Yearly Archives: 2009

Radio and Podcasts

World cinema spring 2009

Paolo Sorrentino directs Il Divo
Paolo Sorrentino directs Il Divo

I’M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP
In a special extra edition of I’m Ready for My Close-Up, heralding the start of spring, Alex Fitch and Jessica Fostekew look at two new critically acclaimed world cinema releases. Alex Fitch interviews director Christophe Van Rompaey and star Jurgen Delnaet of the new Belgian rom-com Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding in Moscou), while Jess Fostekew talks to director Paolo Sorrentino about his new film Il Divo, which chronicles the life of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti who has been tried for murder and for ties to the Mafia.

(N.B. this is an extra edition of IRFMCU in addition to the regular 10.30pm show)

6pm 26/03/09 Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

audioListen to the podcast of the interviews with Christophe Van Rompaey and Jurgen Delnaet + Paolo Sorrentino + Alex Fitch reviews the Spanish science fiction thriller Timecrimes (Los cronocrí­menes) and David Warwick looks at Geoffrey Malins’s new DVD The Battle of the Somme (1916).

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Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Toby Haggith (Imperial War Museum) and Andrew Robertshaw (National Army Museum) about the restoration of The Battle of the Somme
Listen to Jessica Fostekew’s previous appearance on IRFMCU: delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue

Electric Sheep in Print

Electric Sheep Magazine Spring 09

The spring issue of Electric Sheep focuses on Tainted Love to celebrate the release of the sweet and bloody pre-teen vampire romance Let the Right One In, with articles on incestuous cinematic siblings, Franí§ois Ozon’s tales of tortuous relationships, destructive passion in Nic Roeg’s Bad Timing, Julio Medem’s ambiguous lovers and nihilistic tenderness from Kôji Wakamatsu.

The magazine is no longer available and we are no longer published by Wallflower Press.

Also in this issue: interview with Pascal Laugier, film in Berlin from squat cinema to the Berlinale, the Polish New Wave, screen vamps, comic strip on the Watchmen film adaptation, and Ipso Facto’s top films.

Radio and Podcasts

The films of Rex Bloomstein

Rex Bloomstein filming An Independent Mind
Rex Bloomstein filming An Independent Mind

audioFirst broadcast as a special episode of Resonance FM’s film show I’m Ready for My Close-Up. Alex Fitch talks to director Rex Bloomstein about his films Traitors to Hitler (1979), KZ (2006) and An Independent Mind (2008) in advance of a screening of the former at the Imperial War Museum as part of a weekend of films and talks about the 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler (including a screening of Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise). Bloomstein talks about documenting persecution and freedom of speech on film and notions of psychogeography in the documentary process.

For more info about this podcast and a variety of different formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org


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Interview with Rex following a screening of KZ at the Sundance Film Festival
Rex Bloomstein’s page on the British Documentary Website dfgdocs.com
Imperial War Museum website

Radio and Podcasts

Radio: Being Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell in My name is Bruce
Bruce Campbell in My name is Bruce

Alex Fitch talks to legendary B-movie actor Bruce Campbell about his new film My name is Bruce, which sees the actor directing, producing and playing a fictionalised version of himself on screen. Campbell is kidnapped by a fan and taken to the small town of Gold Lick, Oregon (pop. 333), to save the locals from an ancient Chinese demon prefaced by his own country and Western musical numbers… Campbell also talks about his career so far, his appearance in memorable films by Sam Raimi such as the Evil Dead and the Spider-Man trilogy, and his experience of dealing with fandom over the years.

5pm 20/02/09 Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / extended (sweary!) podcast online now at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio

Links:
Bruce Campbell’s website
More info on the My name is Bruce DVD

Watch the trailer for My Name Is Bruce:

Radio and Podcasts

Jeff Keen + Ear Cinema

A Home Movie by Jeff Keen
A Home Movie by Jeff Keen

I’M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP
For one night only (unless we inveigle them into doing more), the team of Resonance’s long missed Sunday night show Midnight Sex Talk are reunited on air for a special episode of I’m Ready for My Close-Up…
Alex Fitch talks to Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan about the films of experimental filmmaker Jeff Keen, whose work is about to be showcased in four programmes at the BFI Southbank over the next couple of weeks and in a definitive DVD box-set. Keen’s work ranges from comic book-inspired free-for-alls featuring cameos by The Flash, The Spirit and Mickey Mouse, to vaguely erotic scenes of debauchery in squats, and apocalyptic visions in ancient quarries.

10.30pm 12/02/09, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Screenings of Keen’s work are on at the BFI Southbank on the 17, 19, 25 and 27 February 2009 – more info on the BFI website.

audio Listen to the podcast of the discussion of Jeff Keen’s work + Alex Fitch talks to Wajid Yaseen, the artistic director of Ear Cinema, about their touring project Late Noon Sun, which uses silent movie tropes and iconography in a haunting theatrical installation about murder and magic that combines projection and performance in an immersive 360-degree experience.

Late Noon Sun is next on at The Colchester Arts Centre on 18 February 2009. For future performances visit the Ear Cinema website for more info.

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links:
BFI’s Jeff Keen DVD box-set
Listen to Kim Morgan’s previous film reviews
Tania Glyde’s blog and info about her book Cleaning Up: How I Gave up Drinking and Lived
Archive of Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan’s previous shows at www.midnightsextalk.com
Ear Cinema

Radio and Podcasts

Julien Temple&#39s Eternity Man

The Eternity Man presentation at the Locarno film festival - Julien Temple, Director; Christa Hughes, actress; Rosemary Blight, producer
The Eternity Man presentation at the Locarno film festival - Julien Temple, Director; Christa Hughes, actress; Rosemary Blight, producer

audioIn an interview recorded just before a theatrical screening of The Eternity Man at the Barbican, Alex Fitch talks to director Julien Temple about his film version of the modern opera by Dorothy Porter and Jonathan Mills. The Eternity Man tells the true story of Arthur Stace who wandered the streets of Sydney for two generations, writing the word ‘Eternity’ in chalk on a myriad of surfaces. Temple’s film vividly brings to life this modern avatar of the Wandering Jew. Temple also discusses the rest of his work from Absolute Beginners to Pandaemonium as well as the use of a combination of fact and fiction on screen.

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Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini – The Magic of Classics

Notorious
Notorious

audioIn a Q & A recorded live at the Roxy Bar and Screen, Alex Fitch talks to magician Granville Markland about depictions of magic and magicians on the big screen, focusing on the work of Harry Houdini in such films as The Man from Beyond (1922) and the more recent blurring of fact and fiction in movies like The Prestige and The Illusionist.

+ Alex Fitch talks to musician and comedy writer Robin Warren from the band Liberation Jumpsuit about the recent BFI cinema re-releases of Hitchcock’s Notorious and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1931), which combine suspense and eroticism to beguiling effect.

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Liberation Jumpsuit
Info about Granville Markland’s performances at the Imperial War Museum

Electric Sheep in Print

Electric Sheep Magazine Winter 08

The winter issue of Electric Sheep explores celluloid snow with articles on Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, Aki Kaurismäki’s Calamari Union, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Christmas slasher movies and cult Japanese revenge tale Lady Snowblood. Plus interview with Asif Kapadia, preview of the London Short Film Festival, reviews of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata and Béla Tarr’s The Man from London, and a comic strip review of Kamikaze Girls!

The magazine is no longer available and we are no longer published by Wallflower Press.

Also in this issue: Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski, Lotte Reiniger’s animated fairy tales, Seeing Double review of Salí² or the 120 Days of Sodom.