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electric sheep magazine - a deviant view of cinema
The film magazine that doesn't toe the line - published monthly online and quarterly in print..
 Electric Sheep is re-launching in June as a quarterly magazine published by Wallflower Press. Each issue will explore a different theme taken from the dark cinematic basement we have made our home. It will contain exclusive in-depth features and interviews as well as outlandishly beautiful images and original illustrations not available on the website. Electric Sheep online will continue to review weird, wild and wonderful film and DVD releases every month.
LAUNCH PARTY: We'll be officially launching the new print magazine during the Tiger Film Festival party at the ICA Bar (London) on 31 May. The party will kick off at 8PM with live visuals and some fabulous DJing from Thomas Breslin and headliner, Tom Ravenscroft. Free!
SUNDAY SHOCK THERAPY: We’ve teamed up with the newly-opened, fabulous Vibe Live to create an electrifying film matinee. For our first event on SUNDAY 11 MAY, we are proud to present a rare gem, the crazed 1973 Sex and Fury (courtesy of Fabulous Films), one of the most over the top of the ‘pinky violence’ films to come out of 70s Japan, with spies, anarchists, yakuzas, poisoned perfume and nude sword fighting, all wrapped up in madcap inventiveness and surreal beauty! The next Sunday Shock Therapy is on Sunday 8 June and to coincide with the launch of our June print issue we’ll be showing Ralph Bakshi’s hilarious Fritz the Cat; adapted from Robert Crumb’s counter-culture satire, the film has the dubious honour of being America’s first X-rated cartoon...
As most of our readers must be well aware by now given the amount of media attention it is generating, it is 40 years since May 68 and to do our bit to mark that most tumultuous of years we have turned our attention to Czech cinema and the Prague Spring. We also have reviews of four key 1960s Czech films: Jan Nemec’s subversive satire of authoritarian rule The Party and the Guests, the formidably creepy nightmare that is The Cremator, the sumptuous and brutal epic Marketa Lazarova and Romeo, Juliet and Darkness, a melancholy love story under German occupation.
New cinema releases include Barbet Schroeder’s Terror’s Advocate, which probes the complex personality of France’s most controversial lawyer, defender of both resistance fighters and war criminals, American backwater revenge tale Shotgun Stories, slick CGI animé Vexille, wonderful Argentine silent fantasy La Antena, and intelligent French drama Heartbeat Detector, which draws parallels between Nazi terminology and modern-day business. In the DVD releases we review Chris Petit’s haunting British road movie Radio On(our rock ’n’ roll movie of the month by virtue of its great soundtrack) and the jaw-dropping, must-see-to-be-believed Italian art-cum-sexploitation spectacular Femina Ridens (The Frightened Woman).
We have an interview with Xavier Mendik, organiser of the Cine-Excess festival, which explores cult cinema through a mix of academic conference and film screenings. We also preview the Fashion in Film Festival, which this year focuses on fashion and crime, and review sweet Taiwanese queer love story Spider Lilies, which showed at last month’s London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
In the Short Cuts section we look at the early works of François Ozon, director of Swimming Pool and 8 femmes. Picking their favourite films in our Film Jukebox are The Mai 68s. We didn’t make this up, there really is a band called The Mai 68s.
Win a DVD copy of The Party and the Guests (courtesy of Second Run) + a copy of Peter Hames’s The Czechoslovak New Wave (courtesy of Wallflower Press). To enter the competition, just spin the Film Roulette! Closing date for entries: Wednesday 28 May.
Electric Sheep on Resonance FM - Friday 9 May, 5pm: Alex Fitch, Richard Thomas and Virginie Sélavy discuss La Antena and silence in films.
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