Flicks Film Posters

For this blog I thought I’d focus on another film with interesting local connections to our shop in Twickenham. One of the town's hidden treasures is JMW Turner’s house Sandycombe Lodge in Sandycombe Road, a quiet residential street opposite Marble Hill Park. British filmmaker Mike Leigh, another national treasure, released Mr. Turner, his prize-winning biopic of arguably Britain’s greatest painter, in 2014. Although no scenes in the finished film were actually shot at Turner’s house, (the...

On 10 April 1964, The Beatles filmed key sequences for A Hard Day’s Night at Twickenham Film Studios, which served as one of the main production locations for the Fab Four’s debut feature film. Set in the band’s fictional production office, the semi-documentary format allowed The Beatles to portray exaggerated versions of themselves, reinforcing the film’s blurred line between reality and fiction. Released later in 1964 during the feverish height of Beatlemania, Richard Lester’s classic film...

An important, often overlooked work in the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s filmography, Smiles of a Summer Night has proven influential and enduring over the past 71 years. Amongst many re-interpretations and homages, it was remade by Woody Allen (a noted Bergman disciple) in 1982 as A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, and by Stephen Sondheim in 1973 as A Little Night Music, a successful stage musical. It’s the Bergman film often cited as giving the lie to the unfair label pinned on the...