http://www.7inch.org.uk/news 7 Inch Cinema - News Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to having our heads in a festival-planning hole, other Birmingham film-related stuff has passed us by over the last few weeks. Here's a brief post to help rectify that... FILM DASH Thursday 11 March at the Electric The second edition of this 48 hour film challenge just wrapped up, and the results ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/03/film-dash-etc/ There was a programme on radio 4 this morning about memories of Fort Dunlop, that impressive slab of a building you see from the M6 coming into Birmingham. More info here, and it'll be on iPlayer for a week. We've also been enjoying a series of postcards posted by Joyfeed, ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/02/fort-dunlop/ Apparently this was somebody's AS level art project: [via @AnimateProjects] The usual pre-Flatpack tumbleweed on this blog. Just posted a brief summary of what you can expect in the festival over here - full details online in a fortnight. http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/02/flipbook-history-of-the-world/ Happy noo year. Been watching quite a few films about movie-going recently, and came across this three-minuter which the Coens made for the 2007 Cannes film festival: Sort of reminded me of 'The Day of the Premiere of Close Up', with Nanni Moretti losing sleep over the box-office reception for a ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/01/filmmakers-at-the-movies/ Here are some of the images created on Alex Mackenzie's rayogram workshops while he was in the UK recently, including a few made at VIVID on 15th November. (No sound.) http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/12/rayogram-results/ While you're consuming your bodyweight in minced pies and mulled wine over the next few days perhaps raise a glass to Birmingham's Electric cinema, celebrating its centenary on Sunday and almost definitely the oldest cinema in the UK. Earlier this month the current owner Tom Lawes staged a whistle-stop tour ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/12/happy-birthday-electric/ I am pretty crap at best-movie lists and end-of-decade summaries but if you got me in an armlock and forced an answer out of me, I would have to admit that Terrence Malick's The New World is my favourite film of the last ten years; one of those transporting experiences ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/12/the-new-world/ Endless film-hunting for Flatpack at the moment, and this was a nice smack in the face this afternoon. (Gracias to Cartoon Brew.) As usual at this time of year our blogging and listings have tailed off horribly. If we weren't so distracted we'd be telling you about stuff like the Endless ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/12/the-tv-show/ A couple of blurrycam shots from last night's Wooden Lightbox performance by Alex MacKenzie at Vivid. During their flying visit we were able to introduce Alex and his partner Clare to the joys of the Bartons Arms, and on their return to Vancouver they'll be informing the local ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/11/lightbox-pics/ We're very proud of our shiny new sign, specially made for us by the lovely Holly Fuller. Here it is in pride of place at the office, and in action at the recent Travelling Picture Show gala. http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/11/posh-new-sign/