I was brought up in Yorkshire and still live here (I just got lucky, I guess...) but even I have a problem with the Barnsley accents in Ken Loach's masterpiece, Kes. Thank God for subtitles and online Yorkshire dialect translators. Billy Caspar is a 15-year-old youth who is due to leave school soon. He is …
I often think about my love of cinema, where it began and the influences on it, both film-based and what was going on around me. I was born in February 1975. My arrival into the world coincides with the day on which Stephen Murphy, the BBFC's secretary, first saw a new independent film called The …
I'm loving going through the Yorkshire Evening Post's archives to reveal the ads used to publicise a film's release. I fondly remember seeing these as a kid- little glimpses into a film's grittiness and sleaziness when I was too young to actually see the film. The other day I stumbled upon the original ads …
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