Karlovy Vary to honour John Travolta
Laurence Boyce on 18th June / comments
48th edition of A-List festival to welcome Hollywood actor as it also hosts World Premiere of his latest film
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Offbeat: A vital alternative history of British cinema From the Cheap Seats
James Oliver on 18th June / comments
James argues that this new book by Julian Upton is an essential read for lovers of British cinema, that will introduce to the read...
I Am Breathing: on the life and death of an architect Cinema Reviews
Mike McCahill on 18th June / comments
Architect Neil Platt was just 33 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. A poignantly brisk documentary from the Scottis...
1980s TV Sale - over 200 series from £5.99 each
18th June
Tune into a golden age of television. The 1980s was British television's peak, when expertly-written dramas rubbed shoulders with incisive and hilarious comedies. In the background, a series of changes and innovations took place – a fourth channel was ...
Children's Film Foundation: Weird Adventures - £13.99 on DVD
Graeme Hobbs on 18th June
Contains The Boy who Turned Yellow (Powell & Pressburger, 1972), The Monster of Highgate Ponds (Cavalcanti, 1961), A Hitch in Time (Darnley-Smith, 1978). A fine volume, writes Graeme Hobbs.
Week 25: Roger Corman's The Terror, Jane Russell and Judy Holliday plus Basic Instinct
David Parkinson on 17th June / comments
Three thrilling tales from cinema's past - Roger Corman's The Terror (with an extraordinary range of uncredited directors), two actresses who share the same birthday - Jane Russell and Judy Holliday - plus the controversy behind Basic Instinct.
Trailer for Martin Scorsese's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, arrives
Laurence Boyce on 17th June
Crime pic to star Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey.
Underground - acclaimed restoration of a silent classic, £13.99 on DVD+Blu-ray
Mike McCahill on 17th June
Anthony Asquith's subterranean tale of love, jealousy and murder, with a new score by Neil Brand. For sheer entertainment, its expressionist shadowplay is hard to beat, writes Mike McCahill.
Gary Oldman to direct second feature film
Laurence Boyce on 16th June
Actor set to direct biopic of photographer Eadweard Muybridge
Top 10 Arthouse Crime Films, with clips
15th June
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?" wrote Bertold Brecht in The Threepenny Opera, in which he explored his favourite highbrow themes within the setting of a penny dreadful melodrama. It's a trick many filmmakers have lea...
Perfect Friday - a breezy, mischievous crime caper, £13.99 on DVD+Blu-ray
Julian Upton on 15th June
There is plenty to enjoy in theatre-bred director Peter Hall's late '60s crime caper - not least Stanley Baker appearing in one of his last decent big-screen roles, writes Julian Upton.
Killing of a Chinese Bookie on DVD and Blu-ray from 15th July
Laurence Boyce on 14th June
BFI releases the fifth and final title in The John Cassavetes Collection.
Superb new arrivals in Exclusives and Rarities
14th June
We've some real gems to shout about in our range of Exclusives & Rarities including two Humphrey Bogart classics, adventures on the plains and the high seas, a lost British silent film and a Japanese monster epic.
Horrors of the Black Museum - Shamelessly committed to out-grossing Hammer
Julian Upton on 14th June / comments
Ahead of its new release through Network’s British Film Collection, Julian dusts off this key British horror film from the late 1950s. Nasty, sadistic and with a gloriously berserk performance by Michael Gough, Horrors easily outdoes Hammer.
