Film Section Supports Schools

Film Section Supports Schools

Critics participate at Into Film festival Anna Smith Talking to students is always a rewarding experience, and it feels increasingly important to pass on our advice in an ever-complex marketplace. So I’m pleased to confirm that members of the Film Section will once...
Conservation Awards 2015

Conservation Awards 2015

Clare Finn Thursday, 22nd October saw the equivalent of the Oscars awarded for Conservation of our artistic and cultural heritage, in a ceremony hosted by the Royal Academy’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow, at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Organised by the...
100 Years of Criticism: Key Changes

100 Years of Criticism: Key Changes

Jane Edwardes The Critics’ Circle Conference, held yesterday at the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama, proved to be a lively, well-attended event with a series of discussions looking to the past, present and future. Though there was much debate, the one thing...
The Film That Changed My Life

The Film That Changed My Life

A Celebration of 100 Years of the Critics’ Circle Rich Cline Fri 19 Apr – Thu 2 May at the Barbican Cinema To celebrate the Centenary of the Circle, the Barbican Cinema has invited some of Britain’s foremost critics to select and introduce a screening of ‘the...
Our lunchtime Bath treat

Our lunchtime Bath treat

Simon Tait On November 30 we were the lunch guests of the Holburne Museum – not in Bath but at the St John Restaurant in Smithfield – where the director, Alexander Sturgis, and chairman, the former art dealer David Posnett, wanted to tell us not only of their...