George Cromack

ONLINE FILM COURSES for Summer Term - Mon & Tues afternoons each course running for 5 weeks - April/May/June 5 Gems of Classic Hollywood 5 Classic Screwball Comedies 5 Wonders of Italian Cinema 5 Wonders of 21st Cent International Cinema - cromackgeorge@hotmail.com

Clerks (1994) is the next Moviedrome screening @thesjt #scarborough at the end of the month (yes, like buses - miss April so you get two in May... sjt.uk.com/events/moviedr…

Count Drago invites unassuming guests to his castle. Little do they know he mummifies animals... and humans! #ChristopherLee stars in CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD (1964) 11:55pm with #DonaldSutherland horror #TPTVsubtitles

Tonight’s Moviedrome screening in Scarborough of Sunset Boulevard (1950), documented timeless exploitation. Intense acting by silent screen goddess Gloria Swanson had an air of the ridiculous & with dark satire on vanity, amorality & self-delusion made it iconic. Bravo @MadBasil.

Brazil. 1985 / Terry Gilliam

Bob Odenkirk on Franc Roddam's 'Quadrophenia' (1979): "'Quadrophenia' (1979) is a movie that used all that French filmmaking coming out of the New Wave, but it’s a British film. Using the music of 'The Who' to tell the story of a youth who is rebelling, but he doesn’t know what he’s rebelling against. And it’s kind of got just an incredible vibe." ("Bob Odenkirk’s Closet Picks", Criterion, 2026)

Children's eco-folk horror serial RAVEN (1977), written by Children of the Stones' Trevor Ray and Jeremy Burnham. Phil Daniels plays a borstal boy (and reincarnation of King Arthur) who fights to stop nuclear waste from being dumped on the site of an ancient cave system...

Sunset Boulevard (1950) is next week's (May 1st) Moviedrome Screening @thesjt #scarborough - sjt.uk.com/events/moviedr…

Dementia Friendly intro duties for this one tomorrow - chocks away old boy sjt.uk.com/events/dementi…

#OnThisDay 15 April 1988 #TerryWogan begins WOGAN with a tribute to #KennethWilliams, whose death had been announced earlier that day.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) takes what the first film softened and leans back into the darker core, especially through Henry and Pretorius, finally letting Victor feel like the real monster, even with the Hays Code holding it back.

Michael Powell on the similarities between the two serial ki!!ers in 'Peeping Tom' (1960) & Fritz Lang's 'M' (1931): "I have often thought that my own compassion for the ki!!er in the film 'Peeping Tom' (1960) echoes Fritz Lang's for the wretched little man in his film. I was half confirmed in this the other day when somebody who knows both films remarked upon the physical likeness between Peter Lorre and Karl Bohm. There is no physical likeness between these two great actors, but in both cases the hand of the potter has slipped, and through no fault of their own both young men are driven to ki!! and ki!! and ki!!. And it is their calm acceptance of the curse upon them which disturbs people, and especially critics, who find themselves unable to praise or blame, so choose to blame. In my case I was hounded out of Wardour Street and Pinewood Studios and had to seek my fortune elsewhere. I seem to remember that there was an outcry against Fritz Lang when 'M' was first exhibited in England; but he was a foreigner and a German, so it died down." ('A Life in Movies', Michael Powell, 1986) P.S: On this day, 66 years ago, "Peeping Tom" (1960) premiered in London, UK.

Coming Soon! Channel Premiere! Monday 13th April, 9:05pm. PLAY FOR TODAY: THE FLIPSIDE OF DOMINIC HYDE (1980) starring #PeterFirth #CarolineLangrishe #PippaGuard #PatrickMagee #DenisLawson time travelling drama #TPTVsubtitles

#Scarborough #Film Studies - starting again from Monday April 13th 7-9pm @thesjt - 'Mixed Doubles' is the theme a selection of 5 film pairs over 10 sessions - each pair sharing either the same director, theme, remake from same source - cromackgeorge@hotmail.com for more info

'THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH [1964] was Corman’s audacious attempt to make an art film for the drive-in crowd — a feast of roistering revelry with intimations of Buñuel, Fellini and Bergman.' ~Film scholar J. Hoberman Dir. #BOTD #RogerCorman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024)

Steptoe & Son - The Desperate Hours (3rd April 1972). The final episode of series seven featured fine guest performances from Leonard Rossiter and J.G. Devlin.

Is this the worst film ever made? Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958), streaming now on #BFIPlayer

On this day in 1977, the final episode of The Talons of Weng Chiang was broadcast.

The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973 dir. Victor Erice) (Cinematography by Luis Cuadrado)