Example sentences of "the british film [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joan Schofield divorced Price in 1950 , and the British film recession brought a sharp decline in his popularity . |
| 2 | I actually invited him when I was Director of the British Film Academy to come to London erm and with the help erm of Brian Coe of Kodak we actually reconstructed about thirty seconds of this two-colour process erm and put it on a screen for our filmmaker colleagues in London . |
| 3 | Some recent research undertaken at the British Film Institute for a documentary on the history of black people and television has unearthed an interesting fact . |
| 4 | The Festival hosts the regional launch of the British Film Institute 's 1991 New Directors programme ( September 21 , 6.30pm , MAC Cinema ) . |
| 5 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 6 | Writers Fay Weldon and Marina Warner and Colin MacCabe , the former head of production at the British Film Institute , were among witnesses appearing before the Video Appeals Committee , called to examine a decision by the British Board of Film Classification to refuse a release certificate to ‘ Visions of Ecstasy ’ . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , a good many books about the cinema published today are pretty inaccurate and fairly useless , but two which are not are The British Film Institute 's Companion to the Western , edited by Ed Buscombe ( Andre Deutsch ) and Alain Silver ; and Elizabeth Ward 's Film Noir ( Bloomsbury ) . |
| 8 | With the advent of affordable and easy to use video equipment in the early eighties , community access workshops burgeoned , and local authorities and education authorities were added to the Regional Arts Association and the British Film Institute as sources of funding . |
| 9 | The British Film Institute and the various arts associations are showing an increasing reluctance to take risks with what funds they have left . |
| 10 | In principle we can all agree that the British Film Institute 's New Directors scheme , which funds short films by new talent , is a Good Thing . |
| 11 | Dressed in a pearly gown , the Princess deputised for Charles at the British Film Institute awards because he was double booked . |
| 12 | EVERY YEAR the British Film Institute issues a package of British short films by up-and-coming movie-makers , giving you a chance to read for the first time the credits you 'll be seeing on Channel 4 in the next couple of years . |
| 13 | Moreover , there is a wealth of experience among the specialized libraries represented in the Aslib Audio-Visual Group , including such distinguished collections as the Slade Film History Register , the BBC Film Library , the British Film Institute , the Imperial War Museum , the British Institute of Recorded Sound , the BBC Record Library , and many others . |
| 14 | And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area . |
| 15 | Wayward Girls and Wicked Women will be available from the British Film Institute from November |
| 16 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 17 | A long time member of the Scottish Arts Council , George also served on the Arts Council of Great Britain and on the board of the British Film Institute — his down-to-earth assessments of proposals not always going down well at meetings of these organisations in London . |
| 18 | Now I remember it was about oh twenty years ago that Rachel Low , the daughter of celebrated cartoonist , and I , we were both on the staff of the British Film Institute then , erm decided we would write the early history of British film . |
| 19 | The British film Genevieve ( 1953 ) was unusually piquant for the time because the old car 's destination was tacitly acknowledged to be a ‘ dirty weekend ’ in Brighton . |
| 20 | Sydney Samuelson , the British Film Commissioner , whose father opened a cinema in Southport in 1910 , said his association with the industry had been so long that he remembered receiving a letter signed Wil Napoleon asking how to become an extra . |
| 21 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 22 | NEVER mind if it is a medieval castle or a two-up , two-down terraced house the British Film Commission wants details of your home . |
| 23 | Application forms are available from the British Film Commission in London , telephone . |
| 24 | Brunel , no less committed than Hitchcock to an ‘ artistic ’ direction for British films , was later unstinting in his praise of a man who ‘ by his faith and support set the pace at a time when we most needed it ’ and credited him with contributing ‘ very considerably to the renaissance of the British film production industry . ’ |
| 25 | The British film director was letting off steam over the tabloid press , citing in harshly-clipped tones the names of the accused . |
| 26 | Behind the Iran Contra Affair by Barbara Trent , recently shown on British television ; and to the British film Hell to Pay by Alexandra Anderson and Anne Cottringer , a study of the effects of the international economic situation on the lives of women in Bolivia . |
| 27 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 28 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 29 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 30 | Pulling apart the British film industry was the only solution offered . |