SNAKES ON A PLANE - Green Light for Quirk

SNAKES ON A PLANE - Green Light for Quirk

Snakes on a Plane is an action/horror film to be released on August 18, 2006. by New Line Cinema.
Written by David D’Alessandro, John Heffernan, Sheldon Turner, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. The film finished filming principal photography in September of 2005 including five days of additional re-shooting to raise the […]

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HITCHCOCK’S EMD CINEMA - Injustice in Art & History

HITCHCOCK’S EMD CINEMA - Injustice in Art & History

It’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose.
The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco cinemas […]

Architecture, Art, Cinema, Designer, Director, East London, Film, History, Movie, Performance

LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam

LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam

Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure and […]

Cinema, Director, Elusive, Events, Film, Horror, Inspiration, Modern, Movie, Political, Radical, Social, Theatre, War

SPIDERMAN 3 - Preview

SPIDERMAN 3 - Preview

Cast:
Tobey Mcguire as Peter Parker/Spiderman, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, Daniel Gillies as John Jameson, J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko, Topher Grace as Venom, Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Conners, Adrian Lester as a Research Scientist, Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacey, Theresa Russell as Mrs. Marko, […]

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FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

Friday May 19th
Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival.
‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz - gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? - and Carmen Maura, the co-stars […]

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SLAVERY - 500 YEARS LATER

SLAVERY - 500 YEARS LATER

The film is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents.
The Live8 concert in July this year, in London’s Hyde Park was set up to raise awareness about the Black continent issues, but before the first guitar riffs, the gig highlighted one single home truth: Africans should do it for themselves! […]

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THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME - A Timeless Story

THE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME - A Timeless Story

Currently playing at the Arcola Theatre as part of the Africa ‘05 celebrations this is the second time the UK has seen this remarkable performance. Previously staged at Riverside Studios in 1978 to exceptional reviews, it is now restaged by Tiata Fahodzi ( Theatre of the Emancipated ), Britains’ leading African theatre company, under the […]

Director, Drama, Horror, Performance, Theatre, War

SAYLES TECHNIQUE - A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

SAYLES TECHNIQUE - A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

John Sayles’ work tends to act as a social, political and emotional travelogue rather than a straight-line narrative. The films are all about the compromises that exist between individuals and the society in which they live.

Roger Corman’s B-movie factory of the sixties and seventies produced a number of leading film talents like Francis Ford Coppola,Martin […]

Actor, Director, Editor, Film, Filmmaker, Gallery, Hollywood, Humanist, Iconic, Modern, Movie, Nature, Performance, Political, Psychology, Social, War, Writer

SHANGHAI ON SCREEN - Film Festival 2006

SHANGHAI ON SCREEN - Film Festival 2006

China’s city of Cinema is being celebrated in the Shanghai on Screen film festival screening at venues including the Museum in Docklands as part of the 2006 China in London event.
Of special note are three documentaries screening at City Hall telling the migrant stories of the first Chinese settlers in east Londons Limehouse Basin in […]

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RHYTHM FACTORY - Catalyst

Featuring sculptures, photographs, illustrations by Cat Miranda, Jennifer Hale, Sami Hammoudan, Hugo Sterk; live performance dance and music, DJ’s, poets, visuals; and Illustrations by Jennifer Hale, Contemporary Dance by Briar Adams, live music from Danbob Clarke with vocals from Shannon McNab, Poetry by Tim Wells, Cat Catalyst, David J, Funlola, Ramshackle Event, Salina Saliva, Baden, […]

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