This week on Film weekly, Paul MacInnes looks at the crossover between music videos and their feature-length counterparts on the big screen.
Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer and ... ahem ... McG all started off directing promos for bands before stretching out to feature films, and Paul's studio guest Garth Jennings, half of pioneering video production company Hammer and Tongs, made the leap with The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy a few years ago. He now seems ready to hone his craft further with Son Of Rambow. We also get round the table with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, editor of The Observer Music Monthly, to talk pop stars, film stars and strap-on helmet cameras.
There's a report from Austin, Texas on the South by Southwest festival, otherwise known as SXSW, which started life as a music industry showcase (and ligging highlight of the year) and has since come to include a formidable film festival, catapulting Knocked Up into public consciousness last year. Steve Rose hits the BBQs to find out if 'Mumblecore' really exists.
Elsewhere in the show, Xan Brooks talks with Danny Huston about the perils of playing an iconic figure, as he fills the sizable shoes of Orson Welles in the new biopic Fade To Black, Killian Fox joins Paul to review the week's films, and we interview Reece Shearsmith about British comedy/horror film The Cottage.
