Pamela Hutchinson
@pamhutch.bsky.social
Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
If you love the Stanwyck version you will ADORE this one. Take two handkerchieves, and put your mum on speed-dial
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you love the Stanwyck version you will ADORE this one. Take two handkerchieves, and put your mum on speed-dial
More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
More melodrama. I am so honoured to be on a panel with @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social talking about class in melodrama at the BFI Southbank study day on 15 November. whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Celebrating publication of this fabulous @edinburghup.bsky.social volume edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail. I wrote about legendary Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune, naturally.
August 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Celebrating publication of this fabulous @edinburghup.bsky.social volume edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail. I wrote about legendary Guardian and Observer film critic C.A. Lejeune, naturally.
30-Second Cinema was published in English in 2019. It has now been translated into French, German, Canadian French, Chinese and Vietnamese. Well travelled! Thanks to brilliant @christinalefou.bsky.social, @phlode.bsky.social, @nikkibaughan.bsky.social, @antbit.bsky.social & Kelli Weston.
January 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
30-Second Cinema was published in English in 2019. It has now been translated into French, German, Canadian French, Chinese and Vietnamese. Well travelled! Thanks to brilliant @christinalefou.bsky.social, @phlode.bsky.social, @nikkibaughan.bsky.social, @antbit.bsky.social & Kelli Weston.
Chaplin's revelatory A WOMAN OF PARIS, a film that changed the cinema for the better, is coming out from @criterion.bsky.social in March. Honoured to say I wrote the essay for this one. www.criterion.com/films/27582-...
December 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Chaplin's revelatory A WOMAN OF PARIS, a film that changed the cinema for the better, is coming out from @criterion.bsky.social in March. Honoured to say I wrote the essay for this one. www.criterion.com/films/27582-...
The poster for this year’s Pordenone Silent Film Festival is here and it is glorious. The image is from Ernst Lubitsch’s THREE WOMEN (1924) starring Marie Prevost.
September 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
The poster for this year’s Pordenone Silent Film Festival is here and it is glorious. The image is from Ernst Lubitsch’s THREE WOMEN (1924) starring Marie Prevost.
Gena Rowlands and Shelley Duvall share the cover of Monthly Film Bulletin, March 1981
August 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Gena Rowlands and Shelley Duvall share the cover of Monthly Film Bulletin, March 1981
A pinch-me moment, or several, last night in NFT1 at BFI Southbank. It was an honour to present on one of my all-time favourite films on that stage, but it was really a thrill to host the panel of Sally Potter, Judith Mackrell and Helen Persson.
December 9, 2023 at 9:55 PM
A pinch-me moment, or several, last night in NFT1 at BFI Southbank. It was an honour to present on one of my all-time favourite films on that stage, but it was really a thrill to host the panel of Sally Potter, Judith Mackrell and Helen Persson.
Asta Nielsen and HAMLET in Istanbul at Beykoz Kundura with accompaniment by world-renowned jazz artist Okay Temiz and Turkish pianist Kubilay Kan www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMX...
November 27, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Asta Nielsen and HAMLET in Istanbul at Beykoz Kundura with accompaniment by world-renowned jazz artist Okay Temiz and Turkish pianist Kubilay Kan www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMX...
And I will be giving in-person intro at the Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings for a special screening of the simply perfect I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! on 19 November www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/i-k...
October 31, 2023 at 8:57 AM
And I will be giving in-person intro at the Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings for a special screening of the simply perfect I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! on 19 November www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/i-k...
If you're in Hastings, I will be introducing three films at the fantastic Electric Palace Cinema: video intros for A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH on 5 November and THE RED SHOES on 17 December www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/a-m...
October 31, 2023 at 8:56 AM
If you're in Hastings, I will be introducing three films at the fantastic Electric Palace Cinema: video intros for A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH on 5 November and THE RED SHOES on 17 December www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/a-m...
To celebrate the re-released of THE RED SHOES, on 8 December at BFI Southbank I will host an event called The Red Shoes in the Spotlight. I'll give an illustrated talk and, excitingly, be joined by very special guests to discuss the wonders of this magnificent film whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
October 31, 2023 at 8:53 AM
To celebrate the re-released of THE RED SHOES, on 8 December at BFI Southbank I will host an event called The Red Shoes in the Spotlight. I'll give an illustrated talk and, excitingly, be joined by very special guests to discuss the wonders of this magnificent film whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
On 16 November at BFI Southbank, I will be joining @boltonsmotors.bsky.social, Sarah Street and
@lillcrawf.bsky.social to discuss the wonderful women of The Archers films in Centre Stage: The Leading Women of Powell + Pressburger whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
@lillcrawf.bsky.social to discuss the wonderful women of The Archers films in Centre Stage: The Leading Women of Powell + Pressburger whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
October 31, 2023 at 8:52 AM
On 16 November at BFI Southbank, I will be joining @boltonsmotors.bsky.social, Sarah Street and
@lillcrawf.bsky.social to discuss the wonderful women of The Archers films in Centre Stage: The Leading Women of Powell + Pressburger whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
@lillcrawf.bsky.social to discuss the wonderful women of The Archers films in Centre Stage: The Leading Women of Powell + Pressburger whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Also today at Festival Lumiere I revelled in a “picturesque” new restoration of Raymond Bernard’s 1946 ADIEU, CHERIE - a glittering romantic comedy featuring Danielle Darrieux, Louis Salou, Jacques Berthier’s cheekbones and a gasp of an ending.
October 15, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Also today at Festival Lumiere I revelled in a “picturesque” new restoration of Raymond Bernard’s 1946 ADIEU, CHERIE - a glittering romantic comedy featuring Danielle Darrieux, Louis Salou, Jacques Berthier’s cheekbones and a gasp of an ending.
I have arrived in Lyon for Festival Lumière on Jonathan Glazer day: a powerful screening of THE ZONE OF INTEREST, followed by a masterclass with the man himself
October 15, 2023 at 12:43 PM
I have arrived in Lyon for Festival Lumière on Jonathan Glazer day: a powerful screening of THE ZONE OF INTEREST, followed by a masterclass with the man himself
Delighted to be celebrating publication day for my second BFI Film Classic. It was a challenge and an honour to get this book on THE RED SHOES over the line in time for the film's 75th anniversary and the beautiful BFI Powell and Pressburger extravaganza that is taking place nationwide this autumn.
October 5, 2023 at 11:02 AM
Delighted to be celebrating publication day for my second BFI Film Classic. It was a challenge and an honour to get this book on THE RED SHOES over the line in time for the film's 75th anniversary and the beautiful BFI Powell and Pressburger extravaganza that is taking place nationwide this autumn.
You need more Dorothy Arzner in your life, so pre-order this snazzy Blu-Ray of her pre-Code drama HONOR AMONG LOVERS. Commentary by Eloise Ross, Ginger Rogers expertise by @boltonsmotors.bsky.social and a little essay by me www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
September 23, 2023 at 10:24 AM
You need more Dorothy Arzner in your life, so pre-order this snazzy Blu-Ray of her pre-Code drama HONOR AMONG LOVERS. Commentary by Eloise Ross, Ginger Rogers expertise by @boltonsmotors.bsky.social and a little essay by me www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/collections/...
Author copies have arrived and I am thrilled. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-shoes...
September 21, 2023 at 10:32 AM
Author copies have arrived and I am thrilled. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-shoes...
I wrote about Brigitte Helm, iconic star of the Weimar screen silentlondon.co.uk/2023/09/12/b...
September 12, 2023 at 11:04 AM
I wrote about Brigitte Helm, iconic star of the Weimar screen silentlondon.co.uk/2023/09/12/b...
Happy to say that I will be joining Lisa Mullen @lillcrawf and Matthew Sweet for a discussion of THE RED SHOES on Free Thinking, Radio 3 on 14 September. Let's dance! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 5, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Happy to say that I will be joining Lisa Mullen @lillcrawf and Matthew Sweet for a discussion of THE RED SHOES on Free Thinking, Radio 3 on 14 September. Let's dance! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...