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James Bell

  • Senior Curator and Editor, BFI
London
As seen in: BFI, MSN, Pew Research Center, Audible Blog, Sight & Sound, EIN News, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Gamepur, BookBub, A Luxury Travel Blog, PublicSource and
Senior Curator of Fiction @BFI National Archive. Formerly of @sightsoundmag. Editor of BFI Compendium series. Programmer of BFI Southbank ‘Deep Focus’ seasons
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Inside the Archive #74: Nitrate Screenings, a Preservation Seminar, and Asexual Screen Histories

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By Sonia Genaitay, James Bell, Thom Walker
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This June saw the Nitrate Picture Show (NPS) safely blow out its tenth birthday candles at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. As a unique festival in which all the films are projected from highly flammable cellulose nitrate prints, it pays to have caution with the naked flame. Sourcing, inspecting, preparing, and screening 35 pre-1951 film prints, one of which was over a century old, over four days is no mean feat.
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Tony Rayns

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By Tony Rayns, Sound archiveOzu Yasujiro, James Bell
| BFI
From the Sight and Sound archive Gang feuds, a troubled teenage romance and political paranoia in 1960 Taiwan are mixed in Edward Yang's extraordinary epic A Brighter Summer Day. Tony Rayns recalls visiting the set and reflects on Yang's achievement in this 1993 feature.
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Somerville: Historic Family Farm Stands Tall Against Dominion Energy in New Documentary on TheAmericanTable.org

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By James Bell
| EIN News
Somerville: Historic Family Farm Stands Tall Against Dominion Energy in New Documentary on TheAmericanTable.org Dominion Energy Electric Tower Grove Family - Somerville Virginia Experience the true “David vs. Goliath” saga as the Grove family battles corp energy to save their historic Virginia farm — streaming now- TheAmericanTable.org Somerville is as much about hope as it is about conflict—viewers will see why these stories matter for the soul of the country.
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