Simon Ings

“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

Recalling Metropolis at Clapham Picturehouse

Posted on September 16, 2011 by simonings

Thanks to the splendid Pod Delusion, here’s a recording of my conversation with Simon Frantz at CineSci6.

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If it’s Sunday, this must be Metropolis

Posted on September 5, 2011 by simonings

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at Clapham PictureHouse, 76 Venn Street London SW4. I’ll be talking with Simon Frantz after the screening, and with any luck making the case for a film that H G Wells said “gives in one eddying concentration almost every possible foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general served up with a sauce of sentimentality that is all its own.”

0871 902 5727

CineSci6@Clapham Picture House

3pm, Sunday 11 September 2011