Mamoun will be taking part in a discussion with Terry Davies following a screening of Terry’s first film, CHILDREN, which…
Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City is the first great epic of Italian Neorealism. Seventy years on, the movement still survives.…
The great Alexander Mackendrick said that drama is about life ‘with the boring bits left out’. Yasujiro Ozu saw it…
According to the lists of 10 and 100 best films the world is a small place consisting primarily of the…
Mamoun is delighted to have been invited by David Somerset, the education curator of the British Film Institute, to introduce…
I landed in Beirut with my wife and young family on 19 April 1974 to take up my appointment as…
I was saddened to hear of the death of Gabriel García Márquez this week. I spent a memorable couple of hours…
Mamoun made one of his regular visits to the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark, to deliver masterclasses and his…
Dominic Power, Head of Screen Arts at the National Film and Television School, invited me to provide an introduction to Antonioni’s…
Join me in March at the National Film Theatre, London to see two outstanding Italian films which knock the stuffing…