On Location: Trafalgar Square, London as seen in An American Werewolf in London (Dir. John Landis, 1981)
The World Film Locations book series – inspired by The Big Picture magazine’s ‘On Location’ feature – kicks off in…
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Back in Cinemas: Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir, 1932)
Stumbling shambolically back onto cinema screens this month is Michel Simon’s iconic portrayal of that terrible tramp Boudu. With his…
Festival Review: The 54th BFI London Film Festival
In a year in which, for many, there was no standout film, a whole array of exciting new cinema clamoured…
Recommended: The Arbor (Clio Barnard, 2010)
Artist filmmaker Clio Barnard’s debut feature is the affecting tale of playwright Andrea Dunbar; her chaotic life, untimely death and…
Art & Film: The 7th London International Animation Festival
Emma Simmonds reports back following her ten colourful days spent in the presence of the world’s weirdest, wildest, most wonderful…
Fatal Attraction Part 1: Classic Hollywood noir villainesses
In the first of a two-part piece Emma Simmonds examines four prototype noir villainesses from classic Hollywood cinema. Next week,…
Spotlight: Mamma Mia! – Cinema’s most maniacal matriarchs (part 2)
As a continuation to our cover feature on Maniacal Matriarchs in Issue 7 of The Big Picture magazine, Emma Simmonds…
Fatal Attraction Part 2: The French Connection
In the concluding part of a two-part piece on cinema’s wicked, wanton women, Emma Simmonds shifts the focus to four…
In Bloom: Black & White and Colour in Collaboration
Dotted throughout cinematic history are films which boldly combine black and white with colour, occasionally within the same frame. An aesthetically…
