Kinoblog

Here’s a very promising initiative - a blog set up by Roy Stafford to accompany a series of evening classes on central European cinema that he’s teaching at the National Media Museum in Bradford.

The first instalment is a short introduction to the films of Andrzej Wajda.

I’m hoping to get the first two or three entries in my 100 Classics project uploaded later this week - but in the meantime, blogger Dennis Grunes has been doing something very similar.

His list has a fair overlap with mine, though he hasn’t adopted the “maximum two films per director, must be available on English-friendly DVD” restrictions, and he focuses pretty much exclusively on critically-acclaimed arthouse titles (including documentaries, which I’ve generally avoided). Granted, all these films end up as arthouse titles in the West, but I’ve made a point of also including a handful that are genuine popular favourites at home.