Posted 04 Sep 2026 by Abla Kan in

The year is 1993. The BBC cameras haven’t arrived yet. A hundred thousand people are in a Somerset field, completely unobserved, completely themselves. Shot in Panavision CinemaScope, Glastonbury The Movie captured the real festival, not the headline acts, but the stone circle at sunrise, the rave tents, the wandering poets, The Verve at their very first festival appearance. No voiceover. No presenter. Just Glastonbury, as it was. Now digitally restored for the big screen, thirty years on.

Director Robin Mahoney shares hilarious anecdotes from behind the scenes and discusses his journey making the film with host Sam Tyler, creator of the Sonic Fields Podcast.

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Posted 26 Feb 2026 by Abla Kan in

Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop curator Keith Lodwick discusses the multi-award winning Merchant Ivory classic with the Fashion Film Club founder Sarah Bailey.

This adaptation brings the novel by E.M. Forster to dazzling life in the Florentine countryside and in the well-appointed homes of the English Edwardian upper classes. A comedy of manners with a quick wit and impeccable comic timing, A Room With A View is also a portrait of the quiet solitude that lies beneath Forster’s characters, and of the need for human connection in a world of rigid convention.

The young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch (played by Helena Bonham Carter), arrives in Florence on a Baedecker-style grand tour with her aunt Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith). Through a series of events involving English expatriates Miss Eleanor Lavish, an unflappable novelist (Judi Dench), and the Emersons, a free-thinking father and son (played by Denholm Elliot and Julian Sands), Lucy’s life is changed forever under a loggia in Florence and in the Tuscan countryside. (Merchant Ivory)

Curator of Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop at The Fashion and Textile Museum, London (until March 8th), Keith Lodwick is an expert on costume in Merchant Ivory films. A writer, curator and historian, Lodwick was formerly Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts at the V&A.

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Posted 27 Nov 2025 by Abla Kan in

Ken Loach’s longtime collaborator Rebecca O’Brien joins Gareth Evans for a discussion following Sweet Sixteen, showing as part of Ken Loach: A Retrospective at the Garden Cinema.

This is also available as a podcast, if you prefer to listen on the go:

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