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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Episodes
Thoroughbreds / Cory Finley
April 03, 2018 23:00 - 14 minutes - 20 MBWe speak to Cory Finley, director of the deliciously dark Thoroughbreds, about adapting his stage play, the murky morality of his characters, and finding the perfect duo for his two-hander. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Journeyman / Paddy Considine
March 27, 2018 23:00 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this insightful chat, writer, director and leading man of the new boxing film Journeyman, Paddy Considine, discusses auditioning himself to different kind of sporting film he wanted to make. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Women Making Film: Episode 3 - Cairo Cannon and Carolina Schmidtholstein
March 21, 2018 10:37 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBFor the final episode in our series on women in the film industry, we bring together producer and co-founder of CAMP Cairo Cannon and chief electrician Carolina Schmidtholstein on how they got to where they are in an industry dominated by men. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Women Making Film: Episode 2 - Andrea Holley from Human Rights Watch Film Festival
March 14, 2018 00:30 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBThe second episode in our series on women in the film industry, we speak to Andrea Holley, a woman who has long brought women’s stories to the forefront in her role as strategic director of Human Right’s Watch Film Festival. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Women Making Film: Episode 1 - Holly Tarquini from FilmBath Festival and F-Rating
March 07, 2018 02:00 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBIn the first of a series of podcasts commissioned to celebrate International Women’s Day, we talk to Holly Tarquini, the Executive Director of FilmBath Festival, about new initiatives improving the situation for women in film such as the F-rating and Raising Films. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Ruben Östlund / The Square
February 28, 2018 00:00 - 12 minutes - 17 MBSwedish director Ruben Östlund discusses the concept behind his audacious Best Foreign Language Film-nominated work The Square, and the contribution that stars such as Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West brought to the set. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Sebastián Lelio / A Fantastic Woman
February 26, 2018 00:00 - 12 minutes - 16.5 MBIn the lead up to this weekend’s Academy Awards, we talk to Chilean director Sebastián Lelio about his Best Foreign Language Film nominated film A Fantastic Woman. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Craig Gillespie and Steven Rogers / I, Tonya
February 21, 2018 02:00 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBWe talk to director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rogers about how they pulled off the Winter Olympics stunts and Allison Janney's BAFTA-winning performance. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
'I like Stinky, but I don’t associate myself with him!' / Moomins on the Riviera
January 31, 2018 02:00 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBWe caught up with producer/director Hanna Hemilä and animation director/producer Xavier Picard at the last BFI London Film Festival about how they made the latest Moomin adventure, how the Moomins ended up at the French Riviera and which characters were their favourites. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
'We just talked about everything': Tomas Koolhaas on REM
January 17, 2018 00:00 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBFilmmaker Tomas Koolhaas joins us to discuss why he wanted to make a documentary about his architect father Rem, why existing architecture documentaries are boring, and why his father didn’t see any footage until the film was finished. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
'I knew he was capable of that kind of intensity' / Joe Wright, Darkest Hour
January 10, 2018 02:00 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBWe catch up with director Joe Wright (Atonement, Anna Karenina) to talk about his new Winston Churchill drama. We talked about Gary Oldman’s performance, how this is the first ‘male-centric’ film he’s made, and why the scene on the Tube was a piece of wish fulfilment. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
We’re going to need a bigger quote: Our favourite Christmas movie quotes
December 19, 2017 02:00 - 10 minutes - 14 MBIn this festive edition, we run through our favourite quotes from Christmas movies (or movies set at Christmas…we’ll leave that debate to you!) For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Jennifer Peedom / Mountain
December 08, 2017 02:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBWe talk to director Jennifer Peedom about what drew her to the mountains, how she gathered the footage, and collaborating with Robert MacFarlane and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Tatiana Maslany / Stronger
December 06, 2017 02:00 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MBIn the latest episode, we catch up with Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany to talk about her latest role in the drama Stronger, discussing her reasons for taking on a role, working with Jake Gyllenhaal and why improvisation is her favourite thing in the world. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ScreenTalks Archive / Sir Richard Attenborough on Brighton Rock
December 04, 2017 00:01 - 42 minutes - 96.8 MBIn the final episode from our ScreenTalks Archive, Sir Richard Attenborough talks to Quentin Falk about the film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, 'Brighton Rock'. He reveals what motivated him to move behind the lens, directing hits like 'Oh What A Lovely War' and 'Gandhi'. And he shares failsafe advice given by David Lean on the set of his very first feature, 'In Which We Serve'. When Attenborough died in 2014, at the age of 90, he’d amassed an extraordinary range of cinematic experience...
ScreenTalks Archive // Sir Richard Attenborough
December 04, 2017 00:01 - 42 minutes - 96.8 MBIn the final episode from our ScreenTalks Archive, Sir Richard Attenborough talks to Quentin Falk about the film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, 'Brighton Rock'. He reveals what motivated him to move behind the lens, directing hits like 'Oh What A Lovely War' and 'Gandhi'. And he shares failsafe advice given by David Lean on the set of his very first feature, 'In Which We Serve'. When Attenborough died in 2014, at the age of 90, he’d amassed an extraordinary range of cinematic experienc...
Eliza Hittman / Beach Rats
November 27, 2017 02:00 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBWe talk to director Eliza Hittman about how she creates a behavioural mode of cinema, working with young actors and casting Brit Harris Dickinson as a Brooklyn bro. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton / Battle of the Sexes
November 22, 2017 02:00 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBWe speak to directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton about discovering the story behind the headlines of the ‘Battle of the Sexes’, working with stars Emma Stone and Steve Carrell, and what success means to them. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Paul McGuigan / Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
November 20, 2017 00:00 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBWe speak to director Paul McGuigan about why it was exciting to work on a story about Gloria Grahame, why a working class perspective was essential for this story and working with stars Annette Bening and Jamie Bell. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Josh Safdie / Good Time
November 17, 2017 15:05 - 12 minutes - 17.6 MBWe talk to co-director Josh Safdie about his experience directing with his brother, why he hates exposition in film, and why Robert Pattinson didn’t complain once during the whole movie. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Sean Baker / The Florida Project
November 08, 2017 02:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBWe talked to the Tangerine director about his new film set at a Florida motel, discovering Bria Vinaite by accident on Instagram, working with the ‘prodigy’, child actor Brooklynn Prince, how he made the film so realistic it was mistaken for a documentary, and why the film looks like ‘blueberry ice-cream’. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ScreenTalks Archive / Robert Altman
November 06, 2017 00:04 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBAfter a stint as a co-pilot in the US Air Force, Robert Altman moved to California, deciding to enter the world of filmmaking on a whim. Starting as a director-for-hire on film and television in the nineteen fifties, Altman didn’t become a household name until 1970 with the release of Korean War satire MASH. The film’s success led to a string of nearly forty mould-breaking movies, in every conceivable genre, often featuring sprawling ensemble casts. In this conversation from 2002, Robert Alt...
ScreenTalks Archive / Robert Altman on Gosford Park
November 06, 2017 00:04 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBAfter a stint as a co-pilot in the US Air Force, Robert Altman moved to California, deciding to enter the world of filmmaking on a whim. Starting as a director-for-hire on film and television in the nineteen fifties, Altman didn’t become a household name until 1970 with the release of Korean War satire MASH. The film’s success led to a string of nearly forty mould-breaking movies, in every conceivable genre, often featuring sprawling ensemble casts. In this conversation from 2002, Robert Altm...
Yorgos Lanthimos, Barry Keoghan and Colin Farrell / The Killing of a Sacred Deer
November 03, 2017 12:01 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBWe caught up with director Yorgos Lanthimos, and actors Barry Keoghan and Colin Farrell to discuss the strange dilemma of surgeon Steven Murphy, the origins of the mysterious power of teenager Barry, and a welcome cameo from Alicia Silverstone. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield / Breathe
October 30, 2017 02:00 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBWe spoke to Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield about why they just to play the roles of Robin and Diana Cavendish, the responsibility of playing a challenging role, why Andy Serkis was a very active director and about being in love with life. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Luca Guadagnino / Call Me By Your Name
October 27, 2017 01:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBWe caught up with the director of I Am Love and A Bigger Splash to talk about why the film shouldn’t affect your vision, filming in his hometown in Italy and why this is the closest thing he could have made to a Disney movie. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Rungano Nyoni / I Am Not A Witch
October 25, 2017 01:00 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBDirector Rungano Nyoni joins us to discuss the confusing rules around ‘witchcraft’, not going to film school and what it was like to shoot in Zambia. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Simon Russell Beale / The Death of Stalin
October 20, 2017 01:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBAcclaimed stage actor Simon Russell Beale talks about why Armando Iannucci is a genius, working in an incredible ensemble cast, and why his character - the ruthless Secret Police Chief Beria - almost had a London accent. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Sally Potter, Bruno Ganz and Timothy Spall / The Party
October 13, 2017 01:00 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MBWe talk to director Sally Potter about her new, political satire, along with two stars of the film Bruno Ganz and Timothy Spall. We discussed why cinema doesn’t need passports, the characters’ ‘dance of urbane sophistication’, and why Sally Potter insisted on test screenings. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman/ Loving Vincent
October 11, 2017 12:07 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBWe catch up with the co-directors to find out how they accomplished the creation of the first painted feature film, recasting the death of Van Gogh as a murder mystery and why someone flew from Japan to London just for a chance at taking part. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ScreenTalks Archive / B. Ruby Rich
October 01, 2017 23:30 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBNew Queer Cinema champion, feminist film critic, educator and agitator, B. Ruby Rich introduces Sara Gomez’s 1974 film, De Cierta Manera, a study of the interplay of race, class and gender. The film also provides a jumping off point for Rich to discuss her developing thoughts on Queer representation in cinema, to explore how online viewing platforms are changing film, and to reflect on the continuing influence of her book, Chick Flicks For information regarding your data privacy, visit aca...
ScreenTalks Archive / B. Ruby Rich on Queer Cinema
October 01, 2017 23:30 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBNew Queer Cinema champion, feminist film critic, educator and agitator, B. Ruby Rich introduces Sara Gomez’s 1974 film, De Cierta Manera, a study of the interplay of race, class and gender. The film also provides a jumping off point for Rich to discuss her developing thoughts on Queer representation in cinema, to explore how online viewing platforms are changing film, and to reflect on the continuing influence of her book, Chick Flicks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
Michael Winterbottom / On the Road
September 27, 2017 10:24 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBWe talk to director Michael Winterbottom (The Face of an Angel, 24 Hour Party People) about going on tour with Wolf Alice, why On the Road was a good title, and why this band were at the right place in their career for this kind of film. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Ali Fazal & Eddie Izzard / Victoria & Abdul
September 15, 2017 01:00 - 13 minutes - 17.9 MBWe caught up with Ali Fazal and Eddie Izzard about working with Judi Dench, the complicated story behind Victoria and Abdul’s friendship, being ‘beautifully manipulated’ by Stephen Frears and why Prince Bertie was so jealous of his mother’s friendship. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Susan Seidelman / The Grime and the Glamour
September 13, 2017 01:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBWe talk to director Susan Seidelman ahead of screening two of her films, Smithereens and Desperately Seeking Susan, in our season The Grime and the Glamour. Seidelman discusses why New York was so creative, what it was like to be accepted at Cannes Film Festival, what it was like filming with Madonna, and why she directed the pilot episode of Sex and the City. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ScreenTalks Archive / Asif Kapadia on Senna
September 03, 2017 23:10 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBHackney-born Asif Kapadia started out as the director of critically-lauded art films such as The Warrior and Far North. However, his career really went into overdrive in 2010, when he turned his hand to documentary film-making with Senna. Focusing on the life and death of Brazilian Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna, Kapadia’s remarkable biopic managed to break entirely new ground. Not only was it a documentary that proved extremely lucrative at the box office - it was also a sports film that even...
ScreenTalks Archive: Asif Kapadia
September 03, 2017 23:10 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBHackney-born Asif Kapadia started out as the director of critically-lauded art films such as The Warrior and Far North. However, his career really went into overdrive in 2010, when he turned his hand to documentary film-making with Senna. Focusing on the life and death of Brazilian Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna, Kapadia’s remarkable biopic managed to break entirely new ground. Not only was it a documentary that proved extremely lucrative at the box office - it was also a sports film that eve...
Benedict Andrews / Una
September 01, 2017 12:01 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBAhead of this new independent film about a young woman facing her abuser, we talk to director Benedict Andrews about making a film after a career in theatre, what he loved about the process, and why Rooney Mara and Ben Mendolsohn were cast. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Bill Nighy / The Limehouse Golem
August 30, 2017 08:43 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBWe talk to the legendary Bill Nighy about working on his latest film The Limehouse Golem, what he thought of his co-stars and why everyone on set was waist-deep in water… For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
The Music of Jim Jarmusch: David Coulter, Alex Kapranos and more
August 25, 2017 01:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week’s podcast – spanning both the Cinema and Contemporary Music programme – delves into the musical world of the cult director’s compelling cinematic oeuvre, from whiskey-soaked Tom Waits to John Lurie’s No Wave Sax. Ahead of the Jim Jarmusch Revisited show here in September 2017 (http://bit.ly/2g7X2v9), we talk to musical fans including Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, David Coulter, Camille O’Sullivan, Mulatu Astatke, Jolie Holland and also to the journalist Karen Krizanovich. For...
Lambert Wilson / The Odyssey
August 16, 2017 01:00 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBFrench actor Lambert Wilson talks about playing the legendary oceanaut Jacques Cousteau and his environmental legacy, and working with the incredible Audrey Tautou. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ScreenTalks Archive / Kasi Lemmons on Eve's Bayou
August 06, 2017 23:30 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBKasi Lemmons began her career playing supporting roles such as Jodie Foster’s roommate in 'Silence Of The Lambs' and Nicolas Cage’s victim in 'Vampire’s Kiss'. Frustrated by the limited opportunities available for black actresses in Hollywood, she started to write, using time between auditions to pen short stories and scenes for friends to perform in acting classes. In the latest from our ScreenTalks Archive, Lemmons discusses her debut film - Eve’s Bayou, widely viewed as a classic of cont...
ScreenTalks Archive: Kasi Lemmons // Eve's Bayou
August 06, 2017 23:30 - 32 minutesKasi Lemmons began her career playing supporting roles such as Jodie Foster’s roommate in 'Silence Of The Lambs' and Nicolas Cage’s victim in 'Vampire’s Kiss'. Frustrated by the limited opportunities available for black actresses in Hollywood, she started to write, using time between auditions to pen short stories and scenes for friends to perform in acting classes. In the latest from our ScreenTalks Archive, Lemmons discusses her debut film - Eve’s Bayou, widely viewed as a classic of cont...
Aisling Walsh / Maudie
August 02, 2017 01:00 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBWe talk to debut director Aisling Walsh about her biopic of the painter Maud Lewis (played by Sally Hawkins), who lived with her husband Everett (played by Ethan Hawke) in Nova Scotia and suffered from severe arthritis. Walsh talks us through how they created Maud’s house, why Sally Hawkins was ideal for the role, and why she didn’t take any artwork from the set of her first film. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Michael Showalter / The Big Sick
July 28, 2017 01:00 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBWe catch up with the comedian and director (Search Party, My Name is Doris) to discuss this summer’s most distinctive romantic comedy - starring Zoe Kazan and Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani – about how to keep the right balance between drama and comedy, why heckling it crushing, and why it was a dream come true to work with Holly Hunter. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Ellen E Jones /Barbican ScreenTalks Archive
July 19, 2017 01:00 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBWe delve into our incredible archive and talk to journalist Ellen E Jones about her explorations of our past ScreenTalks with the likes of Ken Loach, Carol Morley, Amma Asante, Clint Mansell, and Park Chan-wook. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Mohanad Yaqubi / Off Frame
July 05, 2017 01:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBWe catch up with filmmaker and producer Mohanad Yaqubi about his debut documentary, to discuss narrative, truth, and why it’s important for the audience to see him in the editing room. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ScreenTalks Archive: Park Chan-wook
July 02, 2017 23:20 - 32 minutesOne of the most well-known directors to come out of South Korea, Park Chan Wook made his name internationally with a string of bleak, brutal films released in the early noughties, Sympathy for My Vengeance, Old Boy and Lady Vengeance - dubbed The Vengeance Trilogy by critics. But in this ScreenTalk from 2008, Park Chan-wook talks to film journalist Damon Wise about a very different feature – the romantic comedy, I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Nick Broomfield / Whitney: Can I Be Me?
June 23, 2017 01:00 - 10 minutes - 15 MBWe talk to acclaimed documentary maker Nick Broomfield about his latest film, focussing on the life of singer Whitney Houston. Broomfield talks about getting access, and finding out about the real Whitney. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson / Churchill
June 16, 2017 13:32 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MBWe talk to Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson about the new ticking-clock thriller Churchill, following the hours leading up to the D Day landings For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy