Every year, our public television archive screens a complementary schedule of programmes during Bradford International Film Festival. Kate Dunn explains why.
Continuing his film odyssey, Jamie watches football, fantasy, and avant-garde films… and a drunk man sings ‘A Whole New World’.
Jamie kicks off 2011’s film festival with a Charlie Chaplin/Claire Bloom two-hander, an introduction to Amos Vogel and the Cinema 16 society, and a duo of documentaries.
Our Film Programmer Tom Vincent was proud to present an exclusive preview screening of West is West, attended by the film’s star, local actor Aqib Khan.
With great style, black humour, and an intriguing concept at the heart of its strange tale, Greece’s Dogtooth has topped our poll of museum staff’s favourite films of 2010.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan (‘the Indian Tom Cruise’, as I heard from one of my colleagues) was in our midst last week.
Roy Stafford explores the life and work of Japanese director Kurosawa Akira, one of the most important film-makers in the history of cinema.
If you love animation, you’ll be delighted with The Illusionist, based on a script by Jacques Tati and directed by Sylvain Chromet (of Belleville Rendezvous fame). Our Film Programmer, Tom Vincent, gives his expert opinion.
Last week, Hussain Currimbhoy from Sheffield Doc/Fest visited the museum to introduce Academy Award-winning documentary The Fog of War.
The weather has been sunny and bright here in Bradford, but next weekend at the museum, things are about to get a little darker…
Our Film Programmer talks about his favourite film of the 16th Bradford International Film Festival.
You may be aware that John Hurt was the victim of the infamous ‘chestburster’ scene in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979)…