Tuesday 5 April 2011

The Ethereal Mind - A2 Postmodern Media

The historian of broadcasting, David Hendy, explores the ways in which the electronic media have shaped the modern mind.

How did wireless conquer the world in the early years of the twentieth century, and how did a fascination with radio among scientists and writers unleash new ideas about the transmission of thought and the utopian potential of invisible forces?

Click on the links to listen to this 15 min programme...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sq538

Friday 1 April 2011

If you go and see one film this Easter make it...Source Code

With his debut movie Moon, Duncan Jones made a mighty leap; now with this superb follow-up, he has hit the ground sprinting. Source Code is a terrifically exciting and hugely enjoyable sci-fi thriller, written by Ben Ripley. For pure entertainment, there's nothing around to touch it.

Click on the title to read the full review from The Guardian...



Click here to read an interview with the director Duncan Jones...

AS Film Industry students - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

A2 Postmodern Media students - http://www.enterthesourcecode.com/

Jake Gyllenhaal Recalls 'Debate' On 'Source Code' Set...click here to read an interview with the star...

Who made the film? Find out here...

Rousselet launches Vendome Pictures with $115m credit facility...

Longtime French producer Philippe Rousselet has formed Vendome Pictures to develop, produce and finance roughly 15 features over the next five years in the $10-40m range.

Vendome is backed by a $115m revolving credit facility funded by a consortium of banks led by CIT and RBS Greenwich Capital, a mezzanine facility funded by Newbridge Film Capital, and a group of private equity investors from the US and Europe including StudioCanal and Vendome Investments, a jointly owned vehicle owned by Rousselet and French TV host and Endemol France co-founder Arthur Essebag.

Studying the Film Industry and want to learn about the Marketing and Distribution? Click here...



Here's the review of Duncan Jones' debut film Moon from 2009...

The moon landing anniversary has been a time of nostalgia, for the glorious missions themselves and for the elegant, speculative and subversive sci-fi classics they inspired on screen in the next decade: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Dark Star and Silent Running. Movie pundits now routinely affect to despise the all-consuming popular success of Star Wars in this context - but the cerebral, grownup strand of sci-fi was not destroyed. Click on the link above to read the rest...

And if you like the sound of that and liked the look of 'Source Code' why not try Danny Boyle's 2007 sci-fi film 'Sunshine'?
 
Here's Peter Bradshaw's review from The Guardian...
 



Enjoy.