If you want to say something, there is only one solution; say it. - Jean-Luc Godard
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P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes
Directors of Mansfield 66/67The directors of Mansfield 66/67 write about what attracted them to 50s Hollywood movie goddess Jayne Mansfield
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Simon Hunter
Director of Edie.The extraordinary stamina of Sheila Hancock
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Prof. Andrew Kötting
Andrew Kötting is an artist filmmaker and Professor of Time Based Media.From way back when to the here and now
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Prof. Caryl Flinn
Author of 'BFI Classics: Sound of Music'.The enduring appeal of The Sound of Music
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Christopher Ian Smith
Director of New Town UtopiaBasildon reveals something about the state of modern Britain.
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Mark Cousins
Filmmaker, critic and programmer.Filmmaker, critic and programmer. His movies include The First Movie, The Story of Film: An Odyssey and A Story ...
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Akiko Stehrenberger
Award-winning movie poster designer, celebrated by Michael Haneke, David Lynch, Todd Solondz and Roman Polanski.They want to see a photo of Nic Cage’s head, and they want to see it BIG.
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Owen Jones
Author of 'Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class'.We need a new wave of films that have working-class life at their heart. That may require a revolution ...
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Daniel Wallace
Author of 'Big Fish'The author of Big Fish looks at his "more filmable" novels that have never made it to the screen.
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Terry Jones
Director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life and Absolutely Anything.Monty Python's Terry Jones explains exactly what happens in his film.
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Bruce Goodison
BAFTA-winning director, whose films include Flight 93: The Flight That Fought Back, Our War and Leave to Remain.Leave to Remain
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Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian's film critic.The idea of whisking those reviews into a bland fruit-smoothie of crowdsourced collective opinion? Please.
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Jonah Raskin
Author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and the Birth of the Beat Generation.Don’t kill your darlings, the movie seems to say, but rather save them, love them, embrace them.
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Prof. Brenda Stevenson
Prof. Brenda Stevenson, Professor of History at UCLA.Has 'slavery' finally arrived as a 'safe' subject for major motion picture production? If so, why now?
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Danny Rubin
Screenwriter of Groundhog Day and Lecturer at Harvard University.No chance of production? No chance of collaboration? No chance of commerce? No thank you.
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Dr. Cynthia Ann Baron
Author of 'Reframing Screen Performance' and Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University.What is the attraction of “subversive” movies and media stars?
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Naji Abu Nowar
BAFTA-winning Director of Theeb.Although our steps are small, with each film we slowly hope to help build a real film industry.
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Joyce Maynard
Author, Labor Day.The author of Labour Day reflects on the film adaptation.
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Jack Thorne
Writer of This is England '86 and '88, The Scouting Book For Boys and adaptor of Let The Right One In for the stage.There is great joy in working on something you love, and there is great fear too.
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Dr. Ed Sikov
Film scholar, author and lecturer.Has film technology finally succeeded in making looking so real that we now believe that everything we see is ...
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Prof. Andrew Horton
Author of 17 books and award-winning screenplays including Brad Pitt’s first feature film.Prof. Andrew Horton looks back on the acclaimed director Theo Angeloupos' "Balkan Spirit"
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Peter Kramer
Peter Kramer, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia and author of "2001: A Space Odyssey".Peter Kramer looks at the story of loss and resurrection that transformed cinema in the late 1970s.
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Valerie Lawson
Author of Mary Poppins, She Wrote, the Life of P L Travers.The creator of Mary Poppins: Once a mystery, now glimpsed through many lenses
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Dylan Edwards
Actor, Writer and Director of Difficult Second Coming.Actor Dylan Edwards writes about the new landscape for comedies.
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