formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
First airing on Christmas Eve 1989, the original TV adaptation of Susan Hill’s creepy novel The Woman in Black contains what some consider one of the greatest scares in screen history. Source: The ultimate Christmas ghost story: How 1980s horror … Continued
In addition to reviving the career of John Travolta, minting a star in Samuel L. Jackson and spawning a still-thriving cottage industry of knockoffs and imitation films, “Pulp” earned the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or, seven Academy Award nominations … Continued
Hollywood’s major studios have stepped up by providing fresh digital restorations for a major retrospective of Fred Zinnemann’s work at the Lumière Film Festival in France’s Lyon. Source: Fred Zinnemann Retrospective
Habicht’s images, of stars such as the Rolling Stones and Jane Birkin and of the everyday, defined the spirit of an era. Source: My father Frank Habicht, the photographer who captured the ‘heart and restlessness’ of 1960s London | New … Continued
Clint Eastwood was catapulted to film stardom when he played a brooding gunslinger in Sergio Leone’s first Spaghetti Western, A Fistful of Dollars. In a 1977 interview with the BBC, the Italian director confessed that he “really wanted” another actor … Continued
William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies was first published on 17 September 1954, and is now recognised as a classic. In History looks at how Golding’s story of English schoolboys and their descent into barbarism narrowly escaped being thrown … Continued