Independent film in the big smoke and occasionally beyond
The subjects of adverts and independent cinema seem to be joined at the hip of late after the hub bub surrounding the Nike/ Beautiful Loosers marketing, Eurostar/ Somer’s Town release and Harmony Korine’s Thornton’s/ Budweiser campaigns and so on. And heck why should September buck the trend as Shane Meadow’s jumps into the fray again with his latest directorial outting, a UK tv ad campaign as part of the “Act on CO2” campaign. Continue reading ‘Meadow’s New Environmental Ad Costs the Earth’
(Spotted in today’s Metro during my morning commute). Presenting the Autumn ‘08 Knitwear collection from Co-operative Designs (London based knitwear label headed up by Annalisa Dunn and Dorothee Hagemann) that were inspired by the film’s of Dario Argento and Jan Švankmajer. As you’d imagine muses such as these won’t give way to your everyday bobble hats & scarves, but looking over the creations they are decidedly less unsettling than I would have expected (no creepy string puppets here, just lots of Llamas). Continue reading ‘Knitting Argento & Švankmajer’
My criteria for judging films in Cannes is probably a little skewed, watching on average five films a day (and in one case eight) what I want from a film changes. I know it is the reason why I gave up on Leonera, straight after Delta and film 6 of the day, I couldn’t cope with babies crying and women screaming. Continue reading ‘Cannes ‘08 Highlights…’
I was flicking through the pages of Tony Nourmand & Graham Marsh’s book ‘Film Posters: Horror‘ whilst passing time in Oxford Street’s HMV a few weeks back. As I admired the genres retro and eclectic artwork I was taken aback by one in particular - an exceptionally abstract and unconventional poster for ‘The Fly’. Even amidst the often surreal and crazy posters thrown up by the genre it stood out a mile. The poster was a simplified computer-like illustration of a grey human/ fly creature doubled over, regurgitating a yellow substance on the floor set against a bold red backdrop. Thematically it was of course very much in tune with the tone and the narrative of the film, but still felt a world away from virtually every other poster in the book.
Starting next Wednesday in conjunction with Faber & Faber every bodies favourite cinema (on Shaftesbury Avenue) is hosting the first of its film quiz nights. Host for the evening will be author of Ten Bad Dates with De Niro Richard T. Kelly (hence the name Ten Rounds with De Niro)
With photo shoots requiring the same elaborate production values and styling of a film shoot, you’d surely be forgiven for mistaking the work of New York photographer Gregory Crewdson’s as stills from a Lynch/ Cronenberg-esque upcoming feature…(images from his upcoming exhibition certainly caught me off guard whilst browsing the first few pages of Sight and Sound this month)
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