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15.01.00
Holocaust and Cinema
Andrzej Munk Retrospective- The Passenger
Riverside Studios, London 17th January

The annual Holocaust memorial day falls on 27th January, and earlier in the month one of the most important films about the Holocaust receives a rare screening at London's Riverside Studios. Munk's The Passenger was finished in his absence after his tragic death in a car accident during filming. Assembled from existing footage, still photographs and voice-over narration, it forms a haunting meditation on the Holocaust, and its screening on the 17th January will be introduced by film writer and historian Phillip Kemp.

The Passenger is one of the films discussed in our title Holocaust and the Moving Image, a collection based on a major Holocaust memorial held at the Imperial War Museum in 2004. On the occasion of Holocaust memorial day, throughout January we are offering a 20% discount on this title and also Uncovering the Holocaust: the International Reception of Night and Fog. To take advantage of this offer on either or both books, simply email info@wallflowerpress.co.uk with "Holocaust Memorial Offer" in the subject line and we'll help you place an order.

13.11.06
The Animate! Book Launch
Thursday 6.00pm 14th December
Curzon Soho, London
www.curzoncinemas.com
Box Office 0870 756 4620
Tickets £5.50 / £4.50 concessions

Just published by LUX, the animate! book is a lavish and inspirational exploration of the relationship between art and animation, and the place of animation and its concepts in contemporary art practice. This Tuesday sees the launch of this beautiful title and the latest animate! artist awards at the Curzon Soho. The international animate! Artist Award is designed to reward innovation in animation and the moving image, and on this night a breathtaking shortlist of works from Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Croatia and the UK will be screened, including the final winner of the £2,000 cash prize.

The book includes interviews with artists who have exploded the traditional preconceptions about animation in their commissions for animate!, and essays that examine animation and cinema up to and beyond the edge of film & video. With 870 full-colour illustrations plus a DVD of ten trail-blazing animate! works by Phil Mulloy, Mario Cavalli, William Latham, Ruth Lingford, Jonathan Hodgson, George Barber, Tim Macmillan, Olivier Harrison, Ann Course & Paul Clark and AL + AL, the animate! book is a stunning document of the cutting edge of the moving image. On general sale at £19.95, at this event and for a limited time the book will be available for a special introductory price of £12. Wallflower Press will also be selling other titles about animation, digital cinema and artists' film & video on the night. Please email us for details of this offer.

15.11.06
Filmosophy

Daniel Frampton's Filmosophy is 'book of the month' in the November edition of Sight and Sound. For a report on our Filmosophy panel discussion at the London Review Bookshop featuring Jonathan Rée, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Jonathan Romney, click here.

08.11.06
Feminist Film in London- Reclaim the Screens
28th October, Ciné lumière
25th November onwards, Curzon Cinemas

28th October sees a rare public appearance by one of the great feminist auteurs of the modern era, and an original member of the French New Wave. Agnès Varda began her career with Chris Marker and Alain Resnais as part of the so-called "Left Bank" filmmakers, and went onto forge a distinctive path in poetic documentary and subjective filmmaking. Chris Darke will conduct an illustrated interview with Varda at the Ciné lumière on the subject of her recent exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, L'Ile et elle, a selection of photos, films and video installations inspired by the windswept island of Noirmoutier off the west coast of France. You can find an in-depth analysis of Varda's filmmaking forms in Feminist Auteurs, one of our new titles available this autumn. Then on 25th November, Curzon Cinemas are presenting a season of feminist films and art, Reclaim the Screens, to celebrate International Day to End Violence Against Women The festival will begin on Saturday 25 November with an afternoon screening of 'Born in Flames', a revolutionary classic that has retained its relevance and vigour. Screenings for the following week will investigate links between pornography and violence against women.

08.11.06
Autumn Film Festival Picks
Leeds 2nd to 12th November
Stockholm 16th to 26th November

November is another busy month for us with the film festival season in full swing. We will be at to the 20th Leeds International Film Festival, which runs from the 2nd to the 12th of November, where festival highlights include Devotional Cinema, a strand featuring films from Robert Bresson, Gregory Markopoulos and Stan Brakhage, and the Fanomenon horror and sci-fi weekend, of which we are proud co-sponsors. We will be at the Carriageworks Theatre with frighteningly good bargains on horror titles such as The Cinema of George A. Romero and The Cinema of John Carpenter, and a host of other reading material for cinephiles. Later in the month sees the 17th Stockholm International Film Festival, including a new Arabica strand of new films from North Africa and the Middle East. Wallflower will be part of the Face2Face section of discussions and masterclasses, and will be selling a special selection of film books at Konstig AB, Scandinavia’s leading art bookstore, from the 23rd to 27th November.

15.10.06
Harmony Korine in conversation with Daniel Frampton

12noon, Sunday 15 October 2006
Renoir, Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AW
Tickets £6 -- Call 0870 756 4621
www.curzoncinemas.com

Subsequent to our lively Filmosophy panel event at the London Review bookshop, where our own Daniel Frampton discussed his manifesto for a new way of understanding cinema with Independent on Sunday film critic Jonathan Romney and others, this special screening of Julien Donkey-Boy will conclude with director Harmony Korine discussing his film and ideas with the author of Filmosophy.

In Filmosophy, book of the month in the November edition of Sight and Sound, Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy is used as a springboard for some of Frampton's boldest and most radical ideas, suggesting we do not simply watch this film but come to inhabit the troubled mindset with the main protagonist. ‘In feeling Julien’s schizophrenia, the film thinks an image of accentuated colours, juddering movements, hazy defocusings and multiplied refractions. We receive a discontinuity (jumpcuts), and so come to feel Julien’s fractured world-view . . . Julien Donkey-Boy is a poetic story of images; an imaging of Julien’s world -- of surfaces, forms, ruptures".

Harmony Korine was writer of Larry Clark's Kids and director of Gummo, and is currently editing his third feature entitled Mister Lonely. We are delighted he has found time amongst his other commitments to discuss his art and the state of cinema with our author. If our London Review debate was anything to go by, expect lively discussion, impassioned ideas- and never to look at film in quite the same way again.

28.09.06
Filmosophy

Panel Discussion and Book Launch
London Review Book Shop 28th September
more special filmosophical events to follow, details TBA

Wallflower Press are delighted to launch Filmosophy at a public panel discussion to be held at the London Review Bookshop on 28th September. Joining the author in discussion will be:

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith - estimable theorist and writer, professor of film studies and former head of BFI publishing. His books include The Oxford History of World Cinema and Luchino Visconti.
Jonathan Romney - eminent journalist specialising in film, he has written for The Guardian, City Limits, Sight & Sound, and Time Out. He is currently film critic on The Independent on Sunday.
Jonathan Rée - writer, philosopher, broadcaster and historian. His journalism appears in the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Independent, Prospect, The Nation, Evening Standard and elsewhere. His books include Philosophical Tales, Proletarian Philosophers, and I see a voice.

Daniel Frampton is a London-based writer and filmmaker and the founding editor of the salon-journal Film-Philosophy. For more information and to order tickets visit the London Review Bookshop website, www.lrbshop.co.uk. Filmosophy is available now for a limited period for £12 (usually £15) with postage and packing free in the UK-please e-mail info@wallflowerpress.co.uk or call us on 0207 436 9494. Details of other special filmosophical events will be posted on our website in the coming weeks.

Read a report of the evening here.

05.09.06
The Cinema of Canada- Free Launch Event

Wallflower Press are proud to present The Cinema of Canada, edited by Jerry White, at a double book launch organised in collaboration with the Toronto International Film Festival Group, Pages Books & Magazines and NOW. Author Jerry White will be joined by Yoram Allon from Wallflower Press and editor Steve Gravestock for a debate moderated by Pages proprietor Marc Glassman. The evening will culminate with a look at the work of Canadian filmmaking icon Peter Mettler, with Peter joining Jerry White for a rare and intimate interview. 8.30pm, Tuesday 5 September, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W, Toronto. Visit www.pagesbooks.ca for more information and tickets. Books will be on sale during the event, but we are also offering The Cinema of Canada now at the special price of £15 (usually £18.99). Email for details.

25.06.06
Close-Up

Close textual analysis is enjoying a rennaisance with theorists in film and TV study, as they strive for an understanding of the medium grounded in a deep engagement with the image and sound itself. Our new CLOSE-UP series is dedicated to such detailed dissection of film and TV, with each annual issue containing three extended discussions of separate aspects of visual media. Deborah Allison in Senses Of Cinema suggested the first in the series, with close analyses of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and the use of pop music in films, promises 'the birth of an intelligent and highly valuable new publishing strand'. A second and third volume are already on the way. Read more about Close-Up.