On Film
In August 2010, Crawley curated 'Sex and the City of God', a season of films at the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast. Writing in The Guardian's film guide, Steve Rose wrote of the season: "It's not often you'll find a movie season where you're offered Charlton Heston receiving the word of God one moment and a man supple enough to fellate himself the next, but such are the broad-minded tastes of William Crawley, journalist and BBC Northern Ireland presenter, who curates his own season here. A former Presbyterian minister and philosophy lecturer, Crawley's eclectic themes are summed up in the title, although the city in question is not Belfast but New York, which he regards as "a kind of urban divinity". So as well as the aforementioned The Ten Commandments and Shortbus, we get crowd-pleasing Twin Towers doc Man On Wire and stirring autobiopic Tarnation, alongside more overtly spiritual choices Inherit The Wind and Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev." He is a member of the board of the Belfast Film Festival and has presented story and production analysis event for the Festival on Inherit the Wind, 12 Angry Men, and Casablanca.
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