Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFilm at the end of the world, with Ben Rivers
Season 4 Episode 8
This week, we’re launching the latest edition of Klassiki Picks, our series of watchlists curated by our friends in the world of cinema and eastern E…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Klassiki Kino Club: Andrzej Munk’s Eroica
Season 4 Episode 7
Critic, researcher, and friend of the show Alisa Goruleva is back on the pod this week for the second edition of the Kino Club, our watch-a-long expl…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Béla Tarr, Hungary’s maestro of melancholy
Season 4 Episode 6
For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal. Today is the seventieth birthday of one of the true greats…
1 year ago
One hundred years of Marlen Khutsiev
Season 4 Episode 5
2025 is the centenary year of one of Soviet cinema’s true greats: Marlen Khutsiev, whose films from the fifties and sixties captured the excitement o…
1 year ago
Rolands Kalniņš: riding the Baltic New Wave with “Latvia’s Godard”
Season 4 Episode 4
For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal. Today, host Sam Goff reads an essay about the work of one …
1 year ago
The Klassiki Kino Club: István Szabó’s Confidence
Season 4 Episode 3
This week we’re trying something new on the pod: the first edition of the Klassiki Kino Club. We wanted to find a way of championing our ever-growing…
1 year ago
Romania before the New Wave
Season 4 Episode 2
The cinema of communist Romania rarely gets a look in compared with the 21st-century New Wave of Cristi Puiu, Radu Jude, and co. At Klassiki we’ve ju…
1 year, 1 month ago
From Rossellini to Dracula: Radu Jude in Transylvania
Season 4 Episode 1
Welcome back! We’ve made it to season four of the Klassiki Podcast. We’re kicking off with a return guest: one of our very favourite filmmakers, Radu…
1 year, 1 month ago
Eastern European film past, present, and future
Season 3 Episode 10
We’ve reached the end of the third season of the show! Thank you to everyone who’s listened along so far. If you enjoy the show, please leave us a fi…
1 year, 3 months ago
Caught by the night: the gothic visions of Juraj Herz
Season 3 Episode 9
For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for an essay on the Slovak maestro of the macabre, Juraj He…
1 year, 3 months ago