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Articles by Steve O'Brien

Raiders of the Lost Archive

21 January 2019 Steve O'Brien 6

❉ In this digital TV age, where choice is supposedly everywhere, why is old TV so hard to find? Steve O’Brien investigates.

Looking Back on ‘Grange Hill’

16 May 2017 Steve O'Brien 1

❉ Birthed in the wake of punk, Grange Hill spanned three full decades.

‘North by Northwest’: The first Bond movie

18 December 2016 Steve O'Brien 1

❉ How Hitchcock accidentally created the template for the modern action movie.

A forbidden love: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Lolita’

21 November 2016 Steve O'Brien 0

❉ “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” The story of how Stanley Kubrick brought Nabokov’s controversial novel to the big screen.

Kicking against the pricks: The British New Wave

5 October 2016 Steve O'Brien 0

❉ How the cinematic left-hook of the British New Wave created a cultural earthquake, with its raw, brutal realism.

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