BBC Archive Release: Hollywood Voices

BBC Archive Bette Davis

Here’s another wonderful Christmas present from the good people over at the BBC Archive. Following their captivating James Bond at the BBC online exhibition the BBC Archive have collected recorded interviews with the giants of Hollywood’s past which offer a wonderful and unique retrospective on Hollywood and movie making. Giants of the silent era are [...]

London’s Chic New (Pedestrian) Drive-In!

Starlite Urban Drive-In

The very, very, worst thing about growing up a film fan in London is not that all the best films will inevitably be released to your US cousins before you.  Nor that your ability to watch a late-night screening correlates directly to the weather-vane whims of the last train home because you neglectfully never learnt [...]

The Colour of Fear is Orange

Orange Halloween

Halloween is a time quite custom designed for tricks, treats and terror.  In the world of cinema, there is no film as notoriously terrifying as William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.  As a special treat to Orange Film Club members, the tree-lined depths of Tower Hamlets Cemetery came alive tonight with clergy, fog, spirits and curious lights – all leading the [...]

Exclusive Interview: Silent Cinema’s Damian Barr

On Friday night in Old London Town, fans of fear are in for a terrorising treat.  A certain East London cemetery is playing slumbering host to Orange Cinema’s Night of Fright.  Over recent weeks a series of clues have been left for members of their Facebook Film Club and now the trail has led to [...]