#Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021), dir. Celeste Bell & Paul Sng  

[cosmicanger]

Jan Gatewood

I am a cliché you’ve seen before. Thank you Poly Styrene, 2023

graphite, coloured pencil, glue, salt, fabric dye, bleach, oil pastel, & oil stick on paper, framed

[sexpistolsarchive]

John and Sid being complete dicks to the adorable miss Poly Styrene.

From the movie ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ (2021) dir. Paul Sng and Celeste Bell.

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7/26

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (DVD & Blu Ray) Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands The Duke Hellbender The Lost City Pleasure (Blu Ray only) Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché (Blu Ray only) Returner Stay Prayed Up Superior (Blu Ray only) Unpregnant

[gotankgo]

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche

official trailer

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[groovytimes]

Inspiring and heartbreaking, the story of the punk legend Poly Styrene told through her daughter. A must-watch.

[gayrudeboy]

i really wanted to like that poly styrene documentary but it was not shot/paced very well, and it was weird that the only face they showed aside from old footage was her daughter, esp when they were trying to have a nuanced discussion about race and shes so very white passing. like no ill will towards the daughter there its not her fault she looks white it just struck me as an odd editing decision

[andreahz08]

2/2/2022

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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021), dir. Celeste Bell & Paul Sng  

[soundsof71]

X-ray Spex’s Poly Styrene by Gus Stewart, from a fantastic NYT profile on a new documentary about her, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, co-directed by her daughter Celeste Bell. Poly Styrene was as punk as it gets, and so far ahead of her time that we still haven’t finished learning her lessons. Highly recommended, to say the least.

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42nd London Film Critics’ Circle Awards — Winners

FILM OF THE YEAR Belfast Drive My Car Dune Licorice Pizza The Lost Daughter Memoria The Power of the Dog — WINNER The Souvenir Part II Titane West Side Story

ACTRESS OF THE YEAR Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter — WINNER Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World Joanna Scanlan – After Love Kristen Stewart – Spencer

ACTOR OF THE YEAR Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog — WINNER Adam Driver – Annette Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom! Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter Ariana DeBose – West Side Story Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog Rita Moreno – West Side Story Ruth Negga – Passing — WINNER

SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR Richard Ayoade – The Souvenir Part II Ciarán Hinds – Belfast Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog — WINNER Jeffrey Wright – The French Dispatch

BRITISH/IRISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR (for body of work) Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter/Mothering Sunday/Ron’s Gone Wrong/The Mitchells vs The Machines/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Ruth Negga – Passing/Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Joanna Scanlan – After Love Tilda Swinton – Memoria/The Souvenir Part II/The French Dispatch — WINNER

BRITISH/IRISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR (for body of work) Riz Ahmed – Encounter Adeel Akhtar – Ali & Ava/The Nest/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog/The Electrical Life of Louis Wain/The Courier Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom!/The Eyes of Tammy Faye/Mainstream — WINNER Stephen Graham – Boiling Point/Venom: Let There Be Carnage

BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR (Attenborough Award) After Love Belfast The Green Knight Limbo The Souvenir Part II — WINNER

DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog — WINNER Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car Joanna Hogg – The Souvenir Part II Céline Sciamma – Petite Maman Denis Villeneuve – Dune

SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car — WINNER

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR Drive My Car — WINNER The Hand of God Petite Maman Titane The Worst Person in the World

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR Flee Gunda The Most Beautiful Boy in the World Summer of Soul — WINNER The Velvet Underground

BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER (Philip French Award) Prano Bailey-Bond – Censor Rebecca Hall – Passing — WINNER Aleem Khan – After Love Marley Morrison – Sweetheart Ben Sharrock – Limbo

YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER Max Harwood – Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Jude Hill – Belfast Emilia Jones – Coda Daniel Lamont – Nowhere Special Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon — WINNER

BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM Diseased and Disorderly – dir. Andrew Kotting Expensive Shit – dir. Adura Onashile Know the Grass – dir. Sophie Littman Play It Safe – dir. Mitch Kalisa — WINNER Precious Hair & Beauty – dir. John Ogunmuyiwa

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Cruella – Jenny Beavan, costumes Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer, visual effects — WINNER Flee – Kenneth Ladekjær, animation The French Dispatch – Adam Stockhausen, production design The Green Knight – Andrew Droz Palermo, cinematography The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão – Hélène Louvart, cinematography Martin Eden – Fabrizio Federico and Aline Hervé, film editing No Time to Die – Olivier Schneider, stunts The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood, music West Side Story – Justin Peck, choreography

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Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché - Official Trailer - Available to Watch 5 March

This trailer for a documentary on X-Ray Spex front woman Poly Styrene looks very good, i am looking forward to watching this on sky arts this coming Saturday. This documentray film has been directed by her daughter Celeste Bell and filmmaker Paul Sng. The film also features interviews with Thurston Moore, Kathleen Hanna, Vivienne Westwood, Neneh Cherry, and many more.

[gotankgo]

I usually ignore messages from my my alma mater on the computer or snail mail but this ongoing free film series keeps getting my attention with consistently interesting programming. Haven’t been out to see a movie for several years, this Poly Styrene documentary would make for a worthy return if they’ve re-opened the theater

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GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL - from home - launches today !

We would have loved to go to Scotland for the first time and enjoy the Glasgow Film festival but this year is different and it will be a home online festival. From the 24th of February to the 7th of March, Glasgow is coming into our home with a vibrant and amazing line-up.

The GFF will host 7 World premieres, 2 European premieres, 50 UK premieres online. World premieres include Anthony Baxter’s Eye of the Storm and an exploration of the life of punk rock’s least conventional front person Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché. World premiere of Creation Stories written by Irvine Welsh and starring Ewen Bremner leads a programme filled with strong Scottish stories.

The festival will open on Wednesday 24 February with Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical drama following a Korean-American family Minari, starring The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun, and close on Sunday 7 March with Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature Spring Blossom, a coming-of-age tale set against a dreamy Parisian backdrop.

Scottish highlights include:

Eye of the Storm - Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter (Flint, GFF 2020), which follows one of Scotland’s most gifted painters, James Morrison, through the last two years of his life. 

Creation Stories - Written by Irvine Welsh and starring GFF favourite Ewen Bremner, Creation Stories charts the rise of the infamous founder of Creation Records, Alan McGee. Directed by Nick Moran, the incredible cast includes Jason Isaacs, Suki Waterhouse and Rebecca Root. Creation Stories will be available on Sky Cinema from March 20. 

Limbo - critically adored British debut feature from Scottish director Ben Sharrock and the first feature film to ever shoot in Uist –  a deadpan comedy-drama following a Syrian refugee (Amir El-Masry) who finds himself in a refugee centre on a remote Scottish island

World and European Premieres including:

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché brings to screen the life of ‘one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history’: Poly Styrene, founder of acclaimed punk band X-Ray Spex, co-directed by her daughter, Celeste Bell, and Paul Sng. 

Handsome - Luke White’s documentary, Nicholas Bourne and his brother Alex set off on a journey to meet other siblings with Down’s Syndrome, as Nicholas prepares to become Alex’s full-time, dedicated carer. 

Sweetheart - Marley Morrison’s knockout debut feature charts the relationship between two young women during a summer holiday; 

A Brixton Tale - Darragh Carey and Bertrand Desrochers debut is a star-crossed romance confronting class, race and love in modern Britain

49 UK premieres including those titles:

The Mauritanian, directed by Kevin Macdonald and based on the best-selling memoir by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, which tells the story of Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim), who was held for years in Guantanamo Bay. Jodie Foster takes on Benedict Cumberbatch in this true-life courtroom drama. 

The Toll, welsh thriller starring Michael Smiley as a contented toll booth operator whose past shows up to haunt him. The cast also includes Annes Elwy and Iwan Rheon. 

Surge - Set over 24 hours in London, Aneil Karia’s stripped-back thriller sees Ben Wishaw give a standout performance that won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at Sundance Film Festival. 

Black Bear - Lawrence Michael Levine’s psychosexual drama, a darkly comic tale starring Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon and Christopher Abbott. 

Riders of Justice - from Anders Thomas Jensen starring Mads Mikkelsen as a military vet set on a path of revenge. 

Gagarine is a beguiling debut from directors Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh set in a Parisian housing estate earmarked for demolition. 

Rosa’s Wedding -  from Icíar Bollaín,  is the feel-good comedy about becoming the most important person in your own life, even if that means marrying yourself. 

Apples is the haunting debut feature from Greek director Christos Nikou, set during a mysterious pandemic which causes sudden amnesia. 

Cowboys - Anna Kerrigan’s debut feature which won Best Screenplay and Best Actor in US Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival, stars Steve Zahn as a father on a camping trip with his transgender son Joe (Sasha Knight).

This year, The GFF turn their popular Country Focus to South Korea, with five incredible UK premieres, including:

Our Midnight, debut feature from director Jung-eun Lim. 

Voices of Silence -  from Eui-jeong Hong’s  is a bittersweet crime caper about good people who do bad things, with an award-winning performance from Burning’s Yoo Ah-In. 

The Swordsman, from director Jae-Hoon Choi, blends epic fight scenes and heartfelt drama in a tale of skilled swordsman brought out of a life of hiding and seclusion for one last battle. 

Da Capo - from Chan-yang Shim - a struggling musician returns to his hometown and rediscovers his passion for music while helping a former bandmate coach a rock band made up by her music school pupils. 

The Man Standing Next from director Min-ho Woo -  South Korea’s 2021 Oscar candidate - a tense conspiracy thriller set in the final days of President Park Chung-hee’s (Sung-min Lee) rule in 1979. Korean intelligence chief Kim Gyu-pyeong (Byung-hun Lee) has sworn to serve, but his loyalty is tested to the limit in a key moment for South Korea’s history.

There are still tickets available for all these titles. Feel free to have a look at the whole programme on their website and enjoy Scotland in your home. Next year, we’ll definitely go to Glasgow !