BFI Film Classics/BFI Modern Classics: Search and Destroy

LOL, so you're saying I should literally tear through it with a knife?

Oh right ... he's the guy who puts Exorcist and Mary Poppins on his BFI ballot: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/344

god he is like the bbc's 'film person' even though he is pretty much third rate provincial eng lit lecturer with passable tv skills and seems to have no knowledge of anything except imdb staples and a bit of 50-80s 'cult'/horror

his segment about stalker with geoff dyer was some sort of nadir

Love that this book has had three editions already.

http://wa3.cdn.3news.co.nz/3news/AM/0-Articles/234646/iran-flag.jpg?width=460

tho' i pretty much agree w/ Nilmar, have to say that Kermode's Exorcist bk is p gd as a production history of the film, and obv benefits from the access he enjoyed to friedkin, blatty etc

Absolutely love the Durgnat book.

To be read alongside this piece on Jancso's Red Psalm.

Only just now found out they're releasing a whole bunch of horror-related monographs later this fall (strangely one week too late for Halloween): http://us.macmillan.com/series/BFIFilmClassics

No one mentioned Night of the Hunter?

They're tying these horror-related titles into a larger BFI 'Gothic' season which incorporates UK-wide screenings, dvds, talks etc etc. Newman's Cat People has been issued before, and I think the Caligari one as well. Def want to read Frayling's The Innocents - his commentary track on the BFI Region 2 DVD of the movie might be the best I've ever heard.

Its the kind of tip I live for so I'll give it: Londoners should know that quite a few of these are going at 3 quid a pop at the BFI shop.

London Live (Freeview channel 8)
Saturday 18th July 2015

19:00 - 19:15
BFI London: Festival in London
Record of the 1951 South Bank Exhibition and the Battersea Pleasure Gardens.

19:15 - 19:30
BFI London: The Fairy of the Phone
Musical comedy based on instructions given in the London telephone directory.

19:30 - 19:45
BFI London: Nice Time
Impressions of Piccadilly Circus on a Saturday night in 1957.

19:45 - 20:00
BFI London: London Can Take It!
London Can Take It! is the most renowned cinematic representation of the resilient heroism of ordinary Londoners during the early days of the Blitz.

(same channel has been showing ealing b-movies as matinees. http://www.londonlive.co.uk/schedule/category/films )