Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Michael Apted and Cory McAbee – From cradle to…

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Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast: Michael Apted and Cory McAbee – From cradle to… Alex Fitch talks to two directors about their projects which capture visions of childhood and how that progresses into adulthood. In a Q & A recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON: EAST, Alex chats to Cory McAbee, creator of SF musicals The American Astronaut and Stingray Sam, about his latest film Crazy and Thief – a semi improvised drama which documents the director’s children as they journey across New York looking for stars and come across characters inspired by The Odyssey – again scored by his band, ‘The Billy Nayer Show’. Cory discusses his change in direction for this project, the difficulties of directing children and performs a song from the soundtrack. Also, Alex discusses 56Up with Michael Apted, the latest instalment of his 7Up series which has charted the lives of 14 children from diverse socio-economic backgrounds since the age of 7, with new episodes every 7 years; as well as exploring the history of this series, Alex and Michael discuss the latter’s involvement with another serial that’s reached its 50th anniversary as the director recalls his experience of directing the Bond movie, The World is not Enough. DVD cover for 7-49Up, posters for 56Up, The world is not enough, Crazy and Thief, The American Astronaut Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. Links: Cory McAbee’s website Buy 56Up from Network DVD More info about SCI-FI-LONDON: EAST (9th-11th November) at www.scfilondon.com Recommended events: Comica Festival 2012 finale Dante’s Inferno Launch Party: Sinners & Demons Celebrate Hunt Emerson & Kevin Jackson’s graphic adaptation of this diabolical literary classic! Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Sq, SW1X 8NX When: November 30, 2012 6.30-8.30pm Comic art exhibition: SCORE AND SCRIPT Devised by John Miers, curated by Comica co-director Megan Donnolley, featuring 23 of Britain’s finest comics creators: Sean Azzopardi, Elliot Baggott, Dan Berry, Andy Bleck, Richy K. Chandler, John Cei Douglas, Daniel Fennings, Andrew Godfrey, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, James Hickman, Sally-Anne Hickman, Kripa Joshi, Mike Medaglia, Stuart Medley, Tanya Meditzky, John Miers, Douglas Noble, Gary Northfield, David O’Connell, Woodrow Phoenix, Andy Poyiadgi, John Riordan and Karen Rubins. There will also be a “Santa’s Ghetto” fair day on Saturday December 8, where comics and other artwork by the exhibitors will be on sale. Venue: Centre for Recent Drawing, 2-4 Highbury Station Road, London N1 1SB Dates: Exhibition runs Nov 22 – Dec 15, fair day Saturday December 8. Times: C4RD is open Thur-Sat, 1-6pm, admission free. More info about all events at www.comicafestival.com Forbidden Planet signings Chicks Unravel Time – 05/12/12 Join Kaite Welsh, Juliet McKenna, Una McCormack, Iona Sharma, Elizabeth Bolton-Gabrielson and Laura Simpson unravelling time at Forbidden Planet London on Wednesday 5th December from 6 – 7pm! Chicks Unravel Time is the sister book to the 2011 Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords and features a host of award-winning female writers, media professionals and scientists, examining each season of new and classic Doctor Who from their unique perspectives. Join our guests as they celebrate female writers and all things Doctor Who. They’ll be free to talk about their writing, their love for science and for the show. This an evening to celebrate everything that chicks dig about Time Lords – and about Time itself! Wednesday 05 December 2012 18:00 – 19:00 Paul Cornell, reading from and signing his first urban fantasy novel LONDON FALLING – 06/12/12 The dark is rising . . . Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career. Then his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. Furious, Quill pursues the investigation, co-opting intelligence analyst Lisa Ross and [...]

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