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POLANSKI’S THE TENANT: WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBOURS SAY?

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August 9, 2013

THE TENANT directed by Roman Polanski (USA, 1976)

Psycho Tootsie - Polanski cross dressing.

Psycho Tootsie – Polanski cross dressing.

“At what precise moment does an individual stop being who he thinks he is?”  This is the key existential question at the heart of a movie about one man’s descent into cross-dressing and insanity.

Like all the best mindfuck movies, The Tenant gets inside your head to the point that you are unsure where real fears end and paranoid illusions take over.

Set in Paris,  Polanski stars as the scrupulously polite Trelkovsky, a Polish man who gives every appearance of being an upstanding, serious-minded French citizen.

Strange things happen when he moves in to the apartment of Simone Choule, a young woman who has inexplicably attempted suicide and is not expected to live. Continue reading →

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BLACK SHEEP REVOLUTION BLUES

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November 10, 2011

Julian H. Cope is a national treasure who thankfully shows no sign of hanging up his boots.

Further proof of his flawed/floored genius comes with the news that he and his merry band of Black Sheep are to release a DVD of a 3-day/11 gig busking tour undertaken in 2008.

Start Productions filmed the impromptu performance at  overlooked sites of historical significance in the UK.

This includes footage at the site of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, the Carl Jung statue in Liverpool and the place Eddie Cochrane died  interspersed with pearls of wisdom from the Archdrude of Wessex himself.

Watch the trailer for Revolution Blues below:

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ZAPPA AT HOME

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January 24, 2009

This is such a great shot of  Frank Zappa with parents Francis and Rosemary taken by John Olson at Frank’s home in Los Angeles in 1970.  It made me think of which other rock stars  I would like to see in a similar pose. My top three would be Julian Cope, Nick Cave and Mark E.Smith.

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SCOTT FREE

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October 17, 2008

I was glad to get to watch a DVD documentary of the great Scott Walker called ‘30 Century Man, a title taken from a track that appeared on Scott 3

I like the fact that instead of using only conventional interviews, director Stephen Kijak also films people listening and interacting to Scott’s albums. I could live without the thoughts of posers like Sting and Alison Goldfrapp but most of the interviewees have something interesting to contribute.

A notable absence is Julian Cope who did so much to raise Walker’s profile with the post-punk generation. Cope opted not to appear although he wrote a letter endorsing the project.

Still, if the film consisted only of talking heads basking in their own egos and repeating ad-infinitum what a genius Scott Walker is, this would be pretty tedious fare. The main coup is in getting the notoriously reticent Walker to talk so freely about his life in music and in a film crew being allowed into the studio during the recording of The Drift. Continue reading →

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RESISTANCE IS NOT USELESS

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September 12, 2008

I couldn’t have put it better myself!

The Archdrude Saint Julian chooses well for his new album – still raging after all these years!

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