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My feature film When the Sun Stands Still is now available on streaming.
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James Newton
@JamesEdNewton
Academic and filmmaker. Director of KATERNICA and When the Sun Stands Still. Author of The Mad Max Effect and The Anarchist Cinema. Wolves STH.
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I’m on this podcast talking about out my film When the Sun Stands Still.
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POD 366, EP. 193: WHEN THE SUN STANDS STILL FOR JAMES NEWTON 366weirdmovies.com/pod-366-ep-193… via @366weirdmovies
366weirdmovies.com POD 366, EP. 193: WHEN THE SUN STANDS STILL FOR JAMES NEWTON 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. Audio link (Spotify) YouTube link Discussed in this episode: When the Sun Stands Still (2024): When Kenneth’s … Absolutely.
I think a lot about this scene in 24 Hour Party People where a homeless guy talks about Boethius and the Wheel of Fortune; it's contrived for the film, I know, but it represents something lost now; the strand of working-class intellectualism, where poor men were proud of going to the library and learning for learning's sake, Rita studying her bewks, Plays For Today, a time when references to ancient philosophy could be freely inserted into popular media without commissioners quashing them under the patronising assumption that 'ordinary people might not get it'; instead of the crab-mentality false consciousness instilled during the 00s and 10s - the Shameless On C4, Benefits Britain, Footie And Love Island Middle Aisle of B&M coding - where intellectual aspirations are seen as stupid and unbefitting of one's caste. Mutabiliteh is are Tragedeh but it's also are Ope.View quoted post on X
I’m directing this play in London in March.
My Zinc Bed (October 2026 rehearsal 1) youtu.be/8nlbuHxzXY8?is… via @YouTube
My Zinc Bed (October 2026 rehearsal 1) youtu.be/8nlbuHxzXY8?is… via @YouTube
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