Podcast: 'Bolly Horror' and the making of "Hell's Ground"

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Tonight's show: 'Bolly Horror' and the making of "Hell's Ground"

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...
Alex Fitch interviews Pete Tombs, producer of Zibahkhana (Hell's Ground)** and writer of Mondo Macabro plus Tejinder Jouhal, a film programmer at the ICA about their season of 'Bolly Horror' movies.

**technically this is 'Lolly Horror' as the film was made in Pakistan, but I'm going with the ICA's name for their season...

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*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Info about the 'Bolly Horror' season at the ICA and tomorrow's screening of Zibahkhana
Reviews of Pete's books at The extraordinary movie and video guide
Info on the cross London India Now season
The Mondo Macabro DVD label
Wikipedia pages on Bollywood cinema, Lollywood cinema and Hell's Ground

Podcast: Hine and Irving's Silent War(s) part 1

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Frazer Irving and writer / artist David Hine about their work in comics from early strips in 2000AD to their recent collaboration on Marvel's Silent War.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 14.2mb)
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Links: Wikipedia pages on David Hine and Frazer Irving
Frazer's website
Articles by David on the 2006 Bristol Expo, continuity and adverts in comics
A vampire story and a Sherlock Holmes story illustrated by Frazer

Podcast: Art House cinema podcast, August '07

Looking for something to do on a rainy August bank holiday? Why not listen to Resonance FM's latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at 'Art House' cinemas in London for advice... This show is presented by Alex Fitch with contributions from Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Kim Morgan (former presenter of the Resonance FM show Midnight Sex Talk, whose birthday it is today)... In this episode there's also an exclusive interview with Sandhya Suri, director of I for India.

You can stream the show by clicking here and pressing the play button or right click here to save the mp3 file direct to your computer...

Films reviewed include I for India, Transylvania, 12:08 East of Bucharest, Born and Bred and Hallam Foe.

Links: You can read print versions of Virginie's reviews in Electric Sheep Magazine where you'll also find a transcript of Alex's interview with Sandhya.
More info about what's on at the ICA and the Renoir
Londonnet's guide to all the times and locations of all films currently showing in the Capital's cinemas

(mp3 format, 36mins / 34.1mb)

Podcast: London Frightfest 2007

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Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...

Alex Fitch interviews video shop manager Michael Hall about his thoughts on the horror genre and previews he's seen of this year's Frightfest horror film marathon in London, including reviews of Black Sheep, Daywatch and Disturbia. Also, in an interview conducted a year ago, Alex talks to film student Greta Mills about her perspective on last year's Frightfest including George Romero's (then) Zombie tetralogy and its unnecessary 'sidequel' Day of the Dead 2: Contagium!

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM later in the Autumn

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Links: Official Frightfest homepage
Michael's band Nebraska's myspace page and website

We apologise for this disruption to the unusual schedule!

Loyal fans, previous guests, friends and other members of my mailing list may be visiting this page right now looking for this month's second atypical wednesday I'm ready for my close-up... Unfortunately the show as advertised doesn't exist as the guests I intended to interview today stood me up when I went to meet them!
Therefore this week's IRFMCU may not even be ready by this time tomorrow... But, to try and keep the current tally of 5 weeks without a break in 'transmission' (allowing for Resonance's move), I'll try and have a show ready by Friday, honest!

(Also this month's art-house podcast is imminent, including an exclusive interview with I for India director Sandhya Suri, watch this space...)

Podcast: The art of John McCrea

Alex Fitch interviews artist John McCrea about his work, his love of superhero comics which has now lead to work in Saudi Arabia and collaborating with writer Garth Ennis on such projects as Troubled Souls.
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 14.4mb)
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Links: Wikipedia pages on John McCrea, Garth Ennis and Fleetway publishing's Crisis comics anthology
John's Middle Eastern comic The 99
Lambiek page on John McCrea, showing examples of his artwork

Podcast: The art of Paper Rad

As their exhibition closes Saturday evening and IRFMCU is being podcast only this month, in a break from tradition, this week's I'm ready for my close-up is available to download now (30 hours early) to give our listeners a chance to get down to Conduit Street and check out the installation...
Alex Fitch interviews Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman members of the band Extreme Animals. Jacob is also a member of the art collective Paper Rad (for whose videos David has supplied sountracks) and while they were in Europe touring with their band Alex spoke to them about the Paper Rad exhibition showing at Sketch Gallery in London which Jacob curated. Paper Rad are famous for their low-fi DIY videos, art and comics which mix fanzine indie aesthetics with the detritus of our generation's pop culture...
(mp3 format, 27.4mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia's page on Paper Rad
Sketch Gallery's press release about the show: PDF format / HTML format
Sketch Gallery's website
Paper Rad and Deitch Projects' Super Mario Movie

N.B./ The following links are not suitable for viewing if you suffer from epilepsy, if you choose to click on them, it is your responsibility!
Paper Rad's website
Paper Rad comics
Extreme Animals' myspace page

Podcast: The art of Glenn Fabry

Alex Fitch interviews artists Glenn Fabry and John McCrea, two very different artists who have worked on comics in Britain and America and have both illustrated strips by writer Garth Ennis. The majority of today's show is concerned with Glenn's work from his seminal run on Sláine in 2000AD to his epic run of painted covers for DC comics' Preacher which are available in a coffee table book.

Towards the end of the show Alex talks to John McCrea about the 60 issues he drew of Ennis' superhero satire Hitman (and their interview continues next week).
As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 18mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on Glenn Fabry , John McCrea, Sláine, Preacher and Hitman
Glenn's website

Podcast: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin

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Tonight's show: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*...
Virginie Sélavy interviews John Maringouin, director of the documentary Running Stumbled, whose film is a semi-improvised recreation and document of the self destructive relationship between the director's father and his partner. The first part of the interview was included in last month's Art-House Podcast and tonight's show is edited by Alex Fitch.
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*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Official movie homepage
Read a partial transcription of Virginie's interview in Electric Sheep Magazine
Info about the remaining screenings of the film at the ICA

Podcast: The art of Steve Yeowell

Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Steve Yeowell, a 2000AD veteran who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Yeowell achieved early fame collaborating with Grant Morrison on the superhero epic Zenith and the first storyline in The Invisibles plus more esoteric titles such as The new adventures of Hitler, Sebastian O & Skrull Kill Krew. More recently Yeowell has returned to 2000AD working with Ian Edgington on such scripts as Detonator X and The Red Seas...

In comics news: This weekend it's Caption Fest 2007 in Oxford where small press artists and writers present their work and there're workshops presented by awawrd winning graphic novelist Al Davidson (The Spiral Cage).

Also: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House's Graphic Novels website for more details.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can download today's show now... (mp3 format, 12.3mb)
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Links: Wikipedia entry on Steve Yeowell
Interview with Steve at 2000adreview.co.uk
Excerpts from The new adventures of Hitler at Scans Daily
Tashkeel Comics' website

Podcast: Larger than life part 2

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Tonight's show: Larger than life part 2

Continuing I'm ready for my close-up's exclusive run of online podcasts*, it's the second of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinemas. In part two, Alex Fitch interviews Dennis Laws, the technical and general manager of the BFI London IMAX cinema, about the eclectic mix of films shown at the IMAX cinema, from 'after dark' presentations of classic and cult movies, the current interest in IMAX prints of Warner Bros. (comic book) movies and the possible future of the format..
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*While Resonance FM moves studios across London... The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Wikipedia page on IMAX
What's on at the BFI London IMAX?
The official IMAX homepage
Article from The Observer about how American creationists are objecting to IMAX science documentaries
Article on the closure of the @Bristol IMAX cinema
Giant Screen Cinemas Association website
Article on recent films converted to the IMAX format