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London Film Day: NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG
The British Film Institute has announced that the new initiative London Film Day will feature the World Public Premiere of Susanna White's Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, starring Emma Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay adaptation), Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Mays. This BFI London Film Festival and Film London partnership will offer 15 simultaneous public premieres across London [...]
Marion Davies, Ronald Colman, Constance Talmadge, Phyllis Haver: "Sound and Silents"
"Sound and Silents" is the title of a four-film series — part of the wider "Birds Eye View Film Festival" celebrating women filmmakers — to be held at London's bfi Southbank and the Barbican from March 6-10. The four screening silent films are: King Vidor's The Patsy (1928), starring Marion Davies; Sidney Franklin's Her Sister from Paris (1925), starring Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman (right); [...]
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, The Village People, Valerie Perrine: Out at the Pictures
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom in The Haunting (top); The Village People in Can't Stop the Music (bottom) "Out at the Pictures" at London's bfi Southbank: Robert Wise's horror-house classic The Haunting (1963), starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, and Russ Tamblyn Nancy Walker's costly box-office disaster Can't Stop the Music (1980), starring a rollerblading Steve Guttenberg (in some tight, tight shorts that would get [...]
CITIZEN KANE Screenings in the UK
Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane, winner of the best original screenplay Academy Award, will hit UK theaters on Nov. 30. In addition to London's bfi Southbank, Citizen Kane will also be screened in Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane stars Welles as a newspaper magnate based on William Randolph Hearst. Also in the cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy [...]