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February 2, 1979 is a well-known date – if, that is, you are a big fan of the U.K. punk band, the Sex Pistols. I got into the Pistols when I was a kid, back in the late 1970s. To be correct, I was just twelve when the Pistols’ one and only album, Never Mind the Bollocks, hit the stores in the latter part of 1977. The members: Steve Jones (guitarist), Johnny Rotten (vocalist), Glen Matlock (bassist), and Paul Cook (drummer). Matlock wasn’t destined to stay with the band, however. He was replaced by Sid Vicious, who could barely play the bass. Unfortunately, while Matlock was a great son...

Maire Rose Connor Mapped: The London Locations Of Powell And Pressburger Dorset House, the modest Marylebone apartment block where Powell & Pressburger dreamt up some of their most fantastical films. You can just make out their commemorative blue plaque to the left of the building. Image: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons It was 'love at first sight', according to Michael Powell. Throughout the 1930s, the young director had cut his teeth making 'quota quickies' —  low-budget (and often bone-achingly dull) films churned out to make a quick buck — but before the decade ...

“The Sisters left Darjeeling in the last week of October. They had come to settle in the General’s Palace at Mopu, which was now to be known as the Convent of St Faith.” There is nothing in the innocent opening sentences of Rumer Godden’s 1939 novel Black Narcissus to suggest that the subsequent film version would be butchered by censors, banned, and eventually hailed as “one of the first truly erotic films” by one of the world’s great directors — Martin Scorsese. That movie was made by an English director and a Hungarian-born writer-producer: Michael Powell and Emeric Pr...

Blu-ray: Short Sharp Shocks by Graham RicksonSunday, 27 December 2020 Gene Foad and Julie Peasgood take a wrong turn in 'The Lake' This BFI compilation looks back to an age when an evening at the cinema was a proper night out, the main attraction preceded by a short supporting feature. This BFI compilation looks back to an age when an evening at the cinema was a proper night out, the main attraction preceded by a short supporting feature. Nine spooky and macabre examples are included here, though the set earns its four stars by dint of excellent documentation and historical signific...