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DVD connections

Our expert Philip Horne reveals the ancestors of the week’s home entertainment releases

24 December 2008

  • Christopher Walken dancing in King of New York

    DVD Connections: Dance scenes in non-dance films

    Tis the season to twinkle your toes even when it's not fully appropriate, so to celebrate (and because King of New York is just out on DVD) here are the most intriguing examples of dance scenes in non-dance films. Your MC: Philip Horne

27 October 2008

  • Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt in Night at the Museum

    Happy Birthday Mr President Roosevelt

    Philip Horne: Theodore Roosevelt would have been 150 today. We look back at his incarnations - real and fictional - on the big screen

7 October 2008

  • Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers

    DVD Connections: the 'professor movie'

    DVD Connections Biros at the ready: here's Philip Horne's lesson in that little-explored genre: the professor movie. Contains slides

9 September 2008

  • Vampyr

    Kingdom of shadows: double exposure in vampire films

    Philip Horne

    The use of ghostly doubles in the representation of the undead has a long history. Perhaps it says something about the nature of cinema

26 August 2008

  • Colin Farrell and Brendon Gleeson in In Bruges

    See Naples and die. Literally

    Philip Horne

    Fancy another holiday? Can't afford it? Take an armchair tour with Philip Horne round the bright spots and dark alleyways of cinematic tourism. Our starting point: In Bruges

12 August 2008

  • Mos Def and Jack Black in Be Kind Rewind

    Be Kind, Rewind to past masters

    Every fortnight, Philip Horne examines the cinematic ancestors of a newly-released DVD. This week, he finds earlier echoes of Michel Gondry's comedy in Preston Sturges and Frank Capra

29 July 2008

  • john huston and daniel day lewis

    There Will Be Blood relations

    Philip Horne

    In the first of a fortnightly new series, Philip Horne examines the cinematic ancestors of a newly-released DVD. This week: There Will Be Blood

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