It's not had any publicity so far (compared to the main Meltdown event), but we've just heard that Ray Davies is actually doing his own Flipside event with the BFI, chatting onstage and showing some films. The first of those events is The Meltdown Observer Talk: Ray Davies & Julien […]
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Reviewed: Deep End (1970)
An obscure late 60s gem has been restored ready for a cinema screening and a DVD/Blu-ray release – Deep End. It's a 'coming-of-age' comedy set (bizarrely) in a swimming baths, as well as the streets of London at the fag end of the sixties, with Mike (John Moulder-Brown) besotted with […]
Joanna (1968) gets BFI / Flipside release
The second of the releases from BFI and Flipside for April is Joanna, shown last year on the big screen by Flipside and reviewed by us over at Cinedelica when it was on that big screen. 17-year-old Joanna (Genevieve Waite) is cool, stylish, and determined to start a new life […]
BFI / Flipside release Lunch Hour (1962)
Details of the new releases from the BFI offshoot Flipside have landed, with Lunch Hour being the first of the new releases for April. Based on a John Mortimer play, Lunch Hour, from 1962, stars Shirley Anne Field (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) as a young designer on the brink […]
The Jokers at the NFT reviewed
We flagged up a screening of The Flipside presents The Jokers – and if you missed it, luckily for you, the Scenester didn't – he went along to review the event. Back in 1967, Michael Winner wasn't an annoying food critic and car insurance salesman, he was producing interesting Brit […]
Brighton Rock + Q&A at NFT
Ahead of the full cinema release, there's a preview in January of the remake of Brighton Rock in London. Of course, its a new adaptation of the Graham Green tale, this time set in the 1960s and amongst the mods of the era. Is it as good as the Boulting […]
Private Road at NFT reviewed
Everyone knows about Bronco Bullfrog, but what you might not know is that the same writer/director (Barney Platts-Mills) has other movies in his back catalogue, including Private Road. The Scenester went to see it at the NFT, a rare screening of this 1971 flick and a chance to meet the […]
Mulberry Bush – DVD/Blu-ray details
We said it was coming, now we have full details of the BFI's DVD and Blu-ray release of Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush. According to the BFI, this 1968 coming of age cult classic is released on 13th September 2010, with the first-time disc release offered 'fully uncut […]
