Get ready for one heck of a claustrophobic rollercoaster ride as Chris, Sol and Tom go through some of the biggest (and some of the most underrated) single location - and primary location - films of all time! Spoiler Warning: We will spoil Coherence (with a clear warning) - jump to 1:01:00 if you do not want to get the concept spoiled. We will cover: Adapted Plays: Secret Honor: 00:08:33 Street Scene: 00:14:32 Carnage and Roman Polanski: 00:15:35 Sacha Guitry: 00:17:30 Huis Clos: 00:19:10 Claust...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Recording in the midst of ICMFF2020, Chris, Matthieu and Tom break down the main slate and the highlights from the festival so far.
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Yes, that's right: This is the episode where we arbitrarily pick the best and worst films to have won the Oscar for Best Picture, and, well ... fight it out ... Do you want to hear us: - Shock you with which Best Picture winners we hate? - Psychoanalyse the academy voters? - Figure out if things are getting "worse" or "better"? - Pinpoint trends? If so, join in for the ultimate Oscars Podcast, spanning from the very first winner in 1929, all the way up to Parasite in 2020 - and for a deep dive i...
Nov 28, 2020•1 hr 49 min
John Guillermin , the director of Rapture, The Towering Inferno, King Kong, Never Let Go, Guns at Batasi and a long line of other films is best known for his bad temper , and there have been no comprehensive books on his work. This has changed: His wife Mary Guillermin has launched a large project to do John's work justice, and the book: John Guillermin: The Man, The Myth, The Movies is now out. We sat down with her before the release, and had an absolutely fantastic chat about John's life and w...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 34 min
Yes It is time for that chat ... Is Questin Tarantino the most unoriginal man in Hollywood, a petty thief with no soul - or is he a great auteur playing around with cinematic conventions and form? Regardless of how you feel about QT however, he loves cinema, and is likely the most vocal film buff of any living director, not to mention listmaker and promoter. No living director appears to be more vocally focused on what he is leaving behind than Questin Tarantino. His promise is clear: His next f...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Are you easily scared? In this episode Chris, Matthieu, Lauren and Sol talk us through the films that traumatized them. Hell, Radio even gets a mention! Listen in to hear the run-down of the scariest movie monsters, not to mention the silliest movie monsters. We will, of course, talk about the scariest films of all time, but beyond that we will try to unpack just what it is about them that scares us.
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 18 min
In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard made a film called Weekend, famous for its beautiful tracking shot of a traffic jam and the collision that caused it. To many fans of Godard's work up to this point it is as if he was one of the casualties, or more potent: that this car crash is an apt metaphor for the next 12 years of his career. But why? Why do even ardent Godard fans, including those who followed and loved his work in the 80s, 90s, and throughout the 21st century hate or dismiss his 70s work? Why did ...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Chris, Lauren, Sol and Tom try to decipher the power of rewatches . We will talk about: How our memories can be deceitful liars The films that broke our hearts Stories of rags to riches What actually change between each viewing And so much more
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The time has come to reveal our very favourite films of 2019. In this episode Chris, Clem, Matthieu, Sol and Tom go through their top 5 films in detail. We also give each film more and more time to each film as we get closer to the top . The big shock here is that there were only 3 films that are on two lists , and even more shocking, no films were on more than 2 lists . There were 25 possible slots, and in this episode, we will cover 22 . Pretty incredible, and some really big films did not mak...
Sep 23, 2020•2 hr 5 min
Warning: In this episode Chris will compare Shane to Funny Games ... Hi all, In this episode Chris, Adam and Tom pull out their guns and join one of the Internets (and pre-Internets) longest standing shoot-outs - the battle between classic westerns and spaghetti westerns. You may also end up reaching for your guns and aiming them at us actually ... Why? Because we have picked two films to compare and contrast and neither are by John Ford or Sergio Leone. We will center today's episode on the mos...
Sep 13, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Have you ever been in a situation where you realized that you were losing control? That you were watching too many films and that is was negatively affecting your life? Worse yet, have you ever experienced literal withdrawal symptoms? In this episode Tom, Sol, Lauren and Adam take on the somewhat gruelling topic of film addiction, and explores the difference between cinephilia and genuine addiction, and talk about how they manage their film obsessions.
Sep 01, 2020•55 min
Are you a film purist? And if so, are you an extremist? In this episode Sol jumps into the host's chair to see just how many of film purist Tom's buttons he can push before he breaks. Co-hosts Adam and Lauren join in for this gut-wrenching human drama of perfect cinema conditions and absolute respect for the artists vs. workouts, cleaning, internet browsing, eating and watching films on 1.5x speed - on your smartphone. The way that we consume movies has a changed a lot over the past 125 years. I...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Can anything really go wrong if you just want to chat about films? Well ... yes it can! In this episode ICMForum.com co-founders Adam & Lauren are back to talk about the bizarre origins of ICMForum.com.
Aug 17, 2020•53 min
In this episode we talk about a topic near and dear to our hearts: The Decline of Film Forums. Once upon a time there was an endless horde of IMDb forums, each with their own subculture. We had Mubi (the auteurs), RottenTomatoes and many, many more. Then, they slowly started to disappear, to the point that only ICMForum.com, and a few others, mostly the IMDb clones, which have copied the archives and kept some of the same users, are active and popular. What happened? Fittingly, both the co-found...
Aug 05, 2020•44 min
In this episode we will explore the idea of "Disturbing Cinema", and try to figure out exactly what disturbing even means . To do this we will go on a personal journey exploring what disturbs us and why, and of course, to do this we will indeed list: The Most Disturbing Films We Have Ever Seen. So, please do disturb, as Tom takes the host's chair to explore his love for disturbing cinema!
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min
In part 1 we looked at the first 3 films of the cycle: The Aviator's Wife A Good Marriage Pauline at the Beach We saw how each of these 3 films built and expanded on the same conflict of love and relationships between men and women. Honestly, they would have worked perfectly as a trilogy in their own right. However, one of the most exciting things about Rohmer's cinema is one of contradiction - thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Each of the three first films had this inherent dialectic within them...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 17 min
In this episode we will talk through all of the major contemporary silent films, or rather, the few there are: Silent Movie Juha The Call of Cthulhu Brand Upon the Brain Dr Plonk La Antena The Artist Blanchieves And ask the following questions: 1. Are silent films simply the result of [b]unfortunate technical limitations[/b], which the medium luckily overcame - or are they a [b]unique style with its own merits[/b]. 2. Why did it take such a long time from the decline of silents to any kind of la...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 15 min
In this episode Tom, Sol and Matthieu attempts to figure out what "Mainstream Cinema" even is.
Jun 27, 2020•53 min
SPOILER WARNING: Our discussions are in two sets - one based on the basic plot and early development of the story - and then a dissection of the ending and the films as a whole. There will be a clear spoiler warning at the halfway point. If you have not seen the films in question you can then skip to the next film, the starting times are: Introduction to the Cycle: 00:00 The Aviator's Wife: 10:00 A Good Marriage: 35: 25 Pauline at the Beach: 55:00
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 18 min
How do you feel about spoilers? Can they actually hurt your viewing experience? Does even knowing a film has something "spoilable" about them have the potential to affect you? What lengths (if any) do you go to in order to avoid spoilers? Should you even avoid reading up on films before watching them, or can films also be hurt by going into them them "blind"? In this episode we will cover these topics, and much, much more. Spoiler Warning: In this episode we will spoil: The Sixth Sense, Psycho, ...
Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 18 min
What is the main reason you would not watch a film? Are there any films you actively avoid? Are there any films you are embarrassed to not have seen? In this episode we will answer the above questions and more, and dive deeper into the psychology that goes into not actually seeing a film.
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 2 min
In this episode we cover two great existential questions: What is your all-time favourite film? Why? The format is simple, Gary, Sol, Tom and Chris each take their turn describing their favourite film, before the floor is opened with comments from the others. The films discussed: Gary: Seven Samurai Sol: Fanny och Alexander and Videodrome Tom: A Clockwork Orange Chris: Stalker and Last Year at Marienbad
May 26, 2020•47 min
In this episode we will attempt to talk you through the entirety of Spanish horror film history, starting from Jesus Franco's The Awful Dr. Orlof and The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (the first ever two Spanish horror films!), and continueing on through 60s, 70s and 80s Eurohorror onto In a Glass Cage, Anguish, The Day of the Beast, Thesis, The Orphanage, Timecrimes, [REC], Kidnapped and so much more. Also, get excited: We finish up with a detailed discussion of the recent super-hit The Platform, an...
May 19, 2020•1 hr 10 min
AKA: The Klaus Kinski episode. Kinski is one of cinema's most controversial icons, and left us with a set of legendary films, especially his set of 5 collaborations with Werner Herzog, but also a long, long line of B- and C-grade paycheck films. In this episode we will dissect his career through two films, one representing his highest achievements, one representing his lowest gutter trash, and he just happens to be playing the very same character in both of them: Nosferatu (perhaps his most icon...
May 11, 2020•40 min
In this episode Chris, Tom, Adam, Clem, Gary and Joke talk about the films and experiences that made them fall in love with cinema
May 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min
In this pilot episode Chris and Adam discover that, like everyone else, they no longer watch The Simpsons, sparking the questions: Who on earth are still watching it, is it on air for anything but sentimental or nostalgic reasons and could the new episodes actually be good?!
May 03, 2020•20 min
