Guerilla Filmmaking and Fleeing Monsters
In a Q&A recorded live at this year’s Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest, Alex Fitch talks to British director Gareth Edwards about his genre-crossing film Monsters.
In a Q&A recorded live at this year’s Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest, Alex Fitch talks to British director Gareth Edwards about his genre-crossing film Monsters.
To complement this month’s theme of ‘Women on the Verge’, we podcast two Q&As recorded at Electric Sheep film club screenings, discussing Hero and Foxy Brown.
To coincide with the start of a month of horror film releases in the cinema and on DVD in the run up to Halloween, Alex Fitch interviews two veterans of horror cinema, Joe Dante and Tobe Hooper.
During Film4 FrightFest, Alex Fitch interviewed producer Eli Roth and director Daniel Stamm about their new ‘mockumentary’ horror film.
Alex Fitch talks to director Vincenzo Natali about Splice, his previous films with actor David Hewlett, and his forthcoming adaptation of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer.
Alex Fitch talks to BFI programmer Emma Smart about gay themes in Westerns after a screening of Midnight Cowboy and to Ian Rakoff about the crossover between Western-themed comics and movies before a screening of For a few Dollars More.
Alex Fitch talks to Andrzej Żuławski about his struggles in getting his sci-fi epic on The Silver Globe released, and to Polish poster designer Andrzej Klimowski and his wife Danusia Schejbal.
One hell of a movie, with Leone’s cynical world view, sadistically inventive violence, black humour and epic grandeur enriched by Ennio Morricone’s lush score and a phenomenal cast that includes Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Klaus Kinski.
In the latest Electric Sheep podcast, we’re looking at apocalyptic movies: Virginie Sélavy talks to John Hillcoat, director of The Road, plus Alex Fitch talks to Helen McCarthy, a British expert on Japanese visual culture, about Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale.
The Roxy’s Extraordinary Film Season runs from April 4 to June 8 and all films will be introduced by guest speakers, including Electric Sheep writers.