Previews of forthcoming events and reviews of past events.
It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of July 2013. This month, as well as the conclusion of the celebration of Doctor Who, which for some reason ends with the seventh Doctor’s Remembrance of the Daleks…
…there’s a preview of the second series of Toy Boy, as well as a season of TV programmes about film.
It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of June 2013. This month, as well as the continuing celebration of Doctor Who, which reaches the Colin Baker years with The Two Doctors…
…there’s the second half of a season of Tony Garnett’s work, and previews of Top of the Lake and Quirke.
It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of May 2013. This month, as well as the continuing celebration of Doctor Who, which reaches the Peter Davison years with The Caves of Androzani…
…there’s a Missing Believed Wiped special and the first half of a season of Tony Garnett’s work, that’s partly a Ken Loach season and which also includes Roland Joffé’s directorial debut, The Spongers, which I will arbitrarily declare this week’s Wednesday Play (on Thursday). Set during the 1977 Jubilee celebrations, Jim Allen’s script focuses on the plight of Pauline as she struggles to make ends meet. With a searing contemporary relevance, the film shows the human cost of decisions made by bureaucratic committees as council budgets are put under increasing pressure. Christine Hargreaves’ performance is devastating as we see the full impact of these decision on her children. One of the most important plays of the 70s, it still speaks loudly to our conscience today. Don’t forget to watch it at the BFI if you like it!
It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of April 2013 (as well a bit more March as well). This month, as well as the continuing celebration of Doctor Who, which reaches the Tom Baker years with Robots of Death, there’s a short season of Jacobean tragedies, including a panel with Dame Diana Rigg, and a season of documentaries and plays made by John Boorman for the BBC.
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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