Ordered the Durgnat bk, can't wait to read it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
Found Mark Kermode's Exorcist monograph last night and am tearing through it today.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
he is the living end
LOL, so you're saying I should literally tear through it with a knife?
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh right ... he's the guy who puts Exorcist and Mary Poppins on his BFI ballot: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/344
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
god he is like the bbc's 'film person' even though he is pretty much third rate provincial eng lit lecturer with passable tv skills and seems to have no knowledge of anything except imdb staples and a bit of 50-80s 'cult'/horror
his segment about stalker with geoff dyer was some sort of nadir
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Love that this book has had three editions already.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://wa3.cdn.3news.co.nz/3news/AM/0-Articles/234646/iran-flag.jpg?width=460
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 November 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
tho' i pretty much agree w/ Nilmar, have to say that Kermode's Exorcist bk is p gd as a production history of the film, and obv benefits from the access he enjoyed to friedkin, blatty etc
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 1 November 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Absolutely love the Durgnat book.
To be read alongside this piece on Jancso's Red Psalm.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Only just now found out they're releasing a whole bunch of horror-related monographs later this fall (strangely one week too late for Halloween): http://us.macmillan.com/series/BFIFilmClassics
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
No one mentioned Night of the Hunter?
― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
They're tying these horror-related titles into a larger BFI 'Gothic' season which incorporates UK-wide screenings, dvds, talks etc etc. Newman's Cat People has been issued before, and I think the Caligari one as well. Def want to read Frayling's The Innocents - his commentary track on the BFI Region 2 DVD of the movie might be the best I've ever heard.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Its the kind of tip I live for so I'll give it: Londoners should know that quite a few of these are going at 3 quid a pop at the BFI shop.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
London Live (Freeview channel 8)Saturday 18th July 2015
19:00 - 19:15BFI London: Festival in LondonRecord of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition and the Battersea Pleasure Gardens.
19:15 - 19:30BFI London: The Fairy of the PhoneMusical comedy based on instructions given in the London telephone directory.
19:30 - 19:45BFI London: Nice TimeImpressions of Piccadilly Circus on a Saturday night in 1957.
19:45 - 20:00BFI London: London Can Take It!London Can Take It! is the most renowned cinematic representation of the resilient heroism of ordinary Londoners during the early days of the Blitz.
― koogs, Friday, 17 July 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
(same channel has been showing ealing b-movies as matinees. http://www.londonlive.co.uk/schedule/category/films )
― koogs, Friday, 17 July 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link