This is fabulous news! New Yorkers, prepare for the magic to begin.

Because women are actually really bloody funny, I'll have you know... FANTASTIC upcoming season The Garden Cinema that I'm delighted to be involved with: thegardencinema.co.uk/season/women-a…

Dorothy Arzner is coming to Sussex. Delighted to be introducing this screening of DANCE, GIRL, DANCE at Chichester Cinema at New Park in Chichester on 18 May chichestercinema.org/film/dance-gir…

We have a fabulous new blog on our website from stipend holder artist and writer Cathy Lomax . Cathy looks at the presentation of female stars such as Faye Dunaway, Tuesday Weld and Elizabeth Taylor in the new Hollywood era bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/selling-f…

The cast + crew of Lewis Milestone's much underrated #precode classic Rain (1932); see the new restoration at the UK Premiere Bristol Aquarium, #Bristol on Sat 11th May, 12PM. We're screening it on the biggest screen in the south west in fact: ti.to/film-noir-uk/j…

It's Powell and Pressburger season again – thanks Martin Scorsese! I am introing these screenings of BLACK NARCISSUS at Riverside Studios on 19 and 20 May riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/bla…

New column in THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER about the origins of MGM 100 years ago. Bonus appearance from friend and LB Mayer relative Alicia Mayer. So many great photos to share!

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#hollywood #history #mgm #movies The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood ReporterArchives Erik Hayden

I wrote about Baldwin's knotty relationship with Hollywood and his incredible memoir/criticism in The Devil Finds Work which is the inspiration for a new cinema season at the Barbican theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

Desolate melodrama There’s Always Tomorrow, directed by Douglas Sirk ( #botd ), offers a happy ending in which everything is fine and no one is happy, writes Guy Lodge buff.ly/3UxgCSk

As the Gene Tierney season wraps up BFI Southbank next week, we added a couple more screenings this weekend: WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS on Sat 27 April & LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN on Sun 28 April whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…

The brilliant Pamela Hutchinson introducing a special screening of The Artist as part of our Theatre Royal Plymouth & Plymouth Arts Cinema collaboration celebrating silent cinema in anticipation of our stage adaptation. We're so excited for McOnie Company to share this timeless story with the world.

Any journalist or researcher, but especially those who are freelance/don't have expensive institutional access, will tell you how invaluable archive.org is.

This is tomorrow!

To round off Aga Baranowska's fantastic Gene Tierney season BFI Southbank, I'm introducing Night and the City at 6.10 30 April. Delighted that I'll be joined by the families of Herbert Lom, Googie Withers and James Hayter.

Frank Borzage The New Yorker and Notebook, Ken Loach New York Times Arts, David Fincher Los Angeles Times, “The Life and Death of Hollywood” Harper's Magazine, video stores and film clubs Guardian Film …

Did You See This? criterion.com/current/posts/…

delighted to report on all the film-on-film happenings around the UK for The Guardian / The Guardianfilm! theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

Cannes will kick off with a snowball fight…

Delighted that the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation restoration of #PowellAndPressburger 's THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) has its North American premiere @TCM #TCMFF tonight filmfestival.tcm.com/programs/films… The film reunited BLACK NARCISSUS stars Kathleen Byron and David Farrar. 1/3

I will be introducing the screening of THE ARTIST at Plymouth Arts Cinema next Thursday. With pleasure! plymouthartscinema.org/whats-on/the-a…