This weekend at the Brattle, my favourite little arts cinema, I get to show Amanda two films I love that she’s never seen, and she shows me two films she loves that I’ve never seen. We’ll introduce the films on stage.
There are still some tickets. Come and see four strange beloved films and hear us talk about why we love them. (And see whether the other one likes them.)
(They also have a Friday, and weekend matinee Double Feature of CORALINE and STARDUST, for those who have never seen them on a big screen, or want to see them again. Here’s the Calendar.)
Really fun interview. I talk with Kyle Cassidy at http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/cover-story/Neil-Gaiman-Kyle-Cassidy-Make-Good-Art.html
this is often how @neilhimself stands when he’s twittering in public. i am so glad to have caught this moment, because I look at it all the time.
She assures me that this is indeed how I stand when I am tweeting or texting.
How odd.
philadelphia photographer @kylecassidy shoots @neilhimself in front of city hall in the wee small hours. @trillianstars illuminates the night.
Love this…
Also, note the way that Edgar Allen Poe has appeared on Kyle’s back.
Novelists Neil Gaiman & John Scalzi, play ukuleles with actor Kevin Murphy (aka Tom Servo & @rifftrax). Lola listens. @neilhimself @kwmurphy @scalzi
Good times.
I decided to draw my favourite couple- Neil and Amanda of course :) Drawn in CS4 Photoshop.
I love our expressions. It’s so true,
Spoilers for the first few minutes…
RT met Neil Gaiman, the writer of Nightmare in Silver, back in March at the BBC’s New Broadcasting House in London. Here’s an extract of that interview…
Neil, could you give us a non-spoilery encapsulation of the story?
Easily! It just stops at about minute three. The Doctor has been talked by Clara into taking the two kids she looks after, Artie and Angie, for an excursion, a day out, and he decides to take them to Hedgewick’s World, the biggest, best and most wonderful amusement park in the galaxy, a quarter of a million years in the future, because he has a golden ticket and it gets four people in for free, gets you free ice creams and it gets you to the front of any line, which is great because the lines for the Spacey Zoomer can go on for weeks. And that’s where it starts.
Unfortunately, it also starts with them discovering that Hedgewick’s World has been closed for several years and there’s almost nobody on it now except for a small army troop on manoeuvres and a mad old showman named Mr Webley who landed his spaceship there after it closed and is now there with a Cyberman that plays chess. That’s where it begins. This is also 1,000 years after the end of the big human/Cyberman war – where we won.
There are some well-known actors in the episode. Can you tell us about the characters they’re playing?
Jason Watkins plays Mr Webley, this wonderful, slightly alcoholic old showman touring the universe with a waxworks and a chess-playing Cyberman. Warwick Davis is his henchman, who is called Porridge. He’s affable, sweet and helps Webley and cannot wait to get off this planet.
Tamzin Outhwaite is a captain named Alice Ferren who’s in charge of the platoon doing troop exercises on an abandoned amusement park planet and as we discover, as the story goes on, it’s actually a punishment platoon. They’re all people who’ve got into trouble. She was sent there for disobeying orders. They’re not the kind of crack troop you’d want if it so happened that a Cyberman moves in – a new model Cyberman that we haven’t seen, who is absolutely lethal and hyper-intelligent…
from http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-05/doctor-who-neil-gaiman-sets-the-scene-for-nightmare-in-silver
What the best signing-school-visit ever was like: http://bankstreetcollegeccl.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/thank-you-mr-snicket-mr-klassen-and-mr-gaiman/
May 5th is going to be an excellent Sunday in Los Angeles
http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/entertainment-weekly-capetown-film-festival for tickets and the list of all the films showing….
Travis Knight! Richard Donner! Terry Fucking Gilliam! Some British Guy!
Come and say hello….
One of the things on my list of things to do before I die, is to record the whole of this book. But if I die suddenly tomorrow of an unexpected rhinoceros attack, I am happy that I recorded the first 5 minutes…
