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Advertising is the new music video
Tue, Sep 22 2009 1:32 AM

Shane Meadows is a remarkably pragmatic director. This afternoon -- probably already past, for any UK readers -- Meadows will appear at London's Nokia store to hype up a promotional stunt tied in to the London Film Festival. Aspiring filmmakers are invited to submit a 90-minute short on Nokia's behalf showing "what being connect in 2009 means to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: David Fincher, Somers Town, Shane Meadows, This Is England, Michel Gondry, David Lynch, Spike Jonze, London Film Festival 2009

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...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Thomas Turgoose, Somers Town, Shane Meadows, Eurostar, This Is England, Bartley Gorman, King of the Gypsies, Kitchen Sink