Introduction to ‘Rome Open City’ – 9th February at BFI Southbank

Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City is the first great epic of Italian Neorealism. Seventy years on, the movement still survives.…

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Some of the Palestinians

I landed in Beirut with my wife and young family on 19 April 1974 to take up my appointment as…

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National Film Theatre – Ealing Films Season

Mamoun will be introducing the screening of  The Maggie directed by Alexander Mackendrick at the National Film Theatre NFT1 on…

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