Tom Benn is Roy Batty
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The author of gritty urban noir The Doll Princess explains why his filmic Alter Ego is Roy Batty in Blade Runner.
Feature by Eithne Farry
CURRENT ARTICLES
Barry Adamson’s Film Jukebox (0)
26/1/12 •
For the first Film Jukebox compiler of 2012, who better than Barry Adamson, writer of imaginary film soundtracks and a musician who’s long been associated with cinematic sounds.
Feature by Delia Sparrer
Road to Nowhere: Interview with Monte Hellman (0)
23/1/12 •
Monte Hellman talks about his latest film, Road to Nowhere, about a young director shooting a crime drama based on a true story.
Interview by Pamela Jahn
Everybody Dies (1)
19/1/12 •
In cinema, Horatios abound; survivors of massacres and shoot-outs, who live on older and wiser, like on-screen audience members.
Feature by John Bleasdale
The Ceaseless Noise of Space: Alternative 3 (0)
17/1/12 •
In 1977, Anglia Television decided to round off its Science Report documentary series with an April Fools gag purporting to show evidence of a scientific colony being developed in secret on Mars.
Column by Robert Barry
Ghostwatch (0)
12/1/12 •
Such was the furore Ghostwatch caused after its first and only ever BBC broadcast on October 31, 1992 that the staff of the Radio Times was briefed never to mention the programme again.
Feature by James Rose
Dreileben: A crime trilogy from New German Cinema (0)
19/12/11 •
The three-part German TV project Dreileben was directed by three of the country’s leading filmmakers, Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochhäusler.
Featury by Pamela Jahn
The Artist: The Sound of Silence (0)
16/12/11 •
Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist may be the first ‘silent film’ made in America to trouble the attention of the Oscars committee for several generations.
Column by Robert Barry
The Films of Larry Fessenden (0)
16/12/11 •
The innovative horror director, actor and producer talks about using the genre to foster respect for nature, the subjective quality of reality and the importance of myths.
Interview by Alex Fitch
PREVIOUS ARTICLES
- London Korean Film Festival Shorts
- Bloody-Minded Auteurs from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse
- Gaggle’s Film Jukebox
- Scarlett Bailey is Scarlett O’Hara
- Outrage: Interview with Takeshi Kitano
- Vanessa Gebbie is Gozzi the Gunsmith
- Take Shelter: Interview with Michael Shannon
- The Deep Blue Sea: Interview with Terence Davies
- Underwater Love: Interview with Stereo Total
- Black Rain: Music for the End of Time
- A Special Klaus Kinski Film Jukebox by Raechel Leigh Carter
recent Alter Ego
27/1/12 •
Tom Benn is Roy Batty09/12/11 •
Scarlett Bailey is Scarlett O’Hara08/8/11 •
Nick Lake is Zatoichi04/7/11 •
Cressida Connelly is Dumbo03/6/11 •
Simon Morden is Twelve Monkeys’ James Cole
recent Film Jukebox
26/1/12 •
Barry Adamson’s Film Jukebox16/11/11 •
A Special Klaus Kinski Film Jukebox by Raechel Leigh Carter28/10/11 •
Race Horses’ Film Jukebox13/9/11 •
Peggy Sue’s Film Jukebox29/7/11 •
Crystal Stilts’ Film Jukebox
recent Interviews
23/1/12 •
Road to Nowhere: Interview with Monte Hellman19/12/11 •
Dreileben: A crime trilogy from New German Cinema16/12/11 •
The Films of Larry Fessenden06/12/11 •
Outrage: Interview with Takeshi Kitano25/11/11 •
Take Shelter: Interview with Michael Shannon
recent Reel Sounds
17/1/12 •
The Ceaseless Noise of Space: Alternative 318/11/11 •
Black Rain: Music for the End of Time19/10/11 •
Phase IV: Synthphony for the Ant Nation01/9/11 •
Sounds of Fear21/8/11 •
Yasunao Tone and Galaxy
recent Short Cuts
26/10/11 •
Lipsett Diaries: A Tormented Life Animated19/5/11 •
Al Jarnow: Navigations through Time and Light31/3/11 •
Deadly Role Reversals: Birds Eye View’s Horror Shorts28/2/11 •
Butterfly Women and Cursed Cassettes: Music and Video Shorts at LSFF 201103/1/11 •
London Short Film Festival 2011: Leftfield and Luscious
