Feb 16, 2010 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
Marion Davies in The Patsy
The Birds Eye View Sound and Silents Retrospective this year features three delightful blonde and boisterous stars. Kelly Robinson, BEV retrospective programmer, gives her insights into these actresses and the flaxen-haired characters they play. The Musicians: Patti Plinko, Gwyneth Herbert and Jane Gardner, who will be putting their own spin on the films with specially commissioned original scores, tell us how it’s going and what their personal take is. Read the full story
Feb 16, 2010 | No Comments | ByBirds Eye View
By Lucy Bolton
Marilyn Monroe stars in Gentleman Prefer Blondes
The blondes who feature in the Birds Eye View Sound & Silents series and the Blonde Crazy Retrospective demonstrate the complexity of the images and personality traits that have been attributed to blondes from the earliest days of cinema. Like her fellow feminine filmic staples –the showgirl and the femme fatale – the blonde can be unfairly dismissed as a predictable set of conventions and relegated to the role of one-dimensional spectacle.
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Feb 16, 2010 | No Comments | ByClare Callan
Kim Longinotto
‘Film-making saved my life’
Fantastic article in the Guardian on Friday on Kim Longinotto and her film Rough Aunties which is screening as part of our Festival at ICA Cinema 1, March 7, 2.30pm & ICA Cinema 2, March 9, 6.15pm. The Screening is partnership with Branchage Film festival
If you missed it click here. To get tickets and see the rest of our inspiring 2010 Docs programme click here.
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