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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.

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Can Cinema Show Us What We Can’t See? — NFF Special w/ Amanda van Hesteren & Emma Lesuis

For this Nederlands Film Festival special, Kiriko Mechanicus meets two rising Dutch filmmakers who use cinema to get closer to people and histories — and to find out what lies…

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Celebrating Cinema — episode index
№	Date	Title	Films covered	Hosts	Length
—	Sep 29	Can Cinema Show Us What We Can’t See? — NFF Special w/ Amanda van Hesteren & Emma Lesuis	—	—	—
—	Sep 10	Manufacturing Consent: How 9/11 Changed Hollywood	Black Hawk Down The Battle of Algiers Zero Dark Thirty	—	—
168	Sep 4	Did Terminator 2 Ruin How We Imagine The End Of The World?	Brazil Children of Men Terminator 2: Judgment Day	—	46m
167	Aug 20	Why Is Cinema Just Like My Mother?	—	—	51m
166	Aug 13	Cine Of The Times: Did No Country For Old Men Predict Trump’s America?	No Country for Old Men	—	46m
165	Aug 7	Can Cinema Teach Us How to Pay Attention? — What Playtime, Ikiru & After Hours Asks Of Us	After Hours Ikiru Playtime	—	47m
164	Jul 30	When Does A Film Become Camp?	—	—	49m
163	Jul 23	Why Black Girl Still Matters 60 Years Later w/ Djeneba Saccoh	Black Girl	—	42m
162	Jul 21	Who Really Was the Father Of African Cinema? — Ousmane Sembène, By His Son Alain	—	—	31m
161	Jul 16	Is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Just 6 Great Scenes?	The Odyssey	—	30m