Pamela Hutchinson
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Pamela:
Ginger Rogers’ 20 best performances – ranked!
With the BFI celebrating the Oscar-winning actor and dancer, and ahead of the re-release of Top Hat in cinemas, we rate Rogers’ greatest films from Hollywood’s golden age → Read More
Don’t look down: 100 years of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last!
Harold Lloyd’s stunts in Safety Last! make it one of the most heart-in-mouth films of all time. On its 100th birthday, his granddaughter remembers his mastery, inspiration – and the real-life love at the film’s heart → Read More
Backed by the Butter Board – then a Cannes premiere: rediscovering the films of Wendy Toye
A dancer, choreographer and director who made her stage debut aged three, Toye was a creative powerhouse who left an estimable legacy as a film director. Now two of her films are being released for a new audience → Read More
Juanita Moore: the Oscar nominee who fought stereotypes and racism
The Imitation of Life star was pigeonholed and undervalued by Hollywood but years later, she is finally receiving the recognition she deserves → Read More
Anna May Wong: the legacy of a groundbreaking Asian American star
The actor will soon be featuring on quarter-dollar coins, an honour that reflects a vital yet difficult career in Hollywood’s golden age → Read More
‘Two out of five stories should be hot’: why pre-code cinema was a golden age for women
Prior to the proscriptive Hays Code, films were populated by adulterous, marijuana-smoking gold diggers – wildly entertaining and more modern than the roles that came next → Read More
Asta Nielsen, the silent film star who taught Garbo everything
The Danish actor was a cinema pioneer and wildly popular all over the world. She is largely forgotten – discover her in a BFI season dedicated to her extraordinary talent → Read More
10 great Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s
Hankies at the ready for our rundown of Hollywood’s great misty-eyed melodramas of the 1940s, from Mildred Pierce to Now, Voyager. → Read More
10 great British silent films
As the landmark British silent film Piccadilly lands on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back to the roaring 20s and beyond in search of some of the UK’s finest silent feature films. → Read More
From My Fair Lady to Grease 2: Guardian writers on their favourite movie musicals
To celebrate the release of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upbeat musical In the Heights, Guardian writers have picked their favourite examples of the genre → Read More
Hear me out: why Crossroads isn't a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers sticking up for films hated by the majority is a defence of Britney Spears’s entertaining 2002 star vehicle → Read More
The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen
From a gentrification drama to a convention-defying crime thriller, Guardian writers pick their favourite underappreciated films of the year → Read More
How the Lulu bob became cinema’s most imitated haircut
From Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction to Audrey Tautou in Amélie, countless iconic star turns have copied their hairdo from Louise Brooks’ ultra-cool Jazz Age bob. → Read More
What the flip! The chance discovery that's uncovered treasures of the very earliest cinema
Some of the earliest experiments in film 120 years ago were reproduced as flipbooks for wider audiences. Now a painstaking restoration project has brought long-lost gems back to life → Read More
Black voices in silent cinema
In a film industry that was not just white but often explicitly racist, Black writers, directors and stars still made their mark, writes Pamela Hutchinson. → Read More
What I'm really watching: David Lynch's YouTube channel
LA weather reports, office DIY projects, nature notes … they’re all there in the film director’s daily video blogs about California life, a sunny blessing in lockdown → Read More
Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood?
It’s got orgies, arrests, scandals and eccentrics. But is the central story – about gay and black people triumphing in 1940s Tinseltown – realistic? We sift the ugly facts from glossy fiction → Read More
I've never seen ... 8½
I didn’t know whether to expect a dose of medicine or a miracle. What I got was a breathtakingly gorgeous piece of cinema – though Fellini’s questionable fantasy leaves a bad taste → Read More
My streaming gem: why you should watch My Man Godfrey
Continuing our series of writers recommending underseen films available to stream, a recommendation for a sly screwball comedy from 1936 → Read More
Where to stream the best silent films
Streaming for people who want to explore the dawn of cinema. → Read More