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25 years ago, Andrew Lowes wrote a series of satirical interviews with familiar but imagined cinema celebrities for the online indie film magazine Netribution. These were brought to life a few years later by French cartoonist Éric Dubois, with a brilliant set of illustrations, many of which have never been seen.

For the first time, these are brought together in two beautiful and hilarious books for anyone who loves movies. From the diaries of a 6-year-old Stanley Kubrick directing his school nativity and academic to Roger Bland at the BBFC – the pre-smart phone comedy columns transport us briefly back to the last days of a mostly-male, mostly-pale, ego-littered film industry about to be changed forever with the arrival of YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple.
Cartoon of Tobias Blennerhasett
Prof Beth Selamin
    Cover for Carnal Cinema book, similar to the Trainspotting poster. It includes five pencil caricatures behind a large orange block that gives the name of the book. The cartoons are labelled Julia Ribbings, Roberto Benini, Tristan DeShields, Dr Andrew Cousins and Mark Custard.
    Andrew Lowes and Éric Dubois

    Carnal Cinema, the forbidden interviews: Volume One

    A limited edition, hard-back, sewn-bound, full-colour book, and a DRM-free digital download are available. With a forward by Professor Laurence Grove.

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    About

    Andrew Lowes

    Andrew is an award-winning writer/ director who has made the Shetland Islands his home for more than forty years. His black comedy short, “Alternative Therapy” won a Royal Television Regional Student Award, the Tyne Tees Television Script Award and was nominated for a national Royal Television Society Student Award.He has also written short fiction that has appeared in various different publications and fully intends to start that novel any decade now.

    Éric Dubois

    Éric is Professor of Exhibition Design at École Boulle in Paris. He is the curator and designer of several exhibitions in France and in Belgium, dedicated to the comic strip series The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs. He is also Member of the Board of the E. P. Jacobs Foundation in Brussels. His graphic work was presented at the Alliances Françaises in Glasgow and Addis Ababa. He is the artist behind the book Un Air de Métro.

    Netribution

    was founded in 1999 to support independent filmmakers making their way online. Netribution Ltd has had three 8-ish year acts: Publishing (1999-2008); Research (2008-16); and Development (2017-25). During the Publishing act there was Netribution 1 – a weekly web magazine, email and web resource running for 99 issues from 1999-2002; and v2 – an open access rolling publication that published 1000s of articles amidst the growth of web 2.0 in 2006. Netribution’s previous books include Digital Asset Management (2001) for Informa, and Get Your Film Funded (2003/04) with Shooting People.

    The Stirling Maxwell Centre

    Based at Glasgow University, the centre fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/ image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on the Stirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest (the second being Princeton with c. 700 volumes). As it evolves, the research increasingly includes the strong presence of broader aspects of visual culture, including film studies, art criticism, dada and surrealism, and interaction with the performing arts.

    The columns, revisited

    Pencil sketch side profile of a woman with shades, tall poised, the telletubies floating in the background, tattoes, bangles, cropped hair, arched back. She holds her shades
    Tammy-Lynne Anderson-Planderson-O’Connor

    Dr Andrew Cousins investigates the world of streaming services…

    One company that is largely responsible for the streaming revolution is the entertainment behemoth Notflix. It has almost single-handedly revolutionised the way that we consume media content. But is the result movie heaven? Or is it actually development hell? I went to LA to meet Senior Deputy Vice-president of Internal and External Acquisition (Los Angeles), Tammy-Lynne Anderson-Planderson-O’Connor.
    Continued…
    Pencil sketch of Paddy Morgan, curled over a cocktail in a whisky tumbler, further drinks and an ashtray besides him – large collars sticking out over his jacket.
    Paddy Morgan

    Paddy Morgan, last of the hell-raisers

    Oliver Reed, Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole were a breed of actor apart. Prodigiously talented on screen and with extremely tempestuous personal lives off screen. Booze, women and plenty of bust ups featured regularly. It was for that reason they acquired the nickname “the hell-raisers”. But there was one of their number who is less well celebrated, Paddy Morgan. Paddy might not have been a household name today, but his performances in movies such as “Where Stunt Doubles Dare”, “Touch of the Gorgon” and “Swords, Sandals and Slaves” made him much in demand in the sixties and seventies.  Paddy died in 2006 when his third liver finally decided it could cope no longer and literally exploded inside Paddy’s abdomen. Fortunately, Dr Andrew Cousins had just completed an interview with Paddy weeks before his untimely death. Never published until now, Dr Cousins meets the last of the hell-raisers…
    Coming in early 2026

    The Forbidden Interviews: Volume 1

    A strictly limited 200-copy limited edition, sewn-bound, hard-cover print run.

    Andrew Lowes’
    weekly column

    Éric Dubois’s
    cartoons

    A third of income after costs will go to Blood Cancer UK

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    Double page spread 'The Ken Russett Diaries'. "In the 1970's, Ken Russett was the enfant terrible of British Cinema. His brash bold film making style with it's liberal use of screen nudity often incurred the wrath of studios and censors alike."

    “It’s one of the funniest things I’ve read for weeks. In fact it’s become a bit of an email classic at my office.”

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