Tag: British cinema
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Magic cameras and maniacs: Michael Powell’s ‘Peeping Tom’
Helen (Anna Massey) and Mark (Carl Boehm) in Peeping Tom An introduction to the screening of the film at the Dukes cinema, Lancaster, 4/2/24: Peeping Tom is a late film by Michael Powell, one of the major British directors of the 20th century. He first began making films in the early 1930s, when British studios were…
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Cinemagoing in Lancaster in the 1920s
To mark the centenary of Lancaster City Museums, they are publishing a series of podcasts focusing on aspects of their collection, ‘100 years, 100 Objects’. The podcasts are conversations between museum staff and members of local community groups and academics. For episode no. 19, which can be found here, I spoke with the museum registrar…
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Another way of seeing, another way of being: Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Introduction to Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Bruce Bennett (Lancaster University) Dukes Cinema 5th Jan, 2015. (This is the introductory public talk I gave for a screening of this film as part of the current season of SF films distributed by the BFI, ‘Days of Fear and Wonder’). The Man Who Fell…
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The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love
The heightened look of cinematic history: Excess and costume in Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love Bruce Bennett, Lancaster University UK. 15/3/14 (This paper was delivered at Screening Style: Costume, Cinema and Performance, a symposium on costume design I organised with Dr Catherine Spooner (Dept. of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster). Details about the event can…
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The cinema of Michael Winterbottom: borders, intimacy, terror
I’m very excited that my new book, The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom: Borders, Intimacy, Terror, is being published by Wallflower Press / Columbia University Press on 1st January, but have just found that the Kindle edition of the book has gone on sale on amazon today: http://goo.gl/Yy6TKJ
Bruce Bennett 