News - British Film Institute
More than 850 hours of archive film will be available to view at Derby's Quad arts centre as the city plays host to the first Mediatheque outside of London.
By TOBY YOUNG Culture Pauline Kael, the late film critic of The New Yorker, must be spinning in her grave. In her 1971 review of Dirty Harry (pictured), she described Clint Eastwood as a walking advertisement for fascism.
By GEOFFREY MACNAB Who decides what we watch? And who can really sell a movie? GEOFFREY MACNAB gives a rundown of British cinema's top movers and shakers Contrary to its reputation, Britain is a film-loving nation. A little number-crunching underlines the fact.
By MIKE CHAPPLE LIVERPOOL-BORN director Terence Davies's new film about his home city is taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm after receiving rave reviews from the assembled world's press out there.
By Ian Burrell INTERVIEW GREG DYKE The former director-general of the BBC tells Ian Burrell about his new role as chairman of the British Film Institute, as well as explaining where ITV and the BBC are going wrong, and how Brentford FC can beat anyone, given a fair wind Rain clouds gather and storm winds howl, but Greg Dyke is sheltered indoors, no longer the noble King Lear of the media business, rudely cast out on to the heath to rage about base betrayals in the dark corridors of power ("I am a man more sinned against than sinning." Act III, scene ii).
