We took a breather from the awards treadmill this week, and found time to celebrate a record-breaking year for British cinemas
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Perhaps it wasn't as trumpeted as much as it might have been, but we were heartened to hear that the British box-office appears to be in rude health, and, according to statistics released by the British Film Institute, topped £1bn for the first time last year. Of course, we all know about how cinema does well out of economic and social crisis, but still it's good to see that our homegrown films were part of the success story. (Let's see David Cameron try and take credit for that.) The King's Speech and The Inbetweeners Movie played a big part in boosting the British independent-producer sector, even if Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, British in content, if not in finance, was the year's actual winner,...
The big story
Perhaps it wasn't as trumpeted as much as it might have been, but we were heartened to hear that the British box-office appears to be in rude health, and, according to statistics released by the British Film Institute, topped £1bn for the first time last year. Of course, we all know about how cinema does well out of economic and social crisis, but still it's good to see that our homegrown films were part of the success story. (Let's see David Cameron try and take credit for that.) The King's Speech and The Inbetweeners Movie played a big part in boosting the British independent-producer sector, even if Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, British in content, if not in finance, was the year's actual winner,...
- 2/2/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The acclaimed, eccentric director of Women in Love and The Devils died this week, prompting tributes from the press and former colleagues
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Ken Russell died this week, leaving behind a body of work that shocked and surprised, teased and titillated. He was, said Xan Brooks in our early news story a man of "wild drama, gaudy conflagrations and operatic flourishes", a "juggler of high and low culture who invariably courted controversy".
Russell's career path - from his documentary work for the 1960s BBC series Monitor, to the short films he made at home in later years - was hard to map. His most infamous and innovative works - The Devils, Altered States - flashed by in the wake of semi-hits Women in Love (which won him an Oscar in 1971) and Tommy. He was, said friends an "iconoclast" (Venessa Redgrave). "Fearless, eccentric and silly" (Melvyn Bragg). "Capable of...
The big story
Ken Russell died this week, leaving behind a body of work that shocked and surprised, teased and titillated. He was, said Xan Brooks in our early news story a man of "wild drama, gaudy conflagrations and operatic flourishes", a "juggler of high and low culture who invariably courted controversy".
Russell's career path - from his documentary work for the 1960s BBC series Monitor, to the short films he made at home in later years - was hard to map. His most infamous and innovative works - The Devils, Altered States - flashed by in the wake of semi-hits Women in Love (which won him an Oscar in 1971) and Tommy. He was, said friends an "iconoclast" (Venessa Redgrave). "Fearless, eccentric and silly" (Melvyn Bragg). "Capable of...
- 12/1/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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