Lanterna Magicka - English Premiere Screening Details

We now have the details of Lanterna's English premiere. The film will screen as part of the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham on Saturday 27 March, 3-5pm at Ikon Eastside, 183 Fazeley street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE. The film will be followed by a magic lantern show. Lu and I will be there to introduce the film and meet fellow lanternists. See you there!

Cornelius Crow on IMDB

You can now watch our 2005 psychogeographic thriller, The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow, on IMDB. Go here - and it's free!

The Druids

Louise Milne's film The Druids is heading towards the final stages of post. We've just added the music and it's looking (and sounding) very good indeed. It's by Somerset lad, and now resident of Stockholm, Jack Richold. You can hear more of Jack's stuff here.

Films of the Decade (?)

It's that time of year when newspapers etc are full of 'best of year' lists, and, as it's also the end of the decade, 'best of decade' lists as well. I must say, it doesn't feel like the end of a decade. And what a piss-poor 'decade' at that - 10 years of mediocrity, greed and evil.

I have seriously had to wrack my brains to try and come up with 10 worthy films for my own list. I'm sure the 1990s were easier. Anyway, for want of something better to do, here is my list, in chronological order:

Kimono (Hal Hartley, 2000)

Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)

The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coen Brothers, 2001)

Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette, 2001)

Être et Avoir (Nicholas Philibert, 2002)

The White Balloon (Werner Herzog, 2004)

Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning, 2005)

Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)

The Man from London (Béla Tarr, 2007)

Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008)

Today is, incidentally, the anniversary of the first public film show, in Paris in 1895, by the Lumiere brothers. They later remarked that the cinema was 'an invention without a future'. On the basis of how bad most films are, I'm tempted to agree.

The Druids: Travels in Deep England

Just back from Somerset, where we shot another interview with the great Ronald Hutton for Louise Milne's documentary The Druids: Travels in Deep England. We hope to have a cut of the film ready in spring 2010. More info coming soon...

Lanterna Magicka Screening 14/11/09

Lanterna Magicka screens on 14th November 2009 as part of the Inverness Film Festival's Bill Douglas retrospective. More details can be found here.

The Trilogy will screen that afternoon, and Comrades on the Sunday morning at 1130.

Louise and Sean should be there for all of it, so see you there!

Lanterna Magicka UK Première

Lanterna Magicka will receive its first UK screening at the Inverness Film Festival next month. The festival's programme is still being finalised, but we understand that Lanterna will be screened on 14th November as part of a Bill Douglas retrospective. Directors Sean Martin and Louise Milne will be attending the screening. More details to follow.

Meanwhile, investors are still being sought to help complete Sean Martin's feature Folie à Deux, which is now in the final stages of postproduction. Funds are needed to complete the sound mix. Should anyone be interested in boarding the project as an investor, please email us. We are hoping that the film will be completed before the end of 2009.