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From the Archives: Ti Singh is Born to Be Bad
Writers on Film - February 10, 2024 07:41 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTimon Singh is the author of Born to Be Bad and Born to Be Bad Part 2. He is also a writer and producer on the film In Search of the Last Action Heroes. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Beatles v James Bond
Writers on Film - January 31, 2024 06:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom Simon and Schuster: A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the Beatles and the Bond films—and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over sixty dramatic years. The Beatles are the biggest band in the history of...
From the Tromsø International Film Festival
Writers on Film - January 24, 2024 06:31 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsI speak to programmer and board member John-Kristian Dalseth, head of the Sami Film Institute Anne Lajla Utsi, Artistic Director of TIFF Lisa Hoen and film director Ethan Coen at the northern most film festival in the world: the Tromsø International Film Festival. Support this show http://suppo...
The Last Action Heroes
Writers on Film - January 17, 2024 06:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, First Blood, The Terminator, and more. “This book takes you so close to the action that you can smell the sweat, cigar smoke, and bad cologne that ...
Sam Wasson talks Francis Ford Coppola
Writers on Film - January 10, 2024 06:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company American Z...
Bonus Episode: Cinema Italia
Writers on Film - January 04, 2024 10:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsChief film critic of The Hollywood Reporter David Rooney joins John Bleasdale to talk about Federico Fellini's 1957 masterpiece Le Notti di Cabiria, Nights of Cabiria, starring Giulietta Masina as a sex worker in a Rome on the edge of La Dolce Vita. Massina won Best Actress at Cannes and the fil...
From the Archives: Tales from Development Hell with David Hughes
Writers on Film - December 27, 2023 14:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode I talk to David Hughes, a journalist turned screenwriter who is also the author of a number of books on cinema. The Greatest Science Fiction Film Never Made and Tales from Development Hell are two riveting reads about all the films that almost got made and their tortured pre-prod...
Happy Christmas Movies, Jeremy Arnold
Writers on Film - December 20, 2023 06:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJeremy Arnold is the author of Christmas in the Movies (Revised & Expanded Edition): 35 Classics to Celebrate the Season (Turner Classic Movies) Now revised and expanded with more beloved films and loads of special features and photos across 70+ pages of new content, this is the must-have viewi...
Connery - a novel
Writers on Film - December 14, 2023 17:10 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe first chapter of a new series CONNERY - A Fiction. Connery was written by John Bleasdale, performed by Cai Ross with music by Two Minute Noodles. Their music is available here. Further episodes are available from wherever you get your podcasts. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com...
From the Archives: Paul Cronin's Guide for the Perplexed
Writers on Film - December 13, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJohn Bleasdale talks to Paul Cronin about his books on Werner Herzog and Abbas Kiarostami and his work on Alexander MacKendrick. We also talk story structure, the history of the Faber Film Books and screenwriting. In many ways this becomes a much broader conversation and encompasses much about s...
Cai Ross talks The Prisoner and Connery
Writers on Film - December 06, 2023 06:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCai Ross along with Chris Bainbridge is the author of Free for All and the co-host of the podcast of the same name, exploring all things The Prisoner related. He is also the voice of the new podcast written by Writers on Film host John Bleasdale Connery. Support this show http://supporter.ac...
Jem Duducu talks Napoleon
Writers on Film - November 29, 2023 06:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJem Duducu talks Ridley Scott's new film Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Virginia Kirkby. Jem is the host of the Condensed Histories podcast, the author of Hollywood and History and The Napoleonic Wars in a Hundred Facts. Jem’s first love has always been history, ever since he saw the Su...
From the Archive: Talking memoirs with Gabriel Byrne
Writers on Film - November 23, 2023 10:04 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJohn Bleasdale talks to actor, producer, director and author Gabriel Byrne about his autobiography. Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne. 'Dreamy, lyrical and utterly unvarnished' – Colm Tóibín As a young boy growing up in th...
Mark Wheeler on Sorcerer
Writers on Film - November 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWilliam Friedkin’s film Sorcerer (1977) has been subject to a major re-evaluation in the last decade. A dark re-imagining of the French Director H.G. Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) (based on George Arnaud’s novel); the film was a major critical and commercial failure ...
Pamela Hutchinson talks The Red Shoes
Writers on Film - November 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEndlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to leave them with troubling questions. Representing the climax of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburge...
Nancy Schoenberger talks Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Writers on Film - November 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple. He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were ...
Tom Shone talks the return of the auteur blockbusters
Writers on Film - October 25, 2023 04:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAuthor of The Nolan Variations and Martin Scorsese, Tom Shone is one of the best film writers out there and a great friend of the podcast. He returns to cast his eye over the releases this year and to talk Oppenheimer and the films of Paul Greengrass, who will be the subject of his next book. Pl...
Carol Baum on Creative Producing
Writers on Film - October 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBuy a copy of Carol's book here. Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is an ex...
Robert Sellers on the Greatest Year in Cinema History
Writers on Film - October 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings1971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg and Steven Spielberg, among many others, were behind the camera, while the stars were also out in force. Warren Be...
Demetrios Matheou talks Means Streets at 50
Writers on Film - October 04, 2023 04:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMean Streets was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making'. The tale of combative...
Clint Eastwood by Ian Nathan
Writers on Film - September 27, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsClint Eastwood is Hollywood’s elder statesman and its conscience. He is the standard by which other films and filmmakers are judged. He represents both classical Hollywood and an entirely modern, uncompromising and unfussy directorial presence. There are those who adore him as a cowboy, a super...
Chris Yogerst talks The Warner Brothers
Writers on Film - September 20, 2023 05:09 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFriend of the podcast and cultural historian Chris Yogerst critically celebrates the century of Warner Bros by looking at the family behind the studio The Warner Brothers. You can buy your copy here (among other outlets). And Chris recommended Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye and Scott Eyman's upcom...
Jem Duducu talks Hollywood and History
Writers on Film - September 13, 2023 05:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJem Duducu talks Hollywood v History. Buy his new book here. And listen to his podcast here. Here's the blurb of his book: There is no shortage of Hollywood films about historical events, but what do the movies actually get right, and why do they get so much wrong? Hollywood loves a story: ...
In conversation with Lawrence Grobel
Writers on Film - September 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLawrence Grobel is a freelance writer who has written 31 books and for numerous national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Reader's Digest, American Way, Parade, Details, TV Guide, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Diversion, Wr...
Molly Haskell talks film criticism, feminism and cinephilia
Writers on Film - August 30, 2023 05:06 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMolly Haskell is a legend of film criticism. A critic for the Village Voice, she also is one of the earliest most powerful voices in feminist film criticism, with her ground-breaking work From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies as well as books on Spielberg and Gone with the...
James Peaty on Summer Blockbusters and Oppenheimer
Writers on Film - August 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJames Peaty and John Bleasdale talk about the summer release and particularly the success of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Peaty has written for publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics in the US as well as Rebellion Publishing and Titan Comics in the UK. During th...
Jeanine Basinger talks film history, Hollywood and the Star Machine
Writers on Film - August 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsClint Eastwood called her “Truly one of my favorite people.” Her former students include Michael Bay, Joss Whedon, Laurence Mark, Akiva Goldsman, Paul Weitz, Marc Shmuger and Alex Kurtzman. She's written a dozen books and recently co-authored Hollywood: An Oral History with Sam Wasson (friend of...
Josh Winning Burns the Negative
Writers on Film - August 17, 2023 12:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJosh Winning is a writer and film critic. Bur the book here. The Blurb ABOUT BURN THE NEGATIVE In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse that haunted it is reawakened. Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror ser...
Jason Isralowitz and Hitchcock's Wrong Man
Writers on Film - August 09, 2023 15:43 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNothing To Fear: Alfred Hitchcock And The Wrong Men To buy click on this link. Alfred Hitchcock is not often associated with a social justice movement. But in 1956, the world’s most famous director focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk o...
Warren Buckland asks: Who wrote Citizen Kane?
Writers on Film - August 04, 2023 05:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWho wrote Citizen Kane? Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz or Herman Makiewicz and Orson Welles? Or David Fincher. Scholar and film writer Warren Buckland turns to the evidence and away from the prejudice to resolve the question once and for all. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/w...
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