Tag: bfi
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BRAVE
A film review with a bit of a difference: a letter, reprinted below, published in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine (November 2012 edition, edited slightly by the journal). I wrote them in response to a largely positive review from Thirza Wakefield, of Disney Pixar’s Brave. Whither Pixar? It’s not so much the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
The Riverfront, a photo by iainthekid on Flickr. This photo sums up a lot of things that I think of as ‘mine’ and define ‘me’. The British Film Institute cinema on the Southbank in London has a restaurant attached to it – ‘The Riverbank’. – Great atmosphere, people, culture, food and cinema, all in one…
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TINTIN AT THE MOVIES
TINTIN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE (1961) TINTIN AND THE BLUE ORANGES (1964) BFI DVD As a young boy growing up in the West of Scotland, I used to read the Hergé comic books about the boy reporter Tintin and his globe-trotting adventures with his faithful dog Snowy and friends Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus. There was…
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