Issue 8 | March 2007
ARTICLE
Poetry in Motion: Ah! Sunflower
By Gareth Evans
British culture is rarely good at movements, especially avant-garde movements, outriders of the aesthetic future who might find warmth in the close-knit grouping that offers shelter and security to the institutionally homeless visionary, the formal path breaker. Maybe it’s the island spirit that breeds the maverick individualism of any genuinely innovative British enterprise, or maybe it’s been, historically at least, the lack of cafes; Paris has seen rather more -isms than London (now that every other shopfront is trying to offload a Latte, can we expect a foam-flecked tide of new expression? Prêt à dangerous subversions of the creative consensus…?).
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ARTICLE
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007
Fresh out of twelve invigorating days at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) I encountered a slap in the face from the wife of a filmmaker. Out dining with friends in London she asked me what I had been doing in Rotterdam.
ARTICLE
The Films of Peter Whitehead
Captured in all its amateur glory, calamity strikes ten minutes in, when, stumbling with nerves, Harry Fanlight is heckled by a loveable idiot who repeats the words “love, love, love”, getting more applause than the act whilst the camera frantically searches for his close up.
INTERVIEW
Distant Voices, Still Lives: An interview with Terence Davies
By Peter Fraser
From the 16th – 30th April the BFI Southbank will be screening a retrospective of the films of Terence Davies including a digitally restored re-release of his first feature film Distant Voices, Still Lives.
