For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III
May 13th thru 18th marks the week long Film Preservation Blogathon, and Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second is proud to be involved. The whole thing is in honour of the National Film Preservation Foundation, and over 100 bloggers and writers are said to be involved. This years Blogathon revolves around the work of … Read more
Announcing The Hope Lies Monograph
Following on from yesterdays explanation of how the iPad-enhanced edition of Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second today we would like to reveal our latest project – The Hope Lies Monograph. The Hope Lies Monograph is a series of books on film produced by the site. Each monograph, as the title suggests, will focus … Read more
Swallowing The Hope Lies Tablet
The evolutionary nature of digital media is something that excites us greatly, and so, in an attempt to remain at the head of such things we’re announcing a very special new venture for Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second – The Hope Lies Monograph. There will be more on that in the next couple … Read more
Where Next For Earth’s Mightiest Avengers?
While this article is at heart pure and simple speculation, a couple of plot points from The Avengers do crop up, most notably one major plot point and one big reveal. If you don’t want anything spoiling then hold back on this until you’ve seen the film. So yes, spoilers for The Avengers!
Musings On The Digital Age & The Future Of Cinema – A Post Inspired By Last Night
Last night saw Mark Cousins bring his rolling launch of The Story Of Film to Sheffield. The screening of a specially edited 70-minute cut of the film was followed by a question and answer session that raised a number of points that have inspired this post. The first point was this idea that Cousins raised that … Read more
#HopeFlies – A Marvel Odyssey – Liveblog Part 3
Welcome to a the third and final part of the Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second Avengers liveblog! Tonight it’s the turn of Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk to come under scrutiny. Check out the previous instalments of the liveblog here and here, and check back tomorrow night for our review of Joss Whedon’s … Read more
#HopeFlies – A Marvel Odyssey – Liveblog Part 2
Welcome to a the second part of the Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second Avengers liveblog! Tonight we’ll be taking a look at Joe Johnston’s Captain America before finishing the whole project off with Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk tomorrow evening. Check out the previous instalment of the liveblog here to see why we’ve … Read more
Mark Cousins Presents The Story Of Film: An Odyssey
Mark Cousins is taking the film adaptation of his own Story Of Film out on the road this week, with a multi-stop of arthouse venues and independent cinemas. He’s calling to our local, the Sheffield Showroom, this Wednesday, at 6:15, with an event that promises to be a mixture of Cousins in discussion coupled with selected … Read more
#HopeFlies – A Marvel Odyssey – Liveblog
Welcome to a special Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second event! Over the next ten hours we’ll be watching the complete events on-screen that lead up to this months The Avengers movie from Marvel Studios. Join us as we liveblog 2008′s Iron Man, it’s maligned sequel, Kenneth Branagh’s Thor, the World War 2-set Captain … Read more
You’re dumber than you think I think you are – Roman Polanski’s Chinatown on Blu-ray
I picked up the new Chinatown Blu-ray over the weekend, and felt like I had to say a couple of words on it. In short, the presentation is fantastic. Paramount’s 100th anniversary celebrations are seeing the studio reissue a number of classic titles in high definition. Earlier in the year we had the beautiful and … Read more
