We are pleased to announce this week The Beat Is The Law – Fanfare For The Common People has been chosen as one of the best music films/DVDs of 2011 by both UNCUT magazine (NO.4) and the NME (No.6). This tops a great year for the film which has picked up some superb critical acclaim.
You can still order the DVD from our Sheffield Vision online shop in time for Christmas (last postal delivery Western Europe – Monday 12th Dec, UK – Wednesday 14th Dec).
Otherwise if you are in the UK and are doing your last minute Xmas shopping, the DVD is available in the following shops: Sheffield:
- Rare and Racy, Division Street
- Record Collector, Broomhill
- The Sheffield Music Shop, Ecclesall Road
- The Old Sweet Shop, Nether Edge
- HMV, Meadowhall and High Street Manchester:
- Magma London:
- Rough Trade East
- Magma
Interviewed at the Leeds International Film Festival screening of The Beat Is The Law, Candida Doyle talks about the film, Pulp, Margaret Thatcher’s 80′s and the future of music.
After the screening she did a great Q and A with the film’s director, Eve Wood. As Candida said herself, she doesn’t get much opportunity to talk, its usually the men.
The screening was a great event in such a grand setting of the Leeds Town Hall. To see the film projected onto such a massive screen and hear the sound coming back at you on such a scale was amazing. A truly memorable night for us as filmmakers. Big thanks to the festival and of course Candida.
Here’s a clip of Fox 9 News in Minneapolis covering the Sound Unseen Music and Film Festival. Half way through the reporter discusses The Beat Is The Law with the festival organiser.
Its interesting because despite the film being about Pulp, she really likes the socio-political aspect of the film and ends with a shot of a guy collecting money for the miners to keep them off the dole. Its a bit surreal to see Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News showing derelict steel factories, police and protesters protesting about the oppressive regime of The Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher, being beamed to homes across what is a large population in Minneapolis at breakfast time!
The film is screening tonight at 9pm, Trylon Cinema, Sound Unseen
