Video Podcast: Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson

I'm ready for my close-up - Malcolm McDowell & Lindsay Anderson
(video podcast) Audio version partially broadcast on 14/11/07 on Resonance FM

You can download now the video of Alex Fitch's interview with Malcolm McDowell & Mike Kaplan about their film Never Apoloigise - a personal visit with Lindsay Anderson.
There are a variety of versions of the video available to download at archive.org including 256kb & 64kb streams and downloads as well as the original 3.8Gb video. For more info and to see jpg screen grabs and an animated gif of the video, please visit the home of this podcast (vodcast / vidcast?) at archive.org

Links: Book tickets for Never Apologise at the BFI
Info on Never Apologize (sic), Lindsay Anderson and Malcolm McDowell at the IMDb
Info on Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson and The Whales of August (produced by Mike Kaplan) at wikipedia.org
Official website: neverapologize.com

Podcast: Animation - Creating great cartoon characters

Last thursday's I'm ready for my close-up is now available for download...
(mp3 format, 28.6mb)

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

Today's show: Larger than life part 1

Today on Resonance 104.4 FM at 5pm I'm ready for my podcast - Larger than life part 1

The first of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinema. In part one, Alex Fitch interviews David Strohmaier, director of the documentary Cinerama Adventure which looks at the rise and fall of the seminal 1950s big screen format from its initial use as a military application, how the revolutionary three camera and projector format was used for nature documentaries and feature films to its disuse and legacy in other large screen formats.

The follow up to this episode which is Alex's interview with Dennis Laws, the technical and general manager of the BFI London IMAX cinema, about the eclectic mix of films shown at the IMAX cinema will be broadcast in two weeks time, following a special episode next week which I'm not going to jinx by mentioning just yet!

This show was originally podcast on 26th July 2007 during Resonance's summer hiatus...

Links: IMDb entry for Cinerama Adventure
David's website
Wikipedia page on Cinerama
Info about Bradford's Cinerama and 70mm cinema, the National Media Museum and the next screening of This is Cinerama

Tonight's show: Animation - Creating great cartoon characters

10.30pm - I'm ready for my close-up [Animation month]: Creating great cartoon characters

In a show recorded 'live' in front of a studio audience, Alex Fitch interviews former Disney animator Vincent Woodcock about working on such films as The Tigger Movie and DuckTales: Treasure of the lost lamp as well as writing a book on creating cartoon characters. This is the start of animation month on IRFMCU and was recorded live at last month's Hectic Peelers event at the Roxy bar and screen...

Links: Buy Vincent's book from amazon.co.uk
Wikipedia pages on The Tigger Movie/, DuckTales the movie and Bimble's Bucket
Cartoon Brew - one of the most authorative blogs on animation on the 'net

Podcast: Asif Kapadia's Far North

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 second of a series of exclusive podcasts featuring interviews with filmmakers and programmers involved in this year's LFF. Virginie Selavy interviews Asif Kapadia, director of The Warrior, about his new film Far North which premieres at this year's LFF - download now... (edited by Alex Fitch)
(mp3 format, 28.6mb)

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: Round-up of what to see at the LFF at Electric Sheep Magazine
Book tickets to see Far North
IMDb page on Far North
Wikipedia page on Asif Kapadia

Today's show: Running stumbled with Jonathan Maringouin

Today's I'm ready for my podcast 'repeat' on Resonance FM at 5pm...

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.

Originally podcast on August 9th, click here for more info...

Today's show: Looking back at "Sweetback"

On Friday afternoons on Resonance FM at 5pm, there's a new slot for repeats of I'm ready for my close-up. Rather than just repeat the show from the night before, we thought it might be nice to take the opportunity to broadcast some of the episodes that were podcast while Resonance was off-schedule during the summer for the benefit of luddites who don't go in for all this podcasting nonsense.

Today, we're airing a podcast from 3 weeks ago - Joel Karamath talking about the career of Melvin van Peebles and his seminal film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. This was recorded at the first Resonance FM / Electric Sheep film club at The Roxy bar and screen, so this seems a good time to air the repeat as the next film club is on Tuesday from 7.30pm where Alex Fitch will be talking to former Disney animator Vincent Woodcock about character design in animation alongside a screening of Sylvain Chomet's Belleville Rendezvous and his rarely seen short film The Old lady and the pigeons.

If you just can't wait 'til 5 o'clock, you can find the podcast here.

Tonight's show: Gypsy Caravan and the Raindance Festival

Also, tonight at 10.30pm, I'm ready for my close-up is back on air, starting with a compliation of two interviews recorded for podcast. Alex Fitch talks to Gypsy Caravan director Jasmine Dellal and I for India director Sandhya Suri plus Virginie Sélavy interviews Suzanne Ballantyne, lead programmer of the Raindance Festival.

If you'd like to hear those interviews in their original context you can do so now and you can find links on each of the two pages:
Suzanne Ballantyne (Art-house cinema podcast) /
Jasmine Dellal and Sandhya Suri (IRFMCU 13/09/07)

Podcast: The weird(sville) films of Allan Moyle

Tonight's show is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 27.7mb)

N.B./ Tonight's show's contains very strong language !

So, if you are offended by such phrases as c**k-s**k*r and mother-f****r (which crop up frequently in Allan's reenactment of dealings with one of the producers of his films!), you have been warned!

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

Tonight's show: The Weird(sville) films of Allan Moyle

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

Alex Fitch interviews Allan Moyle, the cult film director of such classic movies as Pump up the Volume and Empire Records about his career and his new film Weirdsville which opens next week's Raindance Film Festival.

Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

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

Links: Official Weirdsville site
IMDb pages on Weirdsville and Allan's films
Wikipedia page on Allan Moyle
Allan's website
Raindance Film Festival website

Podcast: New Female Directors

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 26.4mb)

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

In a show recorded live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Alex Fitch talks to two new female directors who have made two very different debut feature films. In I for India Sandhya Suri has collated 40 years of home movie footage of her family in Britain and India that tells the poignant tale of loved ones separated by land and culture, while in Gypsy Caravan Jasmine Dellal has created an epic concert movie with the cinematographer of Monteray Pop that showcases Romany music that will hopefully prove to be this decade’s Buena vista social club...

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

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: IMDb pages on Gypsy Caravan and I for India
I for India official website
Gypsy Caravan official website
Wikipedia's list of female directors
What's on at the ICA cinema?

Podcast: Looking back at "Sweetback"

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.5mb)

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

In a show recorded live at the inaugural Resonance FM / Electric Sheep Magazine monthly film club at the Roxy Bar and Screen in London's Borough High Street, Virginie Sélavy introduces a talk and Q & A conducted by Joel Karamath.
Joel, host of the ICA's Uncut film night, looks at the career of Melvin van Peebles and his seminal film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
As the talk was performed in a surround sound theatre with Joel & Virginie standing close to both the speakers and the recording device, there is unfortunately a pronounced echo in the playback, however sit back and imagine Joel is performing his speech with a megaphone at a political rally in the 1970s and suddenly it might feel a lot more authentic! Tonight's show was recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.

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

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: Electric Sheep Magazine
Virginie's review of the film
The Roxy Bar and Screen's website and page on yesterday's event
Wikipedia's page on the movie
Joel's notes on other black movies @ bfi.org.uk
Info on Joel's film night at the ICA

Podcast: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 42.4mb)

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

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.
Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

*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: Larger than life part 1

Tonight's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 29.9mb)

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

Tonight's show: Larger than life part 1

Tonight, as I'm ready for my close-up goes podcast only for the next four weeks*, it's the first of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinema. In part one, Alex Fitch interviews David Strohmaier, director of the documentary Cinerama Adventure which looks at the rise and fall of the seminal 1950s big screen format from its initial use as a military application, how the revolutionary three camera and projector format was used for nature documentaries and feature films to its disuse and legacy in other large screen formats.
Check back here around 10.30pm BST to download the show or click on one of the following links to download / stream the show from the Internet Archive, Feedburner or iTunes...

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

Links: IMDb entry for Cinerama Adventure
David's website
Wikipedia page on Cinerama
Info about Bradford's Cinerama and 70mm cinema, the National Media Museum and the next screening of This is Cinerama

Podcast: Stuart Gordon and the cinema of the extreme

Last night's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 26.6mb)

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

Tonight's show: Stuart Gordon and the cinema of the extreme

Concluding directors month on IR4MCU, Alex Fitch interviews director Stuart Gordon about his new film 'Edmond' based on the play by David Mamet. Having made his name with classic H.P. Lovecraft adaptations 'Re-animator' and 'From Beyond' in the eighties and sci-fi B movies in the nineties, Gordon has now returned to his experimental theatre roots with this adaptation that may garner his biggest audience yet...

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Official movie website
IMDb pages on Edmond, Stuart Gordon and David Mamet
Wikipedia pages on Edmond, Stuart Gordon and David Mamet

Podcast: Making a new Picture of Dorian Gray

Last night's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.7mb)

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

Tonight's show: Making a new Picture of Dorian Gray

In the second of today's shows leading up to Pride Weekend and continuing director's month on IR4MCU, Alex Fitch talks to British director Duncan Roy about his new movie. Following his terrific debut A.K.A., Roy returns to the topic of the social classes (albeit relocated to the New York art scene) with his adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel...
N.B. Dorian Gray is showing next at The Cambridge film festival (download a PDF of the programme - it's on page 31) on the 12th & 14th of July...

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Official movie website
IMDb page on The Picture of Dorian Gray
Duncan's myspace page
Interview with Duncan in Indie Wire magazine
Wikipedia list of Dorian Gray adaptations