Tagging Christina Newland Cinema Rediscovered and Giulia Saccogna in this caper!

We have a lovely new blog on encountering our optical toys at the museum by stipend holder Clare Hunter Clare Hunter who is a writer and crafter and visited from Scotland recently bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/exploring…

The great Andrea Arnold receiving the Carrosse d’Or at the Opening Ceremony of the Quinzaine Festival de Cannes. Cannot wait for her new film BIRD, premiering tomorrow in Official Competition.

To honour the legacy of Jenne Casarotto following her passing earlier this year, we are delighted to announce The Jenne Casarotto Scholarship, in partnership with the NFTS.
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Come and see us gather some A’s in return for some Q’s from this fabulous pair — Gazelle Twin and Maxine Peake — this Sunday at Factory International

Expect a folk-horror-love-in #robinredbreast

Just a reminder if you're in the Manchester/Salford area later come to my talk on architecture & class conflict in British Cinema! 5pm at the Working Class Movement Library - just turn up! Can I get a RT BAFTSS?

9 years ago today I watched a Carol Morley film for the first time - The Falling at No. 6 Cinema 🎥. I did a Twitter dive to find the tweets I sent before I’d even seen the film. Little did I know how much I would love this film and how it would spark a love for Carol’s filmmaking 🖤

We are pleased to announce The Stephen Herbert Award. Up to £500 for a researcher to consult our optical media and early cinema collections in memory of the great moving image historian Stephen Herbert. To apply go to bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/the-steph… MagicLanternSociety

I wonder if Sandersons still makes the 'borstal interior' wallpaper range.

I’m been sorting through books today before donating - & always check I’ve not left anything inside - and this was in one of them - sent to me years ago! The great Roger Corman. RIP. 💕

Kelly Macdonald and Gina McKee star in this Sunday’s film - a true-life road trip described as “Thelma & Louise with custard creams”

Catch the funny and moving Typist Artist Pirate King on our big screen at 7.30pm

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‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ airs 3pm tomorrow. Adapted for BBC Radio 4 produced by Bafflegab Productions starring Christopher Eccleston, Harry Treadaway & Laura Aikman.

Music by me 🙌 🌍 📡 🛸 🍷💥

We are excited to introduce The Michael Fritz Collection, an amazing donation to the museum of over 200 scrapbooks created by Michael, who also designed wonderful covers for many of them, over the last 60 years. Find out more at bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/the-micha…

Carol Morley #fridayfilmclub Showroom Cinema

We have a fabulous new blog on our website from stipend holder artist and writer Cathy Lomax . Cathy looks at the presentation of female stars such as Faye Dunaway, Tuesday Weld and Elizabeth Taylor in the new Hollywood era bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/selling-f…

Hagstone is published in Australia and New Zealand today. I'll be doing some events there in the next two weeks - at Melbourne Writers Festival, Auckland Writers Festival, WORD Christchurch, Verb Wellington and Paperback Bookshop - if you're about.

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It's Powell and Pressburger season again – thanks Martin Scorsese! I am introing these screenings of BLACK NARCISSUS at Riverside Studios on 19 and 20 May riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/bla…

Maya Deren, one of the most significant filmmakers of the 20th century, was BOTD in 1917 & died in 1961 at 44. A Ukrainian-born experimental filmmaker & important part of the avant-garde, she was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer & photographer

Huge congrats to all the nominees - special shout-out to Carly Paradis for her nomination for Typist Artist Pirate King! I had so much fun recording & mixing this score! 🎻🎨🎬

Wonderful to screen #typistartistpirateking last night at a private screening MoMA The Museum of Modern Art #audreyamiss loved New York so it was special. What a fab audience with great questions/comments! And I loved being in conversation with the wonderful artist #tinabarney afterwards.