The Almost Doctors
❉ As Capaldi prepares to exit the TARDIS, spare a thought for the Doctors that could have been.
LINDSAY ANDERSON
We Are Cult dig Buried Treasure
❉ Martin Ruddock excavates cult label Buried Treasure’s hidden gems.
Abel Gance’s ‘Napoleon’ (1927)
❉ “Cinema like this must be FELT as well as witnessed.” We report back from the BFI’s exclusive media preview of the restoration of Abel Gance’s silent epic, out this month.
Kicking against the pricks: The British New Wave
❉ How the cinematic left-hook of the British New Wave created a cultural earthquake, with its raw, brutal realism.