We began with a glittering opening night, and followed suit with some magnificent special guests over the weekend.
We’re based in Bradford, the first ever UNESCO City of Film, so naturally we’re passionate about cinema. Cinema screenings, film festivals, and cinematography in our collection: read more about everything to do with film at the museum.
Tom Vincent considers the death of film as a distribution format, and why it’s more important than ever to keep film history alive.
In the second part of his quest to find out ‘What is Cinema Now?’, Chris considers whether mainstream film can be considered art.
Robbie Cooper’s Immersion project captures images of people as they become immersed in different types of media—and now you can get involved.
Emily takes a tour of our Collections and Research centre and finds out that there are thousands of objects just waiting to be uncovered.
Irna Qureshi traces the history and meaning of a fascinating variety of movie marketing: the unique, hand-painted Bollywood poster.
By Toni Booth
From our archives: Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons, the fight of the century and the earliest feature film
This intriguing piece of sporting history is part of our archive…
Chris reports from one of our Film Extra courses looking at how films are distributed in the UK, and what kinds of expectations we have for them. What is cinema now?
Today we announced that our annual celebration of horror and SFF films will not be continuing. Here’s a message from the festival team, plus some memories from the past 11 years.
Phil Boot delves into the wonders of the Ray Harryhausen collection.
Our Photography Curator Colin Harding looks back at his time spent with legendary photographer Don McCullin.
Late last year we lost two major figures associated with the cinema, both of whom had links to the Museum: the photographer Cornel Lucas and the composer Richard Rodney Bennett.