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Trainspotting On Stage Inside...Sarah Waters French New Wave Race in Music

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%XPORTED COMEDY DOES THE "RITCOM LOSE ITS mAVOUR

2UARAIDH -URRAY ON BRINGING 4RAINSPOTTING TO THE STAGE

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Centre  Spread  12  &  13

Film  19  &  20 4HE &RENCH .EW 7AVE WE LOOK AT ITS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS 1UENTIN 4ARATINO HIS WORK AND INSPIRATIONS DISCUSSED

Music  15 2ACISM IN -USIC THE POWER OF MUSIC FOR GOOD AND BAD

Reviews

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3UPERNATURAL #3) -IAMI ON $6$ CULT SERIES 4HE 3URVIVORS AND YOUR DOSE OF SOAPY SUDS

Art  6

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3ARAH 7ATERS CHATS TO US ABOUT HER LATEST WORK AND LIFE

!N %VENING WITH 3HEL 3ILVERSTEIN AT 5%!

4HE .IGHT 7ATCH AND BEST SELLERS

Fashion  4  &  5

Film  18,  21  &  22

Regulars

Music  14,  16  &  17

6INTAGE 3TYLE HOW TO KEEP THAT WORN LOOK FRESH

Creative  Writing  10 Listings  17

'OOD .IGHT AND 'OOD ,UCK !EON &LUX (IDDEN AND #ASANOVA ON THE BIG SCREEN 4HE $ESCENT 3ERENITY AND OTHERS ON THE SMALL ONE 4HE 3TREETS LIVE PLUS 'OLDFRAPP 0LACEBO AND MORE REVIEWED

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Hello 7ELCOME TO 4HE %VENT &IND YOUR SELF A FREE HOUR POUR YOURSELF A lNE #OGNAC AND PERUSE US &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT IS UPON US ONCE AGAIN AND DO NOT BE FOOLED

BY THE APPARENT LACK OF REFERENCE WITHIN 4HE %VENT &OR YOU SEE THE ESSENCE OF FAIR TRADE WAS IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS AS WE SLAVED OVER YOUR PAGES AND HAS EEKED ITS WAY IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER ONTO ALL OF THEM !DMITEDLY THIS REFERENCE MAY NOT ALWAYS BE CLEAR BUT TRUST THAT IT IS THERE AND YOU WILL SEE IT &OR EXAMPLE IT COULD BE SAID THAT OUR FASHION SECTION S UNSHAKE

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ABLE DEDICATION TO MAKING THE BEST USE OF WHAT IS ALREADY IN OUR WARD ROBES IS A KICK IN THE TEETH DIRECTED SQUARELY AT ALL THOSE SWEATY SHOPPIE TYPE CLOTHING COMPANIES !ND WHO CAN ARGUE WITH SUCH SWISH RESULTS %LSEWHERE OUR OBVIOUS INTEREST IN 5+ IMPORT EXPORT RELATIONS REmECTS OUR DEDICATION TO FAIR TRADE !FTER ALL TRADING 4HE /FlCE FOR THE LIKES OF !MERICAN )DOL CAN HARDLY BE SAID TO BE FAIR AND WE AT 4HE %VENT FEEL THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TRADE ISSUE THAT MUST BE COVERED /F COURSE OTHER EXAMPLES OF OUR SUPPORT OF &ARI TRADE &ORTNIGHT ARE AS NUMEROUS

Win! 7E RE SO DAMNED GENEROUS !ND WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THIS GENEROSITY 7E GIVE STUFF AWAY TO YOU GUYS .O NEED TO THANKS US *UST KEEP IT IN MIND IF WE EVER ASK YOU FOR A FAVOR OR TO BORROW A lVER OR SOMETHING 4HIS FORTNIGHT WE HAVE GOT TWO COPIES OF 3EASON 4HREE OF 4HAT S 3HOW ON $6$ TO GIVE AWAY JUST BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU )T S TIME TO DON YOUR PLATFORMS TEASE YOUR AFRO AND GET ALL GROOVY 4O ENTER ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEND THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION BELOW ALONG WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO CONCRETE COMPETITIONS UEA AC UK AND THEN CROSS ALL OF YOUR CROSSABLE BITS 7HAT IS THE NAME OF THE CHARACTER PLAYED BY !SHTON +UTCHER IN 4HAT S 3HOW

AS THEY ARE CONVINCING BUT ) WON T BORE YOU WITH THEM HERE 2EST AS SURED THAT WE AT 4HE %VENT ARE SWILLING &AIRTRADE COFFEE AND SCOFF ING &AIRTRADE BANANAS UNTIL WE CAN SWILL AND SCOFF NO MORE ,ASTLY IT ONLY REMAINS TO THANK EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED WITH THIS ISSUE (OW IRONIC THAT ) CAN SPEND THIS EDITORIAL PONTIlCATING ON &AIRTRADE WHEN ) HAVE MERCILESSLY WRUNG ALL THE CREATIVE JUICES OUT OF MY CONTRIBUTORS WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A PAT ON THE BACK 4HEY LIKE IT RE ALLY %NJOY

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#ONTRIBUTORS $AISY "OWIE 3ELL ,ISA #LARKSON

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%DDIE (OWARTH !NDY *UDSON #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY

,YDIA -OSSAHEBI 4ONY 3AUNDERS Music  Editor  #HARLES 2UMSEY #ONTRIBUTORS &IONA "ILLINGS 3IMON 'RIFlTHS 7ILL (OLLOWAY #HRIS (YDE 3IMON +INCH !NDREW 2ILEY

'REG 3ULLIVAN %LLEY 4AYLOR TV  Editor  #HRIS (YDE #ONTRIBUTORS 2EBECCA (UNT $EREK *OHNSTON

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O YOU VE BOYCOTTED .ESTLE WOULDN T STEP FOOT IN 3TAR BUCKS AND CON SIDER -C$ONALDS THE FOOD OF THE DEVIL 9OU RECYCLE AS FREQUENTLY AS THE COUNCIL ALLOWS YOU TO AND YOU ONLY EAT ORGANIC "UT WHAT ABOUT YOUR WARDROBE !RE YOU STILL WEAR ING THREADS THAT WERE WOVEN WITH THE BLOOD OF ORPHANS 5NFORTU NATELY THE SHOCKING REALITY BEHIND YOUR SWISH SPORTSWEAR IS FAR FROM ETHICALLY CONSCIOUS &REQUENTLY

BRANDS PROMOTE HEALTHY LIFESTYLES AND UPHOLD THE IDEAL THAT A PAIR OF STINKY SNEAKERS WILL MAKE YOU AN ATHLETE 3ADLY THIS EXISTENCE IS EX CLUSIVE TO THE 7ESTERNERS WHO BUY THE GOODS AND NOT EXTENDED TO THE WORKERS WHO MANUFACTURE THEM )N SUCH COMPANIES WORKERS FACE HOR RENDOUS HOURS AND ARE UNLIKELY TO RECEIVE ANY TIME OFF WHATSOEVER $ANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING EQUIPMENT IS A DAILY THREAT AND EX TREME VERBAL AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS PART OF THE PAY PACKET 4HESE BIG BRANDS REFUSE TO COMPROMISE CON CERNING WAGES ENJOYING THE MARK UP A LITTLE TOO MUCH 3UDDEN LY THOSE FANCY LEGGINGS WITH THE NIF TY mASHES ON THE THIGH DON T LOOK SO CHIC AND A JOB WIPING UP VOMIT AT THE 5NION "AR SEEMS HIGHLY AP PEALING &URTHER DOWN THE SCALE OF SHOD DY COMPANIES IS THE SNOBBERY THAT RESIDES ON THE HIGH STREET .OT NEAR LY AS EVIL BUT STILL HIGHLY IRRITATING ALL THE SAME )F THE HIGH STREET HAD ITS WAY WE D BURN THEIR CLOTHES AS SOON AS THEY BECAME SLIGHTLY OUT OF MODE AND WE D ALL BE DRESSED LIKE LITTLE CLONES OF THE LIFELESS MANEQUINES THEY SHOVE IN THEIR WINDOWS !ND DON T YOU JUST LOVE THAT FEELING OF WALKING INTO A SUPPOSEDLY UPMAR KET STORE OR WORSE STILL A WHOLE HOST OF THEM CRAMMED INTO A BUILDING BLAZING WITH WHITE LIGHT NO AIR AND lLLED WITH OVERPRICED TAT TO THEN BE SNEERED AT BY SOME SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD WHO LOOKS AT YOU LIKE YOU RE SOMETHING *ODIE -ARSH WOULDN T SCREW 9OU FEEL SO ENRAGED YOU lND YOURSELF THINKING ANNOYINGLY MID DLE CLASS THOUGHTS LIKE OI BITCH ONCE YOU START EARNING ABOVE THE MINI MUM WAGE AND CAN SPELL THE NAME OF THE BRAND YOU RE PEDDLING THEN YOU CAN GLARE AT ME LIKE THAT /NCE YOU VE MANAGED TO SERVE YOURSELF

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VINTAGE GEAR COMES OUT OF THE ATTIC SHAKES OFF ITS MOTH BALLS AND DAUBS YOU WITH INDIVIDUALITY

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NO LONGER SHOULD YOU NEED ARM YOURSELF WITH A BROWN PAPER BAG EVERY TIME YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE -ISS LL &IX )T IS HERE TO BANISH THOSE DEMONS AND TURN YOU INTO THE CHIC BUTTERmY THAT S TRAPPED INSIDE JUST ACHING TO mY FREE 4HIS WEEK &ROM WOOD TO GOOD

SAMEY SAMENESS AT THE COUNTER YOU LL BE BULLIED INTO OPENING A STORE CARD THAT BOASTS THAT GENEROUS INTEREST RATE 4HERE ARE LITTLE BENElTS IN THESE SORTS OF GIMMICKS 4HEY ONLY PLUNGE YOU THE STUDENT CONSUMER FURTHER INTO DEBT AS YOU STRUGGLE TO MEET REPAYMENTS AND SERVE -R -ANAGER /F 3NOOTY #EN TRE WITH A NICE BIG CHEQUE 3O ONCE YOU VE WHEEDLED OUT MOST OF THE SHOPS IN THE COUNTRY

WHEN IT COMES TO DRESSING WITH SCRUPLES YOU COULD BE LEFT IN THE NODDY PANTS 4HAT S WHERE VINTAGE GEAR COMES OUT OF THE ATTIC SHAKES OFF ITS MOTH BALLS AND DAUBS YOU WITH INDIVIDUALITY )N THIS NECK OF .ORFOLK WE KNOW AND LOVE DECENT VINTAGE STORES ARE FEW AND FAR BE TWEEN /UR DEARLY DEPARTED h$UST BINv WAS ONE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF VINTAGE DIGS IN THE CITY 9ET THERE ARE ENDLESS SOURCES OF VINTAGE CLOTHING OUT THERE #HARITY SHOPS ARE THE PERFECT TREASURE TROVE FOR STYLISH TOGS WITH A STORY TO TELL -AKE UN DERWEAR YOUR OUTER WEAR WITH SEXY SLIPS OVER ROUND NECK JUMPERS 4HE SHOPS ARE ALSO CHOCABLOC WITH DIS

CARDED DENIM -AKE THIS YOUR OWN WITH A TEAR OR TWO 4HOSE WITH THE CURVES TO CARRY IT SHOULD PUT THE RIPS IN THE BACKPOCKETS OFFERING SNEAKY mASHES OF PRETTY PRINTED TIGHTS ! NEW HIT THIS SEASON IS THE hGRANDAD CARDIEv THOSE SAGGING ONES THAT ELDERLY MEN IN POTTING SHEDS SUCKING TOFFEES SEEM TO FA VOUR 4HESE CAN BE SOURCED WITH EASE AT MOST DENSELY STOCKED CHAR ITY SHOPS 4HE CARDIGANS SHOULD CLOAK CAMISOLES SWIPING THE SEAT OF YOUR SKINNY JEANS AS YOU SAUN TER ALONG !ND WITH PERFECT PRECI SION THEY CAN JUXTAPOSE A DAINTY TEA DRESS 4HAT mUSH OF WARMTH YOU GET FROM DOING YOUR BIT FOR CHARITY IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOURSELF KITTED OUT FOR LESS THAN YOU SPEND WEEKLY ON ALCOHOL "ACK IN THE DAYS WHEN YOUR PARENTS WERE BEHAVING LIKE YOU DO MANY OF THEIR CLOTHES WERE "RITISH BORN AND OF EXCELLENT QUALITY )F YOUR OLDER FAMILY MEMBERS WERE LAZY ENOUGH TO NEVER CLEAR OUT THE ATTIRE OF THEIR YOUTH GIVE THEIR WARDROBES A RAID /FFER THEIR AGE ING TOGS AN UPDATE WITH RIBBON

RIPS AND PATCHES OF INTRICATE LACE !LSO HELP THE AGED BY REMINDING YOUR PARENTS THAT THEY RE STILL A BIT COOL KIND OF "E VERY CAREFUL NOT TO OVERSTATE THIS POINT OF COURSE %VEN THE ,#2 HAS DIVERSIlED FROM SANCTIONING LIVER FAILURE AND THE BREAKDOWN OF MANY A RELATION SHIP TO PROVIDING A VENUE FOR TAL ENTED DESIGNERS TO PRESENT JEWELLERY AND VINTAGE SCOURERS TO SHOWCASE THEIR WARES 4HERE S ALSO INDIVIDUALITY A PLENTY TO BE UNEARTHED AT THE LOCAL MARKET 3OMEWHERE BETWEEN THE BEADED CHAVS AND SCARY LOOKING FRUIT SELLERS MANY A COOL LOOK CAN BE FOUND 4HOSE STALLS SELLING SEC OND HAND CLOTHES CAN ALSO GUARAN TEE NO ONE WILL BE LOOKING LIKE YOU COME 4UESDAY NIGHT 4HE INTERNET ALSO PROVIDES A FANTASTIC BANK OF VINTAGE SITES BOASTING DISTINCTIVE DRESS JUST WAIT ING TO BE DOUBLE CLICKED ON 6IN TAGE PIECES FAVOUR THE LAYERED LOOK

BUT DON T THINK THAT AGEING DRESS IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR ECCENTRIC #LASSIC ITEMS LIKE BLAZERS AND SCARVES CAN

WITH CARE LOOK AS SLEEK AS NEW

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7HERE CAN ) lND ACCESSORIES AND OUTlTS WITH CHARACTER AND INDIVIDUALITY ) M SICK OF LOOKING LIKE A WALKING (IGH 3TREET MANNEQUIN ) CONSTANTLY TURN UP IN THE SAME OUTlT AS FRIENDS AND PEOPLE HAVE STARTING KNOCKING ON MY HEAD FOR GOOD LUCK 4HE NESTING WOODPECKERS WERE THE LAST STRAW (ELP 7OODY

7ELL ,ADY ,UCK IS ON YOUR SIDE IN THIS INSTANCE LOVE 9OU CAN PICK UP GORGEOUS HAND MADE AND COMPLETELY ORIGINAL ACCES SORIES OF EXCELLENT QUALITY WITHOUT EVEN GETTING UP OFF YOUR BUM AND WHAT S MORE YOU CAN ALSO HELP A VARIETY OF CHARI TIES IN THE PROCESS !LTHOUGH NESTING THOSE POOR LITTLE HOME LESS WOODPECKERS WHY THAT S MIGHTY CHARITABLE OF YOU "UT IF YOU RE FEELING YOU WANT TO SPREAD MORE LOVEx @(OW ) HEAR YOU CRY "Y mEXING THOSE FASHIONABLE lNGERS AND EXERCISING THOSE EAGER TREND SPOTTING EYES AND PAYING A LITTLE VISIT TO THE SMART AND CLASSY WEBSITE WWW GETETHICAL COM 4HE WEBSITE SELLS A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL AND INNOVATIVE OUT lTS AND ACCESSORIES TO MAKE YOU STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD AND ALL IN AID OF SUPPORTING A HEFTY BUNCH OF CHARITABLE COM PANIES 4HE 42!)$ AUCTIONS ARE DElNITELY WORTH DELVING INTO AS THEY SUPPLY AN ATTRACTIVE HUNK OF ALL THE TRIMMINGS YOU D POSSIBLY NEED TO COMPLETE YOUR OUTlT AND lLL IT TO THE BRIM WITH GORGEOUSNESS 42!)$ STANDS FOR 4EXTILE 2ECYCLING FOR !ID AND )NTERNA TIONAL $EVELOPMENT AND THROUGH CAMPAIGNING AND RECY CLING IN THE 5+ THEY AIM TO HELP REDUCE WORLD POVERTY AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT NOW WOULDN T IT BE NICE IF WE COULD ALL LEND A HAND 7ELL HEAD DOWN TO THE WEBSITE AND SNAP UP SOME GOODS AND WILL BE 4HE WEBSITE S 42!)$ ACCESSORIES ARE A MAJOR PART OF THE 42!)$ 2EMADE BRAND THAT HAS HELPED GIVE THE COMPANY ITS EDGY AND INVENTIVE LABEL 4HE 2EMADE BRAND BASICALLY TAKES SECOND HAND ITEMS AND GIVES THEM A KICK IN THE RIGHT DIREC TION BY JAZZING THEM UP WITH A DASH OF mARE AND A SPLASH OF CUSTOMISATION ALL FROM NEW DESIGNERS ) WON T SUGAR THE PILL THESE BITS DON T COME CHEAP BUT YOU RE GETTING A ONE OFF PIECE THAT IS COMPLETELY FRESH AND OFTEN QUITE DARING 9OU DElNITELY WON T BE lNDING YOUR MATES ROLLING UP IN THE SAME GEAR )F YOU RE LOOKING FOR A MORE SUBSTANTIAL OUTlT RATHER THAN JUST NABBING A FEW BITS 42!)$ HAVE A VARIETY OF SHOPS SPRINKLED ABOUT THE COUNTRY SADLY NOT YET IN .ORWICH SO IF YOU FANCY A DAY TRIP HEAD TO ,ONDON OR "RIGHTON AND YOU WON T BE DISAPPOINTED 4HE SHOPS SELL A GREATER VARIETY OF THE 2EMADE LABEL WITH PLENTY OF CLOTHES FOR BOTH GUYS AND DOLLS TO CHOOSE FROM AND A WHOPPING GREAT WEDGE OF SPICILY RETRO AND FANTASTICALLY VINTAGE OUTlTS AND SHOES THAT WON T BURN A NASTY GREAT HOLE IN YOUR PASSIONATE PURSE 4HE SHOP IS PRETTY OUT THERE IN ITS RANGE OF CHOSEN THREADS BUT THERE ARE SOME CLASSIC PIECES THAT WILL NEVER FAIL TO GET YOUR HUNGRY SHOPPER S JUICES mOWING 3O FOR INSTANT INNOVATIVE APPEAL GIVE 42!)$ YOUR LOVE )T WON T LEAVE YOU FEELING WOODEN BUT ON THE WOODPECKERS FRONT PERHAPS A HAIRCUT %LLEY 4AYLOR

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Sailing  Murky  Waters 2OANNA "OND MEETS 3ARAH 7ATERS THE WOMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR REVOLUTIONISING OUR INTERPRETATION OF 6ICTORIAN SENSIBLITIES 3HE RE EDUCATES US IN THE DARKER SIDE OF OUR DEEPEST SEXUAL DESIRES

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ARAH 7ATERS IS RENOWNED FOR MANY THINGS 5NDOUBTEDLY THE lRST THING TO SPRING TO MIND HOWEVER

IS HER SOMEWHAT SURPRISING LINK WITH 6ICTORIAN LESBIANISM #ONSEQUENTLY WE WERE UNSURE OF WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN AWAITING OUR INTERVIEW WITH THE ILLUSTRIOUS -ISS 7ATERS IN THE RATHER UNPREPOSSESSING SITE OF THE ,EVEL !RTS CORRIDOR 7E WERE THEREFORE

TAKEN ABACK SLIGHTLY BY THE RATHER QUIET UNASSUMING lGURE THAT APPROACHED US BUT A FEW SHORT SECONDS LATER 7ITH HER CLIPPED HAIR YOUTHFUL EXPRESSION AND THREE QUARTER LENGTH SHIRT 7ATERS COULD STILL BE A STUDENT HERSELF 3HE BEGINS BY OFFERING US A CELEBRATORY GLASS OF RED WINE FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF HER TALK TO A SELECTION OF -! STUDENTS 4HE

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%VENT CAN T HELP BUT COMMENT THAT THIS WRITING LARK SEEMS TO PROVIDE FOR A PRETTY WONDERFUL LIFESTYLE ,AUGHING SHE AGREES AND ADDS THAT SHE hCAN T DENYv SHE ENJOYS THE hDRUNKEN DEBAUCHERYv OF THE LITERARY LIFE 4HINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER AS 7ATERS HAS BEEN DOING THE ROUNDS ON HER PUBLICITY TOUR FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND IS NOW OFF ABROAD TO CONTINUE THE PUBLICISING

WHICH SHE ADMITS IS hRATHER NICEv 4HIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE WHEN SHE REVEALS THAT HER BOOKS SELL EXTREMELY WELL OVERSEAS 4HEY ARE PUBLISHED IN ABOUT TWENTY lVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE AND HAVE SOLD OVER COPIES IN *APAN ALONE 4HE %VENT SUGGESTS THAT THIS SEEMS INTRIGUING GIVEN THE INNATELY %NGLISH NATURE OF HER WRITING S SUBJECT MATTER TO WHICH 7ATERS NODS VIGOROUSLY IN AGREEMENT 3ARAH 7ATERS IS PERHAPS MOST FAMOUS FOR SUCH WORKS AS 4IPPING THE 6ELVET !FlNITY &INGERSMITH AND

HER LATEST PUBLISHED BOOK 4HE .IGHT 7ATCH 4HE .IGHT 7ATCH IS A SELF ACKNOWLEDGED STEP AWAY FROM WHAT SHE HERSELF TERMS AS HER USUAL hFAUX 6ICTORIAN MELODRAMAv 7HEN 4HE %VENT ENQUIRES AS TO WHY THIS MIGHT BE SHE REPLIES THAT THE CHANGE WAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY A DESIRE NOT TO LET HER WRITING hGET STALEv AND THAT SHE WANTS TO lND hNEW WAYS OF TELLING STORIESv 4HE CHANGE OF PERIOD

RANGE OF CHARACTERS AND DECISION TO WRITE THE NOVEL IN THIRD PERSON NOT lRST WERE PRESUMABLY ALL WAYS OF FACILITATING THIS 4HE .IGHT 7ATCH IS A TENDER

TRAGIC AND BEAUTIFULLY POIGNANT TALE SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF S WARTIME %NGLAND 4HE NOVEL FOLLOWS FOUR CHARACTERS THREE WOMEN AND ONE MAN THROUGH AIR RAIDS BLACKED OUT STREETS ILLICIT LIASONS AND SEXUAL ADVENTURE TO END WITH ITS BEGINNING IN )T IS A NOVEL OF RELATIONSHIPS THAT OFFERS AN INCREDIBLE ARRAY OF SUBTLE TWISTS AND TURNS ALWAYS MANAGING TO KEEP THE VIEWER SUSPENDED AND FREQUENTLY COMPELLED )T IS A STORY OF HEROISM

BOTH ORDINARY AND EPIC THAT MARKS A STUNNING DEPARTURE FROM HER USUAL NINETEENTH CENTURY PLOT SETTINGS 7HAT IS IT THEN WE WONDER THAT USUALLY SO ATTRACTS HER TO THE 6ICTORIAN ERA 3HE PONDERS THE QUESTION FOR A MOMENT BEFORE REPLYING h"ASICALLY ) BECAME INTERESTED IN THE IDEA OF WRITING A LESBIAN HISTORICAL NOVEL WHILST ) WAS RESEARCHING FOR MY 0($ THESIS AT 5NIVERSITY )T OCCURRED TO ME THAT THERE WAS A NICHE FOR THIS

NEW GENRE OF NOVEL AND ) WANTED TO lLL IT 4HE S WAS AN EXTREMELY UPBEAT MOMENT IN HISTORY AND THE 6ICTORIAN AGE IS FAR ENOUGH BACK IN TIME STILL TO BE INTERESTING !LSO

) VE ALWAYS HAD A LOVE OF 6ICTORIAN lCTION ) KEEP lNDING NEW THINGS TO FASCINATE ME ABOUT IT v (ER FOCUS SEEMS FREQUENTLY TO lXATE UPON STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS

ONES WHO ARE INDEPENDENT FEISTY AND FREE FROM THE CHAINS OF OPPRESSION WHICH SO OFTEN DOMINATED WOMEN IN THAT PERIOD OF HISTORY $OES SHE lND IT HARDER TO WRITE FROM A MALE PERSPECTIVE WE WONDER h) DON T THINK ) NECESSARILY lND IT HARDER

) JUST ENJOY WRITING FROM A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE MORE REALLY ) LIKE PAINTING STRONG FEMININE PORTRAITS ) DON T THINK THERE ARE ENOUGH FROM THAT ERA IN PARTICULAR ) M ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN DECONSTRUCTING THE CONSTRAINTS THAT WERE LAID UPON THEM AND LOOKING AT HOW THEY FUNCTIONED UNDER THOSE CONSTRAINTS .OT JUST FROM THE PHYSICAL ONES

FOR EXAMPLE IN &INGERSMITH WHEN ) WROTE ABOUT WOMEN IN ASYLUMS

BUT THE SUBTLER TIES LIKE THOSE OF MARRIAGE WHAT WAS EXPECTED FROM A WOMAN BY HER HUSBAND ) DO ENJOY WRITING FOR MEN TOO THOUGH

CHARACTERS LIKE THE 'ENTLEMAN IN &INGERSMITH YOU CAN HAVE A LOT OF FUN WITH THEM v 7HY THEN DOES SHE FEEL SO DRAWN TO DEPICTING THE MORE UNUSUAL SIDE OF THE hNINETEENTH CENTURY SEXUAL UNDERWORLDv AS SHE CALLS IT 3HE SIGHS BEFORE REPLYING AND LOOKS VAGUELY MISCHIEVOUS h) lND HETEROSEXUALITY CAN BECOME STEREOTYPICAL NOWADAYS ) DON T THINK THAT SEXUALITY SHOULD EVEN BE AN ISSUE ANYMORE *UST AS IT ISN T IN MY PERSONAL LIFEv 7HY IS IT THEN DOES SHE THINK THAT THERE ARE SO FEW BOOKS IN THE LESBIAN GENRE AROUND 4HE %VENT CAN T HELP COMMENTING THAT IT SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME SOMEWHAT OF A SIDELINED

MUCH DERIDED GENRE WHERE THE WRITING OFTEN BECOMES EITHER SENSATIONALISED OR RIDICULED h) THINK GAY MEN HAVE MORE VISIBILITY IN THE MEDIA ,ESBIAN POLITICS HAVE BECOME QUITE PROTECTIVE ) SUPPOSE )T S NOT EASY TO BLEND INTO THE MAINSTREAM !LTHOUGH ) THINK THAT THAT IS CHANGING NOW ,ESBIANISM IS SLIGHTLY LOSING ITS POLITICAL EDGE v )T S INTERESTING THOUGH THAT WHEN HER WORK WAS ADAPTED FOR THE SMALL SCREEN BOTH 4IPPING THE 6ELVET AND &INGERSMITH HAVE BEEN lLMED FOR THE ""# EACH TIME THERE WAS A SIGNIlCANT EMPHASIS ON THE

SEXUALITY ANGLE ALMOST AS IF THEY FELT THEY HAD TO TAG HER WRITING WITH SOME KIND OF LABEL TO ATTRACT INTEREST 7AS SHE INVOLVED MUCH WITH THE PROCESS OF TELEVISING HER NOVELS @) WASN T INVOLVED CREATIVELY BUT ) DID MEET WITH THE SCRIPTWRITER AND THE ACTRESSES AND DIRECTOR A COUPLE OF TIMES 4HEY ACTUALLY EVEN LET ME BE AN EXTRA TOO WHICH WAS RATHER GOOD FUN ) WAS FASCINATED BY THE BOOKS TRANSLATION ONTO THE SCREEN )T S THRILLING ) WAS VERY LUCKY TO BE INVOLVED WITH BOTH ADAPTATIONS v 7AS IT STRANGE WATCHING WHAT SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY ONLY ENVISAGED IN HER OWN IMAGINATION BEING BROUGHT TO LIFE FOR REAL h4HERE WERE DElNITELY MOMENTS WHERE IT WAS WEIRD ESPECIALLY WITH &INGERSMITH

BECAUSE THEY USED A LOT OF THE ACTUAL DIALOGUE FROM THE BOOK SO IT WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL )T WAS LITERALLY LIKE BRINGING THE BOOK TO LIFE 4HERE WERE MOMENTS WHEN IT CAME ALIVE AND IT WAS JUST HOW ) D ALWAYS IMAGINED IT )T S STRANGE ALSO BECAUSE THE BOOK JUST STARTED IN MY HEAD ONCE UPON A TIME AND THEN SUDDENLY IT S BEING SEEN IN MILLIONS OF HOUSES ACROSS THE NATION "OOKS JUST KIND OF CREEP INTO THE WORLD )T S A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF IMPACT v $OES IT THEN HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF IMPACT ON THE SALES OF THE BOOK WE RATHER CYNICALLY ENQUIRE v/H YES DElNITELY !FTER &INGERSMITH AIRED DEMAND FOR THE BOOK ALMOST DOUBLED FOR A FEW WEEKS )T S ASTOUNDING v 4HE %VENT COMMENTS THAT SHE HAS GARNERED A CONSIDERABLE ARRAY OF AWARDS IN THE TIME THAT SHE HAS BEEN WRITING 7ATERS AGREES ADDING THAT h3OME AWARDS DElNITELY MEAN MORE THEN OTHERS HOWEVER ) WON ONE FROM ,!-$! IN !MERICA LAST YEAR FOR EXAMPLE THE ,ESBIAN AND 'AY !SSOCIATION AND THAT REALLY MEANT A LOT TO ME ) WAS EVER SO GLAD TO GET THAT ) ALSO WON ONE FROM THE $RACULA 3OCIETY WHICH WAS A CHILDREN S AWARD AND THAT WAS WONDERFUL TOO /FTEN IT S THE SMALLER AWARDS THAT CAN MEAN SO MUCH MORE THEN THE LARGER GRANDIOSE ONES ) PREFER THEM ) REALLY DO v /N THAT MODEST NOTE AN ASSISTANT ENTERS AND OUR TIME TOGETHER COMES TO AN END 7ATERS MUST LEAVE TO LECTURE THE AWAITING STUDENTS ON 4HE .IGHT 7ATCH 7ITH A lNAL SIP OF WINE AND AN AMIABLE GRIN SHE WANDERS OUT OF THE ROOM

LEAVING 4HE %VENT TO PONDER JUST WHAT AWARD SHE MIGHT BE UP FOR NEXT

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COMPOSER CARTOONIST AND SCREEN WRITER AS HE IS CHILDREN S AUTHOR !DMIRABLY -OULDER AND ,EONARD TOOK ON THE CONSIDERABLE TASK OF ADAPTING THE STORIES FROM THE NOVEL AND BRINGING THEM TO THE STAGE EN SURING THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF THESE TALES WERE NEVER SACRIlCED OR LOST IN TRANSLATION )NDEED THERE WAS MORE THAN JUST A PASSING REFERENCE TO 3ILVERSTEIN S OTHER VENTURES n DE

LICIOUSLY THE MUSICAL INTERVALS IN BETWEEN SEGMENTS WAS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY 3ILVERSTEIN RESULTING IN A THOROUGH INTRODUCTION TO THE MAN HIMSELF 4HE ADAPTATIONS STAGED IN THIS PRODUCTION WERE HOWEVER NOT OF CHILDREN S STORIES 2ATHER ,EONARD AND -OULDER DECIDED TO INVESTI GATE THE DARKER SIDE OF 3ILVERSTEIN S REPERTOIRE PRODUCING A SHOW WHICH SEEMED TO BE APPROACHED WITH REL ISH BY ALL INVOLVED OFFERING SOME WONDERFULLY ECCENTRIC MOMENTS 4HE ENTIRE CAST WERE PRESET AND REMAINED ON STAGE THROUGHOUT THE SHOW NEVER COMING OUT OF CHAR ACTER GIVING THE EVENING A SOLID SENSE OF CONTINUITY 2OANNA "OND AND +ATE &OR ESTER STOLE THE SHOW AS TWO REPUG NANT MID WESTERN GUM CHEWING

HIP SWINGING PROSTITUTES TRYING TO EARN A DIME "OTH WERE HILARIOUS

"OND S MUSE PARTICULARLY lLTHY AND DARING 4ESS :OERS AND 4OM (ARTHILL GAVE IMPASSIONED AND UNINHIBITED

PERFORMANCES AS A NEUROTIC HUS BAND AND WIFE PRETENDING TO BE IN A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION IN WHICH (ARTHILL HAD TO DECIDE WHETHER TO SAVE HIS MOTHER OR HIS WIFE 4HOR OUGHLY TWISTED THIS SEGMENT WAS PARTICULARLY WELL ACTED AND DIRECT ED :OERS UNCOMPROMISING AS THE lXATED AND INSECURE WIFE #ERTAINLY THERE SEEMED AN IN VARIABLE SENSE OF CHEMISTRY PRESENT WITHIN EACH DYNAMIC -EL 3PENCER AND *OHN +EARNS BOUNCED OFF ONE ANOTHER IN THE BIZARRE @7ATCH AND $RY SCENE IN A WHICH A WOMAN UN WITTINGLY PAYS TO HAVE HER CLOTHES WATCHED AND DRIED !LEXANDRA .AUGHTON AND *ASON -ARKOSS WERE DELIGHTFUL AS THE INSIPID DAUGHTER AND PITILESS FATHER WHO ON HER BIRTHDAY SHOOTS HER PONY WHILE *ON "RITTAIN AND 4OM &RANCIS WERE BOTH FABULOUS AS THE UNASSUMING BLIND MAN AND HIS LOYAL SPEAKING DOG DESPERATE FOR STARDOM AND FAME

(AVING ACHIEVED FAME WITH HISTORICAL NOVELS WHICH EVOKED 6ICTORIAN ,ONDON IN GRITTY DETAIL 3ARAH 7ATERS NOW TURNS TO THE S )N THIS HER LATEST NOVEL WE FOLLOW FOUR PRINCIPLE CHARACTERS AND EXAMINE THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THE WAR ON THEIR LIVES 7ATERS GRASPS THE READER WITH HER VIVID DEPICTIONS OF WARTIME ,ONDON AND GRADUALLY EXPOSES THE INTIMATE DETAILS OF THESE CHARACTERS AND THEIR SECRETS 3HE EXPERIMENTS WITH THE TIMELINE OF HER STORY

WORKING BACKWARDS THROUGH EVENTS IN A WAY THAT IS COMPELLING IN ITSELF AND ADDS LAYERS OF MEANING TO HER ALREADY CAREFULLY CRAFTED PLOT 4HE READER COMES TO UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTERS AS 7ATERS BACKTRACKS THROUGH THEIR HISTORIES !S WE REVERSE THROUGH TIME OUR UNDERSTANDING OF EVENTS UNFOLDS REVEALING MORE ABOUT CHARACTERS WHO PREVIOUSLY SEEM OPAQUE 7ATERS HAS TRULY ESTABLISHED HER PLACE AS A MODERN AUTHOR OF GREAT PROMIENCE WITH 4HE .IGHT 7ATCH 4HERE IS A SENSE OF CONlDENCE NOT JUST IN THE AUTHOR S KNOWLEDGE OF THE PERIOD BUT IN HER OWN WRITING TECHNIQUES 4HE COMBINATION OF A VIVID WARTIME ,ONDON AND EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX CHARACTERS IS HIGHLY SEDUCTIVE

AND THE SATISFACTION PROVIDED BY THE END OF THE NOVEL IS CONSIDERABLE BUT DOES NOT REDUCE THE DESIRE TO RE READ ,ISA #LARKSON

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BEING AIRED IN !MERICA DRIED UP IN THE S AS THEIR NEGLIGIBLE SUCCESS WAS PICKED UP ON )N THE S CER TAIN SITCOMS THAT HAD BEEN INCREDI BLY SUCCESSFUL IN THE 5+ WERE TENTA TIVELY REMADE AND AIRED IN THE 53!

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WHILE TREATING THOSE THAT HE CONSID ERS LOWER THAN HIM LIKE SOMETHING HE S TRODDEN IN WHILE 3TEPTOE AND 3ON WAS ABOUT A FATHER AND SON LIV ING AND WORKING AT A SCRAPYARD 4HE !MERICAN CLASS SYSTEM IS SO DIFFER ENT TO THE "RITISH THAT THE COMEDY ARISING FROM THESE SITUATIONS SIMPLY WOULDN T TRANSLATE TO THE AUDIENCE &OR 3TEPTOE AND 3ON TO WORK THE TWO MAIN CHARACTERS WERE CHANGED TO BOTH BE BLACK AS THE CLASS SYSTEM OF !MERICA MEANS THAT BLACK PEOPLE ARE FREQUENTLY GIVEN MENIAL JOBS WHILE THIS MAY NOT STILL BE APPLI CABLE IT CERTAINLY WAS IN THE S AND THE IDEA OF TWO WHITE PEOPLE WORKING IN A SCRAPYARD WOULD NOT HAVE lTTED IN TO THIS IDEA 4HE SIM PLE CHANGING OF THE CHARACTER S SKIN TO BEING BLACK CHANGED THE DYNAM ICS OF THE SHOW AND IS DElNITELY THE MAIN REASON FOR THE PROGRAMME S SUCCESS IN THE 3TATES WHERE IT EVEN GAINED A COUPLE OF SPIN OFF SERIES (OWEVER CHANGING THE MAIN CHARACTERS WAS ALSO WHY 2ED $WARF FAILED IN !MERICA 4HE CHEMISTRY BE TWEEN THE CHARACTERS SUCH AS THE IN TERACTIONS BETWEEN THE UPTIGHT AND COWARDLY 2IMMER AND THE SLOBBISH AND EASYGOING ,ISTER IS THE MAJOR SOURCE OF COMEDY THROUGHOUT ALL EIGHT SERIES AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TAMPERED WITH (OWEVER IN !MERICA THE LIKEABLE LOSER ,ISTER WAS CHANGED INTO BEING A MUSCU LAR GO GETTER n PRESUMABLY BECAUSE !MERICANS WOULD NOT EMPATHISE WITH OR BE AMUSED BY A VINDA LOO DEVOURING SLOB 4HE CHANGING OF HIM INTO THE TYPICAL !MERICAN HERO ENTIRELY CHANGED THE FEEL OF THE SHOW IN THE PILOT AND EXPLAINS WHY IT BOMBED /THER INTERESTING CHANGES MADE TO THE PROGRAMME FOR THE PILOT INCLUDE (OLLY BEING FEMALE WHICH ADMITTEDLY DID HAPPEN IN OUR VERSION OF $WARF IN SERIES BUT *ANE ,EEVES n AKA $APHNE FROM &RASIER n DID NOT HAVE THE NATURAL SARCASM THAT MADE (ATTIE (AYRIDGE S (OLLY SO SUCCESS

4HE /FlCE 53 VERSION FUL AND THE #AT ALSO BEING FEMALE 4HIS WAS PRESUMABLY TO REMOVE THE LADDISH BANTER BETWEEN THE MALE CHARACTERS IN OUR VERSION BUT THIS INTEGRAL PART OF THE SHOW DID NOT NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT )N THE LAST FEW YEARS THE BRIL LIANT HUMOUR OF 4HE /FlCE HIT OUR SCREENS AND BECAME AN OVERNIGHT PHENOMENON DUE TO ITS COMBINA TION OF HUMOUR YOU FEEL BAD FOR LAUGHING AT AND CHARACTERS YOU CARE ABOUT n WHO CAN SAY THEY DIDN T AT LEAST SMILE WHEN 4IM AND $AWN lNALLY KISSED .ATURALLY !MERI CAN 46 EXECUTIVES PICKED UP ON THE FACT THAT IT WAS THE TALK OF THE 5+ AND THE "RITISH VERSION WAS AIRED IN THE 53!

WHERE IT RECEIVED A SIMILAR RECEPTION AND EVEN WON A 'OLDEN 'LOBE FOR h"EST 4ELEVISION 3ERIES n -USICAL OR #OMEDYv BEAT ING POPULAR !MERICAN SHOWS LIKE -ONK !RRESTED $EVELOPMENT AND 7ILL 'RACE !N !MERICAN REMAKE WAS TENTATIVELY SUGGESTED AND MADE AFTER THE ORIGINAL S SUCCESS WHICH

WHILE REMAINING ESSENTIALLY THE SAME DOES CONTAIN SOME CHANGES WHICH DEEM THE REMAKE A WORTHY SUCCESSOR 3TEVE #ARELL OF 4HE 9EAR /LD 6IRGIN AND !NCHORMAN

TOOK ON THE "RENT ROLE OF -ICHAEL 3COTT AND WHILE NOT HAVING THE SAME GIFT FOR COMEDIC TIMING AS 2ICKY 'ERVAIS MANAGED TO MAKE 3COTT SOMEONE THAT S BOTH REPULSIVE AND LIKEABLE AT THE SAME TIME 4HE !MERICAN VERSION IS ALSO REWARDING FOR FANS OF THE ORIGINAL AS RECOGNIS ABLE CHARACTERS ARE GIVEN NEW STO RYLINES TO WORK AROUND n FOR EXAM PLE AN EPISODE REVOLVING AROUND A BASKETBALL MATCH BETWEEN THE

2EMAKES OF $AD S !RMY 0ORRIDGE AND &AWLTY 4OWERS ALL SUNK WITHOUT TRACE

WAREHOUSE AND OFlCE STAFF WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL HERE UNLESS IT WAS FOOTBALL YET WORKED WELL IN THE CONTEXT OF !MERICA AND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND UNEXPECT ED COMEDIC SITUATIONS AROSE FROM IT 4HE "RENT CHARACTER WAS ARGUABLY PRESENTED IN A MORE SYMPATHETIC LIGHT IN THE REMAKE THAN IN THE ORIGINAL AND THE OTHER STAFF MEM BERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS HIM WAS DIF FERENT TOO n IN AN EPISODE WHERE HE PROMISED THEM ALL A SURPRISE AT THE END OF THE DAY AND RESORTED TO INCREASINGLY DESPERATE MEASURES FOR THE SURPRISE SUCH AS A INSPIRED SCENE WHERE HE PLEADED WITH THE OWNER OF A MINE SHAFT ON THE PHONE TO LET THEM ALL HAVE A RIDE ON THE LIFT DOWN THE MINE HE EVENTUALLY GAVE THEM A DOUGHNUT APIECE /NE

BY ONE THE DISGUSTED STAFF WALKED OUT ON HIM WHICH WOULD CERTAINLY NOT HAVE HAPPENED IN OUR VERSION 7HILE CHANGES LIKE THIS ALTER CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE SHOW IT RETAINS THE SAME BASICS AND PROVES THAT !MERI CANS CAN MAKE GOOD VERSIONS OF OUR MOST LOVED PROGRAMMES !S WE VE SEEN THE VERSIONS OF OUR SHOWS MADE FOR THE 53 RANGE FROM BEING PRETTY GOOD TO DIRE 0ERHAPS !MERICAN 46 EXECUTIVES SHOULD LEARN FROM PAST MISTAKES AND REALISE THAT IF A SITCOM IS GOOD ENOUGH TO WARRANT THE ATTENTION IN THE lRST PLACE THEN IT WILL PROB ABLY BE ABLE TO STAND UP ON IT S OWN ON !MERICAN 46 WITHOUT A RE MAKE CHANGING THE DYNAMICS OF IT AND HOPEFULLY MORE ECLECTIC PRO GRAMMES SUCH AS 3PACED AND 4HE ,EAGUE OF 'ENTLEMEN WILL GAIN THE ATTENTION OVERSEAS THEY DESERVE

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Verbal  Di  ary-ea 'O ON LET IT ALL OUT 4HIS COLUMN IS A PLACE FOR ALL THE COMIC TRAGIC

REmECTIVE AND JUST PLAIN WRONG THOUGHTS THE FORTNIGHT S EVENTS HAVE PROMPTED IN YOUR MIND ! NEUROSIS SHARED IS A NEUROSIS HALVED SO DON T BE SHY SEND YOUR VERBAL DIARY EA TO CONCRETE CREATIVEWRITING UEA AC UK WITH OUT DELAY )N THE LATE EIGHTIES RIPPED JEANS WERE ALL THE RAGE %VERYONE WORE THEM ON 46 IN MAGAZINES IN MOVIES )N THE LATE NINETIES THE TREND SHIFTED TO BLEACHED TORTURED JEANS AND IT WAS DIFlCULT TO BUY A NORMAL PAIR IN MOST HIGH STREET SHOPS THE FASHION WAS SO WIDE SPREAD (OPEFULLY ONE DAY SOON JEANS THAT ARE DIRTY AND SLIGHTLY ODD SMELLING WILL COME INTO FASH ION IN WHICH CASE ) M SET .OT ONLY DO ALL MY JEANS lT INTO THAT CATEGORY BUT ) HAVE AN ENTIRE WARD ROBE TO MATCH THEM

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/UR WATCHER IN THE NIGHT /UR CONSTANT 4HE WORLD CHANGES BELOW YOU ! REMINDER OF MY INSIGNIlCANCE

URGING ME TO REASSESS "UT ) CAN T SEE CLEARLY "USY LIGHTS "USY LIFE "LURS MY VISION "UT ) KNOW YOU RE THERE 1UIETLY WATCHING ,ONG AFTER WE VE GONE -OON YOU SAW OUR PAST 9OU WILL SEE THE FUTURE &OREVER WATCHING &OREVER SILENT +EEPER OF OUR SECRETS

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4RAINSPOTTING BECOMES A PERTINENT REMINDER OF WHAT IS STILL HAPPENING

WHAT HASN T BEEN RIGHTED

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE THEATRE GOER AND THAT SAYS 2UARAIDH IS THE THING WHICH SHOULD COMMEND IT TO PEOPLE (ARRY 'IBSON WAS QUOTED AS SAY ING hIT S NOT WHAT CRITICS WOULD CALL A WELL MADE PLAY v WHICH SEEMS TO BE TRUE AS 4RAINSPOTTING THE PLAY EXISTS AS ITS OWN ENTITY ITS STRUCTURE IS hRAWv !S 2UARAIDH -URRAY SAYS IT IS hNOT THE SORT OF PLAY WHICH ADHERES TO ANY RULES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT #OMPARED TO OTHER THEATRE WHICH HAS ITS OWN SET FORMULAS WHICH ) THINK IS GREAT IN IT SELF BUT 4RAINSPOTTING IS A LOOSE CAN NON IT S GREAT AND REFRESHING FOR US TO BE ABLE TO ACT IN IT 4HERE S NEVER A BOR ING MOMENT FOR USv )T IS FOR THE AUDIENCE HOWEVER TO DECIDE $OES 4RAINSPOTTING STILL HOLD ITS BUCK AND GIVE THE RIGHT JOLT TO AUDI ENCES AS IT DID TEN YEARS AGO /R IS IT ABOUT TIME THAT IT CHANGED ITS DIREC TION &ROM ALL REPORTS THE PRODUCTION OF 4RAINSPOTTING IS AS SHOCKING AND HI LARIOUS AS IT WAS WHEN IT lRST CAME OUT 7ITH PACKED OUT AUDIENCES THE REVIVAL GIVES ANYONE WHO HASN T YET SEEN THIS VERSION OF 4RAINSPOTTING TO GET DOWN THERE AND WATCH IT "E PREPARED TO LAUGH TO CRINGE AND PERHAPS TO CRY BUT BE PREPARED OVERALL TO ENJOY 4HE CULT STORY THAT SHOCKED THE NINETIES INTO REALISING THE DEPTHS OF THE HEROIN SUBCULTURE PROBLEMS IS BACK AND IT S AS RAW AS EVER 4RAINSPOTTING THE PLAY OPENS AT THE .ORWICH 0LAYHOUSE ON THE TH TILL THE TH -ARCH

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$ILATED 0EOPLES HAVE BEEN RESPECT ABLE HIP HOPPERS FOR ALMOST TEN YEARS NOW WITH SINGLES SUCH AS 7ORST #OMES 4O 7ORST AND +AN YE 7EST COLLABORATION 4HIS 7AY ESTABLISHING THEM AS VETERANS OF THE SCENE IS A CLICHE OF HIP HOP BUT IS TOO WELL MASTERED TO BE OVERLOOKED TRACKS SUCH AS ) M "ACK HIGHLIGHT THE OLD $0 CATCHI NESS AND ARE A STATEMENT FOR THEIR RETURN INTO THE LIMELIGHT 4YPICAL GENERIC SKITS AND SOUNDBITES LITTER THE TRACKLIST IN STEREOTYPICAL MIX ING STYLE BUT ONCE AGAIN THE GROUP GO BEYOND THE INTRICATELY POLISHED PRODUCTION AND ARE SOMEHOW ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE AUTHENTICITY THAT ALL URBAN ARTISTS START OUT WITH 5N FORTUNATELY IS NOT THE BOLD STATEMENT FANS MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR BUT THE 0EOPLES ALWAYS COME lRST WHEN IN SEARCH OF QUALITY HIP HOP #HARLES 2UMSEY

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Love  Music  Hate  Racism 4HE SUBCULTURE OF WHITE POWER MUSIC CHALLENGES THE lNE LINE BETWEEN FREE SPEECH AND DISCRIMINATION #HARLES 2UMSEY LOOKS AT HOW THE HEART OF "RITISH MUSICIANSHIP IS lGHTING BACK AGAINST THE RISE OF NEO .AZIS IN ROCK CULTURE

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WHILE AGO THE JOURNAL ISM LEGEND THAT IS $ONAL - A C ) N T Y R E DIVED HEAD lRST INTO THE WORLD OF THE NEO .AZIS 9OU DIDN T HAVE TO SEE THE PROGRAM TO GUESS THAT THE BASIS OF RACIST MUSIC IS FAR FROM SUBTLE IT IS ALL OUT IN YOUR FACE (ITLER SALUT ING 7HITE 0OWER )T S THAT AGE OLD CLASH OF &REEDOM OF 3PEECH AGAINST 2ACIAL $ISCRIMINATION )N THE 5+ OF COURSE YOU CAN T GO AROUND MOUTH ING OFF AGAINST THE *EWISH FAITH OR PREACHING THE BENElTS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING -OST PEOPLE WILL HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE RESPECTFUL BUT OUT SPOKEN +EN ,IVINGSTON ,ORD -AYOR OF ,ONDON BEING SUSPENDED FROM OFlCE FOR COMPARING A *EWISH JOUR NALIST TO A .AZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD 4HIS EXTREMELY TENUOUS LINK TO RACISM SHOWS THAT THE "RITS HAVE A NO TOLERANCE POLICY TO DISCRIMINA TION /N THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND

HOWEVER IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT THE ,AND OF THE &REE IS JUST THAT

EVEN +++ MEETINGS HAVE TO BE AL LOWED IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PATRIOTIC NATIONS CONSTITUTION )T IS ALSO COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT THE STRONGEST WHITE POWER MOVEMENTS ARE CONCENTRATED IN 'ERMANY AND STATES TO THE %AST

DESPITE THE FACT THAT %UROPEAN DIS CRIMINATION LAWS PROTECT AGAINST THE OVERT EXTREMISM 7HITE POWER CON CERTS ARE GUERRILLA AFFAIRS IN NATURE BUT THE SUBTLETIES OF THE ACTUAL RAC ISM ARE PARALLELED BY THE INTIMIDAT ING PRESENCE OF A COUPLE OF HUNDRED SKINHEADS WITH SWASTIKA TATTOOS AND S PUNK GET UP 4HE POLICE CLAS SIFY THE RABBLE AS @MUSICAL TERROR

ISTS TERRORISTS THEY MAY POTENTIALLY BE BUT MUSICAL THEY SURE AREN T !

LIVE REVIEW OF A TYPICAL NEO .AZI GIG MIGHT GO AS FOLLOWSx h$EATH TO THE :/'v ;:IONIST /WNED 'OVERNMENT= GROWLS THE FRONT MAN TO "RIT WHITE POWER BAND 7HITELAW 4HE DISHARMONIC UN MELODIC AND OUTLANDISH CRUNCH OF DOWN TUNED GUITARS FOLLOWS CRASH ING RIGHT INTO AN OVER CYMBALLED THRASH DRUMMER WITH CLUBS FOR STICKS (OW IRONIC THAT THE SOUND OF THIS 7HITE POWER METAL BAND ARE BEST COMPARED TO RADIO WHITE NOISE OF FULL VOLUME )N %UROPE THESE GIGS ARE ILLEGAL BUT NOT UNCOMMON AND AS ILLEGAL AS THEY ARE THEY HAVE THE COVER OF BEING A "RITISH .ATIONAL 0ARTY POLIT ICAL MOVEMENT )T HAS BECOME EVER CLEARER THAT THE ACTUAL ".0 HAVE DONE THEIR BEST TO SHAKE OFF THE NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS OF THEIR OVER MASCULINISED SUPPORTERS BUT THE CONNECTION IS STILL THERE n NOT LEAST SINCE A PROMINENT ".0 MEMBER WAS EXPOSED AS HAVING RUN A .AZI TRAINING CAMP FOR YOUTHS "UT THIS ARTICLE IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE POLITICS

".0 OWNS A RECORD LABEL KNOWN AS 'REAT 7HITE 2ECORDS UNLIKE THE GUERRILLA GIGS OF THE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT THE LABEL TURNS TO LYR ICS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE INCIT ING RACIAL HATRED APPROACH OF THEIR PEERS 4HEY FOCUS ON THE HARDSHIPS OF WHITE PEOPLE AT THE HANDS OF IMPOSTORS FROM OTHER NATIONALITIES AND RACES /F COURSE THE MUSIC ITSELF MUST ALSO BE OF WHITE ORIGIN NO REGGAE NO RAP NO NOTHING IT MAY BE ARGUED THAT THIS IS THEREFORE PURE %NGLISH MUSIC BUT SUCH A TITLE IS A HUGE DISCREDIT TO THE TASTES OF %NG LAND 3UCH MUSIC WILL NEVER ACHIEVE CHART SUCCESS BECAUSE IT IS QUITE

FRANKLY APPALLING 4HE ".0 HAVE HOWEVER CLEARLY WORKED OUT THAT THE BEST POLITICAL SOAPBOX OF ALL IS THE MUSICAL STAGE ,IVE HIGHLIGHTED THE EPITOME OF SENDING A MESSAGE THROUGH SONG AND THE VAST PLETHORA OF ARTISTS TRY ING TO MAKE POLITICAL STATEMENTS THROUGH THEIR MUSIC IS INNUMER ABLE "UT WHERE SHOULD THE LINE BE DRAWN )S IT AN ENTIRELY DIFFER ENT THING FOR 'REEN $AY TO CALL THE !MERICAN CITIZEN AN IDIOT OR FOR THE 3EX 0ISTOLS TO RALLY UP SUPPORTERS OF ANARCHY 7ELL YES IT IS ARTISTS LIKE 2AGE !GAINST THE -ACHINE PEN POLIT ICAL LYRICS TO DEFEND A MINORITY WHO IS SUFFERING AS WAS THE WHOLE IDEA OF ,IVE 4HEY MAY USE POLITICS AND ATTACK AREAS OF IDEOLOGY BUT THEY DO ALL THIS IN THE POSITION OF MORALITY 7HITE POWER MUSIC CLAIMS IT IS DE FENDING THE WHITE RACE BUT IT IS IN FACT ATTACKING THE MINORITY "RITISH RACES 4HE POWER OF MUSIC IS UN DOUBTED ANGRY MUSIC INCITING RAC ISM HAS THE POTENTIAL POWER TO DO JUST THAT -ACINTYRE S REPORT CAME UNDER THE MONIKER OF h(OOLIGANS 7HITE OFF THE 3CALEv AND HOOLIGAN ISM DESCRIBES IT QUITE NICELY 7HITE POWER MUSIC IS AS NICE TO LISTEN TO AS ONE OF (ITLER S FAMOUS SPEECHES BUT THEN IMAGINE LYRICS SUCH AS hFREEZER FULL OF NIGGER HEADSv ACCOMPANIED BY *AMES "LUNT STYLE CROONING IT WOULD HURT EVEN MORE 7HAT DO THE LIBERAL THINKING CIT IZENS DO TO COMBAT THE UNDESIRABLE

4HE BEST POLITICAL SOAPBOX OF ALL IS THE MUSICAL STAGE

FRONT OF THE ".0 4HEY ROCK AGAINST RACISM )T S JUST THE SAME IDEA US ING THE OMNIPOTENCE OF MUSIC TO MAKE A STAND THIS STAND HOWEVER IS ONE OF DIVERSITY AND A h,OVE -USIC (ATE 2ACISMv GIG IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE FULL DIVERSITY OF THE ETHNIC MUSIC THAT SHAPES WHAT WE TODAY VIEW AS "RITISH MUSIC 4HE COMPARISONS ARE HOWEVER RATHER UNFAIR THE ANTI RACISM MUSIC MOVE MENT HAS THE BENElT OF QUALITY ACTS SUCH AS THE HIGHLY SKILLED EMCEE +ILLA +ELLA BRIT ROCK GIANTS SUCH AS THE "ABYSHAMBLES AND 4HE $OVES AND MUSIC EMERGING FROM THE REAL ROOTS OF THE COUNTRY IN THE FORM OF 2OLL $EEP 4HE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT CULTURE MAKES MUSIC WORK IF YOU WANT TO BE PEDANTIC THEN IT IS GENERALLY AC CEPTED THAT POP MUSIC WAS BORN IN .EW 9ORK S 4IN 0AN !LLEY A CITY OF IMMIGRANTS FROM ALL COUNTRIES AND BACKGROUNDS COMING TOGETHER TO MERGE THEIR OWN MUSICAL BACK GROUNDS TO ESTABLISH THE FOUNDA TIONS OF MUSIC AS WE KNOW IT h,OVE -USIC (ATE 2ACISMv IS JUST TRYING TO DEMONSTRATE THIS SIMPLE FACT RAC ISM SHOULD NOT HAVE A PLACE IN MU SIC BECAUSE IT IS HYPOCRISY A PARA DOX 4HE SIMPLE PROOF IS THAT WHITE POWER MUSIC CAN T EVEN BEGIN TO HOLD ITS OWN IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC AND WILL BE FORCED TO REMAIN IN THE SHADOWS OF POORLY ATTENDED GUER RILLA GIGS WHILST CULTURAL MUSIC WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE MUSICAL TASTE

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-IKE 3KINNER SEEMS TO HAVE USED HIMSELF AS BAIT TONIGHT STARRING AS THE HEADLINING ACT AT A CHAV INFEST ED ,#2 4HE GIG SHOWCASES SOME OF THE TALENT ON HIS @4HE BEATS RECORD LABEL AND THE ,#2 IS IN FOR A NIGHT OF NARRATIVES &IRST ACT 0ROFESSOR 'REEN WHO CONFESSES TO SMOKING A LOT OF GREEN SEEMS TO DIVIDE THE CROWD (IS RAPPING IS UNIQUE SOME PEO PLE APPRECIATING IT OTHERS SEEM COMPLETELY INDIFFERENT 0ERHAPS HE IS TOO UNIQUE TO REALLY SUCCEED BUT HE DOES ADD SOME COMEDY VALUE 4HE -ITCHELL BROTHERS COME ONSTAGE AND SOME SEEM DISAP POINTED THAT IT IS NOT 'RANT AND 0HIL BUT 4ONY AND 4EDDY WHO PROBABLY HAVE BETTER RHYMESx 4HEY ARE A PERFECT WARM UP ACT IN TERACTING WITH THE CROWD EXPERTLY 4HEY ENTERTAININGLY BICKER THROUGH RHYMES CULMINATING IN A CHORUS THAT ALTERNATES hFUCK 4ONYv THEN hFUCK 4EDDYv THE CROWD GLEEFULLY

Off  the Record 4HE "RITS

)N TWO WEEKS TIME "RIT ROCKERS +AISER #HIEFS WILL HAVE HAD THEIR DEBUT ALBUM IN THE TOP TEN FOR A WHOLE YEAR WEEKS .OW THAT S PRETTY IMPRESSIVE %MPLOYMENT BAGGED THEM AN .-% AWARD FOR BEST ALBUM TO GO ALONG SIDE THEIR "RIT AWARDS FOR BEST "RITISH "AND "EST 2OCK "AND AND "EST ,IVE !CT 4HEY BROKE THE 5+ THEY BROKE THE 53 AND NOW THEY RE BREAKING %UROPE WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THEY HAVE BEEN OFF THE MAP FOR A WHILE %MPLOYMENT WAS THE BAND S DEBUT FOUR SINGLES LATER AND THEY RE WIPING THE mOOR WITH ALL THE OTHER "RIT HOPEFULS LIKE THE FORGOTTEN &RANZ &ERDINAND WHO HAVE TAKEN A BACK SEAT IN THE FAVOURS OF MUSIC FANS /NE DOES WONDER IF THE "RITS ARE ALL ABOUT TIMING !RCTIC -ONKEYS GOT THEIR ALBUM OUT JUST IN TIME TO SQUEEZE OUT A "REAKTHROUGH AWARD TWO WEEKS EARLIER AND THEY MIGHT HAVE STOLEN THE LOT OFF THE +AISERS JUDGING BY THEIR RECENT POPULARITY -AYBE THEY HAVE MISSED OUT BY NEXT YEAR THERE WILL BE A BRAND NEW LINE OF PRIMA DONNAS WAITING FOR THEIR OWN TURN TO TAKE THE STAGE 4HE SCARY THING IS THAT THE "RITS HAVE FAST BECOME A PARALLEL OF THE .-% AWARDS TAKING PLACE AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME !LTHOUGH THE .-% AWARDS ARE FAR BROADER THE ELEMENTAL ASPECTS REMAINED THE SAME +AISERS -ONKEYS

#OLDPLAY +ANYE ETC LEAD THE WAY HIGHLIGHTING THAT THE ALTERNATIVE SCENE IS NO LONGER AN ALTERNATIVE /F COURSE .-% LET *AMES "LUNT HAVE THE 7ORST !LBUM AWARD AS OP POSED TO THE "EST 0OP !CT AT THE "RITS BUT THAT IS JUST A SLIP UP 4HE AWARDS CEREMONIES MET HALF WAY .-% ACCEPTING 5RBAN AND 2AP MUSIC INTO THEIR REPETOIRE WITH THE BE LATED BREAKTHROUGH OF +ANYE 7EST AND THE "RITS WELCOMED THE GUITAR BAND FASHION WHICH HAS AS GOOD AS BECOME THE DElNITION OF TRUE "RITISH MUSIC #HARLES 2UMSEY

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AIDING THE ABUSE 4HEY DO HOWEV ER USE UNUSUAL BEATS AND SOUNDS

MUCH LIKE TONIGHT S HEADLINERS "Y THE TIME THEY lNISH WITH HIT SONG 2OUTINE #HECK THE AUDIENCE AWAIT THE KING OF URBAN POETRY EAGERLY WELL SOME GO OFF THE LOOS FOR A hSNIFFvx -ANY PUSH TO THE FRONT IN A MANNER THAT IS NOT h2UDE LIKE GOOD BUT RUDE AS IN UNCOUTHv 4HE 3TREETS LIVE lRST AND FORE MOST ARE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KETTLE OF lSH TO THEIR RECORDED MUSIC 4HEY DITCH PROGRAMMED BEATS FOR AN EXPERTLY PLAYED DRUM KIT AND GET THE DANCE mOOR MOV ING WITH A MUCH HARDER DARE IT BE SAID ROCKING SOUND 3KINNER S COOL SWAGGER AND SUBTLE RAPPING IS EX CELLENTLY CONTRASTED WITH THE BANDS VOCALIST ,EO S TALENTED CROONING 4HE 3TREETS ARE NOT JUST A GOOD BAND TO DANCE TO IN A CLUB IT SEEMS BUT A LIVE ACT TO BE RECKONED WITH 3KINNER WALKS ONSTAGE DON NING RIDICULOUS SUNGLASSES AND

PROCEEDS TO LET OFF AN AIR HORN AND CRY OUT h) CAN T SEE YOU AND THE BAND S EXISTING REPERTOIRE HAS THE DANCE mOOR BOUNCING ALONG &IT "UT 9OU +NOW IT PRACTICALLY INSPIRING A MOSH IT ROCKS SO MUCH "LINDED "Y 4HE ,IGHTS IS PLAYED WITH A SINISTER EDGE THAT ADDS TO A POWERFUL PER FORMANCE 4HE 3TREETS DO HAVE A NEW AL BUM COMING OUT IN !PRIL @4HE HARDEST WAY TO MAKE A LIVING AND THEY PLAY A LOT OF THE NEW SONGS IN THIS SET &ROM THE PERFORMANCE

THE NEW MATERIAL SEEMS TO HAVE A MORE MATURE MELLOWER EDGE THAN PREVIOUS SONGS THEY ARE MORE LIKE THE 2ADIO FRIENDLY HIT $RY 9OUR %YES -ATE .EW SINGLE 7HEN 9OU 7ASN T &AMOUS IS GREETED WITH AP PRECIATIVE NODS 4HE GIG COMES TO A lNISH PER HAPS SEEMING A BIT SHORT AND THE .O IS PACKED WITH PEOPLE WANT ING TO CONTINUE THE PARTY IN TOWN !NDREW 2ILEY

Live  Gigs 4HE #RIBS 4HE 7ATERFRONT !FTER TOURING WITH THE LIKES OF -AXIMO 0ARK 4HE #RIBS THANKFULLY BOUNDED BACK TO .ORWICH S 7ATER FRONT WITH A GANG OF KOOKY YANKS IN TOW &IRST UP WAS THE SINCERE BUT SERIOUSLY ECCENTRIC CABARET SHOW STARRING *EFFREY ,EWIS (IS CHIRPY CHOONS ABOUT KILLING :OMBIES AND A MAN PLAYING THE GUITAR WITH HIS SMILE WERE ACCOMPANIED BY TALENT ED QUIRKY CARTOONS WHICH AT ONE POINT AIDED HIS DELIVERY OF THE HIS TORY OF 2USSIA S 3OVIET 5NION 7ITH HIS $AVE 'ROHL LOOK A LIKE BROTHER CHANTING ALONG BESIDE HIM

*EFFREY ,EWIS OPENED WITH A SLIGHTLY CONFUSING BUT PLEASING SET 'IANT $RAG FOLLOWED ON THIS PUZZLING PULSE WITH LEAD SINGER !N NIE (ARDY SQUEAKING AND BABBLING @HIT IT MAESTRO IN HER GORGEOUSLY DARK BABYISH ODDBALL VOICE &INAL TRACK -Y $IX 3UX SAW A SPRINKLING OF FANS lNDING THEIR VOICES "UT THEIR COVER OF #HRIS )SAAK S 7ICKED 'AME ELEGANTLY MESMERIZED ALL 4HE #RIBS ARRIVAL TO THE SOUND OF !ZTEC #AMERA S 3OMEWHERE )N 4HE (EART RECEIVED A GREAT WAVE OF ADORATION OPENING NUMBER -IR ROR +ISSERS BUMPED AND PULSED DESPERATE LIFE INTO THE PREVIOUSLY

BEWILDERED AUDIENCE 2YAN *ARMAN SINGER AND GUITARIST SUFFERING FROM mU WAS LACKING SOME OF HIS PUNCHY VIBRANCY (E DIDN T SUPPLY HIS USU AL LOAD OF CRAZED ACTIVITY BUT THE MUSIC WAS ADULTEROUSLY TASTY NONE THE LESS 4HE .EW &ELLAS AND -ARTELL SHOWED THEM PLAYING AT THEIR BEST

AND SPORTING THEIR RESOLUTELY BLOKEY NORTHERN MUTTERINGS *ARMAN GRATE FULLY WOKE UP BY THE END TRACK 4HE 7RONG 7AY 4O "E CLAIMING @WE DON T DO ENCORES BECAUSE WE RE NOT TWATS AND LAUNCHING HIMSELF INTO THE SOFT PIT OF FUZZY SWEATY FACED TEENS "RILLIANT %LLEY 4AYLOR

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Singles TURE WHICH WHILE REINFORCING THE GROUP S DANCE SIDE SEEMS A BIT LAZY AND HEARING DIFFERENT REMIXES OF ONE SONG ON ONE #$ MAY MAKE YOU TWITCH AT THE MENTION OF WHITE HORSES /F COURSE THIS DOESN T RUIN THE ENJOYMENT OF THE MAIN SONG AND THAT IT S BEEN TWEAKED MAKES IT APPEALING TO BOTH CASUAL AND HARD CORE 'OLDFRAPP FANS #HRIS (YDE

'OLDFRAPP 2IDE ! 7HITE (ORSE !LISON 'OLDFRAPP AND 7ILL 'RE GORY CONTINUE THEIR DOMINATION OF THE 5+ ELECTRONICA SCENE WITH THIS

THE THIRD SINGLE FROM THE MASSIVE SELLING AND FANTASTIC DISCO MEETS GLAM ROCK ALBUM 3UPERNATURE &OR THE SINGLE VERSION AN EXTRA LAYER OF GLOSS HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE ALREADY SPARKLING ORIGINAL GIVING MORE BACKING VOCALS AND SYNTHESISERS AND MAKING THE SONG SOUND THAT LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIAL 4HE TRACK CONTAINS MORE DOUBLE ENTENDRES THAN A #ARRY /N lLM WITH LYRICS ABOUT LOVING RIDING WHITE HORSES

WANTING BLISTERS AND GOING DEEPER BOUNCING ALL OVER THE PLACE LIKE TWO BALLS OOH MATRON AND IS ALL THE BETTER FOR IT 4HE SAUCINESS EXTENDS TO THE VIDEO IN WHICH THE GORGEOUS !LISON PLAYS WITH A PHALLIC MICRO PHONE AND POUTS AT EVERY OPPORTU NITY 7HILE THE SONG AND VIDEO ARE TIP TOP ONE PROBLEM WITH THE SIN GLE IS THAT THE " SIDES ARE ALL SIMPLY REMIXES OF SONGS FROM 3UPERNA

PREVIOUSLY INCORPORATED NEARLY EVERY CULT GENRE OF MUSIC INTO HIS OWN COMPOSITIONS TURN FOR INSPI RATION FOR HIS LATEST SINGLE )NDIA 4ABLAS GALORE DRONING SITARS AND A SPIRITUAL BACKING TO THE LYRICS THE SINGLE IS A WELL PRODUCED LAID BACK COLLAGE OF DIFFERENT CULTURES WITH A STRONG )NDIAN TILT "UT TAKE OUT THE ETHNIC CULTURAL TIMBRES

THE TIDY SURE lRE PRODUCTION TECH NIQUES AND THE SPOTLESS SESSION MUSICIAN STANDARD OF PERFORMANCE AND YOU RE LEFT WITHx WELL VERY LITTLE TO BE HONEST (ARPER S MUSIC SEEMS TO BE THAT WAY IT S BARELY HIS OWN 0IECING TOGETHER A VARIETY OF MUSICAL CLICHÏS IS NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING MORE THAN A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD RECORD 3IMON +INCH

THE lRST SINGLE TO BE TAKEN FROM IT 4ELLING THE STORY OF A NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN THE LYRICS THEMSELVES ARE FAIRLY SIMPLISTIC BUT ARE SET TO A CATCHY TUNE THAT MAKES YOU SIT UP AND LISTEN FROM THE lRST BEAT $E SCRIBED BY LEAD SINGER *ASON 0EB WORTH AS hTWO GUITAR POWER POPv

THE COMBINATION OF THE ELECTRONIC EFFECTS AND A MEMORABLE CHO RUS PROVIDE A SONG THAT ALTHOUGH SIMILAR TO MANY RECENT RELEASES IS A GOOD NUMBER THAT YOU WILL NO DOUBT BE HEARING IN THE ,#2 FROM NOW ON &IONA "ILLINGS

"EN (ARPER "ETTER 7AY .OW "EN (ARPER HAS SPENT MUCH OF HIS CAREER PLAYING A STYLE OF MUSIC WHICH ALTHOUGH NEVER EARNING HIM ACROSS THE BOARD RAVE REVIEWS HASN T OFFENDED ANYBODY AND HAS ACTUALLY WON HIM A SIZE ABLE FAN BASE 3INCE HIS DEBUT AL BUM 7ELCOME TO THE #RUEL 7ORLD

IN HE HAS BEEN COMBINING 2EGGAE AND &OLK WITH &UNK AND *AZZ ELEMENTS CHURNING OUT AN IM PRESSIVE SEVEN RECORDS WITH A DOU BLE DISC EIGHTH SET TO BE RELEASED THIS YEAR 3O WHERE DOES THE MAN WHO HAS

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0LACEBO "ECAUSE ) 7ANT 9OU /RSON .O 4OMORROW .AMED AFTER (OLLYWOOD ICON /R SON 7ELLES THIS #ALIFORNIA BASED BAND ARE SET TO LAUNCH THEMSELVES ON THE 5+ MARKET THIS SPRING 4HEIR DEBUT ALBUM h"RIGHT )DEAv IS DUE FOR RELEASE HERE IN -AY AND THIS IS

"RIAN -OLKO AND HIS GANG OF NANCY BOYS ARE BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM AND NEW SINGLE AND ITS ABOUT TIME S "EST /F COLLECTION /NCE -ORE 7ITH &EELING HAD THE OBLIGA TORY TWO BRAND NEW SONGS 4WENTY 9EARS AND ) $O WHICH BOTH HINT ED THAT THE 0LACEBO SHIP WAS SAIL ING INTO CALMER WATERS 4HANKFULLY

THE PROPHECY HASN T COME TRUE ON

THIS NEW SINGLE WHICH PERFORMS THE BAND S USUAL TRICK OF MIXING STRIPPED BACK ROCK AND FULL BLOWN AURAL ASSAULT 4HIS IS PERHAPS THE SONG S BIGGEST FAULT n IT IS UNMIS TAKEABLY 0LACEBO "RIAN -OLKO S DISCERNIBLE MOANING WEEDY VOICE CHECK 4HUDDING DRUMMING CHECK 2UMBLING BASSLINE CHECK 2OARING GUITARS CHECK -ELODIC PIANO IN TERLUDE CHECK $ESPITE ALL THE PRESS RELEASE GUBBINS DECLARING THAT THE NEW ALBUM WILL hEXPLORE A NEW DIREC TIONv THIS SONG IS RETREADING OLD GROUND 7HILE NOBODY WOULD EX PECT THEM TO BRING OUT AN 2 @N " ALBUM A TENTATIVE STEP TOWARDS A MORE ECLECTIC SOUND WOULD HAVE GONE AN AWFULLY LONG WAY 4HE DE CISION TO GO WITH WHAT THEY KNOW SEEMS TO HAVE COME TO 0LACEBO MORE AS A CONSERVATIVE MEASURE THAN AN ARTISTIC ONE 4HE BAND HAVE GOT STUCK IN THEIR GLORY DAYS

PREFERRING TO WALLOW IN WHAT SUC CESS THEY HAD RATHER THAN CONQUER MUSICAL PASTURES NEW #RITICISM ASIDE THIS IS DElNITELY AN ENJOY ABLE SONG )F YOU LIKE 0LACEBO

THEN YOU WON T BE LET DOWN HERE 5NFORTUNATELY YOU WON T BE CHAL LENGED OR SURPRISED EITHER )F YOU DON T LIKE THEM THEN MAYBE SAVE YOUR PENNIES FOR A TICKET ON THE !RCTIC -ONKEYS BANDWAGON THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS RIDING BECAUSE THIS SINGLE CERTAINLY WON T SWAY YOU #HRIS (YDE

Wednesday 1/3/06

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5NION &ILM 3ERENITY a PM ,4 4HE 7ONDER 3TUFF a PM 7ATERFRONT

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4HUNDER a PM ,#2

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!LEX (ORNE COMEDY a PM (IVE

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5NION lLM 4HE 9ES -EN PART OF &AIR TRADE &ORTNIGHT &2%% PM ,#2 .IGHT AT THE -OVIES a PM ,#2

Wednesday 8/3/06

3ATURDAY .IGHT 3CIENCE &2%% AM %LIZABETH &RY "UILDING

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!RE 9OU %XPERIENCED a PM 7ATERFRONT

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Tuesday 14/3/06

4HE "LUETONES a PM 7ATERFRONT %MERGENCY 3ERVICES THEMED a PM ,#2

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Main  Feature Good  Night,  and  Good  Luck $IR 'EORGE #LOONEY 2ELEASE $ATE

)T APPEARS THAT THE DIRECTORIAL BUG WHICH BIT 'EORGE #LOONEY ONCE BEFORE WITH #ONFESSIONS OF A $ANGEROUS -IND HAS STRUCK AGAIN

AND IF THE END RESULT IS lLMS WITH A CALIBRE AS HIGH AS THIS THEN WE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THIS IS NOT THE LAST WE SEE OF HIM BEHIND THE CAMERA )N 'OOD .IGHT AND 'OOD

,UCK WE ARE TREATED TO A LITERAL FRONT ROW SEAT TO ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS MOMENTS IN TH CENTURY JOURNALISM WHEN TELEVISION REPORTER %DWARD 2 -URROW BRAVED CAREER AND PERSONAL LOSS TO TAKE ON THE POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHT AND BULLY 3ENATOR *OSEPH -C#ARTHY IN THE MIDST OF HIS ANTI COMMUNIST

WITCH HUNTS THAT WERE TEARING APART FREE SPEECH TO CREATE FEAR AND MISTRUST IN S !MERICA 0LAYED BY $AVID 3TRAITHAIRN -URROW IS A GAUNT HERO STRAIGHT EDGED AND BRAVE WITH A MIND LIKE A RAZOR AND A STRONG WILL TO STAND UP FOR THE ABUSED n AND HE IS PORTRAYED WITH THE SAME PROFESSIONALISM AND

ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE ON THE HARD FACTS THAT WERE GRANTED HIM IN REAL LIFE 4HIS IS THE PIVOTAL PERFORMANCE OF THE MOVIE AND SO 3TRAITHAIRN DESERVES MUCH CREDIT FOR KEEPING TO THE TRUE SPIRIT OF -URROW 4HE DECISION TO USE ARCHIVE FOOTAGE FROM THE REAL PRODUCTIONS TO REPRESENT -C#ARTHY IS ALSO AN EXCELLENT DECISION AS IT ENSURES THE lLM DOES NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP OF PAINTING HIM AS A TRADITIONAL EVIL CHARACTER AND INSTEAD ALLOWS -C#ARTHY S NATURAL AIR OF MENACE SHINE TO THROUGH 4HE WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN THESE TWO ANTAGONISTS IS TRULY AWE INSPIRING AS 3TRAITHAIRN STARES DOWN HARD AT THE CAMERA WHILST ORATING AS IF HE WERE STARING INTO THE VERY SOUL OF -C#ARTHY HIMSELF 4HE REST OF THE CAST HAS A HIGH QUALITY INCLUDING #LOONEY HIMSELF AND 2OBERT $OWNEY *R TO mESH OUT -URROW S CRUCIAL TEAM OF WRITERS AND PRODUCERS .ONE OF THEM ARE GIVEN MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUT THIS IS CRUCIAL 7E ARE NOT GIVEN THE CHANCE TO DWELL ON SORROWFUL OCCASIONS AND AS THE CAST SACRIlCE THEIR CAREERS AND EVEN THEIR LIVES

WE ARE ONLY GRANTED BRIEF MOMENTS OF RESPITE BEFORE RETURNING TO THE

FRAY WHERE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MOVIE REALLY LIES #LOONEY S USE OF BLACK AND WHITE lLM HELPS ADD TO THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE lLM AS WE REALISE THAT THIS IS MORE A DOCUMENTARY THAN A STORY AND IT ALSO HELPS IN BLENDING THE ARCHIVE FOOTAGE WITH THE NEW 4HE STAGES HELP TO CAPTURE THE TRUE FEELING OF A CLAUSTROPHOBIC S TELEVISION STUDIO BACKED UP

BY AN EXCELLENT JAZZ SCORE AND HELP BRING INTO LIFE THE TRUE HECTIC BUSINESS OF TELEVISION PRODUCTION 4HIS IS NOT A lLM FOR THE FAINT OF HEART n IT REQUIRES CONCENTRATION

WITH LITTLE EMOTIONAL REWARD BUT THERE IS MUCH TO INSPIRE FOR THOSE WHO LOOK FOR IT 4HE MESSAGE OF JOURNALISTIC RESPONSIBILITY AND PROFESSIONALISM IS STILL RELEVANT NOW 2ATHER THAN RANT ON AND TUG AT THE HEART STRINGS 'OOD .IGHT AND 'OOD ,UCK WORKS AT THE BRAIN TO BRING HOME AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE

BY WORKING AT THE FACTS RATHER THAN USING HEARSAY 4HIS SKILLED AND DILIGENT STYLE IS TRULY A GREAT TRIBUTE TO THE REAL STYLE OF -URROW HIMSELF

AND IT IS FANTASTIC TO SEE THAT THE EFFORTS OF HIMSELF AND HIS TEAM ARE lNALLY GIVEN THE TREATMENT THAT THEY DESERVE !NDY *UDSON

Five  Great:  Surprise  Musical  Numbers .OTWITHSTANDING THE ODD PERIOD PIECE PASTICHE MUSICALS IN THE TRADITIONAL GENRE SENSE HAVE FAIRLY EXITED THE STAGE BUT POSTMODERN CINEMA AND 46 STILL DRAWS PROlTABLY ON THE FAMILIAR RHYTHMS OF THE CLASSICAL MUSICAL "UFFY S @/NCE -ORE 7ITH &EELING EPISODE PRESENTED A LOVING S PASTICHE 3OUTH 0ARK "IGGER ,ONGER 5NCUT TOOK A MORE CYNICAL VIEW ON THE GENRE S UTOPIAN FANTASIES 3OME OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE MUSICAL NUMBERS IN RECENT CINEMA HAVE COME QUITE OUT OF THE BLUE AND FROM WITHIN A RANGE OF MODERN INDIE AND ART lLMS (ERE ARE lVE 7ISE 5P -AGNOLIA .OTHING IF NOT EXCESSIVE 0AUL 4HOMAS !NDERSON S #ALIFORNIAN EPIC TIES TOGETHER ITS MANY NARRATIVE STRANDS WITH A WONDERFUL ORIGINAL

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SCORE COMPOSED BY !IMEE -ANN )N A lLM WHERE @STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME THE MOMENT WHEN ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS n IN SEPARATE SPACES ACROSS THE CITY BUT CONNECTED THROUGH CHANCE ENCOUNTERS AND SHARED DESPAIR n START SINGING TO THE TUNE OF -ANN S 7ISE 5P IS QUITE POSSIBLY THE STRANGEST AND MOST STIRRING 4OM #RUISE *ULIANNE -OORE AND 7ILLIAM ( -ACY ALL TAKE A FEW BARS 4HE TAPDANCE lNALE :ATOICHI 4AKESHI +ITANO S ELEVENTH FEATURE RAISED A FEW EYEBROWS WITH ITS ROMPISH SAMURAI ACTION PREVIOUS +ITANO lLMS SUCH AS (ANA "I AND "ROTHER OFFERED DISTURBING VIOLENCE ABSTRACT MEDITATIONS OR BOTH BUT IT WAS THE MUSICAL lNALE THAT DREW THE MOST COMMENT 4HE PLOT lNISHED :ATOICHI PLAYS OUT A

SPECTACULAR SONG AND DANCE ROUTINE COMPOSED OF MANUAL WORK SOUND EFFECTS HAMMERING HACKING

IMPECCABLE ENSEMBLE CHOROGRAPHY

AND *APANESE TAPDANCE 4HE BOWLING ALLEY INTERLUDE "UFFALO @ 6INCENT 'ALLO HAS STATED THAT HE HAD THE @CLASSIC MUSICAL FORM IN MIND WHEN MAKING HIS MINI INDIE LANDMARK )N FACT "UFFALO @ S QUIET OBSERVATIONAL REALISM SHARES IN FEW OF THE EXCESSES OF (OLLYWOOD MUSICALS BUT THE SHORT INTERLUDES HERE INCLUDING AN ENCHANTING TAPDANCE COURTESY OF #HRISTINA 2ICCI HAVE A PECULIARLY EUPHORIC QUALITY )N $REAMS "LUE 6ELVET )F $AVID ,YNCH S ONEIRIC OPUS RETRO SPECTIVELY SOURED A DECADE OR SO

OF &RANK #APRA lLMS THEN "EN S $EAN 3TOCKWELL PERFORMANCE OF )N $REAMS TO THE ECSTATIC ANGUISHED APPROVAL OF PSYCHOPATHIC BOGEYMAN &RANK $ENNIS (OPPER HAS SURELY TURNED A GOOD MANY FANS OFF 2OY /RBISON S CLASSIC 3TOCKWELL S "EN

WAFTING A CIGARETTE HOLDER AND LIT FROM BENEATH BY A LIGHT BULB @MICROPHONE MAKES A GREAT CLASSICAL CROONER n BUT FOR THE FACT THAT HE HAS JUST DELIVERED AN OFF THE CUFF BEATING

TO +YLE -AC,ACHLAN .OW ) M FREEx (UMAN .ATURE 3PORTING A LUXURIOUS NEW COAT OF BODY HAIR 0ATRICIA !RQUETTE BELTS OUT A WONDERFULLY DEADPAN MEDITATION ON CIVILISATION S SYSTEMS OF REPRESSION @NOW ) M FREE NO MORE CARES ) VE ACCEPTED ALL OF MY HAIRS 3EB -ANLEY

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4HE &RENCH .EW 7AVE S INmUENCE ON MODERN CINEMA SHOWS NO SIGNS OF DECLINING WITH BOTH ART lLMS AND BLOCKBUSTERS ENDLESSLY RECYCLING THE STYLISTIC ADVANCES OF 'ODARD

4RUFFAUT ET AL #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY LOOKS BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

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AKE A MOMENT TO CONSIDER THE @&RENCH .EW 7AVE CINEMA WHAT WORDS COME TO MIND -OST PROBABLY @ P R E T E N T I O U S AND @SUBTITLES UNDERSTANDABLY THESE WORDS SUM UP WHAT MOST lLM GOERS SEEK TO AVOID WHEN LOOKING FOR A SPOT OF CINEMATIC ESCAPISM (OWEVER THE &RENCH ALTERNATIVE CINEMA OF THE S STARTED A REVOLUTION AND REBELLION THAT DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CINEMAS HAVE CONTINUALLY ATTEMPTED TO COPY AND TRANSGRESS )N 0ULP &ICTION THE MEANINGLESS

YET INCREDIBLY FUNNY CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN 3AMUEL , *ACKSON AND *OHN 4RAVOLTA FOR EXAMPLE THE @ROYAL WITH CHEESE DIALOGUE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SCRIPTED WITHOUT THE INmUENCE OF &RENCH .EW 7AVE CINEMA S NEOREALIST STYLE AND AMBIGUOUS TONE 1UENTIN 4ARINTINO IS THE lRST TO POINT OUT THAT NEARLY ALL OF HIS DIALOGUES AND USE OF LONG SHOTS ARE INmUENCED DIRECTLY

BY THIS GENRE 4HE QUIRKY HUMOUR OF *EAN 0IERRE *EUNET S !MILIE AND THE REALISM THAT "RITISH DOMESTIC CINEMA EMBODIES IS FOREVER IN DEBT TO THESE EXTRAORDINARILY REBELLIOUS &RENCH lLMMAKERS OF THE S 4HE 0ARIS DIRECTORS THAT SPARKED THIS REVOLUTION AND RE EVALUATION OF CINEMA WERE ORIGINALLY WRITERS FOR THE CRITICAL lLM MAGAZINE #AHIERS DU #INEMA 4HE CORE GROUP OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MAGAZINE INCLUDED SUCH RESPECTED DIRECTORS AS &RANCOIS 4RUFFAUT *EAN ,UC 'ODARD

#LAUDE #HABROL %RIC 2OHMER AND *ACQUES 2IVETTE 4HE MAGAZINE BECAME A MUCH APPLAUDED AND RENOWNED CRITICAL GUIDE TO EVERYTHING THAT WAS WORTHWHILE IN THE WORLD OF CINEMA "EFORE LEAVING THEIR NOW IMMORTAL MARK ON CELLULOID THE @#AHIERS LEFT TWO FOUNDING PRINCIPLES ON lLM THEORY AND CRITICISM WHICH ARE STILL HIGHLY INmUENTIAL IN THE WAY lLMS ARE CRITICALLY DISCUSSED TODAY &IRSTLY

THEY REJECTED MONTAGE EDITING A STYLISTIC FORM THAT WAS INCREASINGLY POPULAR IN STUDIO lLMS DURING THE lFTIES 4HE @#AHIERS PREFERRED THE USE OF MISE EN SCENE WHICH LITERALLY MEANS @PLACING THE SCENE ,ATER IN THEIR OWN lLMS AS PART OF THE &RENCH .EW 7AVE MOVEMENT

THEY EMBODIED THIS STYLISTIC CHANGE

BY SHOOTING THEIR lLMS IN REALITY

ON REAL LOCATIONS AS OPPOSED TO FAKE STUDIO SETS WITH OVER IMPOSING LIGHTING 4HEY ALSO INCORPORATED LONG SHOTS THAT LINGERED ON THE ACTOR EVEN IF THEIR ACTION OR CONVERSATION WAS POINTLESS TO THE PROGRESSION OF THE lLM THUS EMPHASISING THE TRIVIALITIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE 4HEIR SECOND MANIFESTO WHICH IS EVER RELEVANT TO THE CRITICAL STUDY OF lLM

IS THE CONTROVERSIAL @AUTEUR THEORY

WHICH SUGGESTS THAT A DIRECTOR MAY IN FACT BE THE AUTHOR OF A lLM AS OPPOSED TO BEING A COLLABORATOR 4HE @#AHIERS SUGGESTED THAT IN ORDER FOR A DIRECTOR TO BE ELEVATED TO THE STATUS OF AN ARTIST THEY MUST HAVE PARTICULAR STYLISTIC FEATURES WHICH ARE ONLY SYNONYMOUS WITH THEM MUCH LIKE 0ABLO 0ICASSO S CONNECTION WITH #UBISM OR 3ALVADOR $ALI S DIRECT ASSOCIATION WITH 3URREALISM 4HEIR PRIME EXAMPLE OF AN AUTEUR WAS !LFRED (ITCHCOCK HIS STYLISTIC NOTORIETY BEING lRMLY SET WITHIN THE THRILLER GENRE 4HIS THEORY WAS SO INmUENTIAL THAT THE (OLLYWOOD STUDIOS USED IT TO MARKET (ITCHCOCK S lLMS SELLING THEM UNDER HIS NAME AND THEREFORE HIS AUTHORSHIP 7ITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHEAP AND PORTABLE ³CLAIR CAMERA

POST 7ORLD 7AR 4WO THE CRITICS OF #AHIERS DU #INEMA COULD NOW PRACTISE WHAT THEY PREACHED

PRODUCING lLMS THAT WERE NON EXPENSIVE AND WERE INDEPENDENT FROM THE CONTROLLING STUDIO SYSTEMS &ROM TO THE @.OUVELLE 6AGUE CULTURE OF &RENCH #INEMA ARRIVED WITH GROUND BREAKING RESULTS 4HE @#AHIERS WRITERS

ACCORDING TO *EAN ,UC 'ODARD WERE MOTIVATED TO MAKE lLMS BECAUSE OF THEIR EXPERIENCE AS SPECTATORS OF THE CINEMATIC SPECTACLE @x) LOVED ALL KINDS OF CINEMA n THE 2USSIANS

THE !MERICANS THE NEOREALIST )T WAS THE CINEMA THAT MADE US n OR ME AT LEAST n WANT TO MAKE lLMS ) KNEW NOTHING OF LIFE EXCEPT THROUGH THE CINEMA 4HIS RAWNESS AND PASSION FOR lLM WERE SUCCESSFULLY CAUGHT

BY THE STYLISTIC ELEMENTS WHICH COMMONLY RUN THROUGHOUT .EW 7AVE lLMS $ESPITE BEING SET IN REALITY THEY OFTEN USE ONLY DIEGETIC SOUNDS I E SOUNDS ORIGINATING FROM WITHIN THE lLM WORLD FROM THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THIS TYPE OF REALISM WAS INCREDIBLY ALIENATING AND DEEPLY AMBIGUOUS 4HE lNAL SHOT OF &RANCOIS 4RUFFAUT S SEMINAL lLM 4HE "LOWS IS A CLOSE UP OF THE PROTAGONIST $ANIEL

4HE .EW 7AVE S ADMIRERS RANGE FROM PRETENTIOUS STUDENTS ALL THE WAY UP TO 1UENTIN 4ARANTINO

AS HE TURNS AND STARES DOWN THE CAMERA CONFRONTING THE VIEWER

DRAMATICALLY MEETING THEIR VOYEURISTIC STARE (OWEVER OTHER @.OUVELLE 6AGUE DIRECTORS SUCH AS *EAN ,UC 'ODARD SOUGHT TO EXPRESS THEIR ADMIRATION FOR !MERICAN CINEMA )N 'ODARD S MASTERPIECE "REATHLESS THE ANTI HERO -ICHAEL MAKES REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THE NARRATIVE TO HIS (OLLYWOOD HERO (UMPHREY "OGART $ESPITE THE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS THAT THE @.OUVELLE 6AGUE DIRECTORS WOULD EVENTUALLY FOLLOW THEY WILL FOREVER REMAIN MESHED TOGETHER THROUGH SEVERAL STYLISTIC FORMALITIES

SUCH AS THEIR CONSISTENT USE OF JUMP CUTS THE PLIGHT OF THE ANTI HERO

WHICH SHARES MANY SIMILARITIES TO PROTAGONISTS FROM lLM NOIR AND THEIR CONSISTENTLY GROUNDBREAKING USE OF IMPROVISED DIALOGUE AND PLOTTING 4HIS IS A MOVEMENT THAT

NEARLY lFTY YEARS ON STILL HAS A VAST CULT AUDIENCE AND CONTINUES TO RECEIVE CRITICAL PRAISE RANGING FROM THE PRETENTIOUS ARTY STUDENT ALL THE WAY TO 1UENTIN 4ARINTINO AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY lLMMAKERS WHO USE THE STYLISTIC TRENDS OF &RENCH .EW 7AVE lLMMAKING IN THEIR CINEMATOGRAPHY AND DIALOGUE

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The  Big  Steal ! PULP AND ARTlLM AlCIONADO 1UENTIN 4ARANTINO IS AS FAMOUS FOR HIS CHAMPIONING OF UNDERGROUND lLMS AS FOR HIS QUINTET OF FEATURES AS A DIRECTOR 7ILL HE EVER SHAKE OFF HIS IMAGE AS CINEMA S GRANDEST POACHER WONDERS 4ONY 3AUNDERS

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ILM DIRECTING IS A CURIOUS BUSINESS

AND OFTEN IT TAKES A CURIOUS CHARACTER TO BE SUCCESSFUL 4HIS BECOMES APPARENT AFTER LOOKING AT THE LIFE STORIES OF DIRECTORS SUCH AS 3PIELBERG AND ,UCAS (OWEVER RARELY WILL YOU COME ACROSS A DIRECTOR OR PERSON

FOR THAT MATTER WITH THE SAME LEVEL OF ECCENTRICITY AS 1UENTIN 4ARANTINO (E IS THE MOST FAMOUS OF THE YOUNG DIRECTORS BEHIND THE INDEPENDENT lLM REVOLUTION OF THE S AND IS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS PUBLIC PERSONA AS A MOTOR MOUTHED GEEKY HIPSTER WITH AN ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE OF BOTH POPULAR AND ART HOUSE CINEMA %VEN THOUGH HE HAS BEEN MAKING BOX OFlCE HITS FOR NEARLY YEARS NOW 4ARANTINO ONLY HAS lVE lLMS CREDITED TO HIM AND HIM ALONE (OWEVER THROUGH THESE lLMS FROM 2ESERVOIR $OGS TO +ILL "ILL VOL HE HAS DEVELOPED A REPUTATION FOR HIS BOLD USE OF NONLINEAR STORY LINES MEMORABLE DIALOGUE AND BLOODY VIOLENCE AND IN TURN HAS BROUGHT NEW LIFE TO FAMILIAR !MERICAN lLM ARCHETYPES !LTHOUGH HE HAS OFlCIALLY BEEN SOLE DIRECTOR OF ONLY lVE lLMS HE HAS HAD A HAND IN MANY OTHER lLMS AND TELEVISION SERIES (E WROTE THE SCRIPTS FOR THE BRILLIANT .ATURAL "ORN +ILLERS AND 4RUE 2OMANCE -ORE RECENTLY HE HAS WORKED ON OTHER PROJECTS SUCH AS DIRECTING ONE SCENE IN THE BOX OFlCE SMASH 3IN #ITY 7HILST 4ARANTINO IS INVOLVED IN MANY MAINSTREAM PRODUCTIONS

HE STILL REMAINS FAITHFUL TO SMALL TIME ART HOUSE CINEMA ! RECENT EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE THE lLMS THAT ARE @PRESENTED BY 1UENTIN 4ARANTINO )N RECENT YEARS 4ARANTINO HAS USED HIS (OLLYWOOD POWER TO GIVE SMALLER AND FOREIGN lLMS MORE ATTENTION THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED OTHERWISE 4HESE lLMS ARE USUALLY GIVEN THE CREDIT @0RESENTED BY 1UENTIN 4ARANTINO 4HE lRST OF THESE PRODUCTIONS WAS IN WITH THE (ONG +ONG MARTIAL ARTS lLM )RON -ONKEY WHICH MADE OVER MILLION IN THE 5NITED 3TATES

SEVEN TIMES ITS BUDGET THANKS TO 4ARANTINO )N HE BROUGHT THE #HINESE MARTIAL ARTS lLM (ERO TO 53 SHORES )T ENDED UP HAVING A NUMBER ONE OPENING AT THE BOX OFlCE AND MAKING MILLION )N

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OPENED AT NUMBER ONE AT THE BOX OFlCE WITH A MILLION OPENING WEEKEND GOOD FOR TH ALL TIME HIGHEST IN THE MONTH OF *ANUARY 7HILST 4ARANTINO IS MOST FAMOUS FOR HIS DIRECTING CAREER HE HAS ALSO WORKED AS A PRODUCER AND ACTOR (E IS FAMOUS FOR APPEARING IN HIS OWN lLMS SUCH AS 2ESERVOIR $OGS AND 0ULP &ICTION 4ARANTINO HAS

BEEN CRITICIZED FOR THIS AS SOME SEE THE DIRECTOR ROLE AS SIMPLY NOT BIG ENOUGH TO HOUSE HIS EGO ,OOKING AT HIS lLMOGRAPHY HOWEVER IT SOON BECOMES CLEAR THAT MOST OF HIS TIME GETS SPENT ON PRODUCING lLMS $USK 4ILL $AWN IS POSSIBLY HIS MOST FAMOUS PRODUCTION !LL HARD WORK ASIDE 4ARANTINO IS OFTEN CRITICIZED #RITICS HAVE OFTEN COMPLAINED THAT 4ARANTINO STEALS IDEAS FROM OTHERS AND MAKES THEM HIS OWN 4ARANTINO HIT BACK AT SUCH CLAIMS IN AN %MPIRE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW BY SAYING h) STEAL FROM EVERY SINGLE MOVIE EVER MADE )F PEOPLE DON T LIKE THAT THEN TOUGH TILLS DON T GO AND SEE IT ALL RIGHT ) STEAL FROM EVERYTHING 'REAT ARTISTS STEAL THEY DON T DO HOMAGES v 4ARANTINO HAS ALSO COME UNDER CRITICISM FOR THE USE OF RACIAL SLURS IN HIS lLMS ESPECIALLY IN 0ULP &ICTION AND 2ESERVOIR $OGS "LACK

!MERICAN DIRECTOR 3PIKE ,EE SAID IN AN INTERVIEW FOR 6ARIETY MAGAZINE

h) M NOT AGAINST THE WORD AND ) USE IT BUT 1UENTIN IS INFATUATED WITH THE WORD 7HAT DOES HE WANT 4O BE MADE AN HONORARY BLACK MAN v ,EE MAKES DIRECT REFERENCE TO THIS IN HIS lLM "AMBOOZLED WHEN THE CHARACTER 4HOMAS $UNWITTY STATES h0LEASE DON T GET OFFENDED

BY MY USE OF THE QUOTE UNQUOTE . WORD ) GOT A BLACK WIFE AND THREE BIRACIAL CHILDREN SO ) FEEL ) HAVE A RIGHT TO USE THAT WORD ) DON T GIVE A DAMN WHAT 3PIKE SAYS 4ARANTINO IS RIGHT v 3INCE

4ARANTINO HAS DEFENDED HIS USE OF THE WORD BY ARGUING THAT BLACK AUDIENCES HAVE AN APPRECIATION OF HIS BLAXPLOITATION INmUENCED lLMS THAT ELUDES SOME OF HIS CRITICS AND

INDEED THAT *ACKIE "ROWN ANOTHER OFT CITED EXAMPLE WAS PRIMARILY MADE FOR @BLACK AUDIENCES $ESPITE THE CRITICISM 4ARANTINO REMAINS ONE OF THE BEST DIRECTORS TODAY 9OU CAN SPOT A 4ARANTINO lLM A MILE OFF n THE RELENTLESS VIOLENCE THE FREQUENT USE OF ACTORS SUCH AS (ARVEY +EITEL 3AMUEL , *ACKSON AND -ICHAEL -ADSON

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THE COUNTLESS REFERENCES AND THE INFAMOUS DIALOGUE ARE ALL HALLMARKS OF HIS (IS lLMS ARE SO UNIQUE AND YET SO SIMILAR THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO

THE MAN S ENTHUSIASM FOR HIS JOB (E FAMOUSLY SAID h) DIDN T GO TO lLM SCHOOL ) WENT TO lLMS v (E HAS A GENUINE LOVE FOR WHAT HE DOES

SHOWN BY A RIDICULOUSLY IN DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF lLM PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE )T IS BECAUSE OF ALL OF THESE POINTS THAT 4ARANTINO HAS EARNED HIMSELF HOUSEHOLD NAME STATUS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE ONE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME 5PCOMING PROJECTS OF HIS INCLUDE 'RIND (OUSE A UNIQUE DOUBLE FEATURE lLM WHERE HE AND 3IN #ITY DIRECTOR 2OBERT 2ODRIGUEZ WILL EACH DIRECT AN HOUR LONG lLM

PUT THEM IN TO THE SAME lLM AND HAVE FAKE TRAILERS IN BETWEEN 4ARANTINO SAID IN AN INTERVIEW FOR -46 COM h(IS ;2ODRIGUEZ S= MOVIE IS CALLED 0LANET 4ERROR AND MINE IS CALLED $EATH 0ROOF -INE IS SORT OF A SLASHER lLM BUT INSTEAD OF A KNIFE IT S A CARx(IS HE S DEALING WITH ZOMBIES AND ALL THAT STUFF ) THINK HIS MIGHT END UP BEING MORE VIOLENT BUT ) M NOT lNISHED WITH MY SCRIPT YET SO YOU NEVER KNOW v !LSO 4ARANTINO PLANS TO lNISH HIS LONG AWAITED 7ORLD 7AR )) EPIC

)NGLORIOUS "ASTARDS (E SAID OF THE LONG GESTATING 7ORLD 7AR )) lLM VIEWED BY MANY AS HIS $IRTY $OZEN INmUENCED PROJECT h4HAT WILL BE MY NEXT BIG -OUNT %VEREST CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN KIND OF PROJECT v

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Other  Screens #ASANOVA $IR ,ASSE (ALLSTROM 2ELEASED 0RESENTED AS THE UNTOLD TALE OMITTED FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY #ASANOVA TRIES TO PITCH ITSELF AS A HISTORICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY BUT MANAGES TO FAIL ON ALL COUNTS 6ENICE APPEARS AS A PRISTINE lLM SET AND FOR A lLM ABOUT THE GREATEST LOVER OF ALL TIME IT FEELS COLD WITH NO CHEMISTRY BETWEEN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS 4HE COMEDY IS ILL lTTED AND PREDICTABLE

APART FROM COMEDIAN $JALILI WHOSE HUMOUR AND PERSONALITY SPILLS INTO HIS CHARACTER AS #ASANOVA S SERVANT 3IENNA -ILLER IS GIVEN A LEADING PART BUT WITH HER TRADEMARK LOOKS DISGUISED SHE IS NOT COMPELLING ENOUGH AS AN ACTRESS TO SUSTAIN OUR ATTENTION AND SYMPATHY !LONG WITH SOME OF THE WORST #') EFFECTS RECENTLY SEEN THE RESULTING lLM IS DISAPPOINTING AND DULL )F IT IS A SEXY FUN #ASANOVA YOU ARE AFTER

YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITH THE ""# S COLOURFUL ADAPTATION LAST YEAR WITH THE FAR MORE CHARISMATIC $AVID 4ENNANT WHO PULLS OFF THE ROLE OF SERIAL SEDUCER MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVELY THAN (EATH ,EDGER ,YDIA -OSSAHEBI

!EON &LUX $IR +ARYN +USAMA 2ELEASED 4HE STORY IS INTERESTING ENOUGH )N

A VIRUS WIPES OUT OF THE HUMAN RACE LEAVING THE REMAINING lFTY MILLION LIVING IN A FUTURISTIC CITY WALLED OFF FROM THE EMPTY WILDERNESS OF %ARTH 0ROMISING BUT POORLY EXECUTED WITH AN /RWELLIAN SCI l PLOT QUICKLY PUSHED ASIDE FOR SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING CYBER BABE ACTION AND SUB PAR GUNlGHTS 4HE

PROBLEM IS THAT IT ALL MOVES SO FAST THAT NOT EVEN THE CHARACTERS CAN KEEP UP 2ELATIONSHIPS ARE BARELY EXPLORED AND PIVOTAL MOMENTS ARE SKIMMED OVER TO MAKE WAY FOR BACK mIPS AND YET MORE BACK mIPS #HARLIZE 4HERON TRIES AS THE FRIGID ANARCHIST !EON &LUX BUT UNFORTUNATELY LAYERS ON THE COOL SO THICKLY THAT WE FEEL VERY LITTLE COMPASSION FOR THE CHARACTER BY THE TIME HER EMOTIONAL REVELATION lNALLY ARRIVES BUT THEN WHO COULD BLAME HER WITH A RIGID SCRIPT OF CRUDE ONE LINERS )T ALL RESULTS IN A POTENTIALLY SMART lLM FEELING RATHER DUMB %DDIE (OWARTH

(IDDEN $IR -ICHAEL (ANEKE 2ELEASED (IDDEN IS THE MOST SUBTLE AND INGENIOUS lLM YET FROM -ICHAEL (ANEKE &UNNY 'AMES 4HE 0IANO 4EACHER #ODE 5NKNOWN %UROPE S FOREMOST PROVOCATEUR )T IS AT ONCE A BRILLIANTLY TAUT THRILLER A REmEXIVE MEDITATION ON SPECTATORSHIP AND AN ASTUTE POLITICAL STATEMENT ON RACIAL INTOLERANCE IN A POST SOCIETY $ANIEL !UTEIL AND *ULIET "INOCHE PLAY A BOURGEOIS BOHEMIAN COUPLE

WHO BEGIN TO RECEIVE STRANGE VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THEIR HOUSE !S THE CLIMATE OF PARANOIA ESCALATES !UTEIL STARTS TO SUSPECT A CHILDHOOD RIVAL

AN !LGERIAN BOY WHO WAS ADOPTED

BY HIS PARENTS AFTER HIS OWN FAILED TO RETURN FROM A DEMONSTRATION THAT ENDED AS A MASSACRE 9ET THERE SEEMS TO BE A DARK SECRET THAT !UTEIL IS HIDING FROM HIS WIFE AND THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE TWO MEN RESULTS IN THE BIGGEST SHOCK YOU LL EXPERIENCE AT THE CINEMA THIS YEAR !S (ANEKE CLAIMS (IDDEN IS BOTH

SPECIlCALLY A STORY OF THE DENIAL OF PERSONAL GUILT AND MORE GENERALLY OF NATIONAL GUILT n AND SO IN THE lLM S lNAL SCENES THE MILD MANNERED SON OF THE !LGERIAN @ANTAGONIST PLEADS WITH !UTEIL FOR A MOMENT OF HIS TIME BUT ONLY RECEIVES THE CURT RESPONSE @DON T EVER TERRORISE MY FAMILY AGAIN 4HE CRIMES OF THE FATHER ARE SEEN TO BE REmECTED IN THE SON WHO IS UNEQUIVOCALLY LABELLED AS A CRIMINAL BECAUSE OF HIS RACE WHICH SPEAKS VOLUMES FOR THE STATUS OF THE !LGERIAN IN 0OST COLONIAL &RENCH SOCIETY &INALLY IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER IT IS THE !LGERIAN MAN WHO EVEN MADE THE TAPES WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION @IF NOT HIM THEN WHO 4HE ANSWER IS ALMOST CERTAINLY -ICHAEL (ANEKE

THE ARCH MANIPULATOR AND INDEED MUCH OF THE lLM IS DEVOTED TO A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND REmEXIVE EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VIEWER AND THE lLM 4HE OPENING SHOT SETS THIS UP WELL SHOWING US AN ESTABLISHING SHOT OF A HOUSE IN A QUIET MIDDLE CLASS SUBURB HELD FOR AN ALMOST PAINFUL LENGTH OF TIME UNTIL IT IS DISORIENTATINGLY WOUND BACKWARDS 4HE IMAGE WHICH WE HELD TO BE TRUE IS REVEALED TO BE FALSE 4HE lLM REQUIRES THE VIEWER TO MAKE MANY SUCH REVERSALS OF OPINION

AND FUNDAMENTALLY CASTS DOUBT UPON THE TRUTHFULNESS OF lLMED MEDIA IN A WIDER SENSE )N ONE SCENE A 46 DOMINATES THE FRAME REPORTING ON THE CURRENT )RAQ WAR

WHILST THE CHARACTERS DISCUSS THEIR OWN SITUATION CLEARLY DRAWING A COMPARISON "UT ULTIMATELY (IDDEN PROVIDES A POLITICAL CRITIQUE THAT IS INlNITELY MORE INTELLIGENT AND SUBTLE THAN 3PIELBERG S HEAVY HANDED -UNICH $EAN "OWMAN

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7HAT S THE SCOOP 4HE #ORPORATION UNLIKE MOST LABELLED CORPORATE PRODUCTS IS ACTUALLY ABOUT ITS SUBJECT MATTER 4HIS DOCUMENTARY IS OF GREAT RELEVANCE 4HE lLMMAKERS EXPOSE THE CORPORATE WORLD S UNDERBELLY THE POLLUTED AND DAMAGED ECOSYSTEMS AND THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS THAT CHURN THE WHEELS OF THE CORPORATE SYSTEM 4HIS lLM HOWEVER IS OPTIMISTIC AND PROGRESSIVE

ENCOURAGING SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING TOWARD THESE INDUSTRIAL MASQUERADES WILLING THE VIEWER TO RECLAIM THEIR LAND THEIR PRIVATISED AIR THEIR PATENTED GENES AND DISEASES FROM INDUSTRY OWNERSHIP 4HE lLM ALSO CONVEYS HOW SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD HAVE SUCCESSFULLY OVERTHROWN THE PRIVATISATION OF THEIR PUBLIC SERVICES SUCH AS WATER .OT EXACTLY A -AlA mICK 4HE lLM S TITLE IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE GANGSTER GENRE DRAWING PARALLELS BETWEEN CORPORATIONS SUCH AS )"-

-AC$ONALD S AND +ODAK AS PROlT DRIVEN POWER OBSESSED @PERSONS OF DESTRUCTION 4HIS IS BECAUSE UNDER 4HE &OURTEENTH !MENDMENT A GROUP OF PERSONS INCORPORATED TOGETHER AS A COMPANY CAN REGISTER AS A LEGAL @PERSON 4HE lLMMAKERS THROUGH PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ASK WHAT SORT OF PERSON A CORPORATION IS &RIGHTENINGLY THE ANSWER COMES FROM THE VOICES OF THEIR INTERVIEWEES WHO RANGE FROM .OBEL PRIZE WINNING ECONOMISTS TO #%/S WHO UNANIMOUSLY COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THESE @PERSONS ARE IMMORTAL WITH NO MORAL CONSCIENCE AND PSYCHOPATHIC TENDENCIES TO HARM THEIR ENVIRONMENT TO ACHIEVE PERSONAL AND lNANCIAL GAIN ! LITTLE MORE HARDCORE THAN 7ATCHDOG THEN 4HE lLM S MOST HORRIFYING ANGLE IS ITS REVELATION OF )"- S INVOLVEMENT AND lNANCIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE .AZIS DURING THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR )"- SUPPLIED PRIMITIVE FORMS OF @COMPUTERS TO THE .AZIS SO THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO RECORD THE NUMBER OF (OLOCAUST VICTIMS BEING STORED IN THEIR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 4HE lLM EVEN SHOWS PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DIRECTOR OF )"- COMFORTABLY HAVING TEA WITH (ITLER THUS CONVEYING THE IDEA THAT ALLEGIANCE WITH ANY mAG OR ANY STRAND OF HUMANITY IS DROPPED IN THE PURSUIT OF WEALTH 5LTIMATELY THOUGH THE lLMMAKERS DO NOT PRETEND TO HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS OR TO PRESENT ALL THE TRUTHS BUT SIMPLY ENCOURAGE THE PASSIVE VIEWER TO QUESTION THE CORPORATE ENVIRONMENT AROUND THEM AND MAKE THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS

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WHO LOST HER HUSBAND AND YOUNG DAUGHTER IN THE ONE YEAR EARLIER PREFACE 4HE BLOODY TRAUMA IN THE CAVES TRIGGERS 3ARAH S PERSONAL @DESCENT INTO HER OWN DESPERATELY BURIED MEMORIES WHICH MANIFEST THEMSELVES AS CREEPY CHILDISH WHISPERS @MUMMYx !S ANOTHER !MERICAN BACKWOODS SLASHER ALBEIT ONE FOR THE MOST PART SUBMERGED UNDERGROUND THE lLM ALSO TAKES A FAIRLY UNIQUE STAB AT THE GENRE S INGRAINED GENDER DYNAMICS WHERE

A MIXED GROUP OF BOYS AND GIRLS WANDER BLINDLY INTO DANGER AND ARE WHITTLED DOWN BY MALEVOLENT FORCES UNTIL ONLY ONE HEROIC GIRL REMAINS !LL THE CHARACTERS HERE ARE FEMALE MANY OF THEM ARE EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG AND PROlCIENT AT A TRADITIONALLY MALE DOMINATED SPORT AND THE ROMANTIC FRISSON

LEVERED INTO MOST SLASHERS IS SIMPLY NOT THERE ALTHOUGH THERE IS A PLOT THREAD CONCERNING AN AFFAIR WITH ONE OF THE GIRLS HUSBANDS 4HIS IS ALL INVENTIVE STUFF

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INCLUDING THE GRACEFULLY FRANTIC TRAIN

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UST WHERE DO YOU STAND ON THE POLITICAL COMPASS !RE YOU HANGING OUT ON THE RIGHT WITH 'EORGE 7 OR SWINGING TO THE LEFT WITH THE $ALI ,AMA &OR YEARS THE TRADI TIONAL MEASURE OF POLITICAL ORIENTATION HAS BEEN ON A SIMPLE HORIZONTAL AXIS YOU RE EITHER TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT "UT THIS DOESN T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT HOW TWO OSTEN SIBLY LEFT OR RIGHT WING POLITICIANS CAN HOLD ENTIRELY CONTRADICTORY VIEWS DESPITE BEING AT THE SAME END OF THE POLITICAL SCALE 4HE WEB SITE WWW POLITICALCOMPASS ORG HAS SET OUT TO CHALLENGE THE ASSUMPTION THAT A SIMPLE DICHOTOMY IS AT WORK

AND TO PRODUCE A MORE ACCURATE AS SESSMENT OF THE IDEOLOGIES THAT GOV ERN A PERSON S POLITICAL ORIENTATION 4AKING THE LEFT RIGHT LINE TO REPRESENT ECONOMIC VALUES THE 0O LITICAL #OMPASS ADDS A NEW LINE

SOCIAL VALUES FROM AUTHORITARIAN AT THE TOP TO LIBERTARIAN AT THE BOT TOM 4HE RESULTANT GRID SPLITS THE POLITICAL WORLD INTO FOUR QUARTERS !UTHORITARIAN ,EFT !UTHORITARIAN 2IGHT ,IBERTARIAN ,EFT AND ,IBERTAR IAN 2IGHT )N THIS MODEL THE OPPO

SITE OF &ASCISM IS NOT #OMMUNISM BUT !NARCHISM 3O TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTION HOW DO YOUR VIEWS COMPARE TO THOSE OF THE GREAT AND NOT SO GREAT LEADERS OF HISTORY 4O lND OUT TAKE THE 0OLITICAL #OMPASS TEST "ASED ON A SERIES OF QUESTIONS TO WHICH YOU CAN RECORD A VARYING STRENGTH OF AGREEMENT OR DISAGREEMENT IT MEASURES RESPONSES TO A BROAD RANGE OF QUESTIONS ON NATIONALITY

ECONOMICS AND PERSONAL CHOICE 4HE SAME QUESTIONS WERE USED TO INFORM THE GROUP S EVALUATION OF DOZENS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL LEADERS AND THE RESULTANT ANALYSIS PLACES YOU IN THEIR GLITTERING CON TEXT )T ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO TRACK THE SOMETIMES SURPRISING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SHIFTS OF "RITAIN S MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES 4HE #OMPASS TEST IS FREE AND ALL THE DATA IS ENTERED ANONYMOUSLY SO IF YOU DO lND YOURSELF LANGUISHING IN WORRYING IDEOLOGICAL PROXIMITY TO (ITLER AT LEAST NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW !LTERNATIVELY YOU CAN BOAST ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU AND THE $ALAI ,AMA HAVE IN COMMON 7ALTER 0LINCH

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