Christopher Bird

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Chloe Walker |Nick James |Christopher Bird

Nintendo can often seem a company led by contradictions. For every fresh trail the Kyoto giant blazes, there’s an example of them being stubbornly stuck in the past. 2015 was the age of the Wii U, their ambitious but flawed follow-up to the mega-successful Wii.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Chloe Walker |Nick James |Christopher Bird |Stuart Isaac Burnside

On what would have been her 100th birthday, we remember model-turned-actress Martha Vickers and her scene-stealing performance – playing younger sister to Lauren Bacall – as the flirtatious Carmen Sternwood. 28 May 2025“You’re not very tall, are you?”In the opening scene of 1946 noir classic The Big Sleep, Carmen Sternwood makes quite the impression. After disparaging the height of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), the two trade more flirtatious words.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Christopher Bird |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Anton Bitel |José Arroyo |Jose arroyo

As part of the BFI’s Film on Film season, BFI National Archive Curator Rosie Taylor and I will be presenting an event about a film format very few people have even heard of: 28mm. Most people know about Kodak’s 16mm gauge, brought out in 1923, and a few know about Pathé’s 9.5mm, brought out the year before. But a decade earlier was a truly pioneering film gauge, designed to take films out of cinemas and into schools, churches and even homes.

Aug 26, 2024 | pe-magazin.com | Christopher Bird

Overview of Check-the-Box RulesUnder US federal income tax law, an entity is classified as either a corporation (opaque), a partnership (transparent), a disregarded entity (transparent) or a trust. A non-US entity’s default classification for US tax purposes will depend on whether the entity is a “per se” corporation versus an “eligible entity” and, in the case of an eligible entity, whether at least of the entity’s owners has unlimited liability under local law.

Jul 17, 2024 | evolveandascend.com | Jeremy Johnson |Christopher Bird

These ideas struck a cord with popular consciousness way back in the 1970s, when New Age ideas were just starting to get popular. A little book called The Secret Life of Plants, by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, was published 1973. There are many interesting vignettes in the book, from actual science experiments to more metaphysical musings.