Jeanie Finlay

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Low Culture Podcast: Jeanie Finlay On Lola Montes

It's a cinematic Low Culture podcast this month as Jeanie Finlay speaks to us about Max Ophüls' 1955 film Lola Montes

Rave In The Cave: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed By Jeanie Finlay

With the debut album by JARV IS... out next month, Jarvis Cocker speaks to Jeanie Finlay about his new project, why prehistoric cave dwellers were the world's first ravers, and why he's uncomfortable being called a 'National Treasure'

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Love Floods In: Jeanie Finlay’s Seahorse

Jeanie Finlay's latest documentary focusing on a 30-year-old transgender man who wants to have a baby finds light in the journey, finds Katie Goh

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The Grit Under The Glitter: Jeanie Finlay Interviewed

John Doran talks to Jeanie Finlay about Orion, her new film about an Elvis soundalike, and how being an outsider helps

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Jailhouse Mock – Orion: The Man Who Would Be King Reviewed

Lisa Jenkins reviews the latest fantastic documentary feature from Jeanie Finlay, director of Sound It Out and The Great Hip Hop Hoax. ****CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS****

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“Shy People Telling Small Stories, Quietly”: Jeanie Finlay’s Favourite Films

Jeanie Finlay, director of Sound It Out and The Great Hip Hop Hoax picks her favourite films, and talks about the final days of fundraising on her next documentary, Orion

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Talking A Load Of Rap: Jeanie Finlay Talks The Great Hip Hop Hoax

Documentary director Jeanie Finlay talks to Colm McAuliffe about her upcoming film The Great Hip Hop Hoax and discusses her choices of movies showing at Nottingham's Broadway Cinema in September

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Remembering Tom Butchart Of Sound It Out Records

Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay and John Doran pay tribute to the well-loved record shop owner and star of the film Sound It Out who died recently

Free Screening Of Orion Tonight At RTE

WATCH: Orion Film Trailer

Film charts the extraordinary rise and and fall of masked singer Orion uncovering the birth of the "Elvis is Alive" myth; watch the trailer and check out the film's poster below

Jeanie Finlay Set To Air New Documentary

Panto! will be broadcast on BBC Four December 22

Help The Orion Doc: Name A Star!

The director of Sound It Out and The Great Hip Hop Hoax is back...

TONIGHT: Hip Hop Hoax At Rough Trade

Screening set to be followed by director Jeanie Finlay and star Gavin Bain in conversation with tQ's John Doran

Great Hip Hop Hoax Showing This Month

Director Jeanie Finlay will be in conversation with tQ editor John Doran in London next Friday

WATCH: The Great Hip Hop Hoax Trailer

Sound It Out director's new film set for premiere at South By Southwest

More Than Music: Record Shop Memories

Director of Sound It Out Jeanie Finlay launches online project to gather together memories and stories about record shops

Record Store Day Doc Sound It Out UK Tour

The makers of Sound It Out, a film about Stockton's last remaining record shop, are searching for crowdsourcing to help fund a UK tour for the film

Previously Read

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All Loud on the Eastern Front: Peckinpah’s Cross of Iron Revisited

Optimum have granted Sam Peckinpah’s Eastern Front opus Cross of Iron a long overdue HD facelift. Andrew Stimpson examines this overlooked masterpiece from the troubled and controversial rabble-rouser.

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A French Film And Proud: Gaspar Noé Reaches Climax

The new new film by Gaspar Noé calls itself a "French film and proud". But what does that mean?

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Dangerous Liaisons: The Legacy Of ‘Dressed To Kill’ At 40

Brian De Palma's erotic thriller Dressed To Kill shocked and entertained in 1980, but its legacy 40 years later feels knotty, one of dangerous influence and still alluring appeal. Steve Erickson investigates

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There’s Something About Stanley: Kubrick’s Strange Science Of Obsession

Jasun Horsley examines the impulses that drive Kubrick's formidable oeuvre and asks what it all means to his legion of obsessive fans

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Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit

As Steven Soderbergh and Baz Luhrmann consider their retirement from feature films, Tristan Bath argues that it's time for a few veteran Hollywood directors to be put out to pasture

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Goose Fare: Only God Forgives Reviewed

Patrick Smith picks a fight with Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's follow up to the acclaimed Drive

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Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

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You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

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Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

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Notes On Anti-Fascism And Frivolity In Raiders Of The Lost Ark At 40

In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

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Caravan Of Hate: Sightseers Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys Ben Wheatley's murderous holiday comedy, which goes on nationwide theatrical release this Friday

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Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

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Articles 7

Low Culture Podcast: Jeanie Finlay On Lola Montes

Rave In The Cave: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed By Jeanie Finlay

Love Floods In: Jeanie Finlay’s Seahorse

The Grit Under The Glitter: Jeanie Finlay Interviewed

Jailhouse Mock – Orion: The Man Who Would Be King Reviewed

“Shy People Telling Small Stories, Quietly”: Jeanie Finlay’s Favourite Films

Talking A Load Of Rap: Jeanie Finlay Talks The Great Hip Hop Hoax

News 10

Remembering Tom Butchart Of Sound It Out Records

Free Screening Of Orion Tonight At RTE

WATCH: Orion Film Trailer

Jeanie Finlay Set To Air New Documentary

Help The Orion Doc: Name A Star!

TONIGHT: Hip Hop Hoax At Rough Trade

Great Hip Hop Hoax Showing This Month

WATCH: The Great Hip Hop Hoax Trailer

More Than Music: Record Shop Memories

Record Store Day Doc Sound It Out UK Tour

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