formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
All the planning and money in the world can go down the drain if a presumed blockbuster isn’t filmed or cast quite right. Thankfully, these films were willing to go back to the drawing board to make cinema history… Source: … Continued
A new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts explores the trailblazing Black artists who overcame discrimination and prejudice to make their mark on film history. Source: See Long-Lost Artifacts From Early Black Cinema | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
The first cameramen, trained by the Lumière brothers, focused on documenting such life through carefully composed and sometimes staged snippets, but within a year of the first public screening of Workers Leaving the Factory (1895), artists from diverse entertainment backgrounds—including … Continued
The iconic Eros cinema hall at Churchgate, long veiled under a green curtain, has been refurbished and restored, and is set to draw a different generation of leisure seekers shortly. It was started in 1938 and had familiarised generations of … Continued
Season 2’s community theme kicks off with the patriarch of modern action cinema, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. An epic story of samurai helping a small village community defend itself against raiders, Seven Samurai puts its characters front and center, and … Continued
Amid the tumultuous political landscape of the 1970s, a cultural change was afoot. While far-right hate groups like The National Front marched in the streets, British music and cinema were finally starting to take notice of the country’s increasingly diverse … Continued