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THE ELECTRIC SHEEP FILM CLUB
Every first Wednesday of the month, Prince Charles Cinema, 8pm.
WEDNESDAY 1 JULY, Prince Charles Cinema, 8pm : OLDBOY
In Park Chan wook’s extraordinary visual assault, a man is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years without knowing why. When he is finally released from this Kafka-esque nightmare, he is hell-bent on revenge and seeks to uncover his tormentor’s identity. What follows is a twisted cat and mouse game that takes the protagonist and the audience through extremes of emotion, exploring the dark energy of vengeance. Exhilarating, horrifying, blackly humorous and heart-wrenching in equal measure, this is an unmissable masterpiece of cinematic cruelty. Oldboy was Park’s breakthrough movie in the UK, cementing his reputation as one of the most original and challenging directors currently making movies in the Far East.
The film will be followed by an informal discussion with Electric Sheep writers in the bar.
Price: £5/£3.50 Prince Charles members
Certificate 18
Dir: Park Chan-wook, South Korea 2003
With thanks to Palisades Tartan
RESONANCE FM
Electric Sheep is an occasional contributor to I'm Ready for My Close-Up, Resonance FM's excellent programme on film and visual culture, broadcast on Thursday nights at 10:30pm and Fridays at 5pm. Coming soon: Electric Sheep interviews with Kenneth Anger and Dario Argento.
ELECTRIC SHEEP PODCASTS
Alex Fitch discusses the films of Jeff Keen with Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan
Hitchcock, Hyde and Houdini - the Magic of Classics
Interview with Peter Greenaway
Interview with Charles Burns
Helen McCarthy discusses Osamu Tezuka
Alex Fitch and Tom Humberstone discuss Dark City
Xavier Mendik, director of Cine-Excess
Alex Fitch and film critic Hannah Patterson discuss Zoo, a documentary that deals with bestiality in a sensitive and intelligent way, after a screening of the film at the Prince Charles on Thursday 12 June 2008.
Alex Fitch and Virginie Sélavy discuss La Antena and modern silent movies
Marjane Satrapi
Winter Podcast, featuring an interview with Rigoberto Castaneda about his film KM31 and an extract from Jessica Fostekew’s performance of the monologue Looking for Sweeney Todd
Asif Kapadia
London Film Festival shorts programmers Simon Young and Philip Ilson
Raindance programmer Suzanne Ballantyne
Allan Moyle
Sandhya Suri
John Maringouin
Alejandro Jodorowsky
MAGAZINE LAUNCH
The print version of Electric Sheep magazine re-launched at the ICA bar in London. Click the photo below for more pics. For more information about the print version, see the Electric Sheep magazine page.
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