Adam Scovell
All articles by Adam Scovell
Then and now
Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance
Romance blossoms during a hot summer in south London in the 1996 film Beautiful Thing, filmed on some of the same locations as A Clockwork Orange. How do they look today?
By Adam Scovell
Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance
Then and now
Carry On Regenerating: how locations from Britain’s sauciest series have changed since
By Adam Scovell
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Mind the doors! In search of the locations for the underground horror Death Line
By Adam Scovell
Interviews
Ghost Stories for Christmas: Mark Gatiss on the enduring appeal of the BBC’s ghostly festive tradition
By Adam Scovell
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60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
By Adam Scovell
Interviews
The rituals of a life watching films: Jeremy Cooper on his novel Brian
By Adam Scovell
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The Blood on Satan’s Claw: unearthing the locations for the witchy British folk horror classic
By Adam Scovell
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Powell and Pressburger’s Kent: finding the mystical locations of A Canterbury Tale
By Adam Scovell
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Don’t Look Now at 50: in search of the Venice locations today
By Adam Scovell
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How the London locations of the hard-as-nails 1990s heist film Face look today
By Adam Scovell
Interviews
“It was always destined to be a Ken Russell head-trip”: screenwriter Stephen Volk remembers Gothic, his psychotropic tale of the Romantics
By Adam Scovell
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John Wayne’s London: in search of the locations for cult crime thriller Brannigan
By Adam Scovell
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Room at the Top: in search of the Bradford locations for a British New Wave classic
By Adam Scovell
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Croupier at 25: tracking down the London locations today
By Adam Scovell
From the Sight and Sound archive
Baptism of fire: the ending of The Wicker Man
By Adam Scovell
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50 years of The Wicker Man: how the Scottish locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Features
How the 30-minute drama powered British television
By Adam Scovell
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Jerzy Skolimowski’s London: how the Moonlighting locations look today
By Adam Scovell
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A tour of Éric Rohmer’s Paris: how his locations look today
By Adam Scovell
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60 years of Billy Liar: how the Bradford locations have changed today
By Adam Scovell
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How the Paris of Lift to the Scaffold looks today
By Adam Scovell
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The Offence at 50: brutalism, Bracknell and Sidney Lumet’s dark police drama
By Adam Scovell
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The manor house from The Draughtsman’s Contract: how it looks today
By Adam Scovell
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Gary Oldman’s London: how the city has changed since Nil by Mouth
By Adam Scovell
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Amicus at 60: in search of its crypts, wax museums and other locations
By Adam Scovell
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60 years of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: how the locations look today
By Adam Scovell