{"id":444,"date":"2011-06-30T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T09:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/archive\/?p=444"},"modified":"2011-07-06T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T10:01:56","slug":"issue-52-apocalypse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/archive\/2011\/06\/30\/issue-52-apocalypse-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 52: Apocalypse Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kaboom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nTheme: Apocalypse Now<\/b>
\n–Kaboom<\/I><\/A>
\n–Stake Land<\/I><\/A>
\n–Akira<\/I><\/A>
\n–Who Can Kill a Child?<\/I><\/A>
\n–Mad Max<\/I><\/A>
\n–Richard Kelly<\/A>
\n–Dog Days<\/A>

\nInterviews<\/b>
\n–Gregg Araki<\/A>
\n–Jan &#352vankmajer<\/A>

\nFilm Reviews<\/b>
\n–Cr&#237a Cuervos<\/I><\/A>
\n–Alice<\/I><\/A>
\n–Viva Riva!<\/I><\/A>
\n–Mammuth<\/I><\/A>
\n–Cutter’s Way<\/I><\/A>
\n–You Are Here<\/I><\/A>

\nDVD Reviews<\/b>
\n–L’&#226ge d’or<\/I><\/A>
\n–Cross of Iron<\/I><\/A>
\n–Treme<\/I><\/A>
\n–The New York Ripper<\/I><\/A>

\nComic Strip Review<\/B>
\nHardware<\/I><\/A>

\nAlter Ego<\/b>
\nSimon Morden<\/A>

\nBlog<\/b>
\n–Cannes<\/A>
\n–Terracotta<\/A>

\nPodcast<\/b>
\nKim Newman on Nightmare Movies<\/I><\/A>
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\tApocalypse Now: deserted cities, sinister machines, survivalist dogs<\/B><\/p>\n

To mark the publication of our first book, The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology<\/I><\/A>, we explore apocalyptic cinema<\/A> with an interview with Gregg Araki<\/A> for his new film Kaboom<\/I><\/A>, a delirious conspiracy comedy, and reviews of new vampire road movie Stake Land<\/I><\/A>, landmark anim\u00c3\u00a9 Akira<\/I><\/A> and Spanish 70s chiller Who Can Kill a Child?<\/I><\/A> plus a Comic Strip Review of Richard Stanley’s legendary Hardware<\/I><\/A>. We also have articles on Mad Max<\/I><\/A>, Richard Kelly,<\/A> dogs in survivalist fantasy<\/A> and the British apocalypse while rocket scientist and SF writer Simon Morden<\/A> chooses Twelve Monkeys<\/I>‘ hero James Cole as his end-of-the-world alter ego.<\/p>\n

Two masterworks of cinema can be seen on UK screens this month: Carlos Saura’s haunting drama Cr&#237a Cuervos<\/I><\/A> and Jan &#352vankmajer’s wonderfully sinister Alice<\/I><\/A> – read our interview with &#352vankmajer<\/A>. New releases include Congolese gangster film Viva Riva!<\/I><\/A>, anarchic French farce Mammuth<\/I><\/A> and the re-release of intriguing Jeff Bridges thriller Cutter’s Way<\/I><\/A>. We also review the standout of this year’s Sci-Fi London, the inventive cerebral puzzle You Are Here<\/I><\/A>. <\/p>\n

In the DVDs, we look at Bu&#241uel and Dal&#237’s surrealist classic L’&#226ge d’or<\/I><\/A>, Sam Peckinpah’s brilliantly bitter Cross of Iron<\/I><\/A>, New Orleans saga Treme<\/I><\/A> and Lucio Fulci’s bad-taste shocker The New York Ripper<\/I><\/A>. In the Blog you can read reports on Cannes<\/A> and Terracotta<\/A>.<\/p>\n

PODCAST:<\/B><\/A>
\nKim Newman on Nightmare Movies<\/I>:<\/B><\/A> Horror maestro Kim Newman discusses the new, updated edition of his essential book Nightmare Movies: Horror on the Screen since the 1960s<\/I> with Virginie S\u00c3\u00a9lavy.<\/p>\n

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