See: Parallel Lines - Johnny Hardstaff's Dark Room Short

Dark Room is a sci-fi noir thriller short by Johnny Hardstaff, it one of the five short films from the Parallel Lines project made by Ridley Scott Associates for Philips Cinema

The Parallel Lines project is a unique film project - each of the 5 shorts from burning new talent at RSA represents a different genre but all 5 of the films use the same dialogue: "What is it?", "It's a Unicorn", "Get away, Get away", "Never Seen one so close before" and "I'm sorry". We may have missed a line of dialogue, let us know if you know it.

Fortunatley we will be seeing the 5 shorts this evening in all their big and widescreen glory so I'm fighting the urge to watch the clip below till after - so I comment as yet.

The Parallel Lines shorts have been devised to launch (and demo) Phillip's new range of 21:9 Widescreen Cinema proportion TVs which are also the widest screen TVs available.

Johnny Hardstaff is a director and designer. Represented by Ridley Scott Associates (London) and Little Minx (Los Angeles), Hardstaff has directed and designed innovative moving image work across a broad spectrum of both commercial and non-commercial strands of the visual arts. Mass media clients include Sony, Radiohead, Orange, Toshiba, Sony PlayStation and the BBC amongst others.

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See: Parallel Lines - Johnny Hardstaff's Dark Room Short

When
Two shorts are released today on YouTube and Facebook and the rest will be available from tomorrow at http://www.philips.com/cinema

Kiss Me Deadly Screening + Review Competition

The PCC is screening the noir classic Kiss Me Deadly. Based on a Mickey Spillane pulp fiction. This classic was a source of inspiration for Quentin Tarantino. The scenes in Pulp Fiction of the glow of the contents of the never seen briefcase a direct homage to Kiss Me Deadly.

Kiss Me Deadly promises ‘red-blood kisses’ and ‘white-hot thrills’, a noir classic that has lost none of its power to shock and surprise. Private investigator Mike Hammer, a thuggish, macho anti-hero, is drawn into a bottomless pit of conspiracy and corruption after picking up a mysterious and beautiful hitch-hiker. Exposing the black soul of America in the atomic age, this is as hard-boiled as it gets.

Classic screening of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly directted by Robert Aldrich.

Where
The Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, WC2

When
8:00, Weds 10 Feb, 2010

For more info head over to the Prince Charles Cinema website.

Film students and aspiring film writers are invited to enter the Electric Sheep Magazine film writing competition: write a 200-word review of Kiss Me Deadly and send it to ladyvengeance@electricsheepmagazine.com, marked 'Film writing competition' in the subject line.

Jason Wood, director of programming at Curzon Cinemas, film journalist and author of 100 American Independent Films and 100 Road Movies among others, will select the best review.

The selected review will be published on the Electric Sheep website. This is a regular feature of the Electric Sheep Film Club.

Deadline
Thursday 25 February, 2010