Pamela Hutchinson

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Features

How to build an archive: inside the early years of the BFI’s National Film Library

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the BFI’s National Film Library, now called the National Archive, we explore the first decade of the library’s existence and the impact that World War II had on its work.

By Pamela Hutchinson

How to build an archive: inside the early years of the BFI’s National Film Library

Festivals

Celluloid celebration: the BFI Film on Film Festival 2025

By Pamela Hutchinson

Celluloid celebration: the BFI Film on Film Festival 2025

10 great

10 great films of 1925

By Pamela Hutchinson

10 great films of 1925

Reviews

Sleep #2: Radu Jude visits Andy Warhol’s grave for a meditative study of posthumous celebrity

By Pamela Hutchinson

Sleep #2: Radu Jude visits Andy Warhol’s grave for a meditative study of posthumous celebrity

Reviews

Eight Postcards from Utopia: Radu Jude’s twisted TV guide to Romanian history

By Pamela Hutchinson

Eight Postcards from Utopia: Radu Jude’s twisted TV guide to Romanian history

10 great

10 great films of 1924

By Pamela Hutchinson

10 great films of 1924

Features

5 things to know about The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ravishing film about a dancer

By Pamela Hutchinson

5 things to know about The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ravishing film about a dancer

Features

Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece

By Pamela Hutchinson

Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece

Reviews

The Old Oak: Ken Loach’s final cinematic statement is a stark portrait of a divided UK

By Pamela Hutchinson

The Old Oak: Ken Loach’s final cinematic statement is a stark portrait of a divided UK

Reviews

Greatest Days: Take That musical nails that awkward adolescent longing for pop-mag pin-ups

By Pamela Hutchinson

Greatest Days: Take That musical nails that awkward adolescent longing for pop-mag pin-ups

Talkies

The long take: domestic disaster movies

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: domestic disaster movies

Talkies

The long take: cinema’s cries for help

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: cinema’s cries for help

10 great

10 great films of 1923

By Pamela Hutchinson

10 great films of 1923

Talkies

The long take: misrepresentation in perpetuity

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: misrepresentation in perpetuity

Talkies

The long take: a memorial to the dead, bursting with life

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: a memorial to the dead, bursting with life

Features

Recap: British cinema in 2022

By Pamela Hutchinson

Recap: British cinema in 2022

Talkies

The long take: Norma Talmadge

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: Norma Talmadge

Talkies

The long take: slow technology and fast action

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: slow technology and fast action

Festivals

Empire of Light: a disappointing off-season excursion

By Pamela Hutchinson

Empire of Light: a disappointing off-season excursion

Talkies

The long take: Kathy Burke

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: Kathy Burke

From the Sight and Sound archive

Always be yourself: the making of Ingrid Bergman

By Pamela Hutchinson

Always be yourself: the making of Ingrid Bergman

Talkies

The long take: filmic fragility

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: filmic fragility

Talkies

The long take: a Kyiv symphony

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: a Kyiv symphony

Reviews

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: all the bed’s a stage

By Pamela Hutchinson

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande: all the bed’s a stage

Talkies

The long take: Titanic efforts

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: Titanic efforts

Talkies

The long take: The feminine West

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: The feminine West

Reviews

Writing with Fire: an inspirational fly-on-the-wall documentary about a newspaper run entirely by Dalit women

By Pamela Hutchinson

Writing with Fire: an inspirational fly-on-the-wall documentary about a newspaper run entirely by Dalit women

Talkies

The long take: Veggie tales

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: Veggie tales

Talkies

The long take: Great footage

By Pamela Hutchinson

The long take: Great footage

Best of 2021

2021: the year in archive cinema

By Pamela Hutchinson

2021: the year in archive cinema