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CELEBRATING CINEMA

Amsterdam's LAB111 film podcast on the cinema that matters — debates, rankings, and director deep dives, every Thursday. A podcast for the love of cinema.

Why Do We Love To Film Ourselves?
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Why Do We Love To Film Ourselves?

Long before phones turned every life into footage, a small line of filmmakers was already pointing the camera at themselves — not to perform, but to work out what a…

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Celebrating Cinema — episode index
Art № Date Title Films covered Hosts Length
— mei 21 Why Do We Love To Film Ourselves? — — —
152 mei 14 Why Does Cinema Makes Us So Obsessed? — — 38m
151 mei 7 Is Amadeus Actually About Mediocrity? — — 36m
150 apr 30 The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss? — — 38m
149 apr 23 Can A Film Be More Intimate Than Porn? — — 35m
148 apr 16 Can You Still Make A Good Musical Biopic? (Re-Release) — — 49m
147 apr 2 The Drama And Why A-List Actors Go Gloriously Weird — — 37m
146 mrt 31 Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce — — 31m
145 mrt 27 Is This The Year Of The Skarsgårds? Pillion, Dead Man’s Wire and History of Sound — — 27m
144 mrt 19 Why Does Il Conformista Still Matter? Bertolucci, Pasolini, and the Fascist Aesthetic — — 35m
143 mrt 12 The Man Who Fell to Screen: David Bowie’s Life in Cinema — — 33m
142 mrt 5 From Mary Shelley to The Bride: Why Is Frankenstein’s Monster Always Ugly? — — 43m
141 feb 27 Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn’t Political. These Films Disagree. — — 46m
140 feb 24 The DJ Who Turned Sirāt Into a Rave Experience w/ Kangding Ray — — 25m
139 feb 19 Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype? — — 42m
138 feb 12 How Brokeback Mountain Changed Queer Storytelling—and Should Straight Actors Still Play Queer Roles? w/ Esje Seigfried — — 30m
137 feb 5 Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Is A Brutal Take On Capitalism — — 39m
136 jan 29 Can We Still Watch Films by Bad People? — — 39m
135 jan 22 Hamnet and Movies That Are Secret Shakespeare Plays — — 40m
134 jan 15 2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films — — 48m
133 jan 8 Why Children Of Men Is The Most Realistic Dystopian Film — — 32m
132 dec 30 Ranking the Most Talked About Films of 2025 — — 31m
131 dec 18 Why Sentimental Value Should Win Big At The Oscars — — 34m
130 dec 12 What Makes a Film Festive? — — 34m
129 dec 4 How Sex And The City Maps The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire — — 57m
128 nov 27 Die My Love, Splitsville, Nouvelle Vague + The World Of Schmutz Cinema — — 34m
127 nov 20 Jack of All Trades: How Jack Nicholson Became a Cinema Icon — — 57m
126 nov 13 The Smashing Machine, Back To The Future & It Was Just An Accident — — 32m
125 nov 6 How The American New Wave Took Over Hollywood — — 59m
124 okt 30 What Bugonia Gets Wrong About Conspiracy Theorists + Kelly Reichardt On The Mastermind — — 38m
123 okt 23 Mark Cousins On Tilda Swinton And His Story Of A Life In Film — — 36m
122 okt 17 Why Luca Guadagnino Is The Master Of Desire — — 43m
121 okt 9 How Rietland Put Dutch Cinema Back on the Map w/ Director Sven Bresser — — 38m
120 okt 2 Eddington, Rietland and Tilly Norwood — — 31m
119 sep 25 One Battle After Another, Yi Yi and Him — — 36m
118 sep 18 Make Chick Flicks Great Again….Or Not? — — 44m
117 sep 10 Why Agnès Varda is a Cinema Icon — — 46m
116 sep 4 The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi — — 36m
115 aug 27 Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features — — 43m
114 aug 13 Why Everyone is Talking About Weapons and Sorry, Baby — — 29m
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The Hosts

Laura Gommans
Film Journalist
Laura Gommans
Writes about film for IFFR, De Filmkrant, and NRC.
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Hugo Emmerzael
Film Critic
Hugo Emmerzael
Senior critic. Specialises in contemporary cinema, discourse, and musical biopics.
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Kiriko Mechanicus
Filmmaker
Kiriko Mechanicus
Director working at the intersection of documentary and fiction.
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Tom Ooms
Head of Cinema, LAB111
Tom Ooms
Programmer. Keeper of the LAB111 archive. Brings the historical frame.
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Cold Open · Essays

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The Man Who Fell to Screen: David Bowie’s Life in Cinema
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mrt 12, 2026
The Man Who Fell to Screen: David Bowie’s Life in Cinema
by Laura Gommans
From Mary Shelley to the Bride: Why Is Frankenstein’s Monster Always So Ugly?
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mrt 5, 2026
From Mary Shelley to the Bride: Why Is Frankenstein’s Monster Always So Ugly?
by Laura Gommans
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Is Not Political. These Films Disagree.
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feb 26, 2026
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Is Not Political. These Films Disagree.
by Kiriko Mechanicus
Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth the Hype?
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feb 19, 2026
Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth the Hype?
by Hugo Emmerzael