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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 31

Fantastic end to a very busy day with my students picking up the best sci-fi short for WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. Thank you @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social for inspiring the next generation of genre filmmakers! 💪🔥

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 31

Next up... slight whiplash to Jawsploitation and Orca back at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social!

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 31

Then on to Bath Theatre Royal to catch North By Northwest, the new stage adaptation of Hitchcock's classic film, by Wise Children. Rip-roaring fun, great 1950s music, dance, costumes & imaginative stage-craft - loved Mount Rushmore, the cornfield & use of revolving doors! Well done Emma Rice & team!

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 31

Kicked off this morning with an amazing Q&A with Gale Anne Hurd in conversation with @markbould. Really enjoyed hearing about the woman behind some of my favourite female action heroes. 💪

Two excited people in front of a screen!

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 30

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 30

Privileged to be featured in The Big Picture (dir. Arthur Cauty) – a new documentary tracing the history & reawakening of the former Bristol IMAX – taking about the Cary Comes Home Festival & Bristol's vibrant screen heritage (and also quoted in The Guardian!: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...)

Revival of Bristol’s ‘forgotten’ Imax cinema revealed on the big screen

The Big Picture, the story of the venue’s renaissance as a grassroots community space, will premiere this month

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 30

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 30

Yay, my video essay, Love Affairs To Remember has been selected as one of ten audiovisual essays on the theme of "returns" to be screened at Screen conference in Glasgow next week: screenstudiesconference.com/audio-visual.... Huge thanks @kathleenloock.bsky.social for including! vimeo.com/1088666423

Screen Conference 2025 - Video Essay Curation Discussion

The curators of a video essay selection for the 2025 Screen Conference at University of Glasgow discuss their choices. The conference theme is "returns'…

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 29

Its started....

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 29

Privilege to be in the room & on screen with so many wonderful cineastes celebrating Bristol's film culture at the world premiere of The Big Picture at Bristol Megascreen, documenting the former IMAX's history & the gang of idealists who have brought it back to life! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social

Interior of the former Bristol IMX now Bristol Megascreen, shot from the rear overlooking a packed audience agog as The Big Picture is being introduced at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2025

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 29

So exciting!

Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · May 28

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks for wonderful evening with Walter Murch, such a privilege to meet him. What a legend! @andrewkelly.bsky.social

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 7

Happy birthday Ange! Born on this day in 1940, British novelist Angela Carter #BOTD one of my research crushes... love this photo of her from Vogue 1975, including a fab article exploring fashion "at the hinge of the decade". Gawd knows what she would make of 2025.

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · May 3

Brilliant day today hearing inspiring presentations at our symposium on gender and ageing! The conversation continues tomorrow 4 May, at our Psycho Biddies and Hagsploitation double bill, The Nanny and X at Bristol Megascreen, from 12.30pm. Tickets via Headfirst Bristol @20thcflicks.bsky.social

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Andrew Kelly @andrewkelly.bsky.social · Apr 29

My first major project in Bristol was creating the IMAX and what was then At-Bristol. It was a time of great optimism in Bristol, which also included work on a new concert hall - The Harbourside Centre. Can we have these days back again please.

Looking forward very much to seeing The Big Picture.

Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · Apr 29

Did you know that Bristol has an IMAX that lay abandoned for over a decade?

Watch the World Premiere of Arthur Cauty's The Big Picture on the opening night (28 May) of this year's Forbidden Worlds Film Festival.

www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk

#Bristol #IMAX #FilmSky #70mm

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 27

Back to back Cary Grant is always good!!

Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · Apr 27

Got into THE TALK OF THE TOWN by the skin of my teeth, which means I ended up with the back-to-back Cary Grant I’d hoped for. #TCMFF

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

The symposium is followed by a special screening of All About Eve at 18:00 at @wshed.bsky.social introduced by Estella Tincknell, UWE Visiting Fellow and former Associate Professor in Film and Culture

www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

The symposium includes an exhibition of photographs and video by Dr Vicky Hodgson: “Look at Me, I’m 73 – and Beautiful!” part of our symposium on Ageing and Gender on Screen on 3 May Book now!
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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our Keynote speaker — Dr Josephine Dolan: The Silvering of Stardom: The Gender Binary and Privileged Masculinity

Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

This double bill follows our symposium, Psychobiddies, Harpies & Hags: Interrogating Ageing & Gender on Screen on Sat 3 May at Watershed, 11:00-18:00

Keynote — Dr Josephine Dolan; Panel: Dr Hannah Hamad, Dr Deborah Jermyn, Dr Belen Vidal and Estella Tincknell.
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Ageing and Gender on Screen | University of West of England

A one-day symposium. Confirmed speakers include Josie Dolan, Hannah Hamad, Vicky Hodgson, Deborah Jermyn, Estella Tincknell and Belen Vidal. Followed by a

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

🎬 Watch Mia Goth in American slasher film, X (dir. Ti West, 2022), set in 1979, it follows a cast & crew making a pornographic film on in rural Texas, threatened by a homicidal elderly couple. Join us at Bristol Megascreen on Sun 4 May! £7 per film or £10 for the double bill go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

🎬 Bette Davis stars as a devoted but mentally-ill nanny caring for a 10yr-old boy recently discharged from a home for disturbed children, in British psychological horror, The Nanny (dir. Seth Holt, 1965) Sun 4 May at Bristol Megascreen £7 per film or £10 for the double bill go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

The symposium is followed by a special screening of All About Eve at 18:00 at @wshed.bsky.social introduced by Estella Tincknell, UWE Visiting Fellow and former Associate Professor in Film and Culture

www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...

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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social · Apr 25

The symposium includes an exhibition of photographs and video by Dr Vicky Hodgson: “Look at Me, I’m 73 – and Beautiful!” part of our symposium on Ageing and Gender on Screen on 3 May Book now!
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...

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