With the full programme for this year’s Widescreen Weekend film festival announced today, we consider the significance of widescreen cinema, and look at why it’s important that we restore films.
Il Cinema Ritrovato is an Italian film festival dedicated to rediscovered cinema. Rebecca, our festival coordinator, writes about attending this celebration of archive film for the first time.
Kathryn Penny recounts a very special Frankenstein-themed event which took film fans from novels to nostril expanders…
Now in its 21st year, Widescreen Weekend is one of the highlights of our calendar—every October we welcome hundreds of film fans to the museum to experience widescreen delights both old and new.
This year’s Widescreen Weekend opened with Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which launched the yearly film festival on Thursday 12 October.
The National Science and Media Museum is home to Pictureville Cinema, one of only three public venues in the world that can still show Cinerama—and the only one remaining in the UK.
This year we celebrated our 20th edition of Widescreen Weekend—and it was truly one to remember.
Among the more disturbing objects to be found in our collection stores is this pair of distinctive animatronic gorilla heads…
Our much-loved festival celebrating large-format film, Widescreen Weekend, is back for 2016!
Samira Ahmed writes about the many different versions of Jane Eyre and how audiences through the years have interpreted Charlotte Brontë’s classic.
Musician, film star, showman: Frank Sinatra was the perfect entertainer.
If you didn’t manage to get along to Widescreen Weekend, here’s just a small taste of the shots we got during the festival.