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Is Amadeus Actually About Mediocrity?
Amadeus (1984, Miloš Forman) is not really about Mozart. It’s a film about the rest of us — the ones who can recog…
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The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss?
Miranda once told Andy she was the greatest disappointment of her career. Twenty years on, the question isn’t whet…
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Can A Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?
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Can You Still Make A Good Musical Biopic? (Re-Release)
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The Drama And Why A-List Actors Go Gloriously Weird
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Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce
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Films covered
Hosts
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mei 14
Why Does Cinema Makes Us So Obsessed?
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mei 7
Is Amadeus Actually About Mediocrity?
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apr 30
The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss?
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apr 23
Can A Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?
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apr 16
Can You Still Make A Good Musical Biopic? (Re-Release)
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apr 2
The Drama And Why A-List Actors Go Gloriously Weird
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mrt 31
Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce
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mrt 27
Is This The Year Of The Skarsgårds? Pillion, Dead Man’s Wire and History of Sound
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00:27:20
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mrt 19
Why Does Il Conformista Still Matter? Bertolucci, Pasolini, and the Fascist Aesthetic
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00:35:02
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mrt 12
The Man Who Fell to Screen: David Bowie’s Life in Cinema
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00:33:45
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mrt 5
From Mary Shelley to The Bride: Why Is Frankenstein’s Monster Always Ugly?
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00:43:20
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feb 27
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn’t Political. These Films Disagree.
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00:46:12
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feb 24
The DJ Who Turned Sirāt Into a Rave Experience w/ Kangding Ray
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00:25:43
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feb 19
Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype?
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00:42:11
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feb 12
How Brokeback Mountain Changed Queer Storytelling—and Should Straight Actors Still Play Queer Roles? w/ Esje Seigfried
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00:30:29
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feb 5
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Is A Brutal Take On Capitalism
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00:39:36
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jan 29
Can We Still Watch Films by Bad People?
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00:39:46
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jan 22
Hamnet and Movies That Are Secret Shakespeare Plays
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00:40:53
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jan 15
2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films
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00:48:48
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jan 8
Why Children Of Men Is The Most Realistic Dystopian Film
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00:32:59
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dec 30
Ranking the Most Talked About Films of 2025
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00:31:58
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dec 18
Why Sentimental Value Should Win Big At The Oscars
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00:34:05
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dec 12
What Makes a Film Festive?
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00:34:43
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dec 4
How Sex And The City Maps The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire
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00:57:12
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nov 27
Die My Love, Splitsville, Nouvelle Vague + The World Of Schmutz Cinema
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00:34:05
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nov 20
Jack of All Trades: How Jack Nicholson Became a Cinema Icon
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00:57:49
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nov 13
The Smashing Machine, Back To The Future & It Was Just An Accident
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00:32:55
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nov 6
How The American New Wave Took Over Hollywood
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00:59:10
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okt 30
What Bugonia Gets Wrong About Conspiracy Theorists + Kelly Reichardt On The Mastermind
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00:38:52
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okt 23
Mark Cousins On Tilda Swinton And His Story Of A Life In Film
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00:36:08
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okt 17
Why Luca Guadagnino Is The Master Of Desire
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00:43:15
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okt 9
How Rietland Put Dutch Cinema Back on the Map w/ Director Sven Bresser
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00:38:01
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okt 2
Eddington, Rietland and Tilly Norwood
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00:31:38
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sep 25
One Battle After Another, Yi Yi and Him
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00:36:56
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sep 18
Make Chick Flicks Great Again….Or Not?
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00:44:23
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sep 10
Why Agnès Varda is a Cinema Icon
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00:46:35
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sep 4
The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi
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00:36:55
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aug 27
Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features
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aug 13
Why Everyone is Talking About Weapons and Sorry, Baby
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00:29:49
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jul 23
Morgan Knibbe on The Garden of Earthly Delights and the Silence Around It
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00:34:42
The Hosts
LG
Film Journalist
Laura Gommans
Writes about film for IFFR, De Filmkrant, and NRC.
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HE
Film Critic
Hugo Emmerzael
Senior critic. Specialises in contemporary cinema, discourse, and musical biopics.
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KM
Filmmaker
Kiriko Mechanicus
Director working at the intersection of documentary and fiction.
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TO
Head of Cinema, LAB111
Tom Ooms
Programmer. Keeper of the LAB111 archive. Brings the historical frame.
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mrt 12, 2026
The Man Who Fell to Screen: David Bowie’s Life in Cinema
mrt 5, 2026
From Mary Shelley to the Bride: Why Is Frankenstein’s Monster Always So Ugly?
feb 26, 2026
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Is Not Political. These Films Disagree.
feb 19, 2026
Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth the Hype?