Charlotte Crofts

Only 3 sleeps until Cary Comes Home screening of Penny Serenade!

Guests will be provided with a pack of Cary Grant tissues - it's a 3-hankie tearjerker so you're gonna need them! 💦💧

Part of @bfi #TooMuch melodrama season.

Bristol Megascreen, Anchor Rd, Sat 29 Nov, doors 6pm hdfst.uk/e139428

Archie Leach left Bristol. ⏩ Cary Grant came home.

Celebrate Bristol’s most charming export with Penny Serenade
📅 Sat 29 Nov | 📍 Bristol Megascreen
Doors 6pm | Film 6.30pm

Vintage vinyl, live choir & panel exploring music & melodrama.

A night for dreamers, cinephiles & music lovers. 🎶

Join Cary Comes Home & Show Of Strength Theatre for a cinematic stroll through the streets of Bristol, hometown of Hollywood legend Cary Grant. Discover landmarks, stories, and old-school glamour that shaped his journey from Horfield to Hollywood.

Starts 2pm Millennium Sq
Tickets: hdfst.uk/e135030

Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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Fantastic end to a very busy day with my students picking up the best sci-fi short for WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. Thank you @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social for inspiring the next generation of genre filmmakers! 💪🔥

Next up... slight whiplash to Jawsploitation and Orca back at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social!

Then on to Bath Theatre Royal to catch North By Northwest, the new stage adaptation of Hitchcock's classic film, by Wise Children. Rip-roaring fun, great 1950s music, dance, costumes & imaginative stage-craft - loved Mount Rushmore, the cornfield & use of revolving doors! Well done Emma Rice & team!

Two excited people in front of a screen!

Kicked off this morning with an amazing Q&A with Gale Anne Hurd in conversation with @markbould. Really enjoyed hearing about the woman behind some of my favourite female action heroes. 💪

Revival of Bristol’s ‘forgotten’ Imax cinema revealed on the big screen The Big Picture, the story of the venue’s renaissance as a grassroots community space, will premiere this month

Privileged to be featured in The Big Picture (dir. Arthur Cauty) – a new documentary tracing the history & reawakening of the former Bristol IMAX – taking about the Cary Comes Home Festival & Bristol's vibrant screen heritage (and also quoted in The Guardian!: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...)

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Screen Conference 2025 - Video Essay Curation Discussion The curators of a video essay selection for the 2025 Screen Conference at University of Glasgow discuss their choices. The conference theme is "returns'…

Yay, my video essay, Love Affairs To Remember has been selected as one of ten audiovisual essays on the theme of "returns" to be screened at Screen conference in Glasgow next week: screenstudiesconference.com/audio-visual.... Huge thanks @kathleenloock.bsky.social for including! vimeo.com/1088666423

Its started....

Interior of the former Bristol IMX now Bristol Megascreen, shot from the rear overlooking a packed audience agog as The Big Picture is being introduced at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2025

Privilege to be in the room & on screen with so many wonderful cineastes celebrating Bristol's film culture at the world premiere of The Big Picture at Bristol Megascreen, documenting the former IMAX's history & the gang of idealists who have brought it back to life! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social

So exciting!

Thanks for wonderful evening with Walter Murch, such a privilege to meet him. What a legend! @andrewkelly.bsky.social

Happy birthday Ange! Born on this day in 1940, British novelist Angela Carter #BOTD one of my research crushes... love this photo of her from Vogue 1975, including a fab article exploring fashion "at the hinge of the decade". Gawd knows what she would make of 2025.

Brilliant day today hearing inspiring presentations at our symposium on gender and ageing! The conversation continues tomorrow 4 May, at our Psycho Biddies and Hagsploitation double bill, The Nanny and X at Bristol Megascreen, from 12.30pm. Tickets via Headfirst Bristol @20thcflicks.bsky.social

My first major project in Bristol was creating the IMAX and what was then At-Bristol. It was a time of great optimism in Bristol, which also included work on a new concert hall - The Harbourside Centre. Can we have these days back again please.

Looking forward very much to seeing The Big Picture.

Back to back Cary Grant is always good!!

The symposium is followed by a special screening of All About Eve at 18:00 at @wshed.bsky.social introduced by Estella Tincknell, UWE Visiting Fellow and former Associate Professor in Film and Culture

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The symposium includes an exhibition of photographs and video by Dr Vicky Hodgson: “Look at Me, I’m 73 – and Beautiful!” part of our symposium on Ageing and Gender on Screen on 3 May Book now!
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Our Keynote speaker — Dr Josephine Dolan: The Silvering of Stardom: The Gender Binary and Privileged Masculinity

Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...

This double bill follows our symposium, Psychobiddies, Harpies & Hags: Interrogating Ageing & Gender on Screen on Sat 3 May at Watershed, 11:00-18:00

Keynote — Dr Josephine Dolan; Panel: Dr Hannah Hamad, Dr Deborah Jermyn, Dr Belen Vidal and Estella Tincknell.
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🎬 Watch Mia Goth in American slasher film, X (dir. Ti West, 2022), set in 1979, it follows a cast & crew making a pornographic film on in rural Texas, threatened by a homicidal elderly couple. Join us at Bristol Megascreen on Sun 4 May! £7 per film or £10 for the double bill go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill

🎬 Bette Davis stars as a devoted but mentally-ill nanny caring for a 10yr-old boy recently discharged from a home for disturbed children, in British psychological horror, The Nanny (dir. Seth Holt, 1965) Sun 4 May at Bristol Megascreen £7 per film or £10 for the double bill go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill

The symposium is followed by a special screening of All About Eve at 18:00 at @wshed.bsky.social introduced by Estella Tincknell, UWE Visiting Fellow and former Associate Professor in Film and Culture

www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...

The symposium includes an exhibition of photographs and video by Dr Vicky Hodgson: “Look at Me, I’m 73 – and Beautiful!” part of our symposium on Ageing and Gender on Screen on 3 May Book now!
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...

Here's the Psychobiddies, Harpies & Hags: Interrogating Ageing & Gender on Screen symposium schedule - there are still a few places left, but you need to book by 2 May! go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...

Our Keynote speaker — Dr Josephine Dolan: The Silvering of Stardom: The Gender Binary and Privileged Masculinity

Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...