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THE ELECTRIC SHEEP FILM CLUBEvery second Wednesday of the month, Prince Charles Cinema. WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY, Prince Charles Cinema, 8pm : KISS ME DEADLY Here’s your antidote to forthcoming Valentine soppiness: promising ‘red-blood kisses’ and ‘white-hot thrills’, Kiss Me Deadly is a noir classic that has lost none of its power to shock and surprise. Private investigator Mike Hammer, a thuggish, macho anti-hero, is drawn into a bottomless pit of conspiracy and corruption after picking up a mysterious and beautiful hitch-hiker. Exposing the black soul of America in the atomic age, this is as hard-boiled as it gets. Price: £6.50/£4.00 Prince Charles members (new 2010 prices) Certificate 12 Dir: Robert Aldrich, USA 1955 FILM WRITING COMPETITION: Film students and aspiring film writers are invited to enter our film writing competition: write a 200-word review of Kiss Me Deadly and send it to ladyvengeance@electricsheepmagazine.com, marked 'Film writing competition' in the subject line. Jason Wood, director of programming at Curzon Cinemas, film journalist and author of 100 American Independent Films and 100 Road Movies among others, will select the best review. Deadline: Thursday 25 February. The selected review will be published on the Electric Sheep website in March. This is a regular feature of the Electric Sheep Film Club. You can read November's winning review of Repulsion here. Next screening: WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH - Special Guy Maddin double bill!  ELECTRIC SHEEP SUBTERRANEAElectric Sheep Magazine hosts a Rough Trade Shops’ RoTa afternoon of film, music and comics in the underbelly of Notting Hill. SATURDAY 6 FEBRUARY, Notting Hill Arts Club, 4-8pm, FREE : THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA + DJ score by DJ Downfall The earliest film version of the legendary figure and one of the first silent horror films, The Phantom of the Opera (1925) stars the great Lon Chaney as the horribly disfigured Erik who leads a secret and lonely existence beneath the Paris Opera. After falling in love with a beautiful young singer, he holds her prisoner in his underground lair. Darkly poetic and full of visual delights, the film creates a startling world of nightmarish beauty while Chaney superbly brings out the terrible humanity of the monster. The film will be shown with a live DJ rescore by DJ Downfall. Certificate: PG Dir: Rupert Julian, USA, 1925, 93 mins Courtesy of Eureka Entertainment + WE ARE WORDS + PICTURES COMICS STALL We Are Words + Pictures are a London-based team of illustrators and writers who bring comics to new readers through events, workshops, publications and market stalls. WAW+P will be bringing illustrator Anna Saunders to Electric Sheep Subterranea, where she'll be drawing alongside the screening, as well as a selection of 'zines and comics, which will be on sale in the bar. WAW+P are contributors to the new anthology Solipsistic Pop edited by Eagle Award winner Tom Humberstone, which aims to showcase the best in current British small press and underground comic books, and will be available for sale at the event. +DJS AND SHORT FILMS  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. ELECTRIC SHEEP PODCASTS Alex Fitch talks to writer, editor and raconteur Ian Rakoff about his experiences working on The Prisoner. Joseph Strick podcast: Alex Fitch talks to the Oscar-winning director about his career, from working as a US Airforce photographer during the Second World War to directing adaptations of challenging texts such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Jean Genet’s The Balcony. Zombie cinema podcast: In an early Halloween special, Alex Fitch talks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the producer of the innovative Canadian Horror film Pontypool and Mark Price, director of the excellent British living dead film Colin about their new approaches to the zombie genre on a limited budget. Sophie Mayer talks to Sally Potter on the occasion of the release of her multi-platform new film Rage. Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch at Cinephilia West Dario Argento + Goblin 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 JodorowskyMAGAZINE 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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