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What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2013

6 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Mind of Evil

Now that the BFI has finally sorted out my membership, I can once again say that it’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of March 2013. This month, as well as the continuing celebration of Doctor Who, which reaches the Pertwee years and a colour-restored version of The Mind of Evil, there’s a short season of TV programmes featuring monologues by the likes of Bernard Cribbins, Tom Baker and Alan Bennett, who’ll be there in person, a documentary on The Wizard of Oz, and a Flipside looking back at how the underground scene of the 1960s was depicted on TV.

Groovy.

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How the bloody hell does the BFI’s membership thing work?

11 September 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

You may or may not – probably not – have noticed that I haven’t been doing the BFI TV round up for the last few months. There’s a simple reason for this: I haven’t been getting the screening brochure. There’s a simple reason for this, too: the BFI’s online membership management scheme is a sucky usability nightmare.

So, to be helpful to to the BFI and save it money, you can choose not to have certain mailings sent to you. And here’s what I chose.

BFI membership screen

What do you think that means? Does that to suggest that by ticking the boxes you’re opting out of something or does that mean you’re going to keep getting the stuff you tick?

I went for option b and the result is no brochures. And this morning I got this.

BFI brochure

So that’s definitely confirmed. If you’re a BFI member, you need to tick an option to opt out of the mailing. I’ve now swapped over the options and fingers-crossed, I’ll be able to restart the What’s On at the BFI feature again.

PS There’s no online help and no one replied to my email asking, in case you’re wondering why it’s taken so long to find out. I suppose I could have Tweeted them or something…

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What TV’s on at the BFI in June 2012

3 May 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Diana Rigg as Klytemnestra

Time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of June 2012. Not a huge amount but what there is is cracking.

As well as a 1962 production of The Winter’s Tale with Robert Shaw, Rosalie Crutchley, Ron Moody and Patrick Macnee, there’s an illustrated lecture on TV’s depiction of women in the workplace by Dr Rachel Moseley of Warwick University, and – Δευς! – it’s a season of Greek tragedies on TV, including that famous 1962 production of Elektra that ITV aired in Greek without subtitles, as well as Oedipus Tyrannus with Patrick Stewart, Ronald Radd and Rosalie Crutchley (again), Agamemnon with Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg, Peter Hall’s The Oresteia with David Bamber, and Iphigenia at Aulis with Roy Marsden and Fiona Shaw.

I’m going to be bankrupt before the end of the month, aren’t I?

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Competition: Win tickets to the BFI’s Peter Terson season

30 April 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Fishing Party

As you may recall, the BFI is running a season of Peter Terson plays next month. The playwright and television screenwriter wrote some of the most deeply human and talked about dramas of the 1960s and 70s, including The Fishing Party and its sequels. The May BFI write-up has more details, and here’s a playlist of some of his plays:

Well now, you lucky people, the BFI and I are offering you the chance to win two tickets to the screening of your choice. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post before 5th May (that’s Friday). I’ll let you all know who’s won afterwards.