Becca Voelcker

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Classroom politics and the new grade of teacher movies

Apr 8, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Bruno Savill De Jong |Isabel Stevens |Margaret Hinxman |Becca Voelcker

The Teachers’ Lounge is the latest in a recent wave of films – from Monster to The Holdovers – that grapple with the challenges and compromises of being a schoolteacher. Teachers are having a tough time. Between underfunded institutions, potential union strikes, and paranoia about pupils being ‘corrupted’, the thankless roles of educators have been put under increased scrutiny.
Adventures in mini moviegoing

Apr 8, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Isabel Stevens |Margaret Hinxman |Becca Voelcker |Jonathan Romney

The films we watch as children cast their spell on us and watching them as adults, exiled from our childhoods, gives us a brief interlude back there.
At the movies with Hamaguchi Ryūsuke

Apr 4, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Becca Voelcker |Jonathan Romney |Patrick Russell |Adam Scovell

Since his graduation feature in 2008, Passion, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke (born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1978) has perfected a cinematic language that combines confident pacing, subtle yet fraught emotional expression and playful narrative twists. He has been a regular at Cannes, Locarno, New York and Berlin film festivals since his breakthrough epic Happy Hour in 2015. He is popular at home too, shooting films in Tokyo, Kobe, Hiroshima and elsewhere with a combination of first-time and seasoned actors.
60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations

Nov 15, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |Nicole Flattery |Bruno Savill De Jong |Becca Voelcker

As Doctor Who turns 60, we go on an adventure in space and time to track down original locations from the BBC’s much-loved series. 15 November 2023By Adam ScovellDoctor Who occupies a unique position in British culture. Following the intrepid Time Lord as he travels through time and space in his TARDIS, the series captured the imagination of postwar audiences, finding a global following and changing the very nature of popular television.
Flick lit: writing in the dark

Nov 15, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Nicole Flattery |Adam Scovell |Bruno Savill De Jong |Becca Voelcker

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. “Four and a half years of watching films several times a week…I can hardly believe in that life of the distant thirties now, a way of life I adopted quite voluntarily from a sense of fun.
The art of the painted backdrop, from Black Narcissus to Raiders of the Lost Ark

Nov 14, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Bruno Savill De Jong |Becca Voelcker |Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan |Kenneth Tynan

Alfred Hitchcock once said “the beauty of a matte shot is that you can become God.” Hollywood extravagance is often associated with elaborate sets and huge locations. But the humble matte painting could transport filmmakers anywhere, be it a banal city skyline or impossible alien planet.
A weakness for dragons: Michael Powell and the cinema of fantasy

Nov 6, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Ian Christie |Becca Voelcker |Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan |Kenneth Tynan

Was it the scandal of Peeping Tom’s critical reception that put an end to Michael Powell’s career as a major filmmaker? Judging by how often this is repeated, it’s widely believed as a convenient explanation for why one of Britain’s great filmmakers produced so little of substance after 1960, while his near contemporary, and former editor, David Lean was reaching the climax of his career.