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Night Mail: Documentary following the mail train to Scotland from London. Night Mail airs on Talking Pictures TV at 8:35 PM, Friday 19 January. Documentary following the mail train to Scotland from London

Recently, we sat down with the developers of Backwards RPG about their recent Kickstarter campaign, and the joys and challenges of growing a horror series.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute kicks off its four-part film series examining the L.A. Rebellion on Sept. 21. The series if presented in celebration and anticipation of the

Did you know Britten's Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was initially composed for a film? Daniel Jaffé enjoys instrumental inspiration from piccolo to double bass as he compares the best versions of Britten’s didactic masterpiece

DVD film review by Graham Fuller

Director Andrea Arnold talks with PopMatters about sensing the feelings of Luma, a dairy cow, in her documentary feature debut, Cow.

Role-playing rule books are being designed to be more experimental and unique. Here’s how they can be designed for accessibility, too.

Text and pictures by PRIYAN DE SILVA Thirty two little ballerinas were presented with certificates of achievements and awards at the 2021 prize giving of The Ballet school of Colombo (TBSC) held recently. Directors of TBSC Tara Cooke and Romina Gyi said that they were extremely proud of the achievements of their charges and thanked […]

By Sarath Chandrajeewa “No matter how much a work of art is sweet, if it hides the truth and disregards humanity it can only be equalled to a beautiful but empty shell that attracts us.” (L.E. Kerbel – Russian Sculptor) ‘Alborada’ is the Spanish word for ‘the dawn’. In 1984, a music group was born […]

Part one of a conversation with film historian, scholar James Naremore: The films of American director Charles Burnett James Naremore has been one of the most insightful commentators on film and film history over the past four decades. He remains one of the relatively few figures in the field interested in (or capable of) “interweaving”—as he notes in our conversation below—a genuine aesthetic sensibility with a political and social interest. Now retired from teaching, Professor Naremo...