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BFI TO SCREEN "GET CARTER" AS PART OF THEIR EUROPEAN FILM NOIR SEASON IN MARCH

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2008-02-15 16:49:04 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...BFI is to screen Get Carter as part of their European Film Noir Season in March. The selection is restricted to postwar films, with the intention to provide some idea of historical development and national preoccupations, as well as celebrating the ways in which some very distinctive film-makers have responded to the dramatic potential film...
 
Tags: film, bfi, distinctive film-makers, superb film series, march, bfi southbank, cinema retro post, cinema retro, carter
 
 
 
 
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Extras-packed DVD of Syndromes and a Century set for release by BFI in UK

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2008-06-20 10:15:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...BFI release, the English subtitles will be removable. Notably, it is the first film from Southeast Asia listed in the BFI catalog Syndromes and a Century received a quick-and-dirty DVD issue by Strand Releasing earlier this year in the U.S., and film-lovers have lamented the quality of the transfer . And the oversized, hard-burned English...
 
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BFI SOUTHBANK THEATRE LAUNCHES MAJOR FRANK SINATRA AND ANDRZEJ WAJDA FESTIVALS IN MAY

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2008-04-09 12:46:37 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...BFI's tribute to Sinatra. (See Cinema Retro issues 4 and 5 for Dean Brierly's extensive coverage of Tony Rome and its sequel, Lady in Cement The BFI Southbank in London will present major film tributes to Frank Sinatra and Polish director Andrzej Wajda in May. Highlights of the Sinatra program include rare big screen showings of his dramatic...
 
Tags: sinatra, bfi, major film tributes, film, frank sinatra, bfi southbank, sinatra event click, wajda event click, wajda event
 
 
 
 
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BFI's Syndromes DVD 'pleasingly rich'

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2008-07-10 04:49:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...BFI release preferable to the bare-bones Strand Releasing offering from earlier this year, which has intrusive burned-in subs that must be for the vision impaired The "pleasingly rich" extras on the BFI disc include a 22-page booklet with articles, complete credits and production stills, the trailer and Apichatpong's 2005 40-minute short...
 
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BFI RELEASING THE CONTROVERSIAL "SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM" ON DVD

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2008-08-22 12:40:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...BFI on 29 September . Presented fully uncut and in its most complete version, the film has been re-mastered from the original Italian restoration negatives The two-disc set, in striking packaging, contains a wealth of extras, some especially created for this release including Coil - Ostia (the Death of Pasolini) the original 1987 track from...
 
Tags: film, british film institute, bfi, pier paolo pasolini, pasolini, controversial film, notorious final film, sal, bfi website
 
 
 
 
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Hammer Stills Exhibition at the BFI

2007-12-13 17:01:00 by Holger Haase in Hammer and Beyond
 
...BFI Southbank until 6 January 2008 Hammer films became synnonymous with horror. Yet the company produced a wide range of films including comedies, period costume adventures, psychological thrillers and war pictures. These were frequently frowned upon by critics who viewed the company as the purveyor of inconsequential exploitation...
 
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HAMMER HORROR WRITER JIMMY SANGSTER TRIBUTE AT BFI LONDON, APRIL 15

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2008-04-08 12:25:53 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...BFI SOUTHBANK THEATRE IN LONDON, TUESDAY, 15 APRIL. SANGSTER WILL BE INTERVIEWED ON STAGE TO REFLECT ON THE GLORY DAYS OF BRITISH HORROR FILMS. CINEMA RETRO WILL BE ATTENDING SO LOOK FOR A FULL REPORT SOON. JIMMY SANGSTER ALSO MET RECENTLY WITH STAFF WRITER JOHN EXSHAW FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THAT SAW HIM REUNITED WITH RICHARD JOHNSON,...
 
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Dracula BFI Trailer

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2008-02-12 11:17:00 by Holger Haase in Hammer and Beyond
 
A bit old, but I only now discovered the trailer for BFI's Dracula . It really is different from the original and adds a nice, more "modern" take to it. Looking good
 
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BFI's 60s French cinema season

2008-04-02 20:05:45 by modculture in Cinedelica
 
This month, the BFI Southbank will be hosting a season of films relating to the spirit of revolution in the era called Pop Goes the Revolution: French Cinema and May '68. Curated by Bob Stanley, the season shows how the
 
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