Michael Brooke
Freelance writer
Michael Brooke is a freelance writer specialising in British and central/eastern European cinema. A regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, he spent nearly a decade at the BFI (2002-11), where he helped create BFI Screenonline and BFI InView, produced the BFI’s internationally acclaimed DVD compilations of short films by the Quay Brothers and Jan Švankmajer and co-produced the Blu-ray edition of Švankmajer’s Alice. He has written numerous booklet essays for BFI DVD Publishing, Second Run and Arrow Academy, and chapters for the books Polish Cinema Now! (2010), Shadows of Progress (2010), 39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock (2012) and Trzynasty miesiąc. Kino Braci Quay (2010). A native Londoner, he now lives in Worthing with his family and chickens.
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Michael Brooke
@antnield @shittydeath Still, the Keaton box turned up unmolested a couple of days later. And I've never been HMRCed over Criterion BDs.
3 months 3 weeks ago.
Michael Brooke
@chrisbrooke @singlecrow In the early 80s, C4 showed 'The Art of Landscape' (hours of penguins etc) instead of a test card in the mornings.
4 months 3 days ago.
Michael Brooke
@jamesfilmresto It looks amazing: obviously a total labour of love. And given that it's a 2K scan off 16mm neg, almost certainly definitive.
4 months 3 days ago.
Michael Brooke
@jamesfilmresto 'The Opening of Misty Beethoven' has one of the best restoration featurettes I've ever seen. 25 mins of exhaustive detail.
4 months 3 days ago.
Michael Brooke
@AnneBillson @chrisbrooke We do have a sister, but there's lots of photographic and some video evidence of us in the same room together.
4 months 3 days ago.