{"id":85,"date":"2009-03-05T05:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricsheepmagazine.wordpress.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2013-08-25T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T21:08:01","slug":"im-ready-for-my-close-up-the-films-of-rex-bloomstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/events\/2009\/03\/im-ready-for-my-close-up-the-films-of-rex-bloomstein\/","title":{"rendered":"The films of Rex Bloomstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rex Bloomstein filming An Independent Mind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"audio\"<\/a>First broadcast as a special episode of Resonance FM’s film show I’m Ready for My Close-Up. Alex Fitch talks to director Rex Bloomstein about his films Traitors to Hitler<\/em> (1979), KZ <\/em>(2006) and An Independent Mind <\/em>(2008) in advance of a screening of the former at the Imperial War Museum as part of a weekend of films and talks about the 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler (including a screening of Valkyrie <\/em>starring Tom Cruise). Bloomstein talks about documenting persecution and freedom of speech on film and notions of psychogeography in the documentary process.<\/p>\n

For more info about this podcast and a variety of different formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org<\/a>
\n

\nUse iTunes?<\/a><\/p>\n

Links:
\nInterview with Rex following a screening of KZ<\/em> at the Sundance Film Festival<\/em><\/a> <\/em>
\n Rex Bloomstein’s page on the British Documentary Website dfgdocs.com<\/em><\/a>
\nImperial War Museum<\/em> website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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