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Roy Budd’s Phantom Returns
· Roy Budd’s score to Rupert Julian’s 1925 silent film version of The Phantom at the Opera for one-night only at the Barbican 18 March 2019. · Only the second ever performance of one of the late all-time great British musicians...
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Best Vigilante Films
Fighting crime and taking the law into their own hands… vigilantes are some of the most kick-ass characters in film. To celebrate the release of action-packed Robin Hood, arriving in cinemas November 21st, we’re taking a ...
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Back To The Beginning: Harley Quinn
DC Comics Novels – Harley Quinn: Mad Love takes it back to where it all began. Inspired by the 1994 graphic novel, Mad Love, and featuring Harley as she first appeared in 1992’s Batman: The Animated Series, the novel exp...
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Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N
Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. will open at ExCeL London on 29th November 2018, following a hugely successful run in New York, Seoul, Paris, Singapore, Beijing, Taipei and Las Vegas, where it has set up a permanent exhibition...
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Planet Of The Apes Hits 50
This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most ground-breaking film franchises in sci-fi history. Based on the novel Monkey Planet by Pierre Boulle, on its release in 1968, the film was hailed as one of the best of the...
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Most Memorable Movie Scores
In any action movie, a powerful music score is essential to set pulses racing and crank up the intensity. A movie moment can be transformed with the use of one simple chord when struck at the right moment – and can turn a movie...
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Film Big Hitters Hit The Bookshelves
This Autumn The Folio Society welcomes in the new season with a batch of books which celebrate the very best big screen stories… from Black Beauty, to Sherlock Holmes, from James Bond, to iconic science-fiction. Included in t...
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Surreal & Dream-Like Films
The luxurious and surrealist LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (1961) follows an unnamed sophisticate (Giorgio Albertazzi) who attempts to persuade a married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that just last year they were romantically involved and ...
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Harryhausen: The Movie Posters
From Mighty Joe Young to Clash of the Titans, Harryhausen: The Movie Posters by Richard Holliss, is a fascinating look at the posters that helped sell the magic. At a special screening of First Men In The Moon, at London’s Rege...
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Book To Small Screen
This Autumn, The Folio Society releases 19 beautiful new volumes, from chill-inducing Horror Stories to timely editions of James Cook’s fascinating Journals and Max Hasting’s Bomber Command— both Cook and the RAF have anniversa...
