Andrew Pulver introduces a double bill: Patrick Keiller's essay-film London, and Christopher Petit's road trip Radio On
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/nov/30/british-cult-classics-london-radio-on-video
Andrew Pulver introduces a double bill: Patrick Keiller's essay-film London, and Christopher Petit's road trip Radio On
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2012/nov/30/british-cult-classics-london-radio-on-video
The final offering in our season of British cult classics are two films that take us far into the dark heart of England
The fourth and last of our British cult classics double bills offers two very different, virtually unclassifiable films: Patrick Keiller's London, from 1993, and Christopher Petit's Radio On, released in 1979. Keiller's film, a melancholy homage to the UK capital, resembles a string of animated still photographs, while Petit's is a gloomy, mannered black-and-white road movie that, as its director suggests, is something of a journey into the past as well as across England. Despite their surface dissimilarities, the two films share a dynamic intelligence towards the environment and landscape that surrounds them; both are cinematic pilgrimages through England.
London is perhaps the slightly better known: written and filmed by Keiller, who rather obviously spent considerable amounts of time traipsing around the city with a locked-off camera to capture his perfectly composed shots. London is ostensibly a travelogue around the city, undertaken by two (presumably fictional) and never-seen characters. Only one of them has a name – Robinson – and the other only evoked in Paul Scofield's measured voiceover. Robinson, particularly, is occupied by the "problem of London". The pair's "expeditions" seek to memorialise obscure events in the capital's political and literary past – from the mythical "London stone" lying beneath a Cannon Street office block, to the Stoke Newington school where Edgar Allan Poe was briefly a pupil in 1817.
Keiller produced two followup films to London: Robinson in Space, about the "problem of England", centred on Reading; and Robinson in Ruins, largely dwelling on Oxford and its environs. But he is still very much an oddity compared with most British directors: part academic, part artist and part documentary-maker, and arguably better known now as a justly acclaimed gallery-based installation artist. Here's a link to an interview with him that the Guardian ran in May 1994, in which he outlines his intention to "show how London could be, that is, how some of it already is".
Radio On was Christoper Petit's first film. A film critic for Time Out, he had pitched the idea to Wim Wenders while interviewing the director. If London is the hermetic vision of an isolated artistic/academic voice, Radio On is the opposite: drenched in the post-punk culture of the late 70s, Bowie, Kraftwerk and Wreckless Eric on the soundtrack, and room found for the likes of Sting (just before Police hit the bigtime) and Wenders's wife Lisa Kreuzer. Petit scrutinises London – seen in the first third – with a fierce Ballardian eye, contemplating the tower blocks and flyovers of Shepherd's Bush with monochrome intensity. And David Beames, playing the inscrutable disc-jockey B, on a cross-country trip to Bristol after his brother dies, has the role of a lifetime.
Radio On was given a brief re-release in 2004, and the Guardian's John Patterson wrote a brilliant appreciation of it, some 25 years on. Here's a taster, but it's worth revisiting the entire article.
Petit is less interested in narrative than in new and un-English ways of looking and seeing. He and [cinematographer Martin] Schäfer are in love with the sensual delight of a camera moving forward through space. The film is peppered with long, coldly stirring shots from B's clapped-out Rover, moving through a series of defamiliarised, Ballardian English landscapes – the Westway at night, the M4, Hopperesque filling stations in deepest Wiltshire, and what Petit's collaborator Iain Sinclair refers to as "typically featureless Petit fields". Between them Petit and Schäfer attempt to remake our understanding of British urban space, much as Godard discerned contemporary Paris's futuristic foreignness in Alphaville. The opening shot – a long, dark, nosy peek through the dead brother's flat – passes a handwritten sign reading "We are the children of Fritz Lang and Wernher von Braun" and comes to rest on the suicide's feet in a bath, to the sound of David Bowie singing Heroes/Helden, half in English, half in German. Already we are are in unfamiliar territory.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2012/nov/30/london-radio-on-watch-on-demand
Were you happy with how Cosmopolis was received?
No, I would've liked it to have made half a billion dollars at the box office! [laughs] The movie was received like an art film, which is to say it did OK in the big cities. Naturally you always want the biggest audience you can get, just as long as it doesn't cause you to compromise your moviemaking.
Why did you cast Robert Pattinson as limo-riding antihero Eric Packer?
Eric is in absolutely every scene, so you need an actor who is interesting and charismatic enough to look at for the entire movie. You want someone who can really come up with surprises and angles, and has a level of stardom that will support the movie. He also had to do a credible New York accent. All of that led me to Rob.
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Top Gear, Fantastical, Etsy, FxCamera, Winnie the Pooh, Minecraft Reality, Played in Britain and more
Welcome to our weekly roundup of brand new iPhone and iPad apps released in the last seven days, from cars, productivity apps and crafty shopping through to photography, theatre and uber-violent cartoon cats and mice.
As ever, games aren't included, because they have their own separate weekly post covering all platforms. This week's roundup included iOS games like Jet Set Radio, BattleFriends at Sea, Arcane Legends and Word Derby.
What about Android apps? They have their own weekly roundup, and you can find the latest one here. November's Windows Phone roundup will follow early next week. In the meantime, here's this week's selection of new iOS releases:
This one-off digital magazine from the Top Gear team focuses on Aston Martin's new supercar (a snip at £1.2m). Expect lots of photos, videos and information on the car's design and inner workings, as well as "a blast of its mighty 7.3-litre V12" engine. And since it's free, you'll save a few quid towards the car itself...
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Lots of buzz this week around Flexibits' Fantastical, which is a smarter, whizzier version of the default iOS calendar app. That includes voice dictation, a "DayTicker" view of your daily schedule, lists of events pulled down from Facebook, and support for iCloud, Google Calendar and Exchange. If you switched to Sparrow from the iOS Mail app, this may be your next move.
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Already available on iPhone, crafts website Etsy now has a fully iPad-optimised version of its app. It works for both buyers and sellers, browsing the 11m-strong catalogue and buying for the former, and listing new items and following orders for the latter.
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Photography app FxCamera has been hugely popular on Android, with more than 20m downloads. It's now made the leap to iPhone, and looks to have the features to take on the established competition there. There's a range of effects, the ability to record voice messages to accompany images posted to Facebook, and other social features.
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Disney's latest iOS app for Winnie the Pooh and friends looks lovely, with a characterful visual style, and lots of playful interactivity for children to enjoy. It's less a book and more a wander around Hundred Acre Wood, tapping and swiping the scenery and characters, with additional colouring sections.
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This is most definitely a niche, but a rather marvellous one. It's an augmented reality app for people who play Minecraft, helping them project their blocky creations into the real world. And here's the thing that is getting geeks (yes, me) excited: the ability to save Minecraft worlds to real-world locations, for other people to find and explore.
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This is the latest iPad app from the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum in London, drawing on its collection of theatrical photographs. It's a guide to 100 post-war plays in Britain – you may have guessed this already from the title – with the photos complemented by text extracts, reviews from the Guardian and Telegraph, essays and audio interviews from experts, and video commentary from Guardian critic Michael Billington. [Disclosure: I spotted this go live on the App Store, nobody at Guardian HQ has been leaning on me to cover the app].
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Women's magazine Grazia has launched an official iPad app for its UK edition, offering weekly digital issues for £1.99 a pop, or a choice of longer subscriptions. The key feature, though, is that the articles are also shoppable: you can tap on items to browse, buy or share with friends.
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What's the secret to bucking the downward pricing pressure on the App Store? Lots of knobs! No, not that kind – Apple wouldn't allow it – the electronic music instrument kind. KORG has published several apps based on its famous instruments, with iPolysix being the latest. It's an analog polyphonic synthesizer based on the real-world Polysix, with a new step sequencer and all manner of kno... controls to twiddle.
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Hot on the heels of similar apps for Batman and Superman, this children's app is the work of Night & Day Studios. Kids choose characters and items from a carousel at the bottom of the screen, slap them onto scenery from the famous Tom and Jerry cartoons, then save/share the results. And if Tom and Jerry aren't your bag, there's a Looney Tunes version out this week too.
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UberSocial made its name as one of the better unofficial Twitter apps, and despite ructions around how third-party apps are being restricted by Twitter, its publisher UberMedia has released a new Pro version for iPhone. It has a slick design, more rich media, and some power features still lacking from Twitter's own iPhone app.
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Toca Tailor is excellent: a recently released children's app that gets children making virtual clothes, including using the camera to capture patterns from the real world. This is a new, completely separate free version with a fairytale theme, designed to give kids and parents a taste of the main app.
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Talking of parents, this is exactly the kind of app that people will buy "for the children" while really intending to spend a few hours browsing it themselves. Released by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, it's a comprehensive guide to robots from around the world with 360-degree photos, tech specs, videos and other information.
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Already available on iPad, 500px has just made its iPhone debut on the App Store. It's a photo-sharing service but with more of a focus on creatives and photographers than the likes of Instagram (although that attracts plenty of creatives too). So it's more about browsing lots of amazing photos and sharing them with friends, than snapping your lunch.
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Who's what? Well, this is an official companion app for the books by author Martin that have been turned into an obscure TV show called Game of Thrones. Yes, that one. Released by Random House, this app has more than 540 character profiles, 380 place profiles and interactive maps – great for figuring out who's who and where they are when reading or watching.
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More Random House here, in the form of Fodor's City Guides, which have been turned into an attractive iPhone app. It covers destinations including New York, London, Paris, Rome and San Francisco, with listings for hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs and tourist hotspots, and data drawn from Expedia, OpenTable and other sites.
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Anyone who's been covering the apps space for a while is probably suffering from social/location fatigue, but Yplan does look interesting. Focusing on the capital only for now, it offers daily lists of interesting events with buttons to book tickets, integration with Apple's Passbook, and referral features to earn money when friends spend.
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Bauer Media's More! magazine is the latest publication to experiment with augmented reality technology. In this case it's an Aurasma-powered app designed to be used with the current issue of the glossy magazine, offering videos and other content when pointed at the pages.
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Making a good educational app for children can be a fine line between information and entertainment – a lot of attempts end up dry and boring. Squeebles Maths Bingo walks that line well though, with a storyline blending bingo and ice cream, and maths exercises for kids that lead to sweet-snack creation.
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Spun is an interesting new spin on the city-guides genre: "a constantly updated urban guide, insider tip sheet, and local news jacked on steroids". So rather than a pure tourism guide, it's as much for locals, as well as people who've emigrated elsewhere but want to keep in touch with hometown goings-on. Covered so far are New York, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Austin, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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It's another storming week for new children's apps, including this from Spanish developer Sanoen Publishing. Aimed at early readers, it focuses on the jobs they might want to do when they grow up, with vocab in six languages, and a range of reading modes depending on the child's age and skills. The illustrations are full of character, too, so it's not dry.
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This is a more serious affair: a marine navigation and mapping app from Garmin, which can be used to plan and view routes, read reviews of locations and hazards on the high seas from other sailors, and transfer data to Garmin's separate chartplotter device.
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This popped up in last week's Android roundup, but it's since been officially launched for iPhone too. It's a free video-chat app that ties in Facebook to connect to friends. Besides basic video chat there are photo-sharing features and the ability to watch YouTube videos or listen to music with those contacts.
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Perch is another app focused on video chat, although it does it with a twist requiring an extra iOS device. The idea: "By mounting an iPod, iPhone or iPad in your home, you can easily send video messages and record memorable moments as they happen." Which basically means wandering up to the device and talking to record a message.
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One last festive children's app for you this week, from French developer La Souris Qui Raconte. This one's "not recommended for younger children who still believe in Santa Claus", mind, due to its myth-scotching storyline about Santa really being a bloke called Fred who gets his mates to help deliver presents. Quirky, colourful and great fun.
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This is a very nifty app from British startup T & Biscuits, aimed at students and academics. The idea: scan book barcodes to create automatic citations and bibliographies when working on essays, with a choice of several referencing styles (Harvard, Chicago, Oxford etc) to suit even the most demanding lecturer.
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There is no shortage of nifty DJing apps on iPad, with djay the current reigning steel-wheels champion in this household. Turntable DJ Deck is talking the right talk though, billing itself as "the first professional DJ deck for iPad" with a range of pro features.
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Taking an iPad onto the yoga mat may sound like a strange idea, but iYoga may convince you otherwise. It's a guide to more than 190 poses, with a motion-captured person showing you how to get each one right. Poses can be strung together into routines, and it plays nice with Apple TV to project everything onto a bigger screen if required.
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This is an offshoot from mobile writing site Movellas, gathering some of the poetry written by its community. That means more poems, haikus and sonnets than you can shake a stick at, with the ability to post feedback, save them to favourites lists, and get notified when a preferred poet has new verse available.
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Finally, and on a vaguely-related note, SongSmith is an iPad app for songwriters to "compose, organise, perform and share your songs". That includes a composition editor for writing, the ability to create and edit setlists for gigs, and lots of customisation and drag'n'drop features.
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That's our selection this week, but what about you? What iOS apps have you been using and enjoying, or what do you think of the ones above? Make your recommendations in the comments.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/nov/30/best-iphone-ipad-apps-30nov12
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With his new movie "Django Unchained" set to hit theaters on Christmas Day, Jamie Foxx pitched in on promotions by covering the December 2012 issue of Men's Health magazine.
The 44-year-old actor showed off his buff bod in a John Varvatos Star USA shirt with nude jeans for the Ture Lillegraven shot front page while opening up about his secrets to success and staying in shape.
Highlights from Mr Foxx's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Men's Health!
On taking his time after a hit:
"It's all waves. It'll be good for a while, then things will mellow out. Then we'll catch another wave. The Kingdom is another wave. You want to do it; you don't want to overdo it. So lay back after a big thing. That's the hardest part, letting someone else get it on. But then you come back with something that's brand new and different."
On his unlikely mentor, Paul Anka:
"Paul Anka has a very interesting story. When he was 15 or 16, he was hanging out with the Rat Pack. He couldn't get into the clubs, but he'd hang out in the kitchen and write songs for Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra. He wrote 'My Way.' He also wrote the theme song for Johnny Carson. Johnny said, 'I have someone to write it.' Paul said, 'I'll give you 50 percent of the publishing.' And he got the gig. But Paul Anka said to me, 'Jamie, I live life on my own terms.' And you want to reach that point as quickly as you can. You want to be able to say, 'I will go,' not 'I have to go.' So that's all you work for, man."
On his fitness goal:
"I just want to get my tight on. If someone grabs your arm in a club, you want to let 'em know you're sturdy."
Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/jamie-foxx/jamie-foxx-covers-mens-health-december-2012-752240
Ryan Gosling takes a stroll to the Hollywood Hills Hotel after leaving Chateau Marmont, looking warm wearing a jacket, gray shirt and jeans with a hat. Ryan has been keeping busy working on his first directorial film, "How to Catch a Monster" and is in the process of casting for the movie, which is expected to start shooting in Spring of 2013
Gearing up for the post-holiday release, a new featurette for the upcoming movie, "Gangster Squad" was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday (November 29).
The Ruben Fleischer-directed film stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie, Emma Stone, and Sean Penn.
Fans will have to wait until January 11th for the movie to hit theaters, but check out the featurette below.
Source: http://celebrity-gossip.net/ryan-gosling/new-gangster-squad-featurette-released-watch-here-769007
'I wish this picture really captured how dead it is in here at this Joe Budden concert,' tweeted concertgoer Paige S during Thursday's show.
By Gil Kaufman
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No artist wants to look out from the stage and see a fan yawning. But worse than that is going on Twitter to find out that someone in the house is telling the world that they think your show is boring and that nobody is into it.
That was too much for Slaughterhouse rapper Joe Budden on Thursday night during his show in Oakland, so the MC took matters into his own hands and tossed the offending tweeter. It all started when a woman in the crowd uploaded a photo of the show with the tag, "I wish this picture really captured how dead it is in here at this Joe Budden concert."
Attending with her boyfriend, the woman also uploaded a picture of a box of NoDoz as a commentary on how bored she was at the gig, with the added dis, "for the Budden concert tonight." According to her Twitter account, security came and pulled her out of the crowd, explaining that he would not take the stage until she was escorted out.
"So we are upstairs at VIP ... security asks me if I'm Paige," she tweeted. "I said, 'yes.' And they say, 'Joe Budden wants you out. I feel flattered though, they said they showed my Twitter picture and found me in the club." She later explained that she would "never heckle an artist," clarifying that she was tossed before Budden even came out to perform, adding that she's a fan.
Unlike nerdcore rapper MC Chris, who posted a weepy apology for tossing a fan from one of his gigs for a critical tweet earlier this year, Budden clearly wasn't feeling contrite about his decision. Early on Friday morning (November 30), Bud tweeted, "I wish I could rewind life so I could kick that hoe out again lol."
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The yet-to-be-named 1D perfume will hit retailers in 2013.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Wondering what the fellas of One Direction want their ladies to smell like? Well, you'll soon wonder no more. The powerhouse boy band is set to launch their first-ever signature scent next year.
Following in the footsteps of Justin Bieber, 1D's women's perfume will hit shelves in the fall of 2013. The band has partnered with fragrance company Olivann Beauty to create the perfume as well as "ancillary products," Women's Wear Daily reports. Olivann Beauty president Dana Kline confirmed that the fivesome have been working on the perfume for about six months now.
The name of the perfume will be confirmed in early 2013 before it hits department stores in areas where the band already has tour dates planned in the fall, followed by other markets. The guys are set to begin their massive 2013 world tour in February in Europe before landing Stateside in June.
The tour will also serve as the basis for their upcoming 3-D movie, which will be directed by Morgan Spurlock and filmed in part by bandmember Niall Horan.
"Well, we've been kind of [filming], we've always had a camera with us," Niall shared. "Like when we were touring America in the summer, we had a camera with us every day, and we were just kind of documenting stuff 'cause if it ever did come to a movie, then we'd have stuff ready for it. So we've already kind of started and the cameras are already coming out on the road with us a bit more now. Obviously doing [Madison Square Garden] next week and then the tour all year next year, hopefully it'll turn out as well as we want it to."
Fans who can't wait nearly a year to purchase the guys' perfume can (sort of) take a member of the group home with them this holiday season. One Direction just released their line of action figures this week.
"I think we all wanted them to be as authentic as possible, and obviously, if we got involved in the outfits and stuff, then it's a lot of stuff that we'd probably wear," Zayn Malik said about the "dolls." "And it's cool for the fans because they get a doll with outfits that we've picked."
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Happy to be attending an event, rather than planning one, Pippa Middleton enjoyed the Christmas Charity Sales Launch at St. James Church in London, England on Thursday (November 29).
The 29-year-old party planner looked stunning in a furry blue sweater, black skirt, black stockings, and black heels as she chatted with a friend.
Earlier on Thursday, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge kicked off a special designer and vintage sale at the British Red Cross hop in Chelsea.
One of the volunteers said of the host, "It was such a pleasure to meet Pippa. She was so sweet, it is so amazing of here to come and do this for the Red Cross – she said she often walks past and looks in and she wanted to do something for us.”