GalleryFilm has screened the first 2 films of The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray to a sell out audience. We were incredibly lucky to persuade Andrew Robinson, Ray’s friend, biographer and world authority on his […]
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My Life as a Male Amazon Pirate
I notice that GalleryFilm are showing the 1974 film of Swallows and Amazons. I have always loved Arthur Ransome’s series of books – to excess, probably. They certainly influenced my life.
GalleryFilm Christmas family treat - Swallows and Amazons
* Sunday 5 December at 3.45pm at Dulwich Picture Gallery
* Free juice and popcorn
* Free raffle prize - book of ‘Swallows and Amazons’
Rollicking family fun set in the inter wars years is provided by 1974’s SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS, as national treasure Virginia MacKenna (Born Free) takes her two boys and two girls off to the Lake District for their summer holiday.
GalleryFilm’s Christmas treat – It’s a Wonderful Life
It’s that time of year when IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946, certificate U, 130 mins) comes round again for its traditional Christmas slot. But now offering a timely exploration of the differences between good and […]
Xmas Giveaway – DOV’s Chwistmas Tweet
Apu in Venice
Book of a lifetime: ‘Our Films Their Films’ by Satyajit Ray
“I think what Hollywood really needs is a good bombing”, the ebullient French film director Jean Renoir told the would-be director Satyajit Ray in Calcutta in 1949, when Renoir came to Bengal from Hollywood in search of locations for his Indian film, ‘The River’.
By Andrew Robinson, friend and biographer of Satyajit Ray.
