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Bologna: Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival
Writers on Film - June 27, 2024 07:54 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI speak with the the co-director of the Bologna Cinema Ritrovato festival Ehsan KhoshBakht and film restoration expert MIchael Dawson whose restorations of Stanley Kubrick's shorts showed at the festival. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
Roger Lewis talks Carry Ons and Charles Hawtrey
Writers on Film - June 19, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRoger Lewis comes back to the pod to talk about his small masterpiece of biographical investigation, and fitting testament to a comic genius whose place in British cultural history is now assured. Charles Hawtrey, the skinny one with the granny glasses, was everybody's favourite in the Carry Ons...
Ramsey Campbell talks the 3 Stooges, Horror films and Cinephilia
Writers on Film - June 12, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRamsey Campbell is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awards. Three of his novels have been adapted into films. He is also the autho...
Ian Christie talks Powell, Pressburger, Scorsese and Cinema
Writers on Film - June 05, 2024 05:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIan Christie FBA is a British film scholar whose work on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema has made him one of the most respected film writers today. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and a frequent broadcaster as well as bei...
Cannes Report 9: Anora, The Seed of the Sacred Fog
Writers on Film - May 26, 2024 15:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBilge Ebiri finishes off the Cannes Film Festival Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 9: Anora, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Writers on Film - May 26, 2024 15:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBilge Ebiri is one of the finest critics currently working. He was the critic for the Village Voice and is now writing for New York Magazine and Vulture. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 8: Indian cinema on the Croisette
Writers on Film - May 26, 2024 07:01 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSiddhant Adlakha Talks All We Imagine as Light and more Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 7: Trends and Titans
Writers on Film - May 25, 2024 13:49 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAs Cannes nears a close we have predictions and trends to discuss and ask is it time for the titans of cinema to give way? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 6: Horizon: an American Saga
Writers on Film - May 23, 2024 17:39 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHugo Emmerzael from FilmKrant joins me to talk about Kevin Costner’s Horizon: an American Saga, chapter one. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 5: The Substance
Writers on Film - May 22, 2024 08:29 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat, and starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid, is the most talked about film of the Cannes Film Festival, so here we go. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
Cannes Report 4: Limonov: the Ballad
Writers on Film - May 21, 2024 05:33 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThomas Schultze from German trade website Spot (click here) talks the latest film by dissident Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 4: Limonov: a Ballad
Writers on Film - May 21, 2024 05:33 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThomas Schultze from German trade website Spot (click here) talks the latest film by dissident Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 3: Furiosa, Megalopolis and Emilia Perez
Writers on Film - May 19, 2024 18:09 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTokumbo Salako, EuroNews culture editor, joins me to review the latest films on the Croisette in the third of my special Cannes Reports. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 2: Kinds of Kindness
Writers on Film - May 18, 2024 11:26 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn the second of our special reports from the Cannes Film Festival, Christina Jeurling Birro talks Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film and her highlights from her first ever Cannes. She also coins the term Plemmon-heads. our conversation on Megalopolis is available to hear here. Support this show http:...
Cannes Special Report 1
Writers on Film - May 17, 2024 13:26 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFred Ponsard and David Mouriquand from EuroNews join John Bleasdale to talk Wild Diamond and the Cannes Film Festival. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cannes Report 1: Wild Diamond
Writers on Film - May 17, 2024 13:26 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFred Ponsard and David Mouriquand from EuroNews join John Bleasdale to talk Wild Diamond and the Cannes Film Festival. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Glenn Kenny talks Al Pacino, Brian DePalma and the greatest gangster movie of the 80s
Writers on Film - May 15, 2024 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew. An unflinching confrontation of humanity’s dark side, Brian De Palma’s crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1983. Its impact was unprecedented, making glo...
Maureen Foster talks Jonathan Glazer and Under the Skin
Writers on Film - May 08, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJonathan Glazer is now - having only made four films - one of the most important filmmakers of this century. It helps that those four films were all masterpieces and the third Under the Skin is the subject of novelist Maureen Foster's wonderful study The Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, ...
Roger Lewis talks Erotic Vagrancy
Writers on Film - May 01, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, ha...
Paul Duncan on Dr. No
Writers on Film - April 24, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPaul Duncan talks Dr. No, and the making of James Bond's first cinematic asdventure. Book now available from Taschen. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ed Zwick on Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
Writers on Film - April 17, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Cal...
Robert P Kolker and Marsha Gordon talk Film, Form and Culture
Writers on Film - April 10, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture by Robert P Kolker and Marsha Gordon offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. Additional resources for students and teachers can be found on the eResource, which includes case studies, discussion questions, and ...
Neil Alcock talks Hitchcock and Hitchology
Writers on Film - April 03, 2024 04:08 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMURDER! MOTHERS! MEN ON THE RUN! Film fans know these are just a few key ingredients of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. When Hitchcock fused these elements with his innovative directorial approach, that blend of familiar themes and stylistic ingenuity became known as ‘Hitchcockian’. In a refreshingl...
Oscar Winning Screenwriter Bruce Rubin talks about his Life
Writers on Film - March 27, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBruce Joel Rubin is the Oscar winning screenwriter of Brainstorm, Ghost and Jacob's Ladder among others. His memoir It's Only a Movie is availbale here. And his book Three Visionary Screenplays is also available via this link. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hos...
Christian Esquevin talks Designing Hollywood
Writers on Film - March 20, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSince the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by foregrounding fashion. Magazines featured actresses like Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford bedecked in luxurious ...
Tom Shone on the Oscars and Dune Part 2
Writers on Film - March 13, 2024 05:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTom Shone is the bestselling author of The Nolan Variations, among several other books on cinema. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stephen Lee Naish on Dennis Hopper, film director
Writers on Film - March 06, 2024 05:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsStephen's book is availble here. Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters’ place within American culture. This book explores five of Hopper’s films to...
Kubrick: an Odyssey
Writers on Film - February 28, 2024 06:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker. The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty y...
Ellen E. Jones on Screen Deep
Writers on Film - February 21, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsScreen Deep:How film and TV can solve racism and save the world is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen...
Michael Schulman on the Oscar Wars
Writers on Film - February 14, 2024 14:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom Harper Collins: A Best Book of 2023 The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have roy...
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