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2025: A Year in Film

12 Monday Jan 2026

Posted by marina72 in Film, Non-Fiction, Television

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2025, A Year in Films and TV, Barbara Loden, BFI, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Brian Murphy, Chase Infiniti, Cheers, Claudia Cardinale, Close Your Eyes, Corsica, David Lynch, Diane Ladd, Eka Chavleishvili, Elena Gorfinkel, Elene Naveriani, Film Noir, From Hilde With Love, Gene Hackman, George and Mildred, George Wendt, Georgia, Germany, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Hard Truths, Hilde Coppi, India, Iran, It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi, Joana Santos, Josh O'Connor, Julien Colonna, Kathy Burke, Kelly Reichardt, Laura Carreira, Liv Lisa Fries, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Scorsese, Mayukh Sen, Merle Oberon, Mike Leigh, Nina Mae McKinney, Norman Eshley, On Falling, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Picturehouse, Portugal, Prunella Scales, Rebekah Del Rio, Robert Redford, Sandhya Suri, Santosh, Saveriu Santucci, Scotland, Shahana Goswami, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Steven Cohan, Terence Stamp, The Kingdom, The Mastermind, The New Hollywood, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Erice, Wanda

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, newcomer Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall – this screwball odyssey affirms director Paul Thomas Anderson as America’s millennial auteur. Continue reading →

There’s No Business Like Show Business

08 Friday Jun 2018

Posted by marina72 in Fashion and Beauty, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Music

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A Man Chases a Girl (Until She Catches Him), After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It), Brighton, Cinemascope, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Duke of York's Brighton, Ethel Merman, Heat Wave, Irving Berlin, Jacqueline Rose, Joe DiMaggio, Johnnie Ray, Lazy, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Picturehouse, Susan Strasberg, The Seven Year Itch, There's No Business Like Show Business, Travilla, Twentieth Century Fox, Walter Lang, You'd Be Surprised

On June 1st – exactly ninety-two years after Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in the charity ward of Los Angeles General Hospital – her 1954 movie, There’s No Business Like Show Business, was screened at the Duke of York’s Cinema in Brighton, and will be shown at selected Picturehouse venues throughout June. The first musical made in CinemaScope (a pioneering widescreen technology developed by Twentieth Century Fox to combat the threat of television), it was also one of the last Technicolour musicals made under the studio system model of Hollywood’s golden age.  Continue reading →

How to Marry a Millionaire

08 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by marina72 in Brighton, Fashion and Beauty, Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Betty Grable, Brighton, Cinemascope, David Wayne, Duke of York's Brighton, How to Marry a Millionaire, Jean Negulesco, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Nunnally Johnson, Picturehouse, Travilla

On a crisp Friday morning in the first week of January, I joined a handful of people at the Duke of York’s in Brighton – England’s oldest independent cinema – for a screening of How to Marry a Millionaire. It’s part of a regular series of classic movies aimed at an older audience, with tea and biscuits served beforehand, and a fifteen-minute interval – although I think it’s fair to say they could use some promotion. (Classic movie fans, please note: Millionaire is showing at Picturehouse cinemas across the UK throughout January, and looking further ahead, There’s No Business Like Show Business is scheduled for June.) Continue reading →

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