Charlotte Crofts
@charlottecrofts.bsky.social
New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
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My two research crushes, Cary Grant & Angela Carter both have ties to Bristol. Born Archie Leach in 1904, Grant left with an acrobatic troupe at 14 and later became a Hollywood star. Carter lived here for nearly 10 formative years during the 1960s, and wrote 5/9 novels including 3 set in the city.
Only 3 sleeps until Cary Comes Home screening of Penny Serenade!
Guests will be provided with a pack of Cary Grant tissues - it's a 3-hankie tearjerker so you're gonna need them! 💦💧
Part of @bfi #TooMuch melodrama season.
Bristol Megascreen, Anchor Rd, Sat 29 Nov, doors 6pm hdfst.uk/e139428
Guests will be provided with a pack of Cary Grant tissues - it's a 3-hankie tearjerker so you're gonna need them! 💦💧
Part of @bfi #TooMuch melodrama season.
Bristol Megascreen, Anchor Rd, Sat 29 Nov, doors 6pm hdfst.uk/e139428
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Only 3 sleeps until Cary Comes Home screening of Penny Serenade!
Guests will be provided with a pack of Cary Grant tissues - it's a 3-hankie tearjerker so you're gonna need them! 💦💧
Part of @bfi #TooMuch melodrama season.
Bristol Megascreen, Anchor Rd, Sat 29 Nov, doors 6pm hdfst.uk/e139428
Guests will be provided with a pack of Cary Grant tissues - it's a 3-hankie tearjerker so you're gonna need them! 💦💧
Part of @bfi #TooMuch melodrama season.
Bristol Megascreen, Anchor Rd, Sat 29 Nov, doors 6pm hdfst.uk/e139428
Archie Leach left Bristol. ⏩ Cary Grant came home.
Celebrate Bristol’s most charming export with Penny Serenade
📅 Sat 29 Nov | 📍 Bristol Megascreen
Doors 6pm | Film 6.30pm
Vintage vinyl, live choir & panel exploring music & melodrama.
A night for dreamers, cinephiles & music lovers. 🎶
Celebrate Bristol’s most charming export with Penny Serenade
📅 Sat 29 Nov | 📍 Bristol Megascreen
Doors 6pm | Film 6.30pm
Vintage vinyl, live choir & panel exploring music & melodrama.
A night for dreamers, cinephiles & music lovers. 🎶
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Archie Leach left Bristol. ⏩ Cary Grant came home.
Celebrate Bristol’s most charming export with Penny Serenade
📅 Sat 29 Nov | 📍 Bristol Megascreen
Doors 6pm | Film 6.30pm
Vintage vinyl, live choir & panel exploring music & melodrama.
A night for dreamers, cinephiles & music lovers. 🎶
Celebrate Bristol’s most charming export with Penny Serenade
📅 Sat 29 Nov | 📍 Bristol Megascreen
Doors 6pm | Film 6.30pm
Vintage vinyl, live choir & panel exploring music & melodrama.
A night for dreamers, cinephiles & music lovers. 🎶
Join Cary Comes Home & Show Of Strength Theatre for a cinematic stroll through the streets of Bristol, hometown of Hollywood legend Cary Grant. Discover landmarks, stories, and old-school glamour that shaped his journey from Horfield to Hollywood.
Starts 2pm Millennium Sq
Tickets: hdfst.uk/e135030
Starts 2pm Millennium Sq
Tickets: hdfst.uk/e135030
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Join Cary Comes Home & Show Of Strength Theatre for a cinematic stroll through the streets of Bristol, hometown of Hollywood legend Cary Grant. Discover landmarks, stories, and old-school glamour that shaped his journey from Horfield to Hollywood.
Starts 2pm Millennium Sq
Tickets: hdfst.uk/e135030
Starts 2pm Millennium Sq
Tickets: hdfst.uk/e135030
Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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July 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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Fantastic end to a very busy day with my students picking up the best sci-fi short for WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. Thank you @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social for inspiring the next generation of genre filmmakers! 💪🔥
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Fantastic end to a very busy day with my students picking up the best sci-fi short for WHAT HAPPENS ON EARTH at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival. Thank you @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social for inspiring the next generation of genre filmmakers! 💪🔥
Next up... slight whiplash to Jawsploitation and Orca back at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social!
May 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Next up... slight whiplash to Jawsploitation and Orca back at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social!
Then on to Bath Theatre Royal to catch North By Northwest, the new stage adaptation of Hitchcock's classic film, by Wise Children. Rip-roaring fun, great 1950s music, dance, costumes & imaginative stage-craft - loved Mount Rushmore, the cornfield & use of revolving doors! Well done Emma Rice & team!
May 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Then on to Bath Theatre Royal to catch North By Northwest, the new stage adaptation of Hitchcock's classic film, by Wise Children. Rip-roaring fun, great 1950s music, dance, costumes & imaginative stage-craft - loved Mount Rushmore, the cornfield & use of revolving doors! Well done Emma Rice & team!
Kicked off this morning with an amazing Q&A with Gale Anne Hurd in conversation with @markbould. Really enjoyed hearing about the woman behind some of my favourite female action heroes. 💪
May 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Kicked off this morning with an amazing Q&A with Gale Anne Hurd in conversation with @markbould. Really enjoyed hearing about the woman behind some of my favourite female action heroes. 💪
Privileged to be featured in The Big Picture (dir. Arthur Cauty) – a new documentary tracing the history & reawakening of the former Bristol IMAX – taking about the Cary Comes Home Festival & Bristol's vibrant screen heritage (and also quoted in The Guardian!: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...)
Revival of Bristol’s ‘forgotten’ Imax cinema revealed on the big screen
The Big Picture, the story of the venue’s renaissance as a grassroots community space, will premiere this month
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May 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Privileged to be featured in The Big Picture (dir. Arthur Cauty) – a new documentary tracing the history & reawakening of the former Bristol IMAX – taking about the Cary Comes Home Festival & Bristol's vibrant screen heritage (and also quoted in The Guardian!: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...)
Yay, my video essay, Love Affairs To Remember has been selected as one of ten audiovisual essays on the theme of "returns" to be screened at Screen conference in Glasgow next week: screenstudiesconference.com/audio-visual.... Huge thanks @kathleenloock.bsky.social for including! vimeo.com/1088666423
Screen Conference 2025 - Video Essay Curation Discussion
The curators of a video essay selection for the 2025 Screen Conference at University of Glasgow discuss their choices. The conference theme is "returns'…
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May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yay, my video essay, Love Affairs To Remember has been selected as one of ten audiovisual essays on the theme of "returns" to be screened at Screen conference in Glasgow next week: screenstudiesconference.com/audio-visual.... Huge thanks @kathleenloock.bsky.social for including! vimeo.com/1088666423
Its started....
May 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Its started....
Privilege to be in the room & on screen with so many wonderful cineastes celebrating Bristol's film culture at the world premiere of The Big Picture at Bristol Megascreen, documenting the former IMAX's history & the gang of idealists who have brought it back to life! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Privilege to be in the room & on screen with so many wonderful cineastes celebrating Bristol's film culture at the world premiere of The Big Picture at Bristol Megascreen, documenting the former IMAX's history & the gang of idealists who have brought it back to life! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social
So exciting!
We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
May 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
So exciting!
Thanks for wonderful evening with Walter Murch, such a privilege to meet him. What a legend! @andrewkelly.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thanks for wonderful evening with Walter Murch, such a privilege to meet him. What a legend! @andrewkelly.bsky.social
Happy birthday Ange! Born on this day in 1940, British novelist Angela Carter #BOTD one of my research crushes... love this photo of her from Vogue 1975, including a fab article exploring fashion "at the hinge of the decade". Gawd knows what she would make of 2025.
May 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Happy birthday Ange! Born on this day in 1940, British novelist Angela Carter #BOTD one of my research crushes... love this photo of her from Vogue 1975, including a fab article exploring fashion "at the hinge of the decade". Gawd knows what she would make of 2025.
Brilliant day today hearing inspiring presentations at our symposium on gender and ageing! The conversation continues tomorrow 4 May, at our Psycho Biddies and Hagsploitation double bill, The Nanny and X at Bristol Megascreen, from 12.30pm. Tickets via Headfirst Bristol @20thcflicks.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Brilliant day today hearing inspiring presentations at our symposium on gender and ageing! The conversation continues tomorrow 4 May, at our Psycho Biddies and Hagsploitation double bill, The Nanny and X at Bristol Megascreen, from 12.30pm. Tickets via Headfirst Bristol @20thcflicks.bsky.social
Reposted by Charlotte Crofts
My first major project in Bristol was creating the IMAX and what was then At-Bristol. It was a time of great optimism in Bristol, which also included work on a new concert hall - The Harbourside Centre. Can we have these days back again please.
Looking forward very much to seeing The Big Picture.
Looking forward very much to seeing The Big Picture.
Did you know that Bristol has an IMAX that lay abandoned for over a decade?
Watch the World Premiere of Arthur Cauty's The Big Picture on the opening night (28 May) of this year's Forbidden Worlds Film Festival.
www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
#Bristol #IMAX #FilmSky #70mm
Watch the World Premiere of Arthur Cauty's The Big Picture on the opening night (28 May) of this year's Forbidden Worlds Film Festival.
www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
#Bristol #IMAX #FilmSky #70mm
April 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My first major project in Bristol was creating the IMAX and what was then At-Bristol. It was a time of great optimism in Bristol, which also included work on a new concert hall - The Harbourside Centre. Can we have these days back again please.
Looking forward very much to seeing The Big Picture.
Looking forward very much to seeing The Big Picture.
Back to back Cary Grant is always good!!
Got into THE TALK OF THE TOWN by the skin of my teeth, which means I ended up with the back-to-back Cary Grant I’d hoped for. #TCMFF
April 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Back to back Cary Grant is always good!!
Reposted by Charlotte Crofts
The symposium is followed by a special screening of All About Eve at 18:00 at @wshed.bsky.social introduced by Estella Tincknell, UWE Visiting Fellow and former Associate Professor in Film and Culture
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...
April 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The symposium is followed by a special screening of All About Eve at 18:00 at @wshed.bsky.social introduced by Estella Tincknell, UWE Visiting Fellow and former Associate Professor in Film and Culture
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1321...
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The symposium includes an exhibition of photographs and video by Dr Vicky Hodgson: “Look at Me, I’m 73 – and Beautiful!” part of our symposium on Ageing and Gender on Screen on 3 May Book now!
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April 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The symposium includes an exhibition of photographs and video by Dr Vicky Hodgson: “Look at Me, I’m 73 – and Beautiful!” part of our symposium on Ageing and Gender on Screen on 3 May Book now!
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...
Reposted by Charlotte Crofts
Our Keynote speaker — Dr Josephine Dolan: The Silvering of Stardom: The Gender Binary and Privileged Masculinity
Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...
Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...
April 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our Keynote speaker — Dr Josephine Dolan: The Silvering of Stardom: The Gender Binary and Privileged Masculinity
Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...
Josie is the author of Contemporary Cinema and 'Old Age': Gender and the Silvering of Stardom www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary...
Reposted by Charlotte Crofts
This double bill follows our symposium, Psychobiddies, Harpies & Hags: Interrogating Ageing & Gender on Screen on Sat 3 May at Watershed, 11:00-18:00
Keynote — Dr Josephine Dolan; Panel: Dr Hannah Hamad, Dr Deborah Jermyn, Dr Belen Vidal and Estella Tincknell.
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...
Keynote — Dr Josephine Dolan; Panel: Dr Hannah Hamad, Dr Deborah Jermyn, Dr Belen Vidal and Estella Tincknell.
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...
Ageing and Gender on Screen | University of West of England
A one-day symposium. Confirmed speakers include Josie Dolan, Hannah Hamad, Vicky Hodgson, Deborah Jermyn, Estella Tincknell and Belen Vidal. Followed by a
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April 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This double bill follows our symposium, Psychobiddies, Harpies & Hags: Interrogating Ageing & Gender on Screen on Sat 3 May at Watershed, 11:00-18:00
Keynote — Dr Josephine Dolan; Panel: Dr Hannah Hamad, Dr Deborah Jermyn, Dr Belen Vidal and Estella Tincknell.
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...
Keynote — Dr Josephine Dolan; Panel: Dr Hannah Hamad, Dr Deborah Jermyn, Dr Belen Vidal and Estella Tincknell.
go.uwe.ac.uk/ageingandgen...
Reposted by Charlotte Crofts
🎬 Watch Mia Goth in American slasher film, X (dir. Ti West, 2022), set in 1979, it follows a cast & crew making a pornographic film on in rural Texas, threatened by a homicidal elderly couple. Join us at Bristol Megascreen on Sun 4 May! £7 per film or £10 for the double bill go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill
April 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🎬 Watch Mia Goth in American slasher film, X (dir. Ti West, 2022), set in 1979, it follows a cast & crew making a pornographic film on in rural Texas, threatened by a homicidal elderly couple. Join us at Bristol Megascreen on Sun 4 May! £7 per film or £10 for the double bill go.uwe.ac.uk/doublebill