Resonance FM Podcasts

I’m ready for my close-up: 3 Zombies, 2001 Maniacs and a Chainsaw Massacre!
Originally broadcast 30/07/10 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to actor Bill Moseley about his career in the horror film genre, and the continuing occurrence of sequels and remakes in his work, from appearing in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Bruce Campbell [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The films of Vincenzo Natali
Partially broadcast 23/07/10 as part of an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
To coincide with the release of the new Sci-Fi thriller Splice, in which scientists Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley create a dangerous half human hybrid via genetic manipulation, Alex Fitch talks [...]

 

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Reality Check: David Hewlett from Cube to Splice
Partially broadcast 23/07/10 as part of an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to actor David Hewlett about the four films he’s made with director Vincenzo Natali – Cypher, Nothing, the cult classic Cube and their new film Splice, which is [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The Polish New Wave?
On the Silver Globe, an esoteric Polish sci-fi epic directed by Andrzej Zulawski in 1977 – then lost and believed destroyed by the authorities for a decade before its cinema release – was screened at Tate Modern last year as part of a mini-season of films titled ‘Polish New [...]

 

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I’m ready for my close-up: A lifetime of Cult films by Joe Dante
Coinciding with veteran genre film maker Joe Dante receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Cine-Excess Cult film festival in London, Alex Fitch talks to the director about his career so far, concentrating on his new / old film The Movie Orgy (1968) [...]

 

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I’m ready for my close-up: Shooting Paradise
Alex Fitch talks to Michael Almereyda about his new film Paradise, which is currently screening at the ICA and shows the director’s typically avant-garde approach to the travelogue film by collating his home movie footage from the last decade into a thematic sequence of vignettes about the modern world. [...]

 

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Reality Check: Christmas ghosts and skeletons with Ray Harryhausen and Michael Punter
Alex Fitch talks to two creators of excellent Christmas entertainment. Oscar winning animator Ray Harryhausen has long been associated with Bank Holiday TV programming and Christmas wouldn’t be the same without an appearance of Jason and the Argonauts or Sinbad facing off mythological creatures. [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The films of Joseph Strick
Also broadcast 20/11/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
To coincide with the ‘Directorspective’ of the work of Joseph Strick, currently at The Barbican centre in London, Alex Fitch talks to the Oscar winning director about his career from working as [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: New approaches to Zombie cinema
Originally broadcast 16/10/09 as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
In a special early Halloween edition, Alex Fitch talks to Jeffrey Coghlan, the producer of the innovative Canadian Horror film Pontypool and Marc Price, director of the excellent British living dead film [...]

 

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Electric Sheep podcast: The Films of Sally Potter
In an hour long talk / Q and A recorded at Cinephila West in Westbourne Grove, London, Sophie Mayer interviews director Sally Potter about her career with additional questions from the audience. Sally talks about getting advice from Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell while raising funding for her [...]

 

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