Archive | June, 2007

Jan Svankmajer retrosepctive in Edinburgh

27. June 2007

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That fine institution which is the Edinburgh Filmhouse has a short retrospective season on the work of the ‘Prague alchemist of film’, Jan Svankmajer, over the next week or so. Svankmajer has to be one of the most unusual animators around – I’ve admired his work for years, where he showcases a vivid – [...]

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Inkspot

27. June 2007

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Marko at Neorama has a PDF up of the new edition of Inkspot, the “Official Arthroscope of the Australian Cartoonist’s Association”, which has a number of very interesting articles in it, including one by Rolf Heiman who writes on the use of cartoons to build cultural bridges over the often troubled political relationship Australia has [...]

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More pirates – what about the Creative Commons approach?

27. June 2007

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Following on from yesterday’s thoughts on comics piracy there’s quite a lot of discussion going on about the subject, noticeably on Warren Ellis’ The Engine forum (link via Dirk at Journalista). Cutting through the moral arguments over intellectual property theft and the possible effects on creators, publishers and retailers The Engine simply posted the question [...]

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Dinner with Joss

27. June 2007

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The mighty Joss Whedon will be making some fan dreams come true at the end of July; the man who has garnered a serious fan following from his TV work on Buffy, Angel and Serenity and an equally impressive run of top-notch comics (including his recent popular return to the Buffyverse in comics form) is [...]

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Zebraman

27. June 2007

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Grady Hendrix from the New York Asian Film Festival (which the New York FP store is a good supporter of) drops me a line about a previously unreleased Takashi Miike (Audition, DOA, Ichi the Killer and many more) film they have coming up as part of this year’s festival. Zebraman looks like an utterly bonkers [...]

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Marina Sirtis and Walter Koenig in new SF movie

27. June 2007

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Star Trek the Next Generation’s Marina “Deanna Troi” Sirtis is joining the original Star Trek’s Walter “Chekov” Koenig, Walter’s fellow Babylon 5 actor Patricia Tallman and Battlestar Galactica’s Richard Hatch (Apollo or Zarek, depending which version of BSG you’re watching) in a new science fiction movie. The film, called InAlienable, will be directed by Robert [...]

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Vote Saxon

26. June 2007

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Here’s a great site supposedly to support the political campaign of one Harold Saxon, now known to be the Doctor’s old nemesis The Master in the current Doctor Who. Some of the fake news pieces are especially good and go nicely with some of the digs at contemporary British politics the recent episode managed to [...]

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Where the Wild Things Are

26. June 2007

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Here’s an unusual link for us – it isn’t often we point you to a site on gardening (my horticultural ability is pretty much limited to being able to read books in the garden) but here’s a site from the Charities Aid Foundation to do with the famous Chelsea Flower Show. Why are we pointing [...]

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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe” – Blade Runner at 25

26. June 2007

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Adam Savage of MythBusters fame (surely the most enjoyable geek-oriented factual programme on the box) has written an appreciation of one of the most visually stunning and influential SF films of all time on its 25th anniversary: Blade Runner. Ridley Scott’s film (adapted from the great – not to mention paranoid and drugged out – [...]

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Meet Mira Furlan

26. June 2007

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The Dublin branch of FPI is very fortunate – they are going to get to play host to one of the great actresses of telefantasy, Mira Furlan. Mira has built herself a new following with her portrayal of Danielle Rousseau in the hit series Lost (first glimpsed as a lone, mad Frenchwoman hiding in the [...]

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Comics pirates

26. June 2007

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Yo ho ho and a bottle of sugar-free Coke. Over on Journalista Dirk has a interesting post on comics piracy online from Jim Shelley of Flashback Universe. Jim has a look at some statistics and finds that illegal scanned downloads of Sin City topped 91, 000 – probably nowhere near as much as a lot [...]

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En Tus Brazos – the Tango gets animated

26. June 2007

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Pablo Hadis has a great interview up on AnimWatch with François-Xavier Goby, talking about the new animation from France which captures the Latin spirit of the Tango with some gorgeously lush visuals dripping in period (1920s) detail, all the more remarkable for being the work of a group of students. Trying to capture human motion [...]

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Remix Moore

26. June 2007

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Howard Webster drops a line to say another indy band has taken up their offer of remixing material from the Jonas Moore multimedia comics site. This time round a group called Humans Out of Control – who Howard describes as sounding a bit like “Depeche Mode meets Morcheba” – have enjoyed it so much they [...]

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British comics exhibition in Hartelpool

26. June 2007

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Former Beano and Dandy cartoonist Keith Robson has an exhibition of British comics work at the Museum of Hartlepool, which takes in his own work (including a display showing how a comics page comes into being) and some classic material from Keith’s own comics collection, stretching from a 2002 Dandy back to a 1928 Happy [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Raymond Leblanc’s nine lives

26. June 2007

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Today we have a very special feature for you in the form of an interview with one of the most influential figures in European comics, Raymond Leblanc, a man who has worked with some of the greatest comics creators in post-war Europe. Here he talks about the creation of Tintin magazine, working with Hergé, the [...]

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