Some more 'Films & Filming' covers...(2)

You like Bette Davis. You like Joan Crawford. But will you like Bette Davis AND Joan Crawford together in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
Another "Films and Filming" thread!...
Like "Sight and Sound", England's "Films and filming" was THE perfect magazine and had a good run from 1954 into the '90s. I discovered it in 1962 when I was 16 and and began getting some back copies. I have been using some of those attractive covers throughout my posts here. At its peak - the '60s and '70s issues - it introduced so many of us to the potential of cinema as just more than mere entertainment - it covered the best of world cinema with interviews and features on and by all the leading players and directors. That 1961 Italian cinema issue is priceless now with its features by Antonioni, Visconti, Fellini, Pasolini etc. Interesting too seeing how the magazine changed from the staid '50s through the liberated '60s (when being the zeitgeist that it was, it became THE magazine for gay cineastes) to the mature '70s. I could spend hours going through those bound copies...

I worked for the magazine for a year in the '70s and got to know its late owner Philip Dosse, and editor Robin Bean. I am sure they would be pleased that their magazine is not forgotten! The umbrella company Hansom Books also published those high quality arts magazines Plays and Players, Arts and Artists, Books and Bookmen, Music and Musicians etc. Such a shame it folded in 1980.