directors, Documentary, DVD, Guillermo De Toro, Ken Loach, Molly Dineen
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DVD diary: another eclectic week – part two
Christopher Smith is an English director whose first feature, Creep (2004), was an attempt to emulate Gary Sherman’s Raw Meat (aka Deathline, 1973) and Douglas Cheek’s C.H.U.D. (1984); it had a woman trapped overnight in the London Underground, pursued by … Continue reading
DVD of the week: Duffer/The Moon Over the Alley
One of the real pleasures of the BFI’s Flipside series of DVDs and Blu-Rays is the sheer eclecticism of the choices being made available. The series’ mandate is to present fringe works, movies outside the mainstream. So far, we have … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, DVD, Experimental Film, Independent Film, Musicals
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Vampire Circus footnote
By coincidence, having recently finally caught up with Robert Young’s Vampire Circus, I’ve just come across a short film he wrote and directed six years later for the British government’s Central Office of Information. Twenty Times More Likely (1978) is … Continue reading
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Tagged BFI, British Film, Directors, Documentary, DVD, John Mackenzie, Robert Young, Safety Films
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DVD of the Week: Loving Memory (1970)
Of the two Scott brothers, I’ve always had a preference for Ridley. No doubt the writers of Cinema Scope would attribute this to my innate middle-brow pretensions, but I’ve never managed to grasp their argument for Tony’s superiority (editor Mark … Continue reading
