The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on Caroline Golum’s Revelations of Divine Love (USA, 2025): “Revelations of Divine Love is a wonderfully handcrafted and stylized film. It reminds me of the best of early theater—or even community theater. People come together with no money and use […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate filmi superstar Shashi Kapoor’s birthday! “No mere Merchant and Ivory for us: we’re going much further afield with Siddhartha (1972), based on the Herman Hesse novel and directed by American Conrad […]
There’s a full documentary on horror in 1968 that you can enjoy on BBC Archive right now! It includes interviews with Christopher Lee, Barbara Steele, Terry Nation, Screaming Lord Sutch and Ray Harryhausen. “Many people enjoy being scared and will happily pay for the pleasure of being frightened […]
The BBC Archive has a clip of Tolkien talking about The Lord Of The Rings. “JRR Tolkien speaks to John Ezard about his extraordinarily popular Lord of the Rings series of fantasy novels. The author touches upon their genesis and themes, his fondness for invented languages – and […]
It’s a 1972 BBC Radio adaptation of Rudolf Besier’s “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” with Dorothy Tutin and Elizabeth Barrett and Jeremy Brett as Robert Browning! You can listen here.
BBC Archive has a look at very early television! “A survey of BBC television production during the first six months since its official launch in 1936. Introduced by Leslie Mitchell, Jasmine Bligh and Elizabeth Cowell. Programme excerpts include: artist John Piper reviewing the work of Thomas Gainsborough, Pablo […]