Bowlegs Film & TV

LAST SHOP STANDING – FEATURE

Posted on 21 February 2012 by Bowlegs

Last Shop Standing is a forthcoming film about independent record shops across the UK, and how each and every one of them fights for their livelihoods on a daily basis as they attempt to preserve music as a physical format....Read More »

INTERVIEW: SEAMUS MURPHY

Posted on 17 February 2012 by Bowlegs

Seamus Murphy is a photographer who established his reputation with his images from war zones. He was asked by PJ Harvey to work with her on a DVD to accompany her (award-winning) Let England Shake album last year. That DVD...Read More »

INTERVIEW: ALICE COHEN

Posted on 14 February 2012 by Bowlegs

You know when you’re watching an Alice Cohen music video – they’re the ones jammed with a million ideas. It’s a mass of inventive Stop-Motion with images and cut-outs, Cohen creating colour-filled visuals with motion-art and running themes. We’ve been...Read More »

FILM REVIEW: MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE

Posted on 11 February 2012 by Bowlegs

Here we have a movie about deprogramming and manipulation through a cult, or more specifically, a dual narrative simultaneously showing both the joining and the leaving of a Manson Family-esque group living on a farm in the Catskill Mountains of...Read More »

THE MOST EXCITING FILM PROJECTS ON KICKSTARTER RIGHT NOW: VOL 1

Posted on 09 February 2012 by Bowlegs

Since it’s inception, Kickstarter has become a valuable tool for independent filmmakers to get their work funded. In this regular feature we aim to point you towards some of the best films vying for your money on the crowdfunding site....Read More »

FILM REVIEW: CARNAGE

Posted on 04 February 2012 by Bowlegs

It’s easy to see why Roman Polanski wanted to direct an adaptation of the hugely successful French stage play, God of Carnage. Many of the controversial director’s lifelong artistic obsessions are present and correct in both subject and situation. Two...Read More »
Checmical Brothers Feature

INTERVIEW: ADAM SMITH

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Bowlegs

It was always going to be a hard task documenting the full on sensory assault that is a Chemical Brothers live show. But the duo’s long-time visual collaborator, Adam Smith, has done just that, capturing the essence of what it’s...Read More »

FILM REVIEW: THE DESCENDANTS

Posted on 29 January 2012 by Bowlegs

Alexander Payne’s latest directorial offering, The Descendants, is based on the freshman novel of the same name by Hawaiian writer Kaui Hart Hemmings. It’s been receiving rave reviews Stateside, garnering plenty of awards and multiple Oscar nominations. And once again,...Read More »

INTERVIEW: JON SPIRA

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Bowlegs

London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol – these are the places that often spring to mind when talking about the great music hubs of England. But what about Oxford? Over the past 30 years the city has produced bands like Radiohead, Supergrass,...Read More »

FILM REVIEW: TABLOID

Posted on 23 January 2012 by Bowlegs

A tale of mystifying proportions involving a former Miss Wyoming, and the kidnap and false imprisonment of a young Mormon, this documentary by Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) is a slick re-telling of a news story that hogged the...Read More »