Comics, Manga & Co. The New Culture Of German Comics showcases the work of two recent generations of artists from the flourishing world of German comics. At the event preview, Dr Chris Murray, programme convenor of the University of Dundee’s MLitt in Comic Studies introduced Anke Feuchtenberger who gave a talk to accompany the exhibition’s Read More
Cold Sea Stories is the latest fictional work from veteran Polish writer Paweł Huelle, and was translated into English from the original Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. As its title suggests, the book is a collection of thematically linked short stories set in the Baltic region: the “cold sea” of the title. Huelle draws upon historical Read More
Jennifer Lynch’s Chained is an impressively directed psychological thriller concerning the relationship between a murderer and rapist known as Bob (Vincent D’Onofrio) and his abductee Rabbit (Eamon Farren). Although the plot follows the conventions of the genre, the overall execution is excellent with thoughtfully arranged mise-en-scène and great performances from both leads. The opening sequence, Read More
A huge commercial success in America, young director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film Beasts of the Southern Wild was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for drama at Sundance and the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. Adapted by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious, the film follows the story of Read More
Emerging from a multi-award-winning short from 2008, writer and director Richard Bates Jr.’s debut feature length film Excision is a work of brilliance. Ostensibly, the film is a high school comedy/drama which follows the story of eighteen-year old Pauline, played exquisitely by AnnaLynne McCord. Pauline is a bright, ambitious and sexually curious young woman who Read More
Dundee Rep’s production of Whisky Galore is set in the days of Received Pronunciation and the BBC radio play. We meet the actors of the ‘Armchair Theatre Company’ studio in Edinburgh 1940s who portray the colourful inhabitants of the fictitious Hebridean Islands of Greater and Little Todday. Largely unaffected by wartime rationing, the Todday islanders Read More
The Scottish Ensemble’s four-day residency in Dundee ended with the a concert featuring tenor Thomas Walker and a series of projections by video artist Netia Jones. Members of the Caird Hall audience were treated to an impromptu pop-up performance as a curtain- raiser. Starting from the rear of the hall, before moving onto the stage, Read More
Frankenweenie is immediately recognisable as a Tim Burton film. Its eerie stop-motion animation and its use of Danny Elfman’s vivid, sorrowful music is in line with Burton’s best and most representative work. The film tells the tale of a young boy and a reclusive genius who is fascinated by science, Victor Frankenstein, whose only friend Read More
F. W. Murnau’s 1926 Faust is a powerful example of German expressionist black and white film. Faust uses earlier folk tales and Goethe’s original tale as a basis for its own plot. The story is one of a man selling his soul to devil, and the repercussions of this bargain. At the DCA screening, a Read More
“There is no fairy tale”, Lady Runcie-Campbell warns her son as she admonishes him for showing compassion to two men working on their highland estate in 1943. The truth is apparent at the start of this Aberdeen Performing Arts production of The Cone Gatherers, based on Robin Jenkin’s 1950s novel. Lady Runcie-Campbell’s shattered nerves, her Read More