Sir Christopher Frayling is a legend of film writing and criticism. His work on Hammer and his books on Sergio Leone and Spaghetti Westerns have been a huge inspiration to many of us. His latest - Sergio Leone by Himself - is available HERE . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer, bookseller, and Malick fanatic, Matt Zoller Seitz joins me to talk A Hidden Life . Visit Matt's online shop here . The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is now available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Composed 1886; recorded c. 1980. Source The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music ...
When Superbad was released on August 17th in 2007, it proved itself to be a massive success right out of the gate, especially for those in the film’s target millennial demographic. The film wound up dominating at the box office, bringing in $170 million dollars worldwide, against a $20 million dollar budget. It also launched the careers of Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Emma Stone, Bill Hader, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Seth Rogen whose careers are all thriving to this day. It further proved that ...
Geoff Dyer is an essayist and novelist. His book on Andrey Tarkovsky's Stalker: Zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room is one of my favourites, equalled only by his other book on the Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood starring Where Eagles Dare: Broadsword Calling Danny Boy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
‘There are so many insights – even hardcore Bond fans will be surprised. Indispensable.’ – David Lowbridge-Ellis MBE Only six men can lay claim to wearing the famous Savile Row tuxedo of James Bond; more people have stepped on the Moon. Yet, hundreds more came within an inch of winning the coveted 007 role – the pinnacle for so many actors. For the first time, The Search for Bond tells the extraordinary story of how cinema’s most famous secret agent was cast, featuring exclusive interviews with ...
Robert Sinnerbrink is an Australian academic, a philosopher and writer of numerous books, including Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film and New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images . The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is now available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Comp...
David Thomson is the author of many books on film and television, including a biography of Orson Welles, a book of appreciation on Nicole Kidman, his legendary Biographical Dictionary of Film , The Big Screen , How to Watch a Movie , and his trilogy of books of movie universe short stories Suspects , Silver Light and Connecticut . He is also a documentarian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Tom Shone - author of The Nolan Variations and Martin Scorsese a Retrospective - joins John Bleasdale to talk about the work of David Lynch, following his passing. An article by Tom for Prospect Magazine can be read here : "Who could possibly follow in his footsteps? His impact went over the head of Hollywood and under the feet of his fellow filmmakers—cutting a zig-zagging path wide enough for one. The only person who could do Lynchian was Lynch. But the impact of his films went far and deep. T...
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Hollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the rise of Rome as the center of Europe’s film industry in the 1950s and ’60s. Written in the late 1970s and now published in English for the first time, this edition features a new foreword by Sandy Lieberson, who worked alongside Kaufman a...
A crossover episode as I talk with Martin Woessner the author of Terrence Malick and the Examined Life, one of the best books written on the visionary filmmaker. We talk about the book before settling in to a discussion of Knight of Cups , Malick's seventh film. Martin's book is available here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Buy the book here , or here . Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse and cult films from 1960 to 1990. This historical period spans the Algerian war of independence and the early wave of postcolonial struggles that reshaped the Global South, through the collapse of Soviet Communism in the late 1980s. It focuses on films related to the rise of protest ...
This interview with Jack Fisk was recorded as part of my research for the book The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick. As such it was never meant for broadcast but with Jack's permission I'm presenting this edited version. Jack picks up from part one to talk about his later collaborations with Malick on The Thin Red Line and The New World , as well as his work on the Weightless Trilogy. My book is now available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . ...
I'm joined by Walter Chaw to talk Walter Hill and his book A Walter Hill Film as well as look back on the year of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Terrence Malick's 6th film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and starred Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko as a pair of lovers watching their relationship fall apart. My biography of Terrence Malick The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Composed 1886; r...
Terrence Malick's fifth film was a culmination of decades of work: The Tree of Life . It won the Palme d'Or and boasted his most intimate and cosmic vision. Shane Hazen worked on the film, first as an intern before finishing the film as one of the last editors on board. My biography of Terrence Malick The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pian...
Die Hard - is it a Christmas movie? or not? Do we care? Did we ever? But it's a good excuse to talk to Brian Abrams about his brilliant book Die Hard: an Oral History, available here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Joseph McBride - film historian and one time actor for Orson Welles - talks about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director. It is available as an e-book now and will be published the first week of January, 2025, in hardback. For more information click HERE . From the publisher: "The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett , The Philadelphia Story , Gaslight , Adam’s Rib , A Star Is Born , and My Fair Lady , George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood....
Terrence Malick's third film The Thin Red Line (1998) was a stunning return after a hiatus of 20 years. Writer Jeremy Arnold joins me to talk through the film. My biography of Terrence Malick The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Composed 1886; recorded ...
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Jack Fisk was Terrence Malick's production designer for almost his entire career. The two first met on Badlands and here Jack talks with me about his first two films with Malick. The second part of the interview will be released soon. The interview has been edited and condensed. My biography of Terrence Malick The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Perfor...
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Terrence Malick's second film Days of Heaven (1978) was an immersive and visionary piece of work. Writer and documentary filmmaker Ian Nathan joins me to talk through the film. My biography of Terrence Malick The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick is available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Compose...
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of The Babadook, Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the que...
Terrence Malick's first film Badlands (1973) introduced the world to a new visionary talent. Tom Shone joins me to talk through the film. The biography The Magic Hours is available from all good book shops and online sources, including here . Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux Performers Pianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan Orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sokol. Composed 1886; recorded c. 1980. Source The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio...
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 University Press, 2024), Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen (Columbia University Press, 2018). She received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, M.A. an...
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 family wreak terror on a group of unsuspecting teenagers as they stray onto the family farm. James Rose's monograph for Devil's Advocate is a superb introduction, explication, and an in depth history of the making and reception of the film. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad...
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 key to her popularity Focuses on Hepburn's abilities and craft as an actress; Offers a substantive and critical analysis of her “Cinderella” films as a discernible cycle; Argues that her striking success and popularity as a movie star was not only due to her unique physical features but to specific factors of postwar culture in the 1950s. Get bonus...
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 later in November, details below. Friday 29th November, 6pm Venue: BLOC, ArtsOne, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road London E1 4NS Free to attend, booking essential Click here to book The Foundation is delighted to be collaborating with Queen Mary University, London to present an evening celebrating the winner of this year’s Moving Image B...
