James Bell
@james___bell
Senior Curator of Fiction @BFI National Archive. Formerly of @sightsoundmag. Editor of BFI Compendium series. Programmer of BFI Southbank ‘Deep Focus’ seasons
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20-03-2010 09:14:05
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edgarwright BFI I have seen and vouch for - This Happy Breed (1944) **** The Seventh Veil (1945) **** Yield to the Night (1956) **** Uncle Silas (1947) **** (love it so much I own production art and I believe it to be in the top 3 Gothic Romance films) The Pumpkin Eater (1964) **** The
It’s been great to work on this @bfi season of some of Martin Scorsese’s British favourites with edgarwright. A majority of the films screen on 35mm prints taken from the #BFINationalArchive - including a rare original nitrate print of Went the Day Well?
Want to work with UK and international cinemas and film festivals? Great at building new partnerships? A dab hand at writing and editing newsletters/blogs etc? You have until Wed 28 Aug to apply for the new role of Cultural Partnerships Manager BFI. bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk/tlive_webrecru…
A highlight of the Martin Scorsese and edgarwright British cinema season @bfi Southbank will be the very rare screening of the #BFINationalArchive’s original 1940s nitrate print of Went the Day Well? Here are some sneak peek snaps from the test screening
Ahead of the BFI ‘Martin Scorsese Selects: Hidden Gems of British Cinema’ season, I spoke to Scorsese and edgarwright about the films in the programme, and about the influence of British cinema on Scorsese’s work. For Sight and Sound magazine buff.ly/4dDOmEA
Read our interview for Sight and Sound magazine where discuss these sometimes neglected classics and the defining influence they have had on his 60-year career in film. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
Been trying to get this commissioned for years - so am very pleased that the BFI season based on the edgarwright-Martin Scorsese list finally gave it something to tie into. I find it so strange that Dearden's been so overlooked. bfi.org.uk/features/where…
Here’s a fun new thing. Jake Cunningham and I pitched the #LFF the idea of having a mini book festival right in the middle of the film festival, and here it is: Film in Print!
And read our interview for Sight and Sound magazine where we discuss these sometimes neglected classics and the defining influence they have had on his 60-year career in film. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…