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The Revenant was this year’s big winner at BAFTA The BAFTAs have been and gone for this year, leaving the usual accusations of political incorrectness in the on-stage gags, and the moans about the lack of drunken antics compared to the more boozy Golden Globes, in their wake. It would be hard to argue that […]
Finally restored by the team – led by the tireless Kevin Brownlow- at the BFI National Archive after decades of work, Abel Gance’s 1927 epic silent Napoleon will screen for the public on Sun 6 Nov 2016 at 14:00 at the Royal Festival Hall. The film played to sell out crowds back in 2013, but this is […]
The BFI announced this week that, starting in March, they will begin a tribute season to the late filmmaker Alan Clarke. Clarke is still probably best remembered for his controversial and groundbreaking dramas: Scum, Made in Britain and The Firm, which helped make household names of actors like Tim Roth, Gary Oldman and Ray Winstone. The BFI however […]
At a time when the 2016 Academy Award nominations should have been dominating culture news headlines, a very different and much sadder story emerged instead. Stage and screen performer and director Alan Rickman, widely loved for his roles in Die Hard, Harry Potter, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Truly, Madly, Deeply and Sense and Sensibility to […]
We are nearly in the home stretch now until the 2016 Academy Awards are upon us; you can tell as all the other film awards are piling in with their own announcements. Last night was the turn of the London Critic’s Circle to announce its winners at London’s May Fair Hotel. George Miller’s Max Max: Fury Road […]
LATE NIGHTS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND In preparation for the behemoth that is STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, Everyman are running a series of sci-fi lates weekly in select London cinemas. Not a weak choice of sci-fi classic amongst them: See line up below and here for bookings. LATE NIGHTS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF […]
Appropriately for a film about replicants – androids that are indistinguishable from real humans – Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi classic Blade Runner has had no less than seven different versions shown to audiences over the decades since its production. But in 2007 – the 25th anniversary of the original release – Scott returned to the studio to oversee […]
Smoke Screen has been about and on the move throughout the BFI London Film Festival 2014, and amongst some of our coverage, which is you can see here, we have: A review of festival launch gala film The Imitation Game, including coverage of the main LFF Q&A with star Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays WWII cryptanalyst […]
Undoubtedly one of the biggest news stories of the last few years, the leaking of key National Security Agency surveillance data by former employee (and now exile) Edward Snowden is the subject of filmmaker Laura Poitras’ new documentary CITIZEN FOUR. Poitras herself was contacted by Snowden before the media melee began, making her one of […]