Independent film in the big smoke and occasionally beyond
Elaborate fanfare please! Yes it’s easy to give your blog the world premiere of a poster when you work for the company distributing it, and even more so when it was you who was in charge of overseeing the design of it. But I guess if you’ve got it then flaunt it, and so I present to you the official UK poster for Guy Maddin’s docu-fantasia ‘My Winnipeg‘, which will be in UK cinemas from July 4th. Continue reading ‘UK Winnipeg Poster- World Exclusive’
This time its author Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) calling for users to submit short films through the site, which have been inspired by characters from his new book ‘The Witch of Portobello’. These films will then be magically mashed together to become a 52 min film ‘The Experimental Witch’… oh dear. (news spotted over on Screen Daily).
….they not only have the finances to deck out a bespoke ice cream van to parade around London advertising a DVD release, but also finances to pay people to think up these ideas. At first it didn’t seem all that random, but in hindsight what does an ice cream van have to do with Juno? Are they peddling birth control warnings whilst dishing out ice cream to kids or maybe they’re dropping Juno branded condoms into the bottom of their screwballs?
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.
Gracing the front cover of this month’s Barbican brochure isn’t the sort of ‘Indy’ film fair I’m used to seeing. Even more eye catching is their slogan slapped across the front ‘Do something different’- well I guess seeing a blockbuster film at the Barbican on the day of release rather than at your local multiplex could be construed as doing something different.
Write on Film will (in a short while) be home to your one stop home to independent film events and screenings in London that you won’t find at your local multiplex. We’re looking to highlight and promote the weird and wonderful world of film in this fair city, if you know of something that we should be featuring here then please drop an e-mail to,
events@writeonfilm.com
Thank you.
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