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WORK: Rixton - Hotel Ceiling, dir Clarence Fuller
GUILTY PLEASURES - a space for people to share their filmic shame
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Title: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008, 111min) Number of times watched: 7 times in 2010. Never watched it since. The Pleasure: Russell Brand The Shame: Russell Brand Name: Prodromos Papadopoulos Website: -
GUILTY PLEASURES - a space for people to share their filmic shame
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Title: Independence Day (1996, 145 min)
Number of times watched: Four-and-a-bit (roughly)
The Pleasure:
Okay, just to be obtuse I don't actually believe in the phrase "guilty pleasures" in a literal sense. A pleasure is just a pleasure to me. But I know what we're getting at here so I shan't be an arse. I toiled with this one for ages; The Muppets Movie? No, that's as sharp as a whip, while being unbelievably meta and self-aware. And hilarious. Mean Girls? No - as that's simply a work of art. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie? Certainly not - it's all of the above.
So Independence Day. The pleasure is that it's shrouded in nostalgia for me; I remember going to see it with the mother in the brand new cinema in town when I was 12, and feeling very self-conscious about this at that age; I was hugely worried I may bump into some boys at my school and they'd laugh at me. I've watched it every few years since, generally while lounging in my PJs on New Year's day and being hungover and feeling fragile and wanting to die. It's my safety blanket.
I'm not much of an action movie fan. At all. But this is pretty much the most perfectly constructed action movie there is. Engineered in a lab to be as Blockbusyer-tastic as possible in that silly Summer US-tyle way. Iconic explosions and destruction (c'mon The White House exploding is something etched in everyone's head). Flippant one-liners from Will Smith "Welcome to Earth" *smack*), only just out of his Fresh Prince days. Romance and side stories. Unlikely heroes. Tragedy. Rousing speeches. And of course Jeff bleeding Goldblum, being Jeff bleeding Goldblum.
It's a B-Movie, on a blockbuster level. The awful Michael Bay made the big action movie a genre of his own after this, but ID doesn't contain the same casual homophobia and racism as his awful work, and does contain some kind of charm.
The Shame:
All of the above - the film is so engineered to be that perfect Blockbuster it's absurd. There's of course a huge hunk of cheese about the whole thing, alongside essentially 2D characters. Robert Elger says “There is not a single character in the movie who doesn't wear an invisible label." And he's right.
Also there's the part where undoubtedly millions of human beings have died in the alien invasion.. yet we're all rooting for someone's DOG (Boomer) to survive and it's a big deal when it leaps out of the ball of flames in the tunnel, and survives. Hey the pet survives, everything's okay! LA is in ruins but no-one cares about that. And the CGI explosion looks awful in that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUlIOw4-3RM
But who cares as Independence Day is great.
Name: Tim Boddy
Website: http://cargocollective.com/timboddy
EXTRACURRICULARS - a weekly list bringing you what we think you should do. Some film related + some other stuff.
03/11 – 09/11
London,
UK
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Set in the brutalist surrounds of the Barbican, Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age explores the relationship between architecture and photography throughout the 20th and 21st century. The exhibition runs alongside various talks and events as part of the Constructing Worlds program featuring talks and tours.
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Nas: Time is illmatic Screening everyday all around London from Friday (7th) till Thursday next week (13th) and then again at the Rio cinema at the end of the month (29th). Full screening list here.
GUILTY PLEASURES - a space for people to share their filmic shame
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Title: Dirty Dancing (1987, 100min)
Number of times watched: hundreds of thousands
The Pleasure:
The watermelon, Patrick Swayze’s hips, the amazing soundtrack, Patrick Swayze’s abs, the staff quarters, Patrick Swayze in the water, nobody puts baby in the corner!
I first saw this film staying at my nan and granddad’s house when I was about 5, after that I made my nan watch it with me every Friday for years while she looked after me and this will always remind me of her.
The Shame:
Trying to reenact the lift several times with various people and failing every time.
Name: Anna Mould
Website: www.annamould.com
EXTRACURRICULARS *PARIS SPECIAL*
a weekly list bringing you what we think you should do. Some film related + some other stuff.
27/10 – 02/11
Paris,
FR
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Currently on at La Maison Rouge is a showcase of french filmmaker and collector Bruno Decharme / ABCD collection's: Art Brut. An important collection of Outsider Art from all around the globe, amassed over 30 years and made up of 3,500 pieces. Take a gander at the trailer for the exhibition here. Ends January (18th).
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This Thursday night (30th) Palais de Tokyo hosts Sound Inception an immersive sound-sculpture-performance piece by artist Kerwin Rolland, described as lying somewhere in between a musical set and a hypnotherapy session. Starts at 9pm and included in ticket for general entry. Also, make sure to check out the other exhibitions that are on.
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The end of the week brings us Pitchfork Music Festival Paris at the Grande Halle de La Villette. Most days are sold out out but you can still get tickets for the first night on Thursday (30th) and off-site parties curated by Red Bull Music Academy. We particularly recommend the Friday (31st) After Party #2 featuring the excellent Fatima Al Qadiri, SOPHIE, Lunice et al, guaranteeing 6hrs of pure dancing bliss.
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Probably the thing we are most excited to go back to Paris for is the Garry Winogrand retrospective at Jeu de Paume. Although still fairly unknown, due to his early death - leaving behind around 6,500 rolls of film, Winogrand is considered one of the seminal figures in post-war American street photography. A considerable amount of the exhibition has never been seen and over 100 of the images not even printed until now. Ends February (8th). Get to know the man a bit better in this Bill Moyers interview from 1982.
Behind the scenes from Nikolaj Belzer's music video for TENMEN. Out soon!
EXTRACURRICULARS - a weekly list bringing you what we think you should do. Some film related + some other stuff.
20/10 – 26/10
London,
UK
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Tonight (20th) St John's Hospice in Hackney will be screening Emma Louise Williams' Under the Cranes as part of the London Fields Free Film Festival. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director as well as author Michael Rosen whose play, Hackney Streets, the film is based on. *FREE*
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Thursday (24th) sees the 7th edition of experimental film competition Tenderflix at the ICA with a Jury from the likes of no.w.here, Soda Pictures, Tenderpixel and FVU.
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Hampstead Theatre is hosting Four minutes twelve seconds, directed by Anna Ledwich. A dark play on the effect of smart phones on a young person's life, featuring the brilliant Alex Arnold. Runs until the the 1st of Nov.
EXTRACURRICULARS
13/10 – 19/10
London,
UK
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London Film Festival presents Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies, Tomboy) latest film, Girlhood (Bande de Filles), following the life of french highschooler Marieme in the underprivileged Parisian suburbs. Catch it at the Odeon West End on Thursday (16th) or the Vue West End on Friday (17th).
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Starting Monday (13th), Gillian Wearing's new work We are Here will be at the Maureen Paley Gallery in Bethnal Green. A single channel piece made up of a series of monologues of people from her home town of Sandwell. See it before it ends on the 16th of Nov. *FREE*
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Steve McQueen's Ashes shot by Robby Müller and scored to the haunting verbal soundtrack recently recorded in Grenada will be showing at the Thomas Dale Gallery in SE1. Starting Tuesday (14th) running till the 15th of Nov. *FREE*
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Frieze London starts this Wednesday (15th) and Frieze Projects have got a killer list of films, performances and talks to go to. Frieze Film have commissioned a series of pop-up, commercial interruptions by Cally Spooner to punctuate the program. Have a read of the full program HERE.
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And if you don't fancy going to the actual fair itself, there is an Off-Site program curated by the ICA at The Old Selfridges Hotel hosting talks, performances by the likes of Isabel Lewis, NTS and many others.
GUILTY PLEASURES - A space for people to share their filmic shame
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Number of times watched: Favourite Saturday evening activity at my parents' house, so too many to count.
The Pleasure:
In this combination death and violence just make me relax completely. Maybe there's just something reassuring about people caring more about their flower arrangements than their neighbour hanging from the ceiling. Also it's a great way of hanging out with my parents without actually talking.
The Shame:
The audience for this show is typically made up by your grandmother and me. But maybe it's a national heritage thing. I'm not the only Dane with a strange attachment to this show. Apparently the 100th episode took partly place in Denmark to pay homage to the loyal fans.
Name: Louise Dagmar Madsen
Website: Not nearly creative enough (.com)
EXTRACURRICULARS
06/10 – 12/10
London,
UK
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This week the BFI London Film Festival returns for the 58th time, and here are our picks.
Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland's "more than just a live show recording" documentary Björk: Biophilia Live, screening at the Odeon West End on Thursday (9th) and Curzon Soho Cinema on Friday (10th)
Seminal film on poet Sayat Nova, The Colour of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov, now restored to digital 4K, screening at BFI Southbank on Friday (10th) and at Hackney Picturehouse on Sunday (12th)
Daniel Wolfe's debut feature, Catch me Daddy playing at the Vue West End Cinema next Thursday (16th), Vue Cinema Islington the following Friday (17th) and finally again at the Vue West End Cinema on Sunday (19th)
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29/09 – 05/10
London,
UK
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Glen Neath and David Rosenberg's sonic journey - RING, has returned to the Battersea Arts Centre. An immersive and unnervingly visceral experience, RING blurs the line between reality and our experience of it, forcing us to question our mental and physical senses. Starting Tuesday (30th) and running over the first two weeks of October (ends 11th).
Watch an interview with Rosenberg & Neath here.
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Friday (3rd) sees the opening for Progress Piece James Bulley's latest generative film and sound installation created from archive sound and visuals from the British Golden Age, at our new favourite gallery South Kiosk. A series of specially commissioned limited edition prints will be exhibited alongside the film. Catch it before it ends on the 25th October.
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Ben River's latest film Things, is an intimate piece exploring the relationship we have with the objects we gather and surround ourselves with, illustrated though the artist's personal surroundings and thoughts, chaptered loosely to the four seasons. Screening at the Kate MacGarry Gallery (every Wed - Sat) until the 25th. Not to be missed.
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EXTRACURRICULARS -
22/09 – 28/09
London,
UK
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For those of you who missed it the first time round (and those who just want to see it big again), Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine is showing this Saturday (27th) at the Barbican as part of their City Visions program. And for a mere fiver!
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Having bought our tickets in July, it's safe to say, we've been waiting for this one for a while. Tate Modern and LUX have put together a three day series: TV as Material which kicks off this Friday (26th) and ends Sunday (23rd). Starting with a showcase of archived works from both the BBC as well as LUX, followed by a screening and discussion exploring the relationship between artists and broadcasters then moving on to more screenings and a lecture by Maeve Connolly discussing how artists have re-imagined and reconfigured the television studio in performances, installations and single channel works. And to round off the series, Jef Cornelis' De Langste Dag / The Longest Day will be screened in it's 376min entirety (with breaks!).
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15/09 – 21/09
London,
UK
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Tonight (15th), Upset the Rhythm presents Mississippi Records on tour: "A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music According to Mississippi Records", a film+talk presentation followed by a showcase of artists released on the MR label all taking place in Dalston's Cafe Oto. Unfortunately it already looks to be sold out for tonight, BUT there will be another chance to catch it in two weeks on Tuesday (30th). Tickets sell out quick so don't sleep on it!
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The Arab British Centre is teaming up with the ICA and Dubai International Film Fest for SAFAR: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema giving us UK premieres, Q&As as well as an accompanying exhibition Who's Gaze is it Anyway? comprising of a historical collection of print, film and photography from illustrating Arab pop culture. Starting this week Friday (19th) till Thursday (25th)
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Dalston watering hole, The Alibi has a weekly film night (every Monday) boasting an eclectic selection of films. This week they will be screening Mark Singer's Dark Days, a cinematic documentary on the homeless in NYC who use the abandoned tunnels of the city's underground railway. *FREE*
GUILTY PLEASURES - a space for people to share their filmic shame
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Title: Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging (2008, 100min)
Number of times watched: 6
The Pleasure: I watch loads of naff television and film, but there are some you just don’t even really want to refer to as it’s scraping the barrel on a whole new level. I love Angus Thongs just because of how dated the language is, even for when the film was made. There is a very “Harry Potter” aura about it in terms of language that replaces swearing for a young audience, e.g. “You’re…PANTS!” or using phraseology that is more akin to something you would hear someone’s grandma come out with: “Not on my watch” or “go wash out your mouth out with SOAP!”. I love hearing all those words that teenagers never use coming out of actors' mouths with them knowing how truly lame it is.
The Shame: There isn’t much shame to be honest. I feel some only when I use it as a reference for lolz British films and people just look at you in disgust for not quoting “Withnail & I”, or some other form of intellectual classic. I know it’s crap and very CBEEBIES but <3
Name: Ethan O'Connor
Website: www.cloudbase.sexy
Sneak preview from Judy Jacob's film Three, featuring the incredible Masumi Saito, dressed by Kate Lane. Watch this space.
EXTRACURRICULARS - a weekly list bringing you what we think you should do. Some film related + some other stuff.
08/09 – 14/09
London,
UK
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This week's DocHouse Thursday (11th) presents Rehad Desai's poignant documentary Miners Shot Down about the miners' strike in Marikana, South Africa in 2012 which left 34 dead and many injured. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the director.
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Staying in Africa, The Southbank Centre's latest exhibition of music, film and performance from the continent and diaspora: Africa Utopia, starts this Thursday (11th) and runs till Sunday (14th). There's a program focused on video and sonic art: Digital Africa - The Future is Now showcasing the latest emerging artists in the field.