People often wonder how I pick the artists to interview about movies for ThisFilmIsON. Well, I mean, they might do. People wonder all kinds of stuff. Who are you to say they don’t? Now that that’s sorted I’m going to tell you. I go through my iTunes and whoever I’m enjoying listening to at the present moment, I send off an e-mail to their management and wait with baited breath. How happy, happy joyous I was to discover then that one half of Peggy Sue (one third if you count the drummer but who counts the drummer eh?!) by the name of Katy Young (see pic left) gone did got herself a degree in American Film.
It’s pure speculation on my part but I’m guessing that she might have a more insightful take on cinema than Bobby George did a couple of weeks back. Still, I wonder how her dart playing is? Incomparable I’d imagine. Whether Katy can throw an arrow or two, one thing is for certain, she’s an excellent musician, singer and judging by these film answers an awesome person to boot.
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To add to our rosta of Musicians, Politicians, Presenters and Actors, who have all taken time to talk to us about movies, we can now add a Sportsman, and you’d better believe that darts is a sport! But Bobby ‘Dazzler‘ George is much more than just a man who chucks a few arrows.
Entertainer, Actor, Labourer, Mathmatician(?!), Mr. George is the definition of an all round talent and certainly not a man that you can judge by his throaty cockney twang and excessive bling. He’s even sang with Diana Ross and Leo Sayer.
He might not talk a great game when it comes to Films but we at thisfilmison could chat to him about anything. Without further ado, Let’s. Play. Darts!!!!
Who are you and what do you do?
I am Bobby ‘Dazzler’ George the king of bling – I play darts/bbc pundit and I am a jack of all trades!
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There are many reasons why we at thisfilmison love Scroobious Pip. Unapologetically the first reason is an aesthetic one. Just look at that lovely, lovely beard, it’s almost hypnotic. Secondly he is an exceptionally fine wordmongerer (smith just sounds insufficient). Thirdly, as the majority of us are white, middle-class males he’s introduced us to music outside of our comfort zone (Mos Def rules!).
But mainly, as you’d expect from a website all about film, we love his moving picture references. Now any Benny can just pick up a line or character from a film and use it willy nilly (we’re looking at you McFly!) but when Mr. Pip starts waxing lyrical about Elwood P. Dowd, James Dean and Spiccoli you know it’s done with love and respect.
How delighted we are then that he’s sat down with us to talk all things film related…
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The sales are over, the ash is abating and we no longer have to turn on the weather forecast prepared to be informed of impending icy doom. All this means one thing; we can start looking forward to the Summer!
Topless chavs playing football in the park, offensively cheap cases of Dutch lager at major supermarkets, barbeques ruined by wasps and salmonella, British Summers have it all, but if there’s one thing we reallly do well it’s festivals. Whether it’s a murky moshpit at Download, a barrel of banality at V or fancy dressed frolic at Bestival we all have our favourites, my personal tipple being an unhealthy dose of weapons grade cider at Glastonbury.
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Do you like air? Not the French pop act famous for soundtracking The Virgin Suicides, but the oxygen, nitrogen, argon mix that goes into your lungs and helpes you live. I do. I think it’s great. I also like trees, clear skies and polar bears. Not that I’ve ever actually met a polar bear but I have no reason to see them homeless, begging for change.
On election day this year you have a choice between a few quid off your National Insurance, a chance to complain about immigration or the opportunity to say that you think that there are people out there who deserve a chance to stand up and say no to the callous way we treat our Earth and everything on it.
Without too much further persuasion to possibly look a few more years ahead on election day here is Adrain Ramsay, Deputy Leader of the Green Party, giving us his favourite film of all time ever…
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Years and years ago I saw a politics joke in, of all places, a film magazine. It goes something like this. At a political debate the main three parties are asked what the capital of France is. The Conservative denies ever going to France, and threatens to sue anybody who links him with anything French. The Labour candidate asks the question back, “The question isn’t what the capital of France is, but what we can do about the capital of France?” Finally the Liberal Democrat candidate is asked. He responds, “Paris. The capital of France is Paris. Hello is anyone listening the answer is Paris?”
Not to endorse any political party at all (Of course we wouldn’t! – Ed) this joke always left me with the frustrated feeling of “But that guys got the answer, listen to him!” Of course we rarely listen to those who have the answer, but, well, perhaps this time. (Sidenote, my main reason for thinking ‘they’ may have the answer is quite simply taking money from very, very rich people to give to people who need it, just sounds like a very nice and necessary thing to do).
Or I may just have been swayed by Lib Dem Candidate Simon Wright’s favourite film of all time ever…
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There’s a common misconception, bandied about by my friends, that if a girl has a fringe and can sing I’ll automatically fall head over heels in love with them. This is not true. Saying that, from the first time I laid eyes on Alessi (nice fringe/great voice) I thought here’s something pretty special.
So special is she that when she requested to talk about two movies, instead of just the usual one, I immediately caved. I’d like to argue that this is because she picked two excellent choices but it’s probably down to her songwriting ability, incredible larynx and yes, choice of hair cut…
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Not content with gracing the cover of NME this week, gearing up to tour and release their second album and take the festival season by storm (Glastonbury, Benicassim, Reading and Leeds all on the agenda) Foals have also found time to talk movies with “your new favourite film website”.
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In the second of our “find people we love and ask them to talk about movies they love” piece its Jeffrey Lewis!
I’ve always heard that the man’s ridiculously approachable and good to fans but wasn’t quite expecting an instant affirmative reply and interview. Cheers Jeff!
Oh yeah, he’s also an awesome song and comic-writer who does a great line in Watchmen analysis. He’s damn funny to boot.
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How do you go about deciding on your favourite film? It’s likely that the first film that comes to mind is something you decided on a while ago and haven’t thought over for a while, or something you watched recently that you remember you enjoyed. Does that make it the one?
And what should be the criteria? When I started thinking about this, I immediately came up with five or six candidates. Then I realised I was trying to ignore the blockbuster (Avatar, Star Wars, Titanic etc), or the traditionally more niche favourites (see Garden State, Eternal Sunshine) to try and show I’d really thought about it and wasn’t picking the obvious.
Then, trying to stop myself doing this I looked at the list of films that sprang to mind. They were all great films, to be sure, but my favourite film of all time? The film I was going to nail my cinematic preferences to the internet mast with. Was I really considering these ones?
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