Norwich-based film and media prof. Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
Melanie Williams
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One of the more unlikely artists to appear on the Motown label. From 1977, Albert Finney's Album.
Another BFI archival bit from me, this time on Pressburger, pre-Powell
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In memory and honor of the sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, who, in 1960, published the essay in which he coined the term cinéma-vérité and co-directed, with Jean Rouch, the film—Chronicle of a Summer—that showed what he had in mind. He passed away yesterday, at age 104.
HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️
Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped
#bestfilminlondontoday May 27 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social intros 35mm screening of neo-realist influenced TURN THE KEY SOFTLY (1953) in great British Post-War cinema season at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/05/capi...
Had a fab time intro-ing this at Magdalen College, Oxford, on Sunday: The Seventh Veil, starring Ann Todd, James Mason, and a gorgeous floofy cat
James Mason at the weekend, Joan Collins tomorrow - I am a most fortunate person whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
This is the pass that Emeric Pressburger – later half of Powell and Pressburger – used to access the screening theatre at Germany’s biggest film studio, just before he fled Berlin in the early 1930s.
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Turn the Key Softly (Lee, 1953): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.15pm This 35mm screening, introduced by Professor Melanie Williams, is part of the ...
7km of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
#bestfilminlondontoday May 27 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social intros 35mm screening of neo-realist influenced TURN THE KEY SOFTLY (1953) in great British Post-War cinema season at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/05/capi...
Turn the Key Softly (Lee, 1953): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.15pm This 35mm screening, introduced by Professor Melanie Williams, is part of the ...
