Tag: movies
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Shock and Awe and Eisenstein
I had an illuminating and joyful day at the Winter Gardens in Morecambe this bitterly cold Saturday, attending another film screening event run by Northern Silents, the innovative organisation that specialises in putting on silent film screenings with live music across the North of England. In this case, the music was provided solely by the…
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The lost worlds of silent cinema.
A real pleasure this weekend to attend the ‘Silents by the Sea’ film festival put on by the Northern Silents organisation at the Winter Gardens Pavilion in Morecambe, a grand variety theatre built in the 1890s, and currently undergoing restoration. It’s a particularly apt setting since some of the films screened over the weekend may…
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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 