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- Reposted by pamhutchEssential reading for anyone who cares about the presentation of classic film (or, indeed, get irked when subjects better filmed in landscape format are shot in portrait). Great article by @pamhutch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/comment...
- Reposted by pamhutchIn what may be a first for Front Row.. incudes me and @neilkbrand.bsky.social in some entirely appropriate audio trouser ripping…
- Tonight's BBC Front Row: Michael Sheen on Our Town, @neilkbrand.bsky.social & @pamhutch.bsky.social on Laurel and Hardy, Patrick Charnley on This, My Second Life, & @larushka-iz.bsky.social on the BAFTA noms 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by pamhutchTonight's BBC Front Row: Michael Sheen on Our Town, @neilkbrand.bsky.social & @pamhutch.bsky.social on Laurel and Hardy, Patrick Charnley on This, My Second Life, & @larushka-iz.bsky.social on the BAFTA noms 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by pamhutchBOTD Cary Grant!! MCC faves incl Girl Friday (Hawks) PA Story (Cukor) North by Northwest, Notorious (Hitch x2) More @angelicabastien.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post... @chrisyogerst.com: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ma... @pamhutch.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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- Reposted by pamhutchPam's annual centenary-celebrating, watchlist-swelling articles are now an essential part of the new year for me
- For the BFI, 10 great films from 1926 www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
- Reposted by pamhutch#FlickerAlley #LouiseBrooks flickeralley.com/products/foc... There's a slight delay in the release of this. It will now be available to ship from the 27th of January. Brooks expert @pamhutch.bsky.social has contributed so you'll be in safe, highly qualified hands.
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- For the BFI, 10 great films from 1926 www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
- Reposted by pamhutchA List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵
- Reposted by pamhutchEnglish novelist Jane Austen was born 250 years ago #OnThisDay in 1775. This brown/gold silk pelisse, with a pattern of oak leaves, is believed to have been owned by Austen. Dating from around 1814, the pelisse is edged with yellow cord. Hampshire Cultural Trust. #JaneAusten250
- Reposted by pamhutchThrilled with this year’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards nominations, a nice rangy selection that runs the gamut from ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER to SIRĀT to SINNERS to WEAPONS. Full list here: criticscircle.org.uk/one-battle-a...
- Reposted by pamhutchIt's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social
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- Reposted by pamhutchJust found out my book CINEMA HER WAY was named one of the best books of the year by Sight and Sound! Shout out to @nigelcsmith.bsky.social for giving me the heads up!
- '“The third reaction you want,” Fisher says, “is for people to say, I wish that was real so I could watch it.”' www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
- "There was a period, in the decade after World War II, when British films achieved without fanfare a broad viewership among Americans." Geoffrey O'Brien on the terrific Locarno retrospective of postwar British cinema in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
- "The intention, laid out in a profusely illustrated companion volume edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht, was to assemble a collective national self-portrait of sorts, from the end of the war to the emergence of Britain’s New Wave at the end of the 1950s."
- "(The book includes thirty-eight essays focusing on salient themes including women filmmakers, the prominence of children in films of the period, the influence of film noir, and the work of Americans exiled by the blacklist, along with profiles of the directors in the series.)"
- "Film critics prior to the 21st century existed to draw in readers and increase circulation. Their pieces often appeared in the final pages of magazines because many readers started from the back." @hamrahrama.bsky.social on the state of moviegoing and film criticism www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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- Reposted by pamhutchAs an actual writer I have absolutely no time for the romanticization of what is an underpaid and enormously uncool profession, but I will say this: if you use generative AI, you are not a writer. Being a writer is not about having a book or a byline in your name. It's about doing the writing.
- Reposted by pamhutchI ranked some films set on water. ON water, so submarines don't count. No need to tell me which ones I've missed, though wish I'd remembered to include KNIFE IN THE WATER.
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- Reposted by pamhutchAnton Walbrook and Ludmila Tcherina during the filming of 'The Red Shoes' at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, France, June, 1947
- “Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam”
- holy crap... @nickhunebrown.bsky.social with some great, important work
- Reposted by pamhutchI’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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- Reposted by pamhutchIt’s a #FilmNoir Joan Crawford day for us. See you all at #Bristol Megascreen from 12pm for a special double bill of Mildred Pierce (1945) + Johnny Guitar (1964) (both the recent 4K restorations). Thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social and @20thcflicks.bsky.social #Melodrama tickets: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
- The GW Pabst retrospective at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social looks incredible. All of these films are fascinating. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...
- I don't often do this, but if you go to see PANDORA'S BOX and you like it (which you will), why not buy my book, all about the film, and Pabst and of course Louise Brooks? www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Box...
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- Must-see melodrama alert. Next Sunday, one of the best films in the BFI Melodrama season, the silent 1925 STELLA DALLAS, screens in NFT1 with the incredible orchestral score by Stephen Horne – who also introduces the screening. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
- If you love the Stanwyck version you will ADORE this one. Take two handkerchieves, and put your mum on speed-dial
- More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
- Reposted by pamhutchJust arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue! If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more! Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
- Melodrama! But with dastardly crimes attached. I will be at HOME in Manchester to host a post-film discussion for this screening of THE WICKED LADY (1945) on 6 December homemcr.org/whats-on/the...
- Reposted by pamhutchI will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October. - Virginia Woolf #Womensart
- Melodramatic events in Manchester and London yet to be announced but please do launder your best handkerchiefs in readiness.
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- A different definition of melodrama but I will be giving a short lecture on silent cinema's iconic vamps at Fabrica in Brighton, also as part of CINECITY www.cine-city.co.uk/event/playin...
- I will be introducing Orson Welles' wonderful THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social on 9 November www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/the-ma...
- I will also be joining what looks like an incredible panel on the queer legacy of Hollywood melodrama following a screening of ALL ABOUT EVE on 8 November at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social www.glasgowfilm.org/whats-the-te...
- The BFI Melodrama season will be keeping me busy over the coming weeks. I may be in a cinema near you! For example, I am introducing a 1940 double-bill of REBECCA and the British GASLIGHT in Brighton for CINECITY on 16 November @attenboroughac.bsky.social www.cine-city.co.uk/event/rebecc...
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- Reposted by pamhutchCan now report that @filmsradiance.bsky.social restoration of Peter Lorre's The Lost One (the only film he directed) does not disappoint . . . also v much enjoyed, among the extras, @pamhutch.bsky.social Lorre appreciation Specs: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/wor...
- Reposted by pamhutchJane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.
- Reposted by pamhutchThe fabulous Dame Julie Andrews was born #OnThisDay and is celebrating her 90th birthday! She wore this Donald Brooks designed full-length sleeveless gown, embellished entirely with black and red bugle beads, as Gertrude Lawrence in Star! (1968). Sold by at Christies. #film #costume
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- Happy birthday Julie Andrews! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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- Reposted by pamhutchClaudia Cardinale: the only actor to star in three of Sight & Sound's 100 best films of all time, but who also played the princess in The Pink Panther, destoyer & rebuilder of adolescents the world over. The cause of & cure for all our problems. No better legacy. RIP
- I presented this documentary on the pioneering film critic, curator and preservationist Iris Barry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- "That’s what the practice of essaying is, to me: a stumbling attempt to re-create, in language, a common space, one that is open to all." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
