The Birds Eye View Sound and Silents Retrospective this year features three delightful blonde and boisterous stars. Kelly Robinson, BEV retrospective programmer, gives her insights into these actresses and the flaxen-haired characters they play. The Musicians: Patti Plinko, Gwyneth Herbert and Jane Gardner, who will be putting their own spin on the films with specially commissioned original scores, tell us how it’s going and what their personal take is. Read the full story
The blondes who feature in the Birds Eye ViewSound & Silents series and the Blonde Crazy Retrospective demonstrate the complexity of the images and personality traits that have been attributed to blondes from the earliest days of cinema. Like her fellow feminine filmic staples –the showgirl and the femme fatale – the blonde can be unfairly dismissed as a predictable set of conventions and relegated to the role of one-dimensional spectacle.
Sally Potter: the First British Female Director to Have a Full Career Retrospective at the BFI
At the end of Orlando, Sally Potter’s celebrated adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando (Tilda Swinton) finds herself in The Present. She revisits the Great House in which she grew up as a young (male) Tudor courtier and which she lost when she changed sex to female in the eighteenth century. The house is now a National Trust property and Orlando, suited and booted in androgynous chocolate brown biking leathers, is surrounded by Japanese tourists as she regards a portrait of herself as a young man. Read the full story
This little rehearsal video just came through from The Monroe Transfer who are performing live to Pandora’s Box on Wed 11 March 6pm at the BFI Southbank.
This is just a very small glimpse of the amazing musical talent that will be accompanying the classic silent film starring iconic Louise Brooks.
There a just a few tickets left now so hurry if you want to see this unique event!
Now, have we got some ultra lush pictures for you! We are completely in love with these beautiful photos of Bishi, shot by very cool, very talented photography duo Mishkin.
Bishi will be performing live with Neil Kaczor at the Vamp film screening of Salome on Saturday 7th March 5.30pm. Immodesty Blaize will be there to introduce. This event is going to sizzle!
To see the photos in their gorgeous entirety, click to read the full story!
The Broken Hearts - “A Hollywood musical on hallucinogenics” (The Independent) - will be offering live musical accompaniment and a healthy dose of performance for the Vamp film A Fool There Was next Monday 9th Mar 6pm at the BFI Southbank. They also host a radio show on Q Radio every Sunday evening amongst other things (which include launching a fashion collection with Beyond The Valley, making songs, music videos for those songs, plus films about the circus…).
This week the theme on the show was “Silent Movies” and their special guest was none other than Bishi, the award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ, who is also providing live music for one of the Vamp films in the festival - Salome. Adding to this, every week on The Broken Hearts radio show they have a section called Sartorial Memorial - the Fabulous Fashions of the Dearly Departed and this week they chose Theda Bara, star of A Fool There Was. Here is an extract: Read the full story
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The Broken Hearts - “A Hollywood musical on hallucinogenics” (The Independent) - will be offering live musical accompaniment and a healthy dose of performance for the Vamp film A Fool There Was next 