This interim test blog is meant to help illustrate a series of innovative rail-themed films, music, digital media, visual arts and live performances etc that support the case for applying new Creative Culture Principles to our 200 year-old passenger railways. This preliminary blog site has been created by Ian Banks, who is presently working as an arts consultant with Design Council for Network Rail.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Film: Somers Town (Eurostar 2008)
The film, Somers Town was released in the UK on the 22nd of August 2008. It was directed by Shane Meadows known for 'This is England'. Somers Town is a British independent comedy-drama film, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. The film stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski. Remarkably, it was entirely funded by the train operating company Eurostar. The film is a study of social environment in the Somers Town area of London, photographed mostly in black and white, except one scene which is in colour. Somers Town is an inner-city district in North West London, influenced by the three mainline north London railway termini of Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross - together with the Midland Railway Somers Town Goods Depot next to St Pancras, where the British Library now stands.
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