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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes |Juana Albina |Stuart Isaac Burnside
Vincent Price remains best remembered for his string of horror film appearances in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, in films like Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe derived classics for American International Pictures and his macabre British duo Witchfinder General (1968) and Theatre of Blood (1973). But he was a man of many passions and interests beyond both horror and cinema in general. Art was a particular obsession, but cooking seemed to be his real love.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes |Juana Albina |Stuart Isaac Burnside
Vincent Price remains best remembered for his string of horror film appearances in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, in films like Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe derived classics for American International Pictures and his macabre British duo Witchfinder General (1968) and Theatre of Blood (1973). But he was a man of many passions and interests beyond both horror and cinema in general. Art was a particular obsession, but cooking seemed to be his real love.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Juana Albina |David Parkinson |Craig Mann
In a 2020 interview with BAFTA following his receipt of the BAFTA Fellowship, celebrated game director Hideo Kojima reflected on the influence of the Rambo series on the Japanese games industry of the late 80s. “At the time, my company’s instruction was to, ‘Make a war game like that popular arcade game Rambo!’ But I was against that”, he reflected.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside
At his LFF Screen Talk, the Dune director spoke of the formative influence of Steven Spielberg, the female characters at the centre of the Dune franchise, and the scar that reminds him not to act. 14 October 2024For a filmmaker who eschews heavy dialogue in his work, Denis Villeneuve certainly has a way with words.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard
Though scholars of early film have been much preoccupied with the emergence of storytelling and narrative, the dominant mode of early cinema – beginning with the first films of the Lumières in 1895 – was in fact the actuality, or what might be called documentary before documentary.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard |Ryan Swen
If you look at the career of any beloved filmmaker, their journey to cinematic greatness almost always begins with short films. Before Wes Anderson became known for his symmetrical style he made the 1994 short Bottle Rocket, Lynne Ramsay’s 1996 short Small Deaths was made before she was acclaimed for her powerfully melancholic features, and Christopher Nolan’s mammoth career was predated by his 1997 short film Doodlebug.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard |Ryan Swen |David Parkinson
Has there ever been a genre shift as seismic as the move from Ridley Scott’s Alien to James Cameron’s Aliens? The leap from a claustrophobic ‘haunted house in space’ sci-fi horror to a 1980s gung-ho action film is whiplash-inducing. It may be no surprise that it is the latter that has long inspired video game developers.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Adam Scovell |Jessica Kiang
Earthbound always seemed to exist just outside of the periphery, a game that was spoken about in whispers. Like the other Japanese role playing (JRPG) classics – Super Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo – it was never given an official European release. Before the ease of importing online, rare copies could be glimpsed in import shops for extortionate prices.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Queline Meadows |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Alfred Hitchcock |Stuart Isaac Burnside
The one film I’ve watched more than any other is Experimental Animation 1933, also known as The Peanut Vendor. It’s a short in which a stop-motion monkey sings along to Red Nichols’ recording of ‘The Peanut Vendor’ and dances outside the window of a potential customer. Len Lye – an artist better known today for his sculpture and direct animation work – built the puppet and animated it himself. For some reason, I’ve watched this monkey sell peanuts 24 times.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Alfred Hitchcock |Stuart Isaac Burnside |David Thompson
The screen is black as Mica Levi’s overture kicks in. The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning drama about the banal domestic lives of an Auschwitz commandant and his family, begins with a roiling liquid bath of synths and voices that descend steadily in pitch. In the black box of the cinema, it offers an airy, distorted wall of sound reflecting the weightlessness of bodies in free fall.
