Robin Askew

Dec 3, 2024 | bristolbooks.org | Robin Askew |Eugene Byrne |Melanie Kelly |Amy O’Beirne

Walk 1: Commerce and Public Life by Melanie Kelly Walk 2: Bristol and Romanticism by Melanie Kelly and Amy O’Beirne Walk 3: Brunel’s Bristol by Melanie Kelly Walk 4: Art and Culture by Melanie Kelly Walk 5: Nature in the City by Melanie Kelly Walk 6: Bristol’s Rock Music History by Robin Askew Walk 7: Bristol’s Urban Myths by Eugene Byrne Walk 8: Unbuilt Bristol by Eugene Byrne Walk 9: St Pauls by Melanie Kelly Walk 10: Hillfields by Melanie Kelly Walk 11: Sea Mills by Melanie Kelly Walk 12:...

Oct 4, 2023 | bristolideas.co.uk | Robin Askew

At the height of the cinema boom, Bristol boasted 61 picture palaces. The advent of TV and subsequently video put paid to that golden age. By the 1980s, the showmen responsible for these often-ornate monuments to their egos were long gone, many of the fleapits had closed and the big cinemas were being carved up crudely into smaller screens. Bristol somewhat belatedly got its first multiplex in September 1994.

May 12, 2023 | timesofbristol.co.uk | Robin Askew

When Bristol Film Festival announced their screening of classic WWII movie The Dam Busters under the wings of Concorde at Aerospace Bristol on the 80th anniversary of the actual mission on Thursday 16 May, they could not have anticipated that they’d be sharing the hanger with another attraction. But that’s what’s happened, as the new temporary Journey to Mars exhibition, featuring Luke Jerram’s Mars sculpture, has just opened in the same space and will run until June 5.

Apr 17, 2023 | timesofbristol.co.uk | Robin Askew

Back at the turn of the millennium, David Lynch seemed to have put weirdness behind him with the conventionally structured The Straight Story. But the cult director defied expectations with 2001’s Mulholland Drive, which found him firmly back in Twin Peaks/Lost Highway territory with a murky meditation on identity, murder and the movie industry whose pea-souper of a plot remains infuriatingly elusive.

Mar 14, 2023 | timesofbristol.co.uk | Robin Askew

Bespectacled Harold Lloyd was one of the biggest stars of the early silent movie era and became renowned for performing most of his own stunts. His greatest triumph came in 1923 with the release of the brilliant action romcom Safety Last!, whose climactic clock-hanging stunt has often been imitated and parodied – although clever use of camera angles means that it wasn’t quite as dangerous as it appears.