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electric sheep magazine - a deviant view of cinema
The film magazine that doesn't toe the line - published monthly online and quarterly in print.
DISCLAIMER: Electric Sheep disassociates itself entirely from the quote attributed to us on the poster for Nic Roeg’s Puffball. In spite of our admiration for Nic Roeg’s earlier work, we found Puffball to be unredeemably bad, as the review we have published makes unequivocally clear. The quote used on the poster comes from a reader’s comment left on the website and not from properly vetted editorial content. While we welcome debate and encourage readers to freely post their views, these cannot be attributed to Electric Sheep under any circumstances. We hope that readers will not be misled into thinking Electric Sheep writers supported the film.
The brand new Electric Sheep in print, published by Wallflower Press, is now out! Our summer issue is a cinema and jazz special with articles on Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, Shirley Clarke, John Cassavetes, Jim Jarmusch and Beat cinema among others. For more information about where to buy the magazine or how to subscribe, please email amanda[at]wallflowerpress.co.uk.
FILM CLUBS: HECTIC PEELERS: TUESDAY 12 AUGUST, Roxy Bar and Screen, 7:30pm, FREE: We'll be screening the director's cut of Dark City. More details soon.
If you are yet to experience the madcap brilliance and perverse beauty of Guy Maddin’s films, now is your chance to see them in their full glory on a big screen. To coincide with the release of the Canadian director’s latest, My Winnipeg, a uniquely oblique celebration of his hometown, the BFI Southbank are holding a retrospective of his work this month. Having been seduced, thrilled and enchanted by Maddin’s surreal, silent-period-inspired films, we are incredibly excited to be able to devote our July issue to him: we have a feature on his mythologising of Winnipeg, an interview with Cecilia Araneda, director of the Winnipeg Film Group and an interview with Maddin himself.
We also report from the Edinburgh Film Festival, which moved to an earlier June spot this year, with features on the new Under the Radar section and a round-up of the best films of the festival. We also have a review of Errol Morris’s new film Standard Operating Procedure, released this month. Morris appeared in Edinburgh for an on-stage interview, in which he discussed the ramifications of his documentary on the Abu Ghraib torture photos. And we have interviews with actors Jay Taylor and Rob Boulter as well as director Olly Blackburn, part of the team behind Donkey Punch, one of the eagerly awaited new British films that premiered in Edinburgh.
This month’s cinema releases also include a classic of 60s Cuban cinema, Memories of Underdevelopment, Tom Kalin’s beautiful, risqué Savage Grace, terrific new animé Origin: Spirits of the Past, and Nicolas Roeg’s latest, Puffball. In addition, we review one of the most notable films screened at the Tiger Festival last month, The Case, and we have a report on the Fashion in Film Festival.
In the DVD releases, we continue our exploration of Nagisa Oshima’s early work with Violence at High Noon and take a look at slick French sci-fi thriller Chrysalis and Žižek! a documentary on the Slovenian philosopher.
In the Short Cuts, we talk to the mastermind behind the brilliantly innovative straight 8 competition while Bochum Welt is our guest in the Film Jukebox.
Win 5 DVD copies of Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World, a funny, poignant, magical musical melodrama starring Isabella Rossellini (courtesy of Soda Pictures). To enter the competition, just spin the Film Roulette! Closing date: Friday 25 July.
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