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celluloid wicker man reviews essays and analysis of film and art by adam scovell skip to content celluloid wicker man reviews essays and analysis of film and art by adam scovell primary menu about contact in print my own films other writing work portfolio shop search search for film folk horror landscape literature television uncategorized 2025 review as tradition dictates the following is a round up of all the year s viewing reading and working 2025 has been a somewhat tricky year and i ve decided to not be quite so exhaustive in writing up the detail of my viewing in particular not least because the quality of films has been somewhat lower than previous years juggling the requirements of my work with a few continue reading 2025 review adamscovell december 21 2025 december 22 2025 3 comments film landscape literature psychogeography short film uncategorized trailer j g ballard s crash thames television 1974 around eight years ago i made my first fake trailer partly in response to ben wheatley s and amy jump s adaptation of j g ballard s high rise which i felt somewhat missed the mark i edited together a what if trailer for the book if it had been adapted for bbc television in 1975 the responses to it along with those to a follow up trailer looking at continue reading trailer j g ballard s crash thames television 1974 adamscovell october 24 2025 december 5 2025 1 comment film television uncategorized the kaleidoscopic past of the counter culture years by the time i was growing up in the 1990s the previous decades of the post war years had been heavily codified the 1950s were very much the 1950s the 1970s were very much the 1970s and even the 1980s the decade i was born in the last year of were very much the 1980s the bbc in particular milked this realisation for all continue reading the kaleidoscopic past of the counter culture years adamscovell september 6 2025 december 5 2025 2 comments television uncategorized hartnell greys tl dr i love rubbish first doctor stories i was on a car journey earlier this year heading to midlands with mark gatiss jon dear and chris lincé it was painfully early and we were on our way to hunt out some of the locations used in lawrence gordon clark s bbc ghost story for christmas the signalman 1977 the conversation covered exactly what you d have continue reading hartnell greys adamscovell june 10 2025 leave a comment art film folk horror landscape literature psychogeography television uncategorized local haunts influx press 2025 local haunts was released at the end of march by influx press and has been on sale for around two months at the time of writing i ve resisted talking more about it on here so far largely because i wanted to see what the general reaction was rather than pre empting it thankfully after having done a number of events in which the response has been continue reading local haunts influx press 2025 adamscovell may 26 2025 may 29 2025 3 comments art landscape literature presence presence or polaroid ghosts part 17 part 16 andy warhol was far ahead of his time in both the deathliness of his polaroid portraits and in his use of the camera as a kitsch object other photographers found potential in similar polaroid deathliness but without such kitsch elements at play walker evans in particular found a new dimension added to his own style of portraiture when he used the polaroid rather continue reading presence or polaroid ghosts part 17 adamscovell february 21 2025 1 comment art literature presence uncategorized presence or polaroid ghosts part 16 part 15 we are the goon squad and we re coming to town when david bowie died in 2016 it felt for a moment like someone had removed a piece of my spine the feeling was a mixture of frustration at having only fully appreciated the musician s work later in life and worry at having relied on his work to get me through my own on continue reading presence or polaroid ghosts part 16 adamscovell january 18 2025 february 21 2025 2 comments art film landscape literature television uncategorized 2024 review welcome to this year s end of year review my usual long winded run down of my excessive viewing and reading habits it s been an exhausting but rewarding year of films television and books and the sheer length of this post should evidence that one interesting thing to note is how much happier i feel having virtually ignored the majority of post 2010s culture such a decision was not continue reading 2024 review adamscovell december 20 2024 leave a comment art landscape literature presence psychogeography uncategorized presence or polaroid ghosts part 15 part 14 my second memory concerning a polaroid photo appearing in pop culture was one taken by a maniac this maniac had hitched a ride from some naïve teenagers in the sweltering outback of texas and was freaking them out with his variety of macabre hobbies he d just visited the local slaughterhouse before they picked him up he didn t work there he just liked it continue reading presence or polaroid ghosts part 15 adamscovell december 8 2024 january 18 2025 2 comments art film literature presence uncategorized presence or polaroid ghosts part 14 part 13 easy riders cops and maniacs a man is stood in a pool hall he s surveying the green baize landscape as he drinks should he bother with the game anymore the light has a medicinal quality emanating with an annoying buzz from a long halogen strip above the table proudly advertising canada dry ginger beer it could be a lonely portrait by walker evans continue reading presence or polaroid ghosts part 14 adamscovell november 23 2024 december 17 2024 1 comment posts navigation older posts sidebar search for recent posts 2025 review trailer j g ballard s crash thames television 1974 the kaleidoscopic past of the counter culture years hartnell greys local haunts influx press 2025 enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 1 344 other 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