Fed up with the toothless platitudes of mainstream media? Like your cinema offbeat and left-field? Electric Sheep is an online film magazine that doesn't toe the line. We celebrate the celluloid dreams of the most outlandish, provocative and visionary directors, the marginal and the transgressive, the overlooked and the underrated. Every month we offer uncompromising reviews of the best new films and DVDs, take another look at forgotten works and interview the fantasists and mavericks of the film world. Join us for a rave and a rant - and for a spin of our very exciting Film Roulette!
The winter 09 print issue of Electric Sheep: 'I Fought the Law' is out now! It looks at what makes a cinematic outlaw: read about the misdeeds of low-life gangsters, gentlemen thieves, deadly females, modern terrorists, cop killers and vigilantes, bikers and banned filmmakers. Plus: interview with John Hillcoat about his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the art of Polish posters according to Andrzej Klimowski, Andrew Cartmel discusses The Prisoner and noir comic strips! [The magazine contains exclusive articles and interviews not available on the website.] It is available at selected retailers and cinemas or you can buy it online from the Wallflower Press website. This is the last print issue of Electric Sheep in its current form.
ELECTRIC SHEEP FILM CLUB at the Prince Charles every first Wednesday of the month. WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY, 8pm: Our special screening of The Lodger with live rescore by Minima on December 2 went down a storm in a packed cinema! Many thanks to Minima for their fantastic performance. Details of the next screening to be announced soon.
INTERVIEWS:
Apitchapong Weerasethakul; Sachi Hamano; Asiel Norton, Magdalena Zyzak: Redland
FILM REVIEWS:
The Limits of Control; The Queen of Spades; Germany 09
DVD REVIEWS:
Silent Night, Deadly Night; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; Lone Wolf and Cub; Eagles over London
BOOK REVIEW:
100 American Independent Movies
FILM WRITING COMPETITION:
Repulsion
SHORT CUTS:
Max Hattler
FILM JUKEBOX:
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
PODCAST:
Joseph Strick; Prisoner-themed podcast coming soon