November 23, 2010
Here’s Mark Kermode catching up on the issue I highlighted a while back. I surprise myself sometimes about how cross I still get about this; looks like Kermode is about to get vexed about it: The debate is in the comments over at Kermode’s post and he has a habit of following up so watch [...]
June 15, 2009
I thought I’d leave a week until I blogged about last Monday’s ‘Cinematic Backwater‘ debate which kicked off the excellent Fazeley Digital Festival. I thought maybe I’d calm down in the interim, that the underlying issue of ‘does it matter that Norwich get cool films before Birmingham?’ would vex me less. Suffice to say I’m [...]
May 16, 2009
(Trailer for Synecdoche, New York. I want to see this NOW) First some nostalgia: I’ve been a Birmingham cinema-goer for a long time. Get me drunk enough and I’ll bore you to within an inch of your life by listing the films I’ve seen in cinemas now long gone. From The Towering Inferno in the [...]
June 23, 2008
[Update - December 2012: I was sad to read that Peter Walsh, who featured in the video below, has passed away. Not only was Peter really helpful to us at the time we were making the video, allowing us access to all areas of the Triangle buildings, but through his programming of the Triangle Cinema [...]