Tonight's show: Expanded Cinema

Richard Thomas talks to William English about 16mm, silence, expanded cinema and school science experiments...
William also produces the bi-weekly radio art experiment Wavelength on this very station - 15:00 every other Sunday.
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Tonight's show: London Film Societies

On 25th October 1925, The original Film Society held its inaugural meeting at the New Gallery Kinema in Regent Street in London. Founder members of The Film Society included Anthony Asquith, H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John and Maynard Keynes. One of the primary objectives of the society was to screen more of the avant-garde material which had not found an outlet in the commercial cinema. It's ironic how little has changed and how film societies are as necessary as ever in today's cinematic climate!
On the eve of this year's London Horror Film Festival, we're looking at homegrown, less commercial alternatives! Alex Fitch talks to Darren Perry who runs the West London Fantastic Film Society and Adrian Winchester who has been running a horror film club in South London for 25 years...
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: The Unoffcial UK Film Societies site
A brief history of the film society movement in Britain
IMDb page on Stolen Face (the film I had just watched at Adrian's before the interview)
Listen to Adrian interviewing Norman J. Warren in an earlier I'm ready for my close-up
N.B./ The official Film Societies site is currently offline

Uncut interview: Kim Newman

Continuing our occasional series of hour long uncut versions of the interviews that were recorded for I'm ready for my close-up, we have the complete interview with Kim Newman regarding Doctor Who.
If you'd rather hear the original broadcast version of the show, please go to the post from July 20th...

Running time 59 min 18 sec (mp3 format, 54.3mb)
Please note, this is an uncut interview with strong language!

Podcast: Filming Domestic Archaelogy

Alex Fitch interviews Chris Allen, founder member of the Light Surgeons, a company that produces films and multimedia events. Their current project is an exhibition called Domestic Archaeology which is at the Geffrye Museum in East London until the 28th of August. The show features video and photographic depictions of modern living rooms plus interviews with the inhabitants.
The show is also available to download as an uncut interview; see below...
Originally broadcast 3rd August 2006 (mp3 format, 27mb)

Links: The Light Surgeons
Domestic Archaeology
The Geffrye Museum

Uncut interview: Chris Allen

As an adjunct to our regular podcasts of I'm ready for my close-up you'll be able to download hour long uncut versions of the interviews that were recorded for the show. First up: the complete interview with Chris Allen (The Light Surgeons) regarding Domestic Archaelogy at the Geffrye Museum. Also included are excerpts from the exhibition soundtrack which we weren't able to feature in the show when it was originally broadcast.
If you'd rather hear the original broadcast version of the show, please go to the post above...

Running time 59 min 46 sec (mp3 format, 54.6mb)
Please note, this is an uncut interview with strong language!

Podcast: Doctor Who - The Two Garys

In the last of our shows on Doctor Who, we explore the world of Doctor Who fandom. Each month at a certain bar in central London, Doctor Who fans and professionals meet to talk about their favourite show. So back in February, Richard Thomas, Alex Fitch and James De Carteret went down to the pub to record some interviews and encountered the likes of Clayton Hickman - the editor of Doctor Who magazine, Paul - a theatre director who had travelled 50 miles to come to the gathering and Gary - a member of the Greenwich Doctor Who fan club...
Originally broadcast 27th July 2006 (mp3 format, 25.4mb)

Links:
Type 40 owners club of Great Britain
Outpost Gallifrey
Wikipedia entry on Doctor Who Magazine

Podcast: Screenplays by Tony Grisoni

Tonight's show is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 25.4mb)

Links: Tideland / Brothers of the Head reviews
Wikipedia entries on: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / In this World

Tonight's show: Screenplays by Tony Grisoni

Alex Fitch interviews Tony Grisoni, writer of Michael Winterbottom's In this world and Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The show will be concentrating on Tony's latest two scripts: Tideland directed by Gilliam which is currently in the cinema and Brothers of the Head from the directors of Lost in La Mancha which is showing today and tomorrow in Edinburgh and goes on general release in October.
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...
There is a review of Tideland by Alex at www.backprojection.com and a review of Brothers of the Head will be going up later today.

Podcast: Home Movie Day

Last week's show is now available to download.
(mp3 format, 22.4mb)

Links: Guy Edmonds
David Wenk
Home Movie Day in London
Lambeth Cinema Museum
The annual international Home Movie Day

Tonight's show: Home Movie Day 2006

Alex Fitch introduces and moderates a discussion with Guy Edmonds, film preserver and travel writer David Wenk about this year's Home Movie Day which is being held at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. The annual Home Movie Day is designed to celebrate a populist art form which represents a cultural memory of the 20th century and documentations of everyday life. All visitors to the museum are welcome to bring their old cine reels to share, project and archive with others...
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Podcast: Digital post-production in TV and the cinema

Alex Fitch talks to Richard Comline who works in digital post-production. Richard works at a 'post house' in Wardour Street and has worked on feature films, adverts, television and low budget shorts; they discusses the nature of his work and the world of modern digital manipulation.
Originally broadcast 23rd Febuary 2006 (mp3 format, 24.4mb)

Link: Wikipedia entry on compositing
Richard's IMDb page / online gallery

Podcast: Remixing British Transport Films

Richard Thomas remixes the soundtracks of the classic British Transport Films that were made from 1949 to 1982. Made by a protégé of the British Documentary Movement their purpose was travelogue films that promoted destinations in town, country and seaside resorts throughout the British Isles. By interweaving a variety of these films that are being introduced to a new generation via BFI DVD releases, Richard investigates the cultural memory that the sounds and rhythms of the film soundtracks evoke.
Originally broadcast 15th June 2006 (mp3 format, 25.1mb)

Link: www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk

Tonight's show: Filming Domestic Archaeology

Alex Fitch interviews Chris Allen, founder member of the Light Surgeons, a company that produces films and multimedia events. Their current project is an exhibition called Domestic Archaeology which is at the Geffrye Museum in East London until the 28th of August. The show features video and photographic depictions of modern living rooms plus interviews with the inhabitants.
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...