Lanterna Magicka - US Premiere Upcoming

Lanterna Magicka will receive its US premiere in July 2010. More details soon.

Lanterna Magicka - English and International Premieres

Lanterna Magicka had its English premiere at the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham on 27 March, and receieves its international premiere on 8 April 2010 at the Buneos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema. More information can be found here. The film screens again on 13 April.

Lanterna Magicka Flatpack Festival Screening Details

Lantera Magicka will receive its English premiere at the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham on 27 March. The screening will start at 4 pm, and go on until 6. (Please note the revised time - it was originally scheduled to start at 3.)


The film will play as a double bill with a magic lantern show by Mike Simkin, who not only appears in Lanterna, but also did the original magic lantern work on Comrades. This is a unique, one-off event not to be missed!

Both myself and Louise will be there to introduce the film.

More info and ticket details can be found here.

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.