
Jez Stewart
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1 week ago |
bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel
Released in the summer of 1975, 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws made audiences around the globe afraid to go back into the water. Although its rapacious great white shark appears only briefly on screen, Spielberg masterfully builds suspense through the interplay between what’s seen above the surface and what lurks below. Scenes of carefree tourists swimming are juxtaposed with ominous shots of their dangling legs beneath the waves, all intensified by John Williams’ famous menacing score.
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2 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Rory Doherty |Anton Bitel |Stephen G. Dalton
As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special. 12 June 2025A quarter of a century after its release, Chicken Run (2000) remains the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
bfi.org.uk | Josephine Botting |Jez Stewart |Michael Gray |Alex Barrett
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Anna Neagle was one of Britain’s most popular film stars. The peak of her fame came after World War II thanks to her pairing with Michael Wilding in a string of post-war musicals directed by her husband Herbert Wilcox, bringing her a huge and devoted audience. An all-round entertainer, she exuded a wholesome girl-next-door persona, although she and Wilcox were romantically involved long before he divorced his first wife.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
bfi.org.uk | Jez Stewart |Alex Barrett |Adam Scovell |Jan Asante
The evening of 13 January 1955 was bitterly cold with blustery snow. It was a hardy crowd that gathered at the Ritz cinema in London for the first UK showing of Animal Farm, a feature-length animated adaptation of George Orwell’s novella. The book was first published a decade previously, a political ‘fairy story’ of animals taking over a farm from its cruel human owner, only to succumb to worse treatment under the tyranny of rule by pigs.
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Nov 5, 2024 |
msn.com | Jez Stewart
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