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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.
Substitute is the theme of the summer 09 issue of Electric Sheep, with articles on the fraught relationship between Takeshi Kitano and 'Beat' Takeshi, the various cinematic incarnations of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley, interchanging identities in Joseph Losey's films, the paradoxes of black and white twins in offbeat lost classic Suture, not to mention cross-dressing criminals, androids and body snatchers. Also in this issue: interview with Marc Caro, profile of whiz-kid animator David OReilly, comic strip review of Hardware, and The Phantom Band's favourite films! It is available from the specialist book store Cinéphilia, at selected retailers and cinemas or online from Wallflower Press.
THE ELECTRIC SHEEP FILM CLUB, WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST, Prince Charles Cinema, 8pm: We are proud to present Carnival of Souls, Herk Harvey's seminal 1962 horror film, which influenced George A Romero and David Lynch. More details here.
This month we look at disastrous Danish relationships with neo-noir Just Another Love Story and Lars von Trier’s latest, Antichrist. Two of our writers try to fathom von Trier’s extreme narrative of conjugal meltdown while in our interview with the director he explains some of the ideas behind the film.
Also out at the cinema in July is Duncan Jones’s Moon, a great new addition to British science fiction cinema. In the DVD releases, we take a look at Roger Corman’s Depression-era crime saga Bloody Mama and discover Jacques Tati’s little-known Parade.
We talk to Claire Denis about her new film 35 Shots of Rhum, report on this year’s Sydney Film Festival’s focus on female directors and assess the state of gay cinema through an account of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and a review of Boys on Film 2: In Too Deep.
We are also very proud to have an interview with Dario Argento, who was a guest at Cine-Excess last month. And in the Short Cuts section, we talk to artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about the films they made to accompany the re-release of the whole back catalogue of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
COMPETITION:
We have a copy of Bloody Mama to win (released by Optimum), kindly given away by Close-Up. By buying a film or a book through their online shop you will help them in their very exciting project of creating a not-for-profit Film Library. To enter the competition, just spin the Film Roulette. Closing date for entries: Wednesday 29 July.
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