James Archer Layton

Oct 2, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |James Archer Layton |Robert Koehler |Jez Stewart

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. From Hollywood to Heaven: The Lost and Saved Films of the Ormond Family is available to buy from Powerhouse Films/Indicator At a certain point in my slog through this vast box-set of films by B-movie evangelists the Ormond family, I started to think it was in fact I who was being punished.

Sep 29, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Bryony Dixon |James Archer Layton |Robert Koehler |Jez Stewart

On World Silent Film Day, we talk to James Layton, manager of the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center at the Museum of Modern Art, about their new restoration of the classic Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler The Black Pirate (1926), which receives its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 15 October.