Podcast Episodes

Deciphering The Saragossa Manuscript

Season 5 Episode 8

Listeners may remember our conversation earlier this year with Michael Brooke celebrating the centenary of Wojciech Has – one of Poland’s greatest an…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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Lucian Pintilie: godfather of the Romanian New Wave

Season 5 Episode 7

For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for a profile of the great Romanian director Lucian Pintili…

8 months ago

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Eastern notions: celebrating Ali Khamraev

Season 5 Episode 6

Central Asia remains a great blindspot for many Western cinephiles – so we were thrilled to hear about an upcoming season in New York, hosted by the …

8 months, 1 week ago

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Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part One – Last Air in Moscow

Season 5 Episode 5

14 years after her previous feature, Julia Loktev is back with a monumental new documentary project. My Undesirable Friends is her collective portrai…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Klassiki Kino Club: The Return of the Projectionist

Season 5 Episode 4

This week, we’re reopening the Klassiki Kino Club, our watch-along exploration of Klassiki’s ever-expanding catalogue. In the hot seat this time arou…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Horror behind the Iron Curtain

Season 5 Episode 4

As every film fan knows, October is horror season. And while eastern Europe these days is full of horror filmmakers who can mix it with the best of t…

9 months ago

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Mother Teresa and Persian poetry at the London Film Festival

Season 5 Episode 2

The 69th edition of the London Film Festival has just rolled through the capital’s cinemas, bringing a host of filmmaking talents in its wake. Sam he…

9 months, 1 week ago

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The Strugatsky Brothers on screen

Season 5 Episode 1

Welcome back! It’s season five of the Klassiki podcast. We’ve got ten more great episodes lined up for you, featuring some exciting interviews, histo…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Cinema of the Donbas

Season 4 Episode 10

We’ve reached the end season four! Thank you as always for listening along. We’ll be back in the autumn, so look out for that and make sure you’re su…

11 months, 1 week ago

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From Shakespeare to Solaris: the otherworldly career of Jüri Järvet

Season 4 Episode 9

For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for a profile of the great Estonian actor Jüri Järvet – a c…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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