Pamela Hutchinson

Anton Walbrook and Ludmila Tcherina during the filming of 'The Red Shoes' at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, France, June, 1947

“Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam”

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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Very special to be part of the upcoming Laura Mulvey Symposium with many esteemed friends! Join us on Saturday 22nd Nov at the BFI for a day of talks — @erikaaaa.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social and I will be rounding off the afternoon with a panel on curation and criticism💡

It’s a #FilmNoir Joan Crawford day for us. See you all at #Bristol Megascreen from 12pm for a special double bill of Mildred Pierce (1945) + Johnny Guitar (1964) (both the recent 4K restorations). Thanks to @filmhubsw.bsky.social and @20thcflicks.bsky.social #Melodrama tickets: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Thanks for coming!

Thank you! Hope you enjoy the film.

So glad you liked it. Such a beauty of a film, and Stephen’s score is gorgeous.

Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) (BFI Film Classics) Amazon.com: Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) (BFI Film Classics): 9781838719760: Hutchinson, Pamela: Books

I don't often do this, but if you go to see PANDORA'S BOX and you like it (which you will), why not buy my book, all about the film, and Pabst and of course Louise Brooks? www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Box...

The GW Pabst retrospective at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social looks incredible. All of these films are fascinating. www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

cannot stress enough how GREAT this film is

Superior – and very similar. Frances Marion key here.

I do too. You will also love this – trust me!

If you love the Stanwyck version you will ADORE this one. Take two handkerchieves, and put your mum on speed-dial

Must-see melodrama alert. Next Sunday, one of the best films in the BFI Melodrama season, the silent 1925 STELLA DALLAS, screens in NFT1 with the incredible orchestral score by Stephen Horne – who also introduces the screening. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Just arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue!

If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more!

Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

BBC Arts - Inside Cinema, Shorts, Cosy Cinema Cosy up as we unravel one of cinema's most pointedly-used garments: the humble jumper.

Wisdom here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

They are showing a few Mason films actually!

The Wicked Lady (PG) + discussion — James Mason and Margaret Lockwood stand and deliver one of the great British melodramas. James Mason and Margaret Lockwood stand and deliver one of the great British melodramas.

Melodrama! But with dastardly crimes attached. I will be at HOME in Manchester to host a post-film discussion for this screening of THE WICKED LADY (1945) on 6 December homemcr.org/whats-on/the...

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Strangely enough I did know that.

Online with SFFP—C. A. Lejeune and Britain’s Lady Film Critics - San Francisco Film Preserve In 1922, with a weekly column in the Manchester Guardian, C. A. Lejeune became one of Britain’s first lay film critics, and began to define what that could mean. Soon, […]

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Yes just before her! She started in 1922z

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Tease:

PLAYING THE VAMP - Cinecity ILLUSTRATED TALK FROM PAMELA HUTCHINSON  The vamp is seductive, dangerous and aloof. An urban criminal whose weapons are dark eyes ringed with liner and a...

A different definition of melodrama but I will be giving a short lecture on silent cinema's iconic vamps at Fabrica in Brighton, also as part of CINECITY www.cine-city.co.uk/event/playin...

Melodramatic events in Manchester and London yet to be announced but please do launder your best handkerchiefs in readiness.

I will also be joining what looks like an incredible panel on the queer legacy of Hollywood melodrama following a screening of ALL ABOUT EVE on 8 November at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social www.glasgowfilm.org/whats-the-te...

The Magnificent Ambersons + introduction Orson Welles’ second feature chronicles the fall of a wealthy Indianapolis family during the American industrialisation boom of the early 20th century. Isabel Amberson’s spoiled son stands in the way ...

I will be introducing Orson Welles' wonderful THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social on 9 November www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/the-ma...

Rebecca + Gaslight double bill - Cinecity A double bill of classic psychological thrillers, exploring love and obsession.  REBECCA: Hitchcock’s Daphne Du Maurier adaptation was his first film in Hollywood after leaving...

The BFI Melodrama season will be keeping me busy over the coming weeks. I may be in a cinema near you! For example, I am introducing a 1940 double-bill of REBECCA and the British GASLIGHT in Brighton for CINECITY on 16 November @attenboroughac.bsky.social www.cine-city.co.uk/event/rebecc...