Tonight's show: The 50th London Film Festival (part one - the films)

Alex Fitch and Richard Thomas discuss this year's London Film Festival including reviews of the films they've seen so far, previews of films and events next week plus audio clips...

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: LFF website
Alex's reviews of the Festival so far
Sunday's 50 screens event

Podcast: London Film Societies

To coincide with the London Film Festival, here's the podcast of our show that proves there are little film festivals going on all year in more bijou locations...
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...
Originally broadcast 24th August 2006 (mp3 format, 26mb)

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

Tonight's show: Audible pictures

Alex Fitch talks to Matt Hulse, curator of and contributor to 'The Audible Picture Show' a touring collection of short films without pictures featuring such film-makers as Andrew Kotting and the Brothers Quay. Alex and Matt talk about the art of foley work, the under-appreciation of sound in modern society, the joy of found footage and the use of sampled soundtracks to create evocative soundscapes.

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...

Link: www.audiblepictureshow.org.uk

Tonight's show: The current state of comics

Alex Fitch interviews Kev F Sutherland (comics writer and commentator) about such topics as: Hollywood and the media's fascination with comic books which contrasts with diminishing sales in shops. From appreciation of writers like Alan Moore and Chris Ware in The Guardian to comics based on TV shows and by TV writers, there seems to be cultural awareness of comics, but the question is: how do we get more adults and (more importantly) children reading this great art form again?

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: Wikipedia page on Kev F. Sutherland
Kev's own website
ComICA events

Tonight's show: Desperate Optimists and the art of the long take

Alex Fitch interviews Joe Lawlor, who with Christine Molloy make up the film-making duo 'Desperate Optimists': a couple who make short films in a single take. Their new film premieres tonight in Liverpool, so Alex and Joe discuss 'Daydream' plus Joe and Christine's award winning series 'Civic Life' as well as their favourite examples of the long take in other people's films...

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: Desperate Optimists' website
'Daydream' screening details
Buy 'Civic Life' on DVD
Civic Life review at backprojection.com