Claudia 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...

Such fantastic opportunities to research in an amazing collection.

My pick of radio and podcasts of the week.

Happily Amazon now has the correct back cover for my book Let Me Dream Again, with generous recommendations from Nick Hornby, @pamhutch.bsky.social and @illuminations.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...

9/7/51: Peter Lorre's The Lost One, only film he directed Thrilled to see new @filmsradiance.bsky.social SE, incl interview w/ @pamhutch.bsky.social More: Canby: www.nytimes.com/1984/08/01/m... DVD Beaver: www.dvdbeaver.com/film12/blu-r... @cuttothetake.bsky.social: cuttothetake.com/the-lost-one...

Charlie Kaufman @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy + @thr.com, @filmfan82.bsky.social on 90s queer cinema, Alice Diop @anothermag.com, RIEFENSTAHL @ 4Columns + @nytimes.com, Zeinabu irene Davis @letterboxd.social … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

If ever you thought, “Why don’t I book myself a weekend away by the sea, watch lots of Ida Lupino and Stanley Kubrick thrillers and learn how to plan the perfect heist?” Film Noir Fest is for you.

“Going to the pictures is nothing to be ashamed of.” A first for me – I have presented a Radio 4 documentary on the pioneering curator and critic Iris Barry, founder of the world’s first film archive. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

To celebrate the UK paperback release of Not Your China Doll, my biography of film star Anna May Wong, I’m giving away two copies! Here’s how to enter: 1) Subscribe to my newsletter Half-Caste Woman: halfcastewoman.substack.com 2) Comment on my most recent post by Friday, Sept. 5: bit.ly/464TtuU

On Anna May Wong for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Celebrating publication of this fabulous @edinburghup.bsky.social volume edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail. I wrote about legendary Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune, naturally.

The Queen ascends her throne tonight at La Biennale in Venice! The beautiful new poster is by Lauren Caddick. The new orchestral score is by Eli Denson. Queen Kelly is dedicated to the memory of Donald Krim, who started Dennis on his film journey 40 years ago.

My talk on Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune is online on YouTube now www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYle...

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

fascinating presentation on the legendary film critic CA Lejeune by the great @pamhutch.bsky.social !! Happening now! 🎞️✒️

Grab your spaghetti and your tennis racket. I am introducing a couple of the screenings in this joyous Jack Lemmon strand at Bradford's Widescreen Weekend next month. See you there! www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/wides...

If you are not watching this newly restored 1969 documentary about Greta Garbo, introduced by Joan Crawford, right now, you are missing out. Catch up on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🎬 THIS FRIDAY — Step into the golden age of British film criticism with the fierce, funny women who wrote it into history! For the next installment of Online with SFFP — our free monthly virtual series — join film critic Pamela Hutchinson for a lively talk on C. A. 1/3

I promised myself that I'd only post on here if I had something to say, and I think this counts: I'm thrilled to share news of my forthcoming book, "The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films". Out 12 Feb UK/17 Feb US via Laurence King Pre-order! linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark

“This new restoration, and its red-carpet premiere in Venice, may just be everything that Swanson dreamed of for her lovechild Queen Kelly.” — @pamhutch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

I wrote a brief note about QUEEN KELLY, which will play Venice FF this year in a brilliant new “reimagining” from @milestonefilms.bsky.social

We had the pleasure of showing a pair of newly-restored Anglo/German silents starring Anna May Wong: Song (1928) & Pavement Butterfly (1929) presented by @pamhutch.bsky.social Here’s a chance to catch them again at #BFISouthbank in London + a whole selection of other titles & talks…

This is a beautiful, rare and briliant bit of radio. Quite unlike anything you’ve heard in an age. Gift yourself an hour in its company. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o... #WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials

And here's... Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain - in hardback and more-or-less affordable paperback, scheduled for 8 January 2026: www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Rays-L...

I am giving a free online lecture on CA Lejeune (Of Observer and Manchester Guardian fame) and her fellow British female film critics – a really impressive and fascinating group of people.

I'll be in Bristol for @cineredis.bsky.social this weekend! Intro'ing 2 x magical Marxist feminist musical THE GOLD DIGGERS. Fill ur eyes w Julie Christie 🤩 Sat 26 July, 11 am, @wshed.bsky.social Sun 27 July, 1 pm, Curzon Clevedon (come at 12 for cinema tour!) www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

A bit self-serving to share @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social's defense of the humble arts review, but then again, he articulates why I persist with a practice that often feels esoteric at best, inessential at worst. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

For once, Lunch with the FT is with someone truly inspiring and heroic. You might, if you can get through the tears, think that David Nott deserves rather more than seabass and chips in Sloane Square on us, but it's a start. (Link free 300x) on.ft.com/410ARdR

BOTD Barbara Stanwyck! MCCT5: 5)Lady Eve 4)Sorry Wong # 3)40 Guns 2)Thelma Jordan 1)Double Indemnity [History must note: supported HUAC More @pamhutch.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2019/ja... @cinemelo.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/great-a... Molly: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Having far too much fun writing the intro for @cineredis.bsky.social screening of 1973's THEMROC (thanks @filmsradiance.bsky.social). Don't miss Michel Piccoli's towering performance in this anarchic satire, or the chance to watch this riotous film with a crowd www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1336...

Films seem to have been announced for the GE retrospective: www.locarnofestival.ch/festival/fil...

I also wrote an essay on the marvellous film critic C.A. Lejeune for this book on Film Critics and British Film Culture, edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail, which will be out next month from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-film-cr...

Some work posts from me on British cinema related projects

“This isn’t just about nostalgia — it’s about survival: Blu-rays are freedom in the face of digital control.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/m...

“The US war on libraries is being exported” observer.co.uk/news/interna...

New curated collection by me over on BFI Replay, tracing the changing face of 'the cinema' as a cultural and architectural icon over the last 100 years, from grand picture palaces to sticky-floored multiplexes. Find it at your local library. 🍿

In my latest academic publication I propse to supplement the concept of dated film (Jamie Baron), which encompasses cultural and aesthetic datedness, by ideological datedness. Films of the Soviet period now constitute our “new cinema”. 1/2 #academicbluesky culturecrossroads.lv/index.php/cc...

Michelan­ge­lo Antonioni’s Milanese mar­i­tal dra­ma uses sleek, geo­met­ric com­po­si­tions to reflect the mod­ernist cou­ple and the city at its centre

Welcome to Bristol in July. Don't miss @cineredis.bsky.social

Such a treat talking trousers and tropical diseases on the Katharine Hepburn episode!

“It liberated our form of storytelling and offered something really human and deeply revealing about the characters. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of giving choreographers the pen for a moment to write the story.” www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Feminist cinephilic pilgrimage!!! 🥔✂️ @pamhutch.bsky.social

Pamela Hutchinson previews the Film on Film Festival, which includes a rare showing of an original print of Star Wars, among other treasures + the S&S team pick their most anticipated screenings of the festival www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

To mark the release of BALLERINA: a short thread of ballet-related moments in films that are not about ballet. First up, TOP SECRET! (1984)

📢 🎬The first update on our 5th annual Il Cinema Ritrovato Spreadsheet Scheduler - the full programme in a spreadsheet with a personal scheduling tool! Details and FAQs on how to access and use: www.repcinema.com/post/il-cine... #IlCinemaRitrovato #Bologna #cinemaritrovato

Thrilled to say that I will be at Bristol's festival of archive cinema @cineredis.bsky.social this year, introducing some fantastic films. First, Zeinabu irene Davis’ stunning COMPENSATION (1999) www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1333...

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