It is 400 years since Shakespeare died and, as part of the festivities, Ian McKellen is spearheading a selection of Shakespearean films at the BFI in London that will tour 110 countries, including Cuba, Iraq, Russia and the US, in the most extensive film programme ever undertaken.
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is a fast-paced film about the real life kidnapping of one of Amsterdam's richest men in the early 1980's.
F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that, back in 1920, he'd tried to persuade DW Griffith that the film industry was a wonderful subject for the cinema. Griffith laughed at the idea, but not for the first time Fitzgerald was proved right.
It is 1959, and Alfred Hitchcock, just coming off the success of North by Northwest, is eager to start a new film. He chooses to film a novel called Psycho, loosely based on a real-life murder. He has more trouble than he expects, as shown in the new film Hitchcock.
It is 400 years since Shakespeare died and, as part of the festivities, Ian McKellen is spearheading a selection of Shakespearean films at the BFI in London that will tour 110 countries, including Cuba, Iraq, Russia and the US, in the most extensive film programme ever undertaken.
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is a fast-paced film about the real life kidnapping of one of Amsterdam's richest men in the early 1980's.
F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that, back in 1920, he'd tried to persuade DW Griffith that the film industry was a wonderful subject for the cinema. Griffith laughed at the idea, but not for the first time Fitzgerald was proved right.
