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Sheri Chinen Biesen talks Through a Noir Lens
Season 1 Episode 188
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen is Professor of Film History at Rowan University and author of Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style (Columbia…
1 year, 9 months ago
Texas Chainsaw Massacre with James Rose
Episode 187
The best horror film ever made? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me is certainly the most unnerving and scariest to this day. Leatherface and his fami…
1 year, 10 months ago
Steven Cohan on Audrey Hepburn
Episode 186
Steven Cohan talks about his new book: On Audrey Hepburn: an Opinionated Guide
Provides an original take on fashion in her films and shows how it was …
1 year, 10 months ago
Jie Li talks Cinematic Guerillas
Episode 185
I talk to Professor Jie Li, the winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Prize Moving Image Book Award.
Please note she will be delivering a lecture in London lat…
1 year, 10 months ago
Adam Woodward on The Worlds of Wes Anderson
Episode 184
In all his films, Wes Anderson turns the mundane into magic by building distinctive and eccentric worlds. But how well do you know the man behind the…
1 year, 10 months ago
Benjamin Halligan talks Hotbeds of Licentiousness
Episode 183
Dr. Benjamin Halligan joins John Bleasdale to talk about Hotbeds of Licentiousness, the first substantial critical engagement with British pornograph…
1 year, 10 months ago
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Episode 182
The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.”
Over the course of her sixty-five-year car…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jason Solomons on Film Weekly, Woody Allen and becoming a Film Producer
Episode 181
Jason Solomons has been a film critic, one of the first film podcasters, an author and is now moving into a new role as a film producer with his comp…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jez Conolly on The Thing
Episode 180
Jez Conolly is the author of the Devil's Advocate edition of his book The Thing (available here) as well as an essay in Volume 3 of Scarred for Life …
1 year, 11 months ago
From the Archives: Adam Nayman's Masterworks
Episode 16
John Bleasdale talks about Paul Verhoeven, the Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher and film bros with Adam Nayman, …
1 year, 11 months ago