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Sarah Welch-Larson talks Becoming Alien
Writers on Film - July 29, 2023 09:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that bind together these films are strong and ...
Kaleem Aftab Does the Right Thing
Writers on Film - July 22, 2023 10:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsKaleem Aftab talks about his career as a high flying journalist, publishing in The Independent and Variety among many others. He also talks about his authorship of a 'As told by' biography of Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to it. And gives his book recommendation. Support this sh...
Matt Pais talks '90s with Me
Writers on Film - July 20, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGet the book here. “Matt Pais deserves four stars for reintroducing us to many of the greatly talented but often unsung heroes of 1990s film. This is a terrific read.”—RICHARD ROEPER “Even if you’re drowning in pop culture nostalgia, Pais’ book is a fun, insightful and informative life raft.”...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival Report 2
Writers on Film - July 17, 2023 08:10 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe second part of my report on Karlovy Vary with conversations featuring Karel Och, artistic director of the festival, Ben Dalton of Screen, Deadline writer Damon Wise and Ben Nicholson from The Verdict. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
William J Mann on Bogie and Bacall
Writers on Film - July 12, 2023 14:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before. In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep ...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Part I
Writers on Film - July 06, 2023 15:32 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJohn Bleasdale talks to a host of great writers attending the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It includes Wendy Ide, Leigh Singer, Hugo Emmerzael and Marcus Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Alan Dean Foster: the Poet Laureate of the Novelisation
Writers on Film - June 27, 2023 20:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJohn Bleasdale talks to Alan Dean Foster, the poet laureate of the novelisation as well as a novelist of original fantasy and science fiction. He has recently published his memoirs The Director Should've Shot You available here. For more information and updates visit his website. Support this ...
Joseph McBride talks Billy Wilder
Writers on Film - June 21, 2023 05:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJoseph McBride returns to Writers on Film to talk about his new book on the films of Billy Wilder. But this wide-ranging discussion doesn't stop there. Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge is available here. The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films―including Double Indem...
Kyle Turner talks The Queer Film Guide
Writers on Film - June 14, 2023 05:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHappy Pride Month: Writers on Film talks with Kyle Turner on his amazing book The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Films the tell LGBTQIA+ Stories "Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema’s greatest queer films that are often overlooked but foundational to the art form and the wider culture. Startin...
Joseph Aisenberg on Brian De Palma's Carrie
Writers on Film - June 07, 2023 11:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJoseph Aisenberg is a writer and novelist. His book on Carrie is available in a new updated version here. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Writers on Cannes
Writers on Film - May 31, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWriters on Film hits the Croissette, talking to David Marquand of EuroNews; Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian; Jo-Ann Titmarsh of The Evening Standard and Ed Potton of The Times. My own reviews can be found at Cine-Vue here and Next Best Picture here. I also wrote a couple of pieces for Variety, w...
Steven DeLay goes Above the Clouds
Writers on Film - May 24, 2023 05:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe talk Life Above the Clouds: Steven DeLay's expansive collection of essays in this anthology proves that the subject of Malick is far from exhausted, and continues to affirm this filmmaker as an arousing artist of aesthetic, philosophical, and cinematic intrigue "In Life Above the Clouds: P...
Jim Colvill talks Film Desk Books
Writers on Film - May 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJim Colvill is an editor based in New York City. He is also the publisher who along with Jake Perlin established Film Desk Books, a NYC based small press and online bookseller dedicated to books on cinema. He also edited The Press Gang, a collection of work from New York Press, with critics Godf...
Al Clark talks producing Priscilla, Chopper and the Oz Film Industry
Writers on Film - May 10, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAl Clark comes back to the podcast to talk the second half of his career. Having left London and Virgin, Al embarked on a massively influential career in the Australian film industry. His films launched many an Australian star both in front of behind the camera. Here's the blurb from his secon...
Non-Super Hero Comic Book Movies: 1. John Wagner
Writers on Film - May 03, 2023 05:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJames Peaty is film maker and writer. He's 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 that time he has written for titles including The Batman Strikes!, X-Men Unlimited, Green Arrow....
Melanie Williams on A Taste of Honey
Writers on Film - April 26, 2023 05:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMelanie Williams is Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. A specialist in British cinema, her publications in this area include British Women’s Cinema (2009), Ealing Revisited (BFI, 2012), David Lean (2014), Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Qu...
Ethan Warren on Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers on Film - April 19, 2023 04:19 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEthan Warren is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and is the writer and director of the film West of Her. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Adrian Martin on Criticism, Leone, Malick and Bertolucci
Writers on Film - April 12, 2023 04:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAdrian Martin was film reviewer for The Age between 1995 and 2006. For his numerous books, essays and public lectures he has won the Byron Kennedy Award (Australian Film Institute) and the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, and his PhD on film style won the Mollie Holman Award. He is the author...
Al Clark on Time Flies
Writers on Film - April 05, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAl Clark is an Australian film producer. He is best known for his producer role on The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and his executive producer role on the film, Chopper. Clark is also the author of four books. Time Flies and Time Flies Too are Clark's memoirs, which merge the ea...
Matt Zoller Seitz talks Books and Film
Writers on Film - March 29, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMatt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. ...
George Stevens Jr returns to talk Hollywood and Washington Legends
Writers on Film - March 22, 2023 06:26 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGeorge Stevens Jr. has had a long and illustrious career in the entertainment industry, passing over five generations. In his new book, "My Place in the Sun," Stevens Jr. provides a rare glimpse into the private lives of some of America's most famous first ladies, presidents, and celebrities. He...
Crooked but Never Common
Writers on Film - March 15, 2023 06:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948―The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek among them―all from screenplays he alone had...
Graham Skipper Vs Godzilla
Writers on Film - March 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGraham Skipper is a writer, actor, director, and producer, known for writing/directing the sci-fi/horror feature film Sequence Break, as well as his essays on horror cinema published in Fangoria and My Favourite Horror (Black Vortex Publishing, 2018). Most recently his work can be found in Simon...
Will Scheibel talks Gene Tierney and Hollywood Stardom
Writers on Film - March 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWill Scheibel is associate professor of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches film and screen studies. He is the coauthor of Twin Peaks, a volume in the TV Milestones Series (Wayne State University Press, 2020), with Julie Grossman. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, inc...
Thomas Puhr talks Fate and Film
Writers on Film - February 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe course of events is predetermined and cannot be changed. Forces beyond our control—or even our comprehension—shape our fates. Such is the deterministic worldview embedded in a wide swath of contemporary cinema, from arthouse experiments to popular genre films, through both thematic concerns ...
Rahul Desai Talks Hollywood, Bollywood and Tollywood
Writers on Film - February 15, 2023 06:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRahul Desai is a freelance critic who writes regularly for The Hindu among many other publications. His columns often look at film from a personal perspective and he is also the host of his own podcast. You can find some of his writing here and follow him on twitter here. Support this show http...
Charles Bramesco talks Colors of Film
Writers on Film - February 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCharles Bramesco is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and many. many others. Taking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in...
Paul Williams talks Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen and Holy Men
Writers on Film - February 02, 2023 09:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPaul Williams is a key figure in New Hollywood and cinema generally. Along with Ed Pressman, he formed Pressman Williams Productions which brought to the screens the likes of Brian de Palma and Terrence Malick. He directed a number of films beginning in 1969 with Out of It starring Barry Gordon ...
Hannah Strong on Sofia Coppola: Forever Young
Writers on Film - January 25, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAn illustrated critical survey of Academy Award–winning writer and director Sofia Coppola’s career, covering everything from her groundbreaking music videos through her latest films In the two decades since her first feature film was released, Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse, meticu...
From the Archive: Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan
Writers on Film - January 18, 2023 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA chance to listen to the FIRST EVER episode of Writers on Film. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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