Tag Archives: British Cinema

This is part of a series of features exploring British cinema and culture as reflected by the releases in the BFI Flipside series. “But that’s how it always begins. Very small.” — Egg Shen, Big Trouble in Little China It seemed ...

“Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black unfathomable lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to its close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires is dead. But his disciples live on to ...

After Fantastic Fest’s screening of The Boat (2018), there was a Q&A with the film’s writer, producer and lone actor, Joe Azzopardi. Joe’s dad, Winston Azzopardi, co-wrote, produced and directs the film and the two apparently didn’t always see eye to ...

Prano Bailey-Bond is an award-winning British filmmaker and writer who according to her online biography, ‘grew up on a diet of Twin Peaks in the depths of a strange Welsh community’. She cut her filmmaking teeth directing music videos for ...

Essentially unknown aside more popular British studios that had an emphasis on genre films, like Hammer, Amicus, or Tigon, Anglo-Amalgamated ran only for a few decades, from 1945 until the early ‘70s, but should forever be remembered for their unforgettable ...

Download MP3 When Antonioni’s Blow-Up came out in 1966, it did well on the arthouse circuit, but proved enigmatic to many. Was it a murder mystery? A thriller? An existential fable of the mod generation? An auteurist masterpiece by an Italian ...

So far in my Ken Russell column, I’ve covered a number of his early films for the BBC program Monitor — particularly his artist biographies like Elgar and The Debussy Film — and this later documentary, Always on Sunday (1965), ...

Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon, aka. Curse of the Demon (1957) is a film that inhabits both the haunted twilight world of Val Lewton and the very visceral giant monster picture with equal aplomb. Tourneur was Lewton’s protegee. When ...

Believed to be lost for years, Jose Larraz’s eerie psychological horror film Symptoms has found its way to Blu-ray in the US courtesy of the great Mondo Macabro. The film follows the strange and possibly disturbed Helen (Angela Pleasence), who ...

Dead of Night, the classic 1945 British film that epitomizes the horror anthology in cinema, is given an in-depth study courtesy of the Devil’s Advocates book series. Each volume in the series examines a particular movie within the genre. It is somewhat ...