“I can’t destroy you today lads. I’m on very serious business.”
Congratulations to the mighty Shane Meadows, whose latest film Somers Town has won the Michael Powell Award for “Best British Feature Film” at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Singling the work out for the £20,000 award, the jury celebrated the film “as the freshest, most imaginative, maverick work.”
Paris is Burning III
Lacan’s concept that words generate meanings which are beyond the understanding of those who use them, causing a chasm between what you want to say and mean to say hence the misunderstandings and apologies of daily life, is perfect for now. The desire-based consumerism and jargon-based governments of our age are becoming ever more soul-destroying, lacking integrity and genuine human connection.
Georgia de Chamberet‘s Parisian column returns.
On Comics and Commerce
I had no doubt that I was, in part, displaying the first classic symptoms of a midlife crisis. Fooling myself into thinking that by buying up old stapled together pieces of folded coloured paper, I could recapture lost youth. I was regressing, doping myself on nostalgia, taking refuge in the illusory certainties of the past. After all, don’t they say collectors are often the kind of people who do so precisely in order to cover up hidden anxieties and insecurities?
Mark Czanik reflects on his favourite comics store.