Electric Sheep magazine: Summer 2009

‘Substitute' is the theme of the summer 09 issue of Electric Sheep, with articles on the fraught relationship between Takeshi Kitano and ‘Beat' Takeshi, the various cinematic incarnations of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley, interchanging identities in Joseph Losey's films, the dangers of false impersonation in neo-noir Just Another Love Story, the paradoxes of black and white twins in offbeat lost classic Suture, not to mention cross-dressing criminals, androids and body snatchers. Also in this issue: interview with Marc Caro, reviews of Věra Chytilová's Daisies and Richard Lester's The Bed Sitting Room, profile of whiz-kid animator David OReilly, comic strip review of Hardware, and The Phantom Band's favourite films!

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