Alex Fitch interviews writer, producer and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman about the big screen version of his illustrated novel Stardust as well as other adaptations of his work such as Anansi Boys and Neverwhere.
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I’m ready for my podcast: Short films at The London Film Festival
To compliment the live review shows that take up I’m ready for my close-up during this year’s London Film Festival, we have the first of a series of exclusive podcast featuring interviews with filmmakers and programmers involved in this year’s LFF. Virginie Selavy interviews curators Simon Young and Philip Ilson about the short films they’ve chosen for this year’s festival…
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Panel Borders: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 3
The final part of Alex & Duncan’s interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing Witchblade: Shades of Grey, Leah’s Christmas Stamps story and the kind of comics they’d like to do in the future.
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I’m ready for my close-up: The 51st London Film Festival – reviews part 1
Mark Stafford, James DeCarteret & Tom Geens discuss and preview the films they’ve seen at this year’s London Film Festival including Cargo 200, Glory to the Filmmaker!, Secret Sunshine and the English language remake of Funny Games.
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Panel Borders: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 2
The second part of Alex & Duncan’s interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing Wildgirl, moving to Dynamite Entertainment and John Reppion’s Zombie Army. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones…
I’m ready for my close-up: The Pornification of visual culture
Alex Fitch talks to former presenter of Midnight Sex Talk – Tania Glyde – about the increasing pornification of visual media, from advertising to art, film to fromage. As both the ICA & Barbican in London have sex based festivals on this month, it seems porn is being increasingly celebrated in our culture, so Alex and Tania look at some of the reasons why.
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Panel Borders: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 1
The first part of Alex & Duncan’s interview with Leah Moore and John Reppion in which they talk about writing variously for the Fortean Times and Albion and the thorny issue of obtaining back issues of their work. Unfortunately this interview was recorded using Skype on a noisy computer and is not the best quality, so we recommend you listen to it using speakers rather than headphones…
I’m ready for my close-up: Cult entertainment for Autumn
Alex Fitch interviews two curators of very different kinds of cult entertainment.
Robert Rider is a programmer at the Barbican cinema in London which has gained reknown for a variety of different events and festivals throughout the year. 4th October saw the start of their Brazillian film festival and November the yearly Children’s film festival not to mention regular screenings of Silent movies with live accompaniment and their regular Anime slot.
Alex Geairns is a director of the Cult TV festival taking place in Oxfordshire from the 19th to the 22nd of October which is a gathering of fans, creators and stars of Cult TV from the 1960s to the present day and features such guests as Sylvia Anderson (co-creator of Thunderbirds), Matthew Graham (creator of Life on Mars) and Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch)…
Originally broadcast 04/10/07 (mp3 format, 28.7 mb)
Panel Borders: The art of Andrzej Klimowski part 2 (Putting silent movies on the page)
Alex Fitch concludes his interview with artist, novelist and lecturer at The Royal College of Art, Andrzej Klimowski about his graphic novels ‘The Depository’, ‘The Secret’ and ‘Horace Dorlan’ plus his work on the ‘Introducing…’ / ‘…for beginners’ books. Alex and Andrzej talk about the latter’s artistic influences focussing in particular on his interest in silent movies.
Originally broadcast on Resonance FM on Thursday 4th October as part of Strip! (mp3 format, 15.1mb). Panel Borders is Alex’s contribution to Strip! and will vary from week to week as a multiple of 15 mins within the hour…
To listen to the first half of the interview, please click here.
Hooting Yard: The Numan Question
A generation ago, the aeroplane pilot and sage Numan asked “Are friends electric?†It was pertinent then, and is perhaps more so now. Over the years, many thinkers have grappled with Numan’s question, but it is fair to say that none has been able to give a satisfactory answer. Much publicity was generated when Pilbrow published his big fat Symposium on the problem. The garlanded laureate of pseudo-sci fi hermeneutic psychobabble persuaded over a hundred movers, shakers, and hysterics to respond to the poser put by Numan, and then toured the radio and television studios giving inaccurate summaries of their replies.
