The Electric Sheep Film Show February 2016

Frankenstein
Frankenstein

audioFrankenstein revived, Superman Lives: In the February Film Show, Virginie Sélavy and Alex Fitch talk to Jasper Sharp, the artistic director of the Asia House Film Festival, which runs from 22 Feb to 5 March. Also on the show, the actor Tony Todd discusses Bernard Rose’s new adaptation of Frankenstein, while director (Jon Schnepp) and producers (Holly Payne, Robert Pierce) talk about their documentary The Death of Superman Lives.

The Electric Sheep Film Show is broadcast every third Wednesday of the month, 8-9pm at Resonance FM 104.4. Next date: Wednesday 16 March 2016.

This show was first broadcast on Wednesday 17 February 2016.

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Rich Pickings Presents: The Parallax View

The Parallax View
The Parallax View

Format: Screening/talk

Part of Glasgow Film Festival and Rich Pickings

Date: 23 February 2016

Venue: CCA, Glasgow

We continue our partnership with Rich Pickings for their series of science and film events, which bring together filmmakers and scientists to explore various aspects of the human experience. View a list of all events in this series here.

A screening of ’70s masterpiece The Parallax View and discussion with experts in conspiracy theory psychology and cinema.

The Parallax View (Dir. Alan J Pakula, 1h38m, Cert 15)

Newspaper reporter Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) begins investigating the assassination of a presidential candidate from several years ago, and is drawn into a dangerous world of conspiracy and cover-up. Going undercover and assuming a new identity, he finds himself at the centre of a new and terrifying plot…

The screening is followed by a panel discussion on some of the themes in the film, and its political and creative context. Speakers include Prof. Karen Douglas, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent, who studies the psychology of conspiracy theories and the social consequences of conspiracism as well as Dr David Archibald, Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Film and Television Studies at University of Glasgow.

Supported by a Wellcome Trust People Award.

Watch the trailer:

Berlinale 2016 Preview

Berlinale 2016
Berlinale 2016

Berlin International Film Festival

11 – 21 February 2016

Berlin, Germany

Berlinale website

Now in it’s 66th year, the Berlinale opens on 11 February 2016 with Hail, Caesar! , the latest offering by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney and other Hollywood greats, which sets the tone for a star-studded festival that still promises to offer plenty of discoveries, some true gems and real treasures across the sidebars as well as in the main Competition line-up.

Screening in Competition, we particularly look forward to Midnight Special by Jeff Nichols, director of Mud and Take Shelter. Starring his long-time collaborator Michael Shannon in another leading role, the film centres on a father and son who go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers. Also competing for a Golden Bear are Boris Without Béatrice, from Denis Côté, who presented his eccentric debut Vic + Flo Saw A Bear at the 2013 Berlinale, Bosnian director Danis Tanović’s Death In Sarajevo (aka Looking For Europe), a film based on the play by French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy, and Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune, which centres on a Danish commune in the 1970s.

Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, will play out of competition, alogside Dominik Moll’s News From Planet Mars, his long-awaited follow-up to The Monk. Plus, we look forward to the latest from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Creepy, which screens in the Berlinale Special strand.

Under the title “Hachimiri Madness – Japanese Indies from the Punk Years”, the Forum is showing a special programme of newly digitised and subtitled Japanese 8-mm films from 1977 to 1990 which breathe the rebellious spirit of that era, very few of them have ever been shown internationally. The series includes Sion Sono’s I am Sion Sono!!, in which the then 22-year-old introduced himself to audiences as a punk poet in nonchalant, self-confident style, and Shinya Tsukamoto’s The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo, a hugely creative, wild cyberpunk drama, while also taking in the largely unknown early works of directors such as Sogo Ishii (today Gakuryu Ishii) and Shinobu Yaguchi, alongside Masashi Yamamoto’s anarchic feature debut Saint Terrorism and Nobuhiro Suwa’s gangster ballad Hanasaseru Gang.

The Berlinale Classics section will open with Fritz Lang’s 1921 silent film classic Der müde Tod (Destiny), presented in a digitally restored version and with new music, which will be performed live by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Also screening in the strand are John Huston’s classic Fat City (1972), The Road Back (1937) directed by James Whale, and Heiner Carow’s East German semi-autobiographical film Die Russen kommen (The Russians are Coming, 1968), which is set in the waning days of World War II and was originally banned before completion by the GDR authorities.

Pamela Jahn

For more information about the programme and how to book tickets visit the Berlinale website.

The Electric Sheep Film Show January 2016

WHO-KILLED-TEDDY-BEAR
Who Killed Teddy Bear © Cigarette Burns

audioBrain Pickings and Cigarette Burns: Virginie Sélavy and Alex Fitch talk to Rich Pickings director Carla MacKinnon, about their new series of science and art events titled Inside Out, which explore the human experience through film and discussion. They also talk to Josh Saco, head of celluloid promotion outfit Cigarette Burns, about their Twisted Valentine screening of 1965 seedy gem Who Killed Teddy Bear at the Barbican Cinema. Plus, an interview with female-centred erotic filmmaker Erika Lust.

The Electric Sheep Film Show is broadcast every third Wednesday of the month, 8-9pm at Resonance FM 104.4. Next date: Wednesday 17 February 2016.

This show was first broadcast on Wednesday 20 January 2016.

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