Culture Diary w/c 08-04-13
Tuesday – For Ellen 6pm @ FACT Starring Paul Dano (a firm TDN favourite) as Joby Taylor, a struggling musician whose life is spiraling out of his control, the Ellen of the title (played here...
Spring Breakers Dissected
DW Mault approaches Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, perhaps necessarily, from the blind side… Forget everything you’ve been taught. Start by dreaming. F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that there are no second acts in American...
Studio Series: Andrew Cousins
Photographer and bespoke tile designer Andrew Cousins shows us round his Static studio and his rather unusual design company, Tile Fire… Hi Andy! Please describe your studio space. It’s split into two areas...
The Big Interview: Mark McNulty
DW Mault catches up for a chat with a master documentarian of the city, photographer Mark McNulty… Every street needs its chroniclers, every town its poets and every city the wake up call to itself....
All Tomorrow’s Parties
All Tomorrow’s Parties: the festival that’s so good they made a film out of it… Flicking through breakfast TV the other day, hovering over an episode of Frasier and moving on (having seen...
The New Czech Cinema
Watch out Romania, the Czech New Wave is coming… When we speak about new wave in the context of cinema, one’s mind will most readily (almost invariably) leap to names like Jean-Luc Godard...
Field Trip #18: A Way In
– Shanghai Biennale
Winner of the inaugural John Moores Critics Award, Linda Pittwood reports back from the recent Shanghai Biennale… The first time I visited the Power Station of Art, epicentre of the 9th Shanghai Biennale,...
Culture Diary w/c 01-04-13
Monday – #INDIENIGHT 8pm @ Studio 2, Parr Street Studios FREE Indie; who knows what it even means these days, but Studio 2 @ Parr St. are putting their own spin on things...
Film Podcast #27: Trance and Dans La Maison
Film Podcast #27: Trance and Dans La Maison by The Double Negative on Mixcloud DW Mault reviews Danny Boyle’s neo noir thriller Trance and Francois Ozon’s psychological drama Dans la Maison … Filmed...