CINEOPOLIS
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen is the last time you thought about where a movie took place? The rooms, cities, and architecture where movies are set are just as important as the script, actors, and special effects, yet we rarely give locations and sets their due. It's high time that conversation began to change. CINEOPOLIS is a podcast, hosted by film historian Christian Niedan and editor and culture journalist Dante A. Ciampaglia, about movies — and the places that made them. Through deep dives into movies and filmmakers and discussions with professionals, critics, and authors, CINEOPOLIS will change how you see movies...and the world around you.
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Episode 110: Blade Runner / Blade Runner 2049
July 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MBSeason One CINEOPOLIS hosts Dante and Christian reach the season finale of CINEOPOLIS feeling more human than human in a super-sized discussion of Ridley Scott’s stone-cold classic Blade Runner and Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 classic-in-the-making sequel, Blade Runner 2049. We’ve visited lots of cities in this inaugural season of CINEOPOLIS, both real and imaginary, but there’s no way to talk about movie places and spaces without visiting the used-future dystopia of Blade Runner, arguably the s...
Episode 109: Sofia Coppola’s Singular Spaces: An Interview with TIME Film Critic Stephanie Zacharek
June 28, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBIt’s unfair — and, frankly, a bit preposterous — to say Sofia Coppola is a divise filmmaker. But since the premiere of her first feature, The Virgin Suicides, in 1999, Coppola has had all sorts of criticism thrown at her to diminish her accomplishments and place in Hollywood: She’s only successful because her dad is Francis Ford Coppola. She only makes films about rich people. Her films are thin and unserious. And if they work it’s only because Francis edited them. On and on goes the tedious...
Episode 108: The Films of Michael Mann
June 21, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThis week, you belong to the city — or maybe just Michael Mann. Lots of filmmakers have shot in cities, made movies about cities, blown up cities in intergalactic conflagrations. But none of them can touch Michael Mann as cinema’s preeminent urbanist. From his first feature, Thief (1981), to his most recent, Blackhat (2015), Mann’s films hum and throb with the energy and allure of the city: its streets and people, the dark nooks and rain-slicked alleys that provide shelter to crime, diners ...
Episode 107: Filmed in New Jersey! An Interview with David Schoner
June 14, 2021 04:00 - 47 minutes - 43 MBGet the lowdown about shooting on location in the Garden State. CINEOPOLIS Co-host Christian Nidan interviews David Schoner, Associate Director of the NJ Motion Picture and TV Commission. They discuss NJ-shot films like Cop Land, TV shows like The Sopranos, and its upcoming prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark — as well as the importance of states using financial incentives to lure in productions.
Episode 106: The Dark Knight Trilogy
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBHoly urban planning, Batman! No superhero has had more on screen time than Batman — and that makes Gotham City one of the most explored fictional cities in entertainment history. From the sunny, clearly-LA Gotham of the 1960s Batman TV series to Tim Burton’s Gothic Expressionist Art Deco fantasia Gotham of the 1989 Batman film to the Burton-meets-Max Fleischer red-skies-at-night Gotham of Batman: The Animated Series, numerous directors and designers have left their mark on the perpetually-...
EPISODE 105: The Lure of the Lair — An Interview with Architect Chad Oppenheim
May 31, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBWhen Chad Oppenheim saw his first Bond film — The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), on some early home video format — he knew he “either wanted to be an evil villain or an architect.” He ultimately opted for architect (a good choice), and in 1999 founded Oppenheim Architecture + Design, which has designed projects around the world, from hotels (like the Pixar-themed sections of Shanghai Disney Resorts) to homes (like Michael Bay’s Los Angeles residence) to public projects (like the new pavilio...
Episode 104: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
May 24, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBHollywood is long on celebrities, but Robert Mitchum is in a class by himself. A monumental actor and a towering presence of a man, he was often described in totemic and geologic terms. He was “our last connection to the era when stars were icons, granite faces carved in mountains in close-up,” Stephen Hunter wrote in The Washington Post when Mitchum died in 1997. He had “a forehead like the polar icecap,” Hunter continued, “a good crop of wavy hair, cheekbones like bed knobs and a piercing ...
Episode 103: FILMography with Christopher Moloney
May 17, 2021 08:20 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBCINEOPOLIS celebrates films and television shows shot on location in Canada, New York City, and Atlanta with award-winning writer and producer, Christopher Moloney. CINEOPOLIS co-host Christian Niedan gets the Ontario-born Moloney's take on Kids in the Hall, SCTV, and David Cronenberg; the NYC history of his cinematic photo-based FILMography project; and thoughts on a burgeoning affection for films and TV shot in his current home city of Atlanta.
Episode 102: The Films of George Romero
May 10, 2021 08:20 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBEpisode 102 of CINEOPOLIS finds your hosts celebrating the films of famed filmmaker George Romero. Without George Romero, the world wouldn’t have zombies. And without Western Pennsylvania, the world wouldn’t have George Romero. The low-budget horror film-slash-social freakout Night of the Living Dead (1968) put Romero on the map. But despite gaining national (and global) recognition over his fifty year career directing films like Martin (1977), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Knightriders (1981), Cr...
EPISODE 101 — Die Hard with a Vengeance
May 02, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBWelcome to CINEOPOLIS, a podcast about movies and the places that made them. Over the 10 episodes that comprise this inaugural season, hosts Christian Niedan and Dante A. Ciampaglia will take you on a journey into the rooms, cities, and architecture where movies are set through deep dives into films and filmmakers. CINEOPOLIS kicks off in the place Christian and Dante call home, New York City, with a joyride through Bruce Willis' third adventure as John McClane, Die Hard with a Vengeance (19...