The Big Picture Magazine issue 20: Escape

The Summer issue of The Big Picture Magazine is now available to download for free, and has 'escape' as its central theme. Print copies of the magazine will be circulated around arthouse and independent cinemas in the UK, USA and China in the next couple of weeks. Click on the link below for a direct download of the new issue.

The Big Picture Magazine: Issue 20 - Escape 

The Big Picture issue 19 - Winter's Discontent.

The new issue of The Big Picture magazine is available now as a free PDF download. Themed under the title 'Winter's Discontent', the issue features pieces on The Great White Silence, Dr Zhivago, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Let the Right One in and Ikiru among others. Guest writer Pamela Hutchinson, who runs the Silent London website has penned an enlightening article on Way Down East, and longtime contributor Scott Jordan Harris takes a look at the Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane, one of cinema's most evocative objects. Click on the link below to download the issue, we hope you enjoy it and share it with your film-loving family and friends. You can find The Big Picture on Facebook here and on Twitter by searching for @BigPicFilmMag.

The Big Picture: Winter's Discontent

The Big Picture - new issue

The new issue of The Big Picture magazine, which I have the pleasure of editing, is available to download for FREE from Magcloud. The September/October issue is centred around the theme of representations of television on the big screen. Films featured include Videodrome, Network, The Eyes of Tammy Faye and The Truman Show among many others.

All the usual features, and some new ones, are present from regular and new contributors. Click on the link below, download and enjoy!

The Big Picture - September/October issue

The Big Picture - Screengem

My latest Screengem for http://www.thebigpicturemagazine.com/ is Brandon's porn collection, as seen in Steve McQueen's Shame (2011). It only makes a brief appearance in the film, but it's a vital one. Click on the link below to read my take on it means in the context of the narrative.

The Big Picture: Screengem - Shame

The Big Picture - new article

Over at The Big Picture website - http://www.thebigpicturemagazine.com/ you can find my latest 'Screengem'. This one is of the cardboard cut-out of 'Angelica' from Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (1970). Click on the link and see why 'Angelica' means so much to Deep End's unfolding narrative - http://tinyurl.com/6opaxk7

The Big Picture - new issue - Growing Pains

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I recently guest edited the new issue of The Big Picture magazine. If you follow the link below you can download the issue for free from Magcloud.com -

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/294754

The Big Picture - new article

Over at The Big Picture magazine we have an ongoing section called Screengem - which features iconic objects from film history. My latest addition to the series is the bucket of pig's blood as seen in Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's début novel Carrie. All horror movie fans will know this scene like the back of their hands and it's rightly enshrined as one of the most iconic sequences in the history of the horror genre. Follow the link at the end of this article and celebrate this bloody marvellous moment.

http://tinyurl.com/6b9nucx