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Andrew Kelly

@andrewkelly.bsky.social

Writer, festival director, interviewer. Projects: Future City Film Festival, John Boorman, John Berger, William Gray Walter, revisiting J B Priestley, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel book. Writing/ interviewing/ editing: https://festivalofideas.substack.com

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Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · last wk.

Had tour of the Bristol Jacob Wells baths project Tuesday and got to the top. The detail on the building there is very good. Such care went into these parts which most people wouldn’t see.

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Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · last wk.

Coming up 12 September we have the second part of our John Boorman and Bristol series with @swsilents.bsky.social. Boorman worked in BBC Bristol in the early 1960s and made many films about the city as well as elsewhere. This is a rare chance to see six of these. Book here:

John Boorman and Bristol: Part II at Bristol Megascreen

Before he went on to Hollywood fame, film director John Boorman (Deliverance, Excalibur, Point Blank) worked at BBC Bristol where he made many films about the city. Last year South West Silents show...

headfirstbristol.co.uk

Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting that Kennedy Martin disliked The Wednesday Play. He has left us many fine programmes - most I watched as I was becoming an adult - in a fine TV life.

Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

He ‘shunned [the BBC’s] Wednesday Play slot, which specialised in socially engaged drama. “It’s quite easy to write that sort of stuff.. You take a mallet to crack an egg. You say the working class are in a terrible position — all that sort of thing. I have always found it Stalinist and suspect.”’

Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · 2w ago

He ‘shunned [the BBC’s] Wednesday Play slot, which specialised in socially engaged drama. “It’s quite easy to write that sort of stuff.. You take a mallet to crack an egg. You say the working class are in a terrible position — all that sort of thing. I have always found it Stalinist and suspect.”’

Ian Kennedy Martin obituary: Creator of The Sweeney

Occasionally truculent writer whose 1970s ITV show upended the cosy, genial image of cops on screen dies aged 90

thetimes.com

Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is presented with @swsilents.bsky.social. They have many events underway - and not all silent film - and are partners with the annual @filmnoiruk.bsky.social festival.

Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Coming up 12 September we have the second part of our John Boorman and Bristol series. Boorman worked in BBC Bristol in the early 1960s and made many films about the city as well as elsewhere. This is a rare chance to see six of these. Book here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bri...

Andrew Kelly@andrewkelly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fun date: ‘Vrasidas Karalis, author of A History of Greek Cinema, recalls a friend meeting her future husband while queueing at the snack bar during Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900. “Their hands touched, and they started talking about the upcoming revolution and the end of capitalist cruelty,” he says.’

‘An intermission is a must’: why Greek cinemas are adding a loo break to The Odyssey

In Athens’ picturehouses, an interval is always a ‘non-negotiable’ – a chance to buy a beer, nip to the toilet – or pop the question

theguardian.com