The filmmaker John Boorman speaks candidly in a new documentary that aims to reassess the notorious failure. (For one, it wasn’t really scary.)

Over 50 films and events over five days: Bristol’s Cinema Rediscovered is one of the UK’s most unique fests. A report from July’s edition:

https://notesonfilm1.com/2026/07/31/cinema-rediscovered-2026-wrap-up/ Pastor Hall (Roy Boulting, 1940)/ Obsession (Edward Dmytryk, 1949) Richard I talk about two films screened recently at Cinema Red

Many years ago, my old university was hosting a “film and philosophy” conference. Not having the interest or intellectual clout to submit a paper to deliver, I was nevertheless roped in to guide th…

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Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist....

My final film of Cinema Rediscovered 2026 has me jumping on a bus to travel all the way to the lovely streets of Clevedon and their wonderfully preserved old style Curzon Cinema. You know a cinema is ...

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Nearly 40 years on, the Booker prize-winning writer's debut campus satire is set to be screened in Berlin.

A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at a now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s.