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Picturehouse Podcast: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Special

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:09:03 +0000
by samclements
Director Benh Zeitlin pops into the podcave to talk about his stunning debut feature, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. If you’re an iPod/iPhone/iPad kind of person, why not subscribe for free via  iTunes. Benh also signed a poster for us, visit our Facebook page for a chance to win it. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD is in [...]

CINEMA MIXTAPE: Side A

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:12:44 +0000
by John-Paul Pierrot
To celebrate the DVD release of Picturehouse Entertainment’s ELECTRICK CHILDREN, we’ve put together a mixtape of some of our favourite tracks from the cinema. Each song is part of the diegesis of a film rather than the soundtrack – they all in some way affect the narrative structure. (Songs from musicals have been discounted.) Track #1: [...]

5 BROKEN CAMERAS: A Special Picturehouse Tour

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:59:15 +0000
by timothyrogerson
The political, religious and territorial conflict in Israel/Palestine is now such a familiar story, such an established fact, that it can be all too easy to feel apathetic towards it – to fail to get past the steady stream of headlines and statistics about the political conferences and summits, the demonstrations staged and suppressed, the [...]

HITS AND MISSES 12-14 OCTOBER: BRITISH AUDIENCES GET TAKEN AGAIN, AGAIN.

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:06:06 +0000
by paulridd
For a second week running Liam Neeson’s reboot round two bout of indiscriminate vengeance in critically mauled sequel TAKEN 2 took the top spot. Taking a further £3.7M to make a stonking £14.5M total into only a second week of play, the flick saw a respectable drop of just 42% on last weekend, indicating there [...]

Picturehouse Podcast 137: ON THE ROAD & RUBY SPARKS

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:00:33 +0000
by samclements
Sam and Simon talk about Walter Salle’s adaptation of ON THE ROAD and RUBY SPARKS, the new film from the team behind LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. There’s also a chance to win Rebecca Thomas’s fantastic ELECTICK CHILDREN on DVD. If you’re an iPod/iPhone/iPad kind of person, why not subscribe for free via  iTunes. Join the boys [...]