Michael Bartholomew-Biggs draws together his impressions of a novel multi-media show that combines poetry music and film.
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Thomas Ovans enjoys an evening at the theatre which recalls a golden age of cinema.
Emma Lee admires Claire Crowther’s skilful use of appropriately restrictive forms in her poetic homage to silent cinema – and finds also that this pocket-size chapbook is generously packed with images and information.
Rosemary Norman describes how she collaborates with video-maker Stuart Pound to make films from her own poems.
Thomas Ovans glances back at the ITV series of Poirot adventures which recently came to an end
The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema’s christ-devil child. by Helen Donlon. “I hung out in St. Germain. Picking up cigarettes from the street. One day, a guy came up to me and said, ‘Come with me, we need you.’
Archive events happening during the BFI London Film Festival
Helen Donlon reviews … Un Prophète Directed by Jacques Audiard Written by Thomas Bidegain and Jacques Audiard
Here’s a new film not to be missed from the BAFTA nominated directors of ‘Black Pond,’ Will Sharpe and Tom Kingsley. The film was first shown at the beginning of May 2016 at PictureHouse Central, Piccadilly as part of the London Comedy Film Festival, which promoted the film as being: filled with wit, melancholy and surreal breath-taking images. It’s one of the boldest and most beautiful British films in years.
By Wendy French • festivals, film, year 2016 • Tags: festivals, film, Wendy French