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From the Magazine
Burning illusions: the long road to Black British film stardom
To mark the Who We Are. takeover of the BFI’s online channels this week, we’re republishing a series of stories from our archives about Black British film past and present – starting with Ashley Clark’s 2016 look at the historical paucity of roles for Black actors in British films.
Wednesday 14 December 2016 -
Bigger than Texas: Giant at 60
George Stevens’s Texan epic is as weird as it is ambitious. On its 60th anniversary, Peter Tonguette takes a look at how this painterly film prepared the canvas for America’s 1970s new wave.
Tuesday 13 December 2016 -
From the Magazine
A monumental reckoning: how Abel Gance’s Napoleon was restored to full glory
The production history of the extraordinary 1927 film – and of the painstaking, decades-long efforts to reconstruct the film from surviving prints – displays some of the fearless single-mindedness and megalomaniac ambition of the emperor himself. By Paul Cuff.
Friday 18 November 2016 -
The (few) women breaking through in Korean cinema
Women are unusually well-represented on screen in Korean cinema. Behind the camera is a different story – for reasons that say more about our own biases than we might care to recognise, reports Darcy Paquet.
Friday 11 November 2016 -
Light of day: Raoul Coutard on shooting film for Jean-Luc Godard
In tribute to the great French New Wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who has died aged 92, we republish this 1965 reminiscence about how he learnt to ‘keep it simple’, Godard-style.
Wednesday 9 November 2016 -
Cinephilia down the ages: a Museum of the Everyday
An exhibition devoted to obsessive and quirky records of cinemagoing reveals how film fandom, and geekery, have transformed over the past century, finds Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 8 November 2016 -
From the Magazine
How the French birthed film noir
Harder, deeper, darker: Ginette Vincendeau on how the French fused urban realism, underclass romance and shadow politics to produce some of the cinema’s keynote fatal fantasies.
Friday 4 November 2016 -
Why is it so hard to see East Asian films in UK cinemas?
A few years back, East Asian cinema experienced a boom in popularity, but these days, most titles find it difficult to get even a small release in the UK. Can audiences learn to embrace Eastern cinema once again, asks Anton Bitel?
Monday 31 October 2016 -
Hex appeal: how witches charmed the cinema
Witches are not just for Halloween, or for horror movies. Charlotte Richardson Andrews celebrates the screen’s sexier, more sisterly sorceresses: symbols of divine feminine magic and healing rather than bloodthirsty she-devils. With video by Leigh Singer.
Friday 28 October 2016 -
From the Magazine
Ingrid Bergman was always first and foremost an actor rather than a star, and her formative years on screen in Sweden, and later Germany, shaped the remarkable talent that would soon make her a Hollywood legend, says Pamela Hutchinson.
Tuesday 18 October 2016
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