Bruno Savill De Jong

Apr 10, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jessica Kiang |Josephine Botting |Mar Diestro-Dópido |Bruno Savill De Jong

Looking back at American cinema’s banner year, fifty years later10 April 2024By Jessica KiangIn April 1974 when Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation opened and Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul shuffled on to US screens wearing his perpetual plastic raincoat and his perpetual peevish frown, there had not yet been much evidence that this would be a particularly unusual year. Notable things happened – in February, Bruce Balick and Robert L.

Apr 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Josephine Botting |Mar Diestro-Dópido |Bruno Savill De Jong |Isabel Stevens

A woman desperately pursues a frenzied, dishevelled man along the banks of the Thames at Hammersmith. To shake her off, he pushes her roughly to the ground in front of a dilapidated riverside pub. The film is London-set noir Night and the City (1950) and burned-out spiv Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is running headlong to his death, while long-suffering girlfriend Mary Bristol, played by Gene Tierney, tries to hold him back. It was 1949, and Tierney’s career had flourished over the decade.

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.

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.

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

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