Kleber Mendonça Filho, the director of Aquarius , and collaborator Juliano Dornelles have come up with a politically loaded riff on The Most Dangerous Game scenario. It’s a thrilling blend of genre thrills and shocks, and smart satire. Bacurau, a settlement in rural Brazil, is shaken by its matriarch’s death. But something strange is happening, the water supply has been cut off, and the village has disappeared from satellite maps completely. Under threat from an unknown enemy, Bacurau braces its...
Mar 12, 2020•40 min
We’re in love. It started with a Water Lilies in 2007. Our love grew stronger with Tomboy in 2011. We were devoted by the time Girlhood came around in 2014. And now, well, we scarcely know what to do with ourselves.This month we’ve dedicated an entire episode of our podcast to Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the film that has set the roof alight with all those fire emojis. Twitter is burning! Sciamma’s fourth film as a director took Cannes by storm back in 2019, earning standing ova...
Feb 28, 2020•48 min
Beware, there's spoilers ahead! Bong Joon Ho's PARASITE is the film that keeps on giving. To complement our deep dive into the #BongHive , we have a very special bonus episode featuring Shaun of the Dead , Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver 's Edgar Wright in conversation with the Academy Award-winning Director Bong. This Q&A was recorded at Curzon Bloomsbury, before the PARASITE mania hit UK shores. Since recording, the film has made history by winning multiple awards breaking multiple box office rec...
Feb 18, 2020•38 min
We’ve dedicated an entire episode to the film that, for many many months, has been infecting audiences more than any other. Created by South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, since its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, Parasite has spread its way to box office success, BAFTA nominations and even a nomination for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Over the course of the show, you’ll get expert insights on Bong Joon Ho’s career up to this point, we’ll hear from the people behind the fren...
Feb 07, 2020•47 min
This week we ask the question ' How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two days? Where are we?' as Willem Dafoe and Robert Eggers join us to spill their beans about their new indescribable not-quite horror film The Lighthouse. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are left alone on a grim deserted island to tend to a lighthouse in 1890's New England. As tensions rise between the two men, the boundaries between fantasy and reality begin to blur... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Jan 31, 2020•29 min
This week we're joined by the writer-director of Waves, Trey Edward Shults. Waves stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Tyler, and 18 year old under pressure to excel from his domineering father, played by Sterling K. Brown. When an injury threatens Tyler's future career, he goes off the rails, and his family struggle to deal with the consequences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 17, 2020•17 min
This week we go deep into the trenches to take a look at Sam Mendes' one-shot wonder, the war drama 1917, and speak to the films lead actors Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay, who star as two soldiers given orders to deliver a message across enemy lines that could save thousands of lives. Having won the Golden Globe award for Best Film last weekend, 1917 has announced itself as a major awards contender and one you have to see on the biggest screen possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Jan 10, 2020•15 min
On this week's episode, we see out 2019 with Greta Gerwig's Little Women , and we welcome in 2020 with Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit . In Little Women , Greta Gerwig couldn't have chosen a more beloved classic to adapt for her second feature as director, matched only by the strength of cast she's corralled. Playing the four leads on the verge of womanhood are Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson and Sharp Objects ' Eliza Scanlen. Telling the tale of four daughters of a preacher in post-Civil ...
Dec 24, 2019•29 min
It's that time of year when we make endless lists of the most wonderful things we have seen at the cinema over the past 12 months. Tune in to hear about our favourites! Discussing the films this week are Jake Cunningham, Sam Howlett, Kelly Powell and Ella Kemp Follow the team on Social Media: @jakehcunningham - Jake @samhowlett_1 - Sam @ella_kemp - Ella @ks_powell - Kelly Produced by Jake Cunningham Edited by Mark Towers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 20, 2019•46 min
In this episode we welcome a true legend of cinema on to the podcast, the man, the myth... Werner Herzog As well as talking to Mr Herzog, we round up the results of the European Film Awards where Herzog was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement. Along with this, we take a look at the Next Level of the Jumanji series. Discussing the films this week are Jake Cunningham, Sam Howlett, Kelly Powell and Ella Kemp Follow the team on Social Media: @jakehcunningham - Jake @samhowlett_1 - Sam Produced...
Dec 13, 2019•41 min
On the pod this week, we welcome Alma Har'el, director of Honey Boy , the Shia LaBeouf biopic written by the man himself. Plus we delve in to Chinese heartbreaker So Long My Son So Long My Son explores the impact of China's one child policy. It spans from the 1980s to the present day, regularly shifting back and forth in time. The story details the changing fortunes of a family and those around them, and how government policy has consistently affected their lives. Directed by Alma Har’el, in her...
Dec 05, 2019•38 min
Murder! This week we're joined by writer-director Rian Johnson who tells us about his new whodunnit Knives Out, and we discuss the controversial revenge thriller The Nightingale. Knives Out is an entertaining old-school murder mystery, boasting an incredible cast including Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans and Don Johnson amongst many others. The Nightingale is director Jennifer Kent's follow-up to her acclaimed horror The Babadook, starring Aisling Franciosi as a young Irish prisoner ...
Nov 28, 2019•33 min
'Tis the season (nearly) so we unwrap our presents early and discuss Paul Feig's festive comedy Last Christmas, as well as take a look at offbeat animation I Lost My Body. Written by Emma Thompson, Last Christmas stars Emilia Clarke (aka Daenerys Targaryen) as Christmas shop worker Kate, a down-on-her-luck Londoner who meets handsome stranger Tom, who seems too good to be true. I Lost My Body tells the bizarre story of a severed hand who, having been removed from it's owner's arm, frantically ro...
Nov 22, 2019•23 min
In this episode we get the report on The Report from director Scott Z. Burns. Plus, the amazing Amazing Johnathan Documentary... The Report is about Daniel Jones (played by Adam Driver), who is tasked by Senator Dianne Feinstein (that’s Annette Bening) with delivering a definitive report on the CIA's use of torture after 9/11. What he uncovers will shake America. But, under constant threat from the US security forces, will their publication of the 6,700 page report bring change? Our second film ...
Nov 14, 2019•37 min
In this episode we soar into new heights, with guest Felicity Jones, and her new film The Aeronauts. Plus, we get in to the story of Noah Baumbach's new one on marriage. Noah Baumbach, director of The Squid and the Whale and The Meyerowitz Stories, returns with a new family drama that ranks among his very best, and is a front runner for acting awards over the coming months. This one’s about a stage director (played by Adam Driver) and his wife, an actress played by Scarlett Johansson, as they st...
Nov 06, 2019•30 min
This week, we take delivery of Ken Loach's latest, Sorry We Missed You and talk to the director himself. Plus, 37 years later, we return to the Overlook Hotel for The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep Director Ken Loach teams once again with I, Daniel Blake screenwriter Paul Laverty for another indictment of the capitalist forces shaping modern Britain. Ricky is dreaming of better things for his family when he becomes a delivery van driver. But as an ‘independent contractor’, he’s working in unsparing...
Oct 31, 2019•30 min
In this episode, for the first time, we welcome a guest for the third time. François Ozon, director of Swimming Pool , In The House and L'amant Double , joins for a hat-trick appearance on the podcast to talk about his new film By The Grace of God Francois Ozon's gripping true-life drama tells the story of three men who come together to dismantle the code of silence around historic abuse cases within the Catholic Church. Alexandre (Melville Poupaud) lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One ...
Oct 24, 2019•33 min
In this episode we pull a new page from Olivier Assayas's filmography, as we discuss Non-Fiction . Plus, we share our final highlights from the 2019 edition of the London Film Festival. Non Fiction begins when an affair between actress Selena (that’s Juliette Binoche) and writer Léonard (Vincent Macaigne) is nearly discovered thanks to Léonard’s recent thinly veiled autobiographical novel. Fortunately, Alain (Guillaume Canet), who is both Selena’s husband and Léonard’s publisher, rejects the boo...
Oct 17, 2019•26 min
In this episode we welcome Marchánt Davis, breakout star of The Day Shall Come , Chris Morris' return to film, a decade after Four Lions. Plus we delve in to our highlights from the London Film Festival so far. In The Day Shall Come , an impoverished preacher, played by Marchant Davis, who’s attempting to bring hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. However, he’s got no clue that his sponsor works for the FBI, and in search of promotion, they’ve got big drea...
Oct 10, 2019•38 min
In this episode we travel from Gotham City to the Emerald one as we cover Joker and Judy, with special guest Rufus our Sewell in the crown. Judy Garland became one of the undisputed icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood. But behind that success was a darker tale, one of innocence exploited. In Rupert Goold’s new biopic, Renée Zellwegger plays Judy in the twilight of her career. Battered but not beaten, financial ruin forces Garland to return to the stage. Setting ‘60s London alight, she reconnect...
Oct 04, 2019•31 min
As the BFI London Film Festival takes over many of our screens for the next two weeks, we decide to find out why, by asking two of the festival's programmers (Kate Taylor and Michael Blyth) about putting the festival together; along with what films to watch out for during the festival and beyond. As well as talking to Kate and Michael, we also quickly reveal our most anticipated releases of the next few weeks, which will be arriving in cinemas soon after. Discussing the films this week are Kelly...
Sep 25, 2019•32 min
In this episode, we talk about the film that has smashed even Avengers Endgame 's box office record, Lulu Wang's The Farewell . Plus, we talk to the director all about her film. First up though, is For Sama . When the Arab Spring came to Syria in 2012, Waad al-Kateab picked up her camera and began filming the revolution. For five years, under Assad’s brutal assault, she kept filming. For Sama captures that journey, as she marries her partner Hamza al-Kateab, and gives birth to her daughter Sama....
Sep 19, 2019•39 min
In this episode we get in to the Gray matters of space travel with James Gray, director of galactic sized interstellar therapy session Ad Astra. Plus, we roll out for a royal visit to Downton Abbey . In Ad Astra , astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos. It's 1...
Sep 12, 2019•32 min
This week we go from small-town Cornwall to small-town Maine, looking at the highly acclaimed British film Bait and the sequel to the biggest horror film of all time It Chapter Two, as well as speaking to the films' director Andy Muschietti. Bait looks at the effects of gentrification in a small fishing town in Cornwall. Shot in dramatic black-and-white on a 16mm camera, this is an impressive debut from director Mark Jenkin. It Chapter Two takes place 27 years after the events of the first film....
Sep 06, 2019•38 min
In this episode we snag a couple of souvenir guests in the form of director Joanna Hogg and music supervisor Ilona Cheshire, who give us their unique insights in to one of the most acclaimed films of 2019 The Souvenir is about Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the unwavering and decisive Tom Burke’s Anthony. The two take to one another and an intense romance blossoms, however, as the relationship develops it becomes clear...
Aug 26, 2019•50 min
In this episode we discuss the devilish double bill that is Penny Lane's satanic temple documentary Hail Satan? and Pedro Almodóvar's sumptuous, melancholic reverie Pain and Glory Penny Lane’s film Hail Satan? May not be as demonic as the title suggests. It’s a documentary about the satanists steadfastly working to preserve the separation of church and state. In three years their members rose from just three, to over 100,000, including by the end, the film’s director. Director Salvador Mallo (pl...
Aug 22, 2019•23 min
Quentin Tarantino’s joins us on the podcast this week, day tripping back to 1969 with his new film Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood . Plus, we review Christian Petzold's new film Transit . Quentin Tarantino's ninth feature is a kaleidoscopic tale of Hollywood backlots, rising starlets and fading stars, hippies and squares, the great and good of tinsel town, the most definitely bad of the golden state, and the ugliness of them rubbing against one another. Our guides through this culture clash are R...
Aug 14, 2019•35 min
This week the cinema is jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. We're talking to Gurinder Chadha (director of Bend it Like Beckham ) about her Springsteen infused brit-musical Blinded By The Light, plus we ask whether new Willem Dafoe film Opus Zero is an Opus Hero, or whether it lives up to its name... It's 1987, and it's not easy being British Pakistani in a commuter town living through the tatters of Thatcher's Britain. But salvation arrives in the unlikely shape of Bruce Spri...
Aug 08, 2019•37 min
In this episode we delve in to the intimate pairing setting hearts racing across the globe: Hobbs and Shaw, plus we talk to Ritesh Batra - director of The Lunchbox - about his new film Photograph. The latest from writer-director Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox), Photograph is a charming tale of unlikely romance set against the vibrant backdrop of contemporary Mumbai. Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a struggling street photographer who takes tourist portraits at the Gateway of India. When he meets Milon...
Aug 01, 2019•35 min
In the middle of the biggest heat wave the UK has seen in a long time, we discuss what we think are the hottest films of 2019. From the roundly praised Burning to the love it or hate it Under the Silver Lake , via a hulk-smashing superhero team-up and the mystical birds of Colombia, here are the best films of 2019 so far... Discussing the films this week are podcast regulars Sam Howlett, Kelly Powell and Jake Cunningham, with special guest appearances from Curzon staff members Ed Frost, Fern Bea...
Jul 26, 2019•44 min
