What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy to find out what programming the Warwick Arts Centre cinema, a three screens-cinema, based on a university campus but also serving a local and regional audience, involves. Who is the audience and how to build new ones is part of the conversation. We touch on Flatpack, the MAC, the Mockingbird, Square-Eye TV, Lock Studios, Steven Knight, the Forward Film Festival. James tells me about licenses and knowing who holds the rights to a film, which is sometimes confusing while underlining he is uninterested in gate-keeping, actively seeking collaborations and stressing the importance of getting the word out
We spend a considerable time discussing the exciting new programme: there will be live opera and theatre projections; BFI funded seasons; the opportunity of seeing films financed by Netflix on a big screen. Programmes to look out for are the Silent Cinema screenings with live accompaniment, the melodrama season, Richard Dyer speaking on Brief Encounter, and more.
Each year there’s an over-arching theme across the whole of the Arts Centre. This year the focus is on care. The film programme component is called is ‘Handle with Car,’ with a substrand on Cozy Classics, which will involve screening a classic film once a month. There will be tea and biscuits – feel free to BYOB (Blanket not Booze) -- an opportunity for people to get together and see things on a big screen. The Arts Centre will also be bringing its 35mm projector back into action for November screening of Cinema Paradiso. Part of another strand of the Care programme is ‘Care Behind the Scenes,’ co-programmed with Dr. Alice Pember and Dr. Julie Lobalzo-Wright, which will also have workshops as well as screenings (e.g. intimacy co-ordination’).
The Programme will include Accessible and Inclusive screenings as well as Audio-Description (for first time at the Art Centre) and there will be some workshops attached to this strand as well.
James stresses that the programming also takes on board an exploration of the local and the national with focus on independent and locally made cinema and with filmmakers holding Q&A’s when possible.
It all looks very exciting.
Check out the programme here:
https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/
José Arroyo
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What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy to find out what programming the Warwick Arts Centre cinema, a three screens-cinema, based on a university campus but also serving a local and regional audience, involves. Who is the audience and how to build new ones is part of the conversation. We touch on Flatpack, the MAC, the Mockingbird, Square-Eye TV, Lock Studios, Steven Knight, the Forward Film Festival. James tells me about licenses and knowing who holds the rights to a film, which is sometimes confusing while underlining he is uninterested in gate-keeping, actively seeking collaborations and stressing the importance of getting the word out
We spend a considerable time discussing the exciting new programme: there will be live opera and theatre projections; BFI funded seasons; the opportunity of seeing films financed by Netflix on a big screen. Programmes to look out for are the Silent Cinema screenings with live accompaniment, the melodrama season, Richard Dyer speaking on Brief Encounter, and more.
Each year there’s an over-arching theme across the whole of the Arts Centre. This year the focus is on care. The film programme component is called is ‘Handle with Car,’ with a substrand on Cozy Classics, which will involve screening a classic film once a month. There will be tea and biscuits – feel free to BYOB (Blanket not Booze) -- an opportunity for people to get together and see things on a big screen. The Arts Centre will also be bringing its 35mm projector back into action for November screening of Cinema Paradiso. Part of another strand of the Care programme is ‘Care Behind the Scenes,’ co-programmed with Dr. Alice Pember and Dr. Julie Lobalzo-Wright, which will also have workshops as well as screenings (e.g. intimacy co-ordination’).
The Programme will include Accessible and Inclusive screenings as well as Audio-Description (for first time at the Art Centre) and there will be some workshops attached to this strand as well.
James stresses that the programming also takes on board an exploration of the local and the national with focus on independent and locally made cinema and with filmmakers holding Q&A’s when possible.
It all looks very exciting.
Check out the programme here:
https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/
José Arroyo
Thinking Aloud About Film: Ritrovato Round-Up 2025 with Pamela Hutchinson
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Thinking Aloud About Film: Ritrovato Round-Up 2025 with Pamela Hutchinson
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/02/thinking-aloud-about-film-ritrovato-round-up-2025-with-pamela-hutchinson/
For this year’s Ritrovato Round-Up we are joined by the witty, incisive and all-around fabulous Pamela Hutchinson, editor of the Silent London website, author of two marvellous BFI Classic monographs (The Red Shoes, Pandora's Box), producer of the Weekly Film Bulletin for Sight and Sound and one of the jurors for Ritrovato's DVD Awards since 2018.
In the discussion that follows we touch on all the strands of the festival, praise Cecilia Cenciarelli for her programming, Mariann Lewinsky for her illuminating introductions and Ehsan Khoshbakht for his superb programme notes on Lewis Milestone. We touch on the Willi Forst and Nordic Noir programmes, so popular José couldn't get into any of them. We have a lively debate on Molly Haskell's Hepburn programme, agree on our love of Naruse, discuss how Comencini's Delitto de amore highlights issues of class and made us want to see more Comencini films and delight in the early cinema and silent cinema strands. Sumitra Peries' Gehenu Lamai (The Girls) is a film we all adored. We touch on memorable experiences, such as watching Coline Serrault introduce Trois hommes et un couffin at the Piazza Maggiore, or the incredible response to Chaplin's The Gold Rush, the impact of Silvana Mangano in Bitter Rice, the intensity of the colour in Duel in the Sun, or the spontaneous applause for Shirley MacLaine in Artists and Models.
First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film
What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy to find out what programming the Warwick Arts Centre cinema, a three screens-cinema, based on a university campus but also serving a local and regional audience, involves. Who is the audience and how to build new ones is part of the conversation. We touch on Flatpack, the MAC, the Mockingbird, Square-Eye TV, Lock Studios, Steven Knight, the Forward Film Festival. James tells me about licenses and knowing who holds the rights to a film, which is sometimes confusing while underlining he is uninterested in gate-keeping, actively seeking collaborations and stressing the importance of getting the word out
We spend a considerable time discussing the exciting new programme: there will be live opera and theatre projections; BFI funded seasons; the opportunity of seeing films financed by Netflix on a big screen. Programmes to look out for are the Silent Cinema screenings with live accompaniment, the melodrama season, Richard Dyer speaking on Brief Encounter, and more.
Each year there’s an over-arching theme across the whole of the Arts Centre. This year the focus is on care. The film programme component is called is ‘Handle with Car,’ with a substrand on Cozy Classics, which will involve screening a classic film once a month. There will be tea and biscuits – feel free to BYOB (Blanket not Booze) -- an opportunity for people to get together and see things on a big screen. The Arts Centre will also be bringing its 35mm projector back into action for November screening of Cinema Paradiso. Part of another strand of the Care programme is ‘Care Behind the Scenes,’ co-programmed with Dr. Alice Pember and Dr. Julie Lobalzo-Wright, which will also have workshops as well as screenings (e.g. intimacy co-ordination’).
The Programme will include Accessible and Inclusive screenings as well as Audio-Description (for first time at the Art Centre) and there will be some workshops attached to this strand as well.
James stresses that the programming also takes on board an exploration of the local and the national with focus on independent and locally made cinema and with filmmakers holding Q&A’s when possible.
It all looks very exciting.
Check out the programme here:
https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/cinema/
José Arroyo
