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Product placement.
Thu, Aug 28 2008 4:25 PM
There's an interesting piece at the Guardian from David Cox, who sees end times-signs in the fact that Shane Meadows' "Somers Town" (which, I know, enough already) was paid for by Eurostar: "A fateful Rubicon has been crossed," he declares. Meadows didn't extract money from Eurostar to facilitate a project of his own. He agreed... Read More...
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Escaping the kitchen sink (with the help of some corporate sponsorship).
Thu, Aug 14 2008 3:10 PM
In the new issue of Sight & Sound, Mark Sinker makes a nice point about Shane Meadows' "Somers Town" and his rebellion in general against working class miserablism: Kitchen Sink made speech and street into stifling prisons; for Meadows, protesting the obligatory disenchantments of a later age, they're often more like dreamscapes, to play... Read More...
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