Tag: horror
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Metal brains and melancholia: Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher
This was the introduction I gave for a screening of Epstein’s 1928 film at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster on 1/11/25, with live accompaniment by Neil Brand. This film is an adaptation of the short story The Fall of the House of Usher by American writer Edgar Allan Poe that was published in 1839. There have been…
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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…
Bruce Bennett 