Bob Mastrangelo

Dec 12, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Bob Mastrangelo

Anouk Aimée (27 Apr 1932 – 18 June 2024): famed French actor who triumphed in films for Fellini (La dolce vita) and Demy (Lola) and had her career-defining role in A Man and a Woman. Aimée, who has died aged 92, combined sensuousness and vulnerability in celebrated films by Jacques Demy, Federico Fellini and in the Palme d’Or winner A Man and a Woman.

Jan 16, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Richard Pickard |Sam Wigley |Carmen Gray |Bob Mastrangelo

As more and more films are turned into stage shows, these stage versions are being turned back into movies. With Mean Girls and The Color Purple coming up, we chart a growing trend. 16 January 2024By Richard PickardThe mediums of film and musical theatre have both long enjoyed the art of adaptation, as well as the challenges that come with reinterpreting an existing work for a new audience. Stage productions have become films. Films have been adapted for Broadway and the West End.

Jan 12, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Carmen Gray |Bob Mastrangelo |Pamela Hutchinson

Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideFresh from big wins at the Golden Globes this week, Poor Things is Yorgos Lanthimos’s careening steampunk adventure in the company of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a suicide victim resurrected by eccentric surgeon Godwin ‘God’ Baxter (Willem Dafoe) in a medical school in Victorian London.

Jan 11, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Carmen Gray |Bob Mastrangelo |Pamela Hutchinson

“Papa’s cinema is dead,” was the catchcry of a generation of German directors in the 1960s and 70s intent on reinvigorating an industry they regarded as stagnating in commercial escapism. After a short-lived Weimar golden age many filmmakers had fled into exile as cinema was harnessed for Nazi wartime propaganda; then, with Allied occupation, came a flood of Hollywood entertainment.

Jan 10, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Bob Mastrangelo |David Parkinson |Ginette Vincendeau |Pasquale Iannone

Joss Ackland (29 Feb 1928 — 19 Nov 2023): character actor whose strong presence and workaholic tendencies led to a wide variety of roles (White Mischief; Lethal Weapon 2). The British-Irish actor, who has died aged 95, had a fine line in villainy and accents over many decades of memorable supporting turns in film and television.