On a small Danish island at a big Danish festival, Declan Tan realises the value of moshing and the horror of bants. Photo by Krists Luhaers.
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London Film Festival 2015 #4 // Flaunt
Our continued coverage of the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival
London Film Festival 2015 #3 // Flaunt
Interview: Rick Alverson, director of Entertainment (2015)
London Film Festival 2015 #2 // Flaunt
The London Film Festival kicks off with Suffragette
London Film Festival 2015 #1 // Flaunt
Flaunt ramps up in preparation for the British Film Institute’s 59th London Film Festival
Family Business: The Secret Recipe of the Blue Plaques // Huck
For Huck magazine // 22 Oct 2015
Directed by Cat McShane
Produced by Isabel Freeman, Andrea Kurland, Declan Tan
Jamie xx interview // Flaunt
Softly spoken South Londoner Jamie Smith, aka Jamie xx, sits hands in black jacket, ankles crossed. We shake hands on the sun’s flood through the top window at XL’s HQ—it’s an unusually bright day in West London as Smith’s busy winter turns brightly toward an even busier spring, both for his band, The xx, and his solo work. Smith looks and sounds a little fatigued—he’s just finished his first solo LP; he’s working on a ballet; and he’s about to head over to BBC Radio 1 to lay down a session. There’s still a giddiness beneath the surface, though—and I suspect Smith would much rather be making music than talking about making it. And he doesn’t look the type to nap.
On Trial: Racial Profiling in Europe
First published on The Huffington Post (23rd July 2013) //
In March last year, the German administrative court in Koblenz deemed it legal to carry out identity checks based on an individual’s skin colour alone.
Tao Lin, ‘Taipei’
First published on The Quietus (17th March 2013) //
Declan Tan finds himself caught in the whirlwind of this latest offering from, perhaps, one of the most unique literary voices of a generation
Malcolm X (1992) Reassessed
First published on The Quietus (November 21st 2012) //
Declan Tan turns the cinematic clock back two decades for another look at Spike Lee’s epic portrait of an African-American icon
On its release in November 1992, the long-awaited biopic of Malcolm X topped out at number three in the US box office, right behind the sequel of a certain stranded little rich kid (this time in New York) and the peculiar misadventures of a vampire. It seems things in the film world haven’t advanced that much in those past twenty years – instead, studios seem merely to have consolidated these two concepts and produced, well, Twilight, as is my understanding.
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