ScreenTalks Archive
204 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWelcome to the Barbican's ScreenTalks Archive where we dust off the tapes and release rarely heard recordings of live conversations with some of the world's leading filmmakers and film fans from across the decades. We curate conversations with important voices in the cinema industry and beyond, to learn more about the film and unpack the issues it raises. See upcoming ScreenTalk events at the Barbican: https://www.barbican.org.uk/screentalks
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ScreenTalks Archive: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
December 24, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 307 MBFor our final ScreenTalk of Season 2, we’re talking with the gregarious Richard E Grant and his role in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, for which he received his first (very deserved) Academy Award nomination. Speaking with host Edith Bowman, Grant discusses his role as Jack Hock: an alcoholic charmer with some withering one-liners, who helps sometimes friend Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) forge letters from famous authors. Grant discusses the inspiration for the role, working with McCarthy and d...
ScreenTalks Archive: Disobedience
December 17, 2021 15:03 - 38 minutes - 429 MBThis week, we’re speaking not to a director, or an actor, but an author: Naomi Alderman, who discusses the film adaptation of her first novel, Disobedience. Set in the Orthodox Jewish world, the film focuses on Ronit (Rachel Weisz), who revisits her community after the death of her Rabbi father, and develops an intense connection with Esti (Rachel McAdams), who is married to Rabbi, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola). Naomi Alderman discusses the themes of the film, and her novel – community, faith,...
ScreenTalks Archive: Cunningham
December 10, 2021 12:07 - 30 minutes - 339 MBThis week, New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, dancer and choreographer, Dame Siobhan Davies, Radiohead drummer and musician Philip Selway, and director Alla Kovgan chat about Kovgan’s amazing 3D documentary, Cunningham. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. ...
ScreenTalks Archive: Shooting The Mafia
December 03, 2021 12:27 - 34 minutes - 386 MBThis week, documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto speaks to journalist Laurence Topham about her 2019 film Shooting the Mafia. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ScreenTalks Archive: Mati Diop on Atlantics
November 26, 2021 02:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week, writer, director and artist Mati Diop speaks to poet Be Manzini about her debut feature film, Atlantics. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ScreenTalks Archive: Captain Marvel - Will Women Save The Day?
November 19, 2021 02:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWe switch it up for this week's episode and revisit a panel discussion on female superheroes, which celebrated the release of Captain Marvel in March 2019. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ScreenTalks Archive: Levin Akin on And Then We Danced
November 12, 2021 02:25 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBDancer turned actor and director Levin Akin discusses the stories and meaning behind the critically-acclaimed Georgian drama, And Then We Danced. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ScreenTalks Archive: Roberto Minervini on What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?
November 05, 2021 02:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis week, a must-listen to anyone interested in documentary filmmaking as director Roberto Minervini discusses his striking 2018 feature, What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
ScreenTalks Archive: Armando Iannuci on The Personal History of David Copperfield
October 29, 2021 01:00 - 29 minutes - 54.5 MBDirector Armando Iannucci and producer Kevin Loader are in conversation with Catherine Bray to discuss their superb adaptation of every wise person’s favourite Dickens – David Copperfield. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
ScreenTalks Archive: Josephine Decker on Madeline's Madeline
October 22, 2021 01:38 - 29 minutes - 54.3 MBIn this episode, writer-director Josephine Decker and cinematographer, Ashley Connor, discuss the triumphant experimental cinema of 2018’s Madeline’s Madeline. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ScreenTalks Archive: Waad and Hamza al-Kataeb on For Sama
October 15, 2021 01:00 - 28 minutes - 51.3 MBIn this episode of our ScreenTalks Archive, we revisit a powerful conversation exploring 'For Sama's' intimate and epic journey into the war in Syria with directors Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find your podcasts. H...
ScreenTalks Archive: Heather Lenz on Kusama-Infinity
October 08, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutes - 50.8 MBBarbican ScreenTalks Archive is back for a second series. We’re delving into our vast archive to dig out the liveliest conversations from across the decades. First up, documentary filmmaker Heather Lenz discusses 'Kusama-Infinity' with Zing Tseng. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you find y...
In Fabric/Peter Strickland
June 26, 2019 23:00 - 14 minutes - 20 MBBritish auteur Peter Strickland joins us to discuss his new strange tale about a haunted red dress. He tells us how he was inspired by charity shops, how he realised there was a comic thread running through the story, Marianne Jean Baptiste’s ‘elevated’ performance and the peculiar foibles of living in England. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
High Life/Claire Denis
May 12, 2019 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MBWe catch up with the inimitable Claire Denis on the release of her new sci-fi – and first English language – feature, to discuss why no-one is ever really innocent, which classic sci-fi films she was (and wasn’t) inspired by, and why there aren’t ever villains in her films. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Science on Screen: Whiplash / Professor Elaine Chew
May 01, 2019 01:00 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBWhat does our heartbeat have to do with Damian Chazelle’s film Whiplash? We speak with Professor Elaine Chew, to better understand how music and rhythm allows us to study heartbeats, why music moves us and the influence of our internal rhythm. Presented in partnership with the London Mathematical Laboratory For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Yuli / Paul Laverty
April 03, 2019 01:00 - 20 minutes - 37.2 MBAhead of the release of the new film on ballet dancer Carlos Acosta, we talk with the I, Daniel Blake screenwriter Paul Laverty about why traditional biographies are boring, the remarkable vitality of Cuba, how he used his own experience to inform Acosta’s story, working across cultures, and the most important thing he learnt from filmmaker Ken Loach. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Ralph Fiennes and Oleg Iveko / The White Crow
March 20, 2019 02:00 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBWe sit down with Ralph Fiennes, who acts, directs and produces this new film about legendary Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev and star of the film, ballet dancer-turned-actor Oleg Ivenko to discuss the artists’ vocation, how Nureyev’s defection was personal rather than political and why Fiennes had to fight to cast the dancer he wanted. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Young Programmer Yassmine Betioui & Joshua Magor / We Are Thankful
February 20, 2019 03:05 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBOne of the Young Programmers curating this year’s Chronic Youth Film Festival, guest host Yassmine Betioui speaks with We Are Thankful director Joshua Magor about his unique docu-drama charting Joshua’s encounter with a young aspiring actor. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Regina King / If Beale Street Could Talk
February 13, 2019 02:00 - 13 minutes - 19 MBWe speak to Regina King about her Oscar-nominated role in Barry Jenkins's sumptuous adaptation of James Baldwin's novel of love and prejudice in 1970s New York. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Nadine Labaki / Capernaum
February 11, 2019 00:00 - 15 minutes - 20.6 MBWe talk with Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, the only female director nominated at this year’s Oscars, about her Best Foreign Language Film-nominated Capernaum, a deeply human story of a boy who is suing his parents for bringing him into a poverty-stricken life of suffering. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Richard E. Grant / Can You Ever Forgive Me?
January 30, 2019 02:00 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MBWe talk with Richard E. Grant on the day of his Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, in which he plays the best friend to Melissa McCarthy’s Lee Israel, a celebrity biographer who falls on hard times. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Jon S. Baird / Stan & Ollie
January 09, 2019 02:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBWe speak to Scottish director Jon S. Baird about taking on the story of Laurel and Hardy, cinema’s greatest comedic duo, in Stan & Ollie, starring John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan in titular roles. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Wash Westmoreland / Colette
January 08, 2019 00:00 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MBThe prolific director of Still Alice, Wash Westmoreland’s latest feature is a sensual biopic of 19th century writer Colette. He talks to us about Keira Knightley’s love of period films, the film’s unusual score, and his motivation to tell the story of a woman fighting for her place in a creative industry in the wake of the #metoo movement. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Nicholas Hault, Joe Alwyn & Mark Gatiss / The Favourite
January 04, 2019 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBWe speak with three male actors who make up the supporting cast of Yorgos Lanthimos’ weird and wonderful period romp The Favourite. Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn and Mark Gatiss dish on the creation of this Oscar® season favourite and what it’s like to see Olivia Colman at work. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Craig William Macneill / Lizzie
December 12, 2018 00:00 - 9 minutes - 13.5 MBWe speak to director Craig William Macneill about the enduring power of Lizzie Borden, and how to humanise the woman behind the almost mythic violence. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
David Lowery / The Old Man and the Gun
December 05, 2018 02:00 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBRising star David Lowery (A Ghost Story) speak to us about directing Robert Redford in what he claims is his last acting role, in The Old Man and The Gun, the story of a 70-year-old jailbreaker who embarks on a series of unprecedented heists. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Nuri Bilge Ceylan / The Wild Pear Tree
November 30, 2018 00:00 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBWe speak to director Nuri Bilge Ceylan about his latest film – an engrossing portrait of a young Turkish writer at odds with his hometown and family. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Sebastián Lelio / Disobedience
November 30, 2018 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBWe speak with Sebastián Lelio, the Oscar®-winning director of A Fantastic Woman, on his latest film: the story of a New York photographer (Rachel Weisz) who returns home to North London Orthodox Jewish community than shunned her. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Mia Goth / Suspiria
November 21, 2018 02:00 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MBAcclaimed Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino follows up with something entirely different, a reimagining of Dario Argento’s 1970s horror classic. We speak to British actor Mia Goth who stars as one of dancers at a Berlin company with some very dark secrets. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Paul Dano / Wildlife
November 14, 2018 02:00 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBThis week we speak to actor-turned-director Paul Dano on his searing portrait of family problems 1960s Montana starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. His impressive directorial debut was co-written by his wife Zoe Kazan. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Mike Leigh / Peterloo
October 31, 2018 02:00 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MBLegendary British director Mike Leigh is our guest this week, to discuss his ambitious historical epic Peterloo, depicting a little-known massacre by British forces on a peaceful protest in set in Manchester. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Matteo Garrone / Dogman
October 17, 2018 01:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBThis week Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) tells us about his latest film, a stunning Cannes-winning depiction of working class Italy told through the eyes of gentle dog groomer who becomes involved with a violent boxer who terrorises the neighbourhood. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Women of London International Film Festival
October 14, 2018 23:00 - 24 minutes - 33.1 MBWith 38% of films directed by women at this year’s London Film Festival, we wanted to speak to some of the programmers and festival staff; Kate Taylor, Ana David and Olivia Howe – important women behind-the-scenes of the biggest event in the UK film industry. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Crystal Moselle / Skate Kitchen
September 26, 2018 01:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBFilmmaker Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack) first saw the stars of her girl skate-crew drama Skate Kitchen on the subway and decided she wanted to make a film about them. Two members of the crew, and actors in the film, Ardelia Lovelace and Nina Moran, join for a candid conversation. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Brady Jandreau / The Rider
September 19, 2018 01:00 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBThis week we speak to Brady Jandreau, who stars as a version of himself in Chloe Zhao’s stunning docu-drama The Rider – the story of a rodeo star who is forced to re-evaluate his life following a near fatal head injury. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot / Cold War
September 07, 2018 01:00 - 14 minutes - 19.9 MBTaking Cannes and the world by storm, Pawel Pawlikowski’s sultry black-and-white love story makes stars of its two leads, Joanna Kuilig and Tomasz Kot, who speak to us about their roles in this captivating film. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Desiree Akhavan / The Miseducation of Cameron Post
September 05, 2018 01:00 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBWe talk to the multi-talented writer, director and actor Desiree Akhavan on her sophomore feature The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the story of a high school student Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) sent to gay conversion therapy camp after her family catch her with another girl on prom night. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Lynne Ramsay / You Were Never Really Here
August 15, 2018 01:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBLiving legend of British cinema Lynne Ramsay joins us to talk about this year’s release You Were Never Really Here, her process of adaptation, working with Joaquin Phoenix, and what she’s up to next. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Gali Gold & Olya Sova / Generations: Russian Cinema of Change
July 25, 2018 08:53 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBHead of Cinema Gali Gold discusses Barbican Cinema’s upcoming season, with co-curator Olya Sova from New East Cinema. Defiant, expressive and electric, Generations is a season of cult and landmark films charts an extraordinary century of change in Russia (26–30 September) For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Michael Giacchino / Up!
July 18, 2018 01:00 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBTo coincide with the release of Pixar’s Incredibles 2, we delve into our ScreenTalk archive and hear from the film’s composer, Michael Giacchino. In October 2017, the Barbican hosted Giacchino in conversation following a screening of Up!, for which he won the Best Original Score Oscar®. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Haifaa Al-Mansour / Mary Shelley
July 06, 2018 01:00 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week we speak to Haifaa Al-Mansour – touted as the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia – on her new film starring Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, a story of the love affair between Frankenstein novelist Mary Shelley and poet Percy Shelley that resulted in the horror novel’s creation. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
The Final Girls / Unholy Women
July 03, 2018 23:00 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBWe speak to Olivia Howe and Anna Bogutskaya aka The Final Girls about why they started programming horror films, breaking through the boys club of genre fandom, and staging their own Carrie-inspired prom. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Frederick Wiseman / Ex-Libris
June 20, 2018 01:00 - 18 minutes - 24.7 MBWe speak to long-form documentary film-maker Frederick Wiseman – a master of the form – about his most recent work Ex-Libris, focussed on the machinations of the New York Public Library, his process of film-making and why his documentaries are so long. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Rupert Everett / The Happy Prince
June 13, 2018 11:58 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBWe speak to Rupert Everett about taking on the role of writer and director for The Happy Prince, and his enduring fascination with the figure of Oscar Wilde as shown in this deeply moving portrait of his darkest hour. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Girls on Tops / Louisa Maycock and Jake Cunningham
May 25, 2018 01:00 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBIn light of our upcoming Artists & Activists season about second wave feminist filmmakers, we talk to Jake Cunningham and Louisa Maycock, two of the co-founders of Girls on Tops (those white t-shirts emblazoned with the names of kickass women from the film industry). For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Nora Twomey / The Breadwinner
May 23, 2018 01:00 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBWe talk to Nora Twomey the director of The Breadwinner, the Oscar®-nominated story of a headstrong young girl in Afghanistan who cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family. The latest from Cartoon Saloon who produced Song of the Sea and The Secret of Kells. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Louis Garrel & Stacy Martin / Redoubtable
May 09, 2018 01:00 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBThis week, we meet the lead actors in Redoubtable, the Jean-Luc Godard biopic: Louis Garrel, who plays the master of the French New Wave himself, and Stacy Martin, who plays the 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazamesky, who enters Godard’s life in the midst of his existential crisis before they fall in love and elope. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Charlie Plummer / Lean on Pete
April 24, 2018 01:00 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBWe speak to emerging actor Charlie Plummer about his role in horse drama Lean on Pete alongside Steve Buscemi. Latest from director Andrew Haigh (director of Weekend and 45 Years), our podcast host Ben Eshmade describes the film as 'a beautiful piece of cinema … wide-eyed wonder'. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Maxine Peake & Tony Pitts / Funny Cow
April 17, 2018 23:00 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBTo coincide with the opening Funny Cow, a portrait of the gritty Northern comedy circuits, we speak to lauded actor Maxine Peake and screenwriter Tony Pitts, who wrote the role for her. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Claire Denis / Let the Sunshine In
April 11, 2018 01:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBLegendary French director Claire Denis joins us to discuss the many kinds of love we experience in life, and the refusal to settle, explored in her latest film, Let the Sunshine In, starring Juliette Binoche. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy