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Kim Newman on Johnny Alucard

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Dracula by Andy Warhol

audioAuthor and film critic Kim Newman talks to Virginie S&#233lavy about Johnny Alucard, the latest and fourth instalment in his Anno Dracula series, which charts an alternative history of Dracula from 1888 to 1991, weaving in historical and fictional characters from Queen Victoria to Francis Ford Coppola.

Read an extract from Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard.

Anno Dracula was set in a Victorian England ruled by vampires after Dracula successfully invaded Britain and married Queen Victoria. Its sequel, The Bloody Red Baron, took place during World War I. In the third volume, Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Dracula got married in 1950s Rome while the latest episode, Johnny Alucard, sees the story move from Transylvania to America between 1976 and 1991.

In the podcast, Kim Newman discusses the rules behind the Anno Dracula series, the vampire as dominant cultural icon, Dracula and Heart of Darkness, vampirism and celebrity, Andy Warhol and Orson Welles.

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Filmmakers on Comics: Nicolas Roeg and Sandy Lieberson

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Nic Roeg and Sandy Lieberson

audioAlex Fitch talks to two filmmakers who are regular attendees at Ian Rakoff’s comic book lectures at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Acclaimed film director Nicolas Roeg discusses his interest in comics and museum culture, how he nearly directed the 1980 adaptation of Flash Gordon and why the BBC wouldn’t let him choose Desert Island Discs for Radio 4’s Cultural Exchange. American Producer Sandy Lieberson, who worked with Roeg on Performance, talks about his love of classic newspaper strips, distinctions between high and low art and his involvement in The Magic Roundabout and Dougal and the Blue Cat. (Originally broadcast 30 September 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Nic Roeg’s memoir The World is Ever Changing is published in paperback by Faber & Faber.

For more info and formats to stream/download, visit www.archive.org.

Podcast produced by Alex Fitch

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Reconstructing Nightbreed

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Nightbreed

audioTo coincide with its tour of America, in a panel discussion recorded in Welwyn Garden City, actors Simon Bamford (Ohnaka) and Nick Vince (Kinski), restoration producer Russell Cherrington and restoration editor Jimmy Johnson discuss the reconstruction of the director’s cut of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, which is being presented at various venues to help fund a high definition print. The panel discuss the edits imposed on Barker by the studio, the disappointment felt by many regarding the bowdlerised version released in 1990 and how with the help of various formats and sources, a reedit of all the existing footage was mounted to restore the film to its original version. (Originally broadcast 26 July 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Nightbreed: the Cabal Cut will be screening in various locations across America during Summer and Autumn 2013, with an additional Australian showing in Melbourne in August.

For more information and formats to stream/download, visit www.archive.org.

Podcast produced by Alex Fitch

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Spike Lee on Crowdfunding

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Still of Spike Lee from his Kickstarter campaign video & an example of what his new film is not about

audioAlex Fitch talks to American film maker Spike Lee about his recent Kickstarter campaign to fund a new movie about ‘blood addiction’. They also discuss his forthcoming remake of Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy, Lee’s thoughts on blaxplotation films such as Blacula and the director’s continuing enjoyment of being a film tutor. (Originally broadcast 18 August 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Spike Lee’s Kickstarter campaign ended on 21 August 2013 and has reached the film-maker’s $1.25m target.

For more info and formats to stream/download, visit www.archive.org.

Podcast produced by Alex Fitch

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Reinventing the Portmanteau Film

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T is for Toilet

audio Alex Fitch talks to two directors of short films – Lee Hardcastle and Mitch Jenkins – about contributing to longer portmanteau works. Lee discusses his seminal short ‘Pingu’s The Thing’ and ‘T is for Toilet’, his contribution to the new horror movie The ABCs of Death. Mitch talks about his collaborations with Alan Moore on the photo novella Unearthing and series of short films Jimmy’s End, which he’s currently using a kickstarter campaign to fund its concluding chapter ‘His Heavy Heart’. (Originally broadcast 12 July 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

The ABCs of Death is released on DVD/Blu-ray in the UK on 22 July 2013 by Monster Pictures.

The ‘His Heavy Heart’ fundraising campaign ended on 17 July 2013 and successfully raised its funding goal.

Director websites: Lee Hardcastle, Mitch Jenkins

For more info and formats to stream/download, visit www.archive.org.

Podcast produced by Alex Fitch

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Ben Wheatley on A Field in England

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A Field in England

audioOne of the most talented contemporary British directors, Ben Wheatley revitalised the British crime thriller genre with his brilliant 2009 debut Down Terrace, following it up with the acclaimed horror/gangster tale hybrid Kill List in 2011 and the hilariously dark comedy Sightseers last year. He talks to Virginie S&#233lavy about his new film, A Field in England, a demented bucolic psychedelic trip about a group of deserters and an evil alchemist set during the English Civil War.

A Field in England was released on Friday 5 July. It is the first film to be released in UK nationwide cinemas, on free TV, on DVD and on Video-on-Demand on the same day, in a partnership between Film4, Picturehouse Entertainment and 4DVD. More information on the A Field in England website.

First broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM on Friday 5 July 2013.

Watch the They’re Over Here Devil! trailer:

A Field In England – They’re over here Devil! from Rook Films on Vimeo.

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The Last Horror Movie Actor: Kevin Howarth

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The Last Horror Movie

audio Ahead of the release of his new film The Seasoning House, Alex Fitch talks to actor Kevin Howarth about his career so far, from his memorable lead role in The Last Horror Movie (2003) to his forthcoming zombie action movie GallowWalkers with Wesley Snipes. Howarth talks about resisting his typecasting as a horror film actor, working as a voice artist on video games and the experiences of working with make-up artist Paul Hyett on various projects before the latter turned director on The Seasoning House. (Originally broadcast 21 June 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

The Seasoning House is released on 21 June 2013 in UK cities by Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

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Podcast produced by Alex Fitch

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Mirage Men: UFOs, myth-making and the US government

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Mirage Men

audio Author and Strange Attractor publisher Mark Pilkington, author and filmmaker Roland Denning and artist Kypros Kyprianou talk about their fascinating documentary Mirage Men (co-directed by John Lundberg). A companion to Mark Pilkington’s book of the same title, the film offers an extraordinary insight into the American government’s manipulation of beliefs about UFOs to create a myth that would serve their counterintelligence strategy.

For more information on the film please go to the Mirage Men website.

First broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM on Friday 28 July 2013.

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Kristinia Buozyte on Vanishing Waves

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Vanishing Waves

audio In an interview recorded at Sci-Fi-London earlier this month, Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte talks to Virginie S&#233lavy about her film Vanishing Waves, a hypnotic, sensual sci-fi experience in which a scientist connects with the brain of a comatose patient with whom he has increasingly intense neural encounters, which gradually reveal what happened to her.

For more information on Vanishing Waves, please visit the Facebook page.

First broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM on Friday 17 May 2013.
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Kier-La Janisse on House of Psychotic Women

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Hardback cover of House of Psychotic Women

audio Montreal-based writer Kier-La Janisse, who is also programmer for the SF Indie Film Festival, director of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies and web director of Fangoria Magazine, talks to Virginie S&#233lavy about her latest book, House of Psychotic Women (FAB Press), an autobiographical study of female madness in horror and exploitation films.

First broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM on Friday 19 April 2013.