Bryony Dixon

Dec 6, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Brogan Morris |Bryony Dixon |Duncan Wheeler

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Dec 6, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Bryony Dixon |Brogan Morris |Duncan Wheeler

The first step in any film restoration project is to gather together as much knowledge as possible about the film and the context in which it was produced. This will provide clues as to how the finished film should look and the probable location of any surviving materials. As many as 80% of silent films are permanently lost, so we need to search thoroughly for any available prints, negatives, copies on smaller formats, or even fragments.

Jan 1, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Bryony Dixon |Anne Billson |Michael Brooke |Adam Scovell

My name is Elizabeth Cook. I’m 19 and I work in a shop in London. I love the cinema show, and go once or twice a week when the pennies allow. Cinemas are on every thoroughfare, in every shopping street. London has 474 cinemas to choose from, to suit every budget. Doesn’t matter. That’s the great thing about the cinematograph show: it’s just ordinary people, so you don’t have to get all dressed up, unless you’re going with your beau that is. Wear what you like.

Nov 1, 2023 | quillette.com | Herbert Bushman |Thomas Doherty |Bryony Dixon

What follows is the fourth instalment of The So-Called Dark Ages, a serialized history of Late Antiquity, adapted from Herbert Bushman’s ongoing Dark Ages podcast. In our last instalment, we left off with the Western Roman Empire’s crumbling Rhine defenses under assault from west German tribes, whose members were now pouring across the border.

Oct 23, 2023 | quillette.com | Bryony Dixon |Ralph Leonard

Growing up in the UK, I became hooked on theatre at a young age. Since then, I’ve come to appreciate live performance not only as an art form, but also as a means to develop empathy among participants—a human quality sorely lacking amid today’s outrage culture. My first acting role as a child was Violet Beauregarde in a production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a role that I won in part because few other children could even half-feign an American accent.