Daft Punk: Random Access Memories - The Collaborators
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Posted by Calum Sager on 17 April 2013
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Everybody's favourite robots are back with a new album, 'Random Access Memories' and have teamed up with the Creators Project to offer some really refreshing content for fans in the build up to the albums release which is scheduled for release on 20th May in the UK.

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All Dressed Up & Going Nowhere (1971)
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Posted by Calum Sager on 16 April 2013
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All Dressed Up & Going Nowhere is a documentary filmed in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1971. It looks at the bitter rivalries between 'the skinheads', and their rivals, known as 'the hairies'. The film is a great cultural document, it features interviews with many gang members as well as community leaders who try to shed some light of the causes of these violent divisions in their community.

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The Artwork Of Hong 'Red' Yi
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Posted by Calum Sager on 12 April 2013
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Hong Yi, who goes by the nickname 'Red', is a Malaysian artist-architect. She was given the nickname because her name, Hong, sounds like the word 'red' in Mandarin. Red's grandparents and father left Shanghai in the '60s during the start of the Cultural Revolution and moved to Sabah, Malaysia where she was born and raised.

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Danny Says: A Documentary On Danny Fields
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Posted by Calum Sager on 11 April 2013
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Danny Says is a documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields. Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and “culture” of the late 20th century: working for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, Nico, Judy Collins and managing groundbreaking artists like the Stooges, the MC5 and the Ramones.

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The Short And Curlies - Mike Leigh (1987)
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Posted by Calum Sager on 10 April 2013
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'The Short & Curlies' is a 1987 short film written and directed by Mike Leigh. It stars Alison Steadman, Wendy Nottingham, Sylvestra Le Touzel and David Thewlis.

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Martin Scorsese: 2013 Jefferson Lecture Live Stream
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Posted by Calum Sager on 8 April 2013
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Watch the stream of the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on April 1
Martin Scorsese, Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, film historian and preservationist delivers the 42nd annual Jefferson Lecture on April 1 at 7:30 PM at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

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Patti Smith And Robert Mapplethorpe By Norman Seeff
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Posted by Calum Sager on 4 April 2013
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The ever brilliant Retronaut never cease to deliver the goods. This collection of photographs of Spilt Milk favourite Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe we particularly like. Shot by Norman Seeff, these are actually outtakes that somehow didn't make the cut.

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Martin Parr: Teddy Gray’s Sweet Factory
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Posted by Calum Sager on 2 April 2013
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Photographer and filmmaker Martin Parr's latest offering comes in the form of a charming short documentary about Teddy Gray’s Sweet Factory in Dudley, Birmingham, West Midlands. Using the same methods practised since 1826, elderly, charming couple Betty and Teddy along with a troop of local co-workers still conduct the business without the aid of any computers.

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Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - Prada
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Posted by Calum Sager on 28 March 2013
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Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola team up for a string of new short films for Prada's Candy perfume. The mark of both directors is firmly stamped on this first instalment of the series, with Andersons divisively unnatural compositions heavily on display. Below is the first film in the series and also clips from the forthcoming instalments.

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Rubble Kings
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Posted by Calum Sager on 19 March 2013
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From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay a unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed. Peace came only through the most unlikely and courageous of events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop culture.

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