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EP 151 · mei 7
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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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.
The latest · EP 152
Why Does Cinema Makes Us So Obsessed?
Cinema’s dirtiest little secret is that it’s designed to make you want something you can never have. In this episode of Celebrating Cinema, host Laura Gommans and Tom Ooms —…
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EP 150 · apr 30
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…
35m
EP 149 · apr 23
Can A Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?
Can a film be more intimate than pornography? Can a film be more intimate than pornography? In Truly Naked (2026), BAFTA…
49m
EP 148 · apr 16
Can You Still Make A Good Musical Biopic? (Re-Release)
A note from us: we spent the past two weeks going through your survey responses — thank you to everyone who filled it in…
37m
EP 147 · apr 2
The Drama And Why A-List Actors Go Gloriously Weird
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done? This week, hosts Laura Gommans and Elliot Bloom watched Kristoffer Borgl…
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EP 146 · mrt 31
Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce
Divorce is rarely one story. It’s four, or five — each told from a different room in the same house. In his new fi…
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The Index · 2026
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Date
Title
Films covered
Hosts
Length
152
mei 14
Why Does Cinema Makes Us So Obsessed?
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38m
151
mei 7
Is Amadeus Actually About Mediocrity?
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36m
150
apr 30
The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss?
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38m
149
apr 23
Can A Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?
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35m
148
apr 16
Can You Still Make A Good Musical Biopic? (Re-Release)
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49m
147
apr 2
The Drama And Why A-List Actors Go Gloriously Weird
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37m
146
mrt 31
Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce
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31m
145
mrt 27
Is This The Year Of The Skarsgårds? Pillion, Dead Man’s Wire and History of Sound
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27m
144
mrt 19
Why Does Il Conformista Still Matter? Bertolucci, Pasolini, and the Fascist Aesthetic
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35m
143
mrt 12
The Man Who Fell to Screen: David Bowie’s Life in Cinema
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33m
142
mrt 5
From Mary Shelley to The Bride: Why Is Frankenstein’s Monster Always Ugly?
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43m
141
feb 27
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn’t Political. These Films Disagree.
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46m
140
feb 24
The DJ Who Turned Sirāt Into a Rave Experience w/ Kangding Ray
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25m
139
feb 19
Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype?
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42m
138
feb 12
How Brokeback Mountain Changed Queer Storytelling—and Should Straight Actors Still Play Queer Roles? w/ Esje Seigfried
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30m
137
feb 5
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Is A Brutal Take On Capitalism
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39m
136
jan 29
Can We Still Watch Films by Bad People?
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39m
135
jan 22
Hamnet and Movies That Are Secret Shakespeare Plays
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40m
134
jan 15
2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films
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48m
133
jan 8
Why Children Of Men Is The Most Realistic Dystopian Film
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32m
132
dec 30
Ranking the Most Talked About Films of 2025
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31m
131
dec 18
Why Sentimental Value Should Win Big At The Oscars
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34m
130
dec 12
What Makes a Film Festive?
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34m
129
dec 4
How Sex And The City Maps The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire
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57m
128
nov 27
Die My Love, Splitsville, Nouvelle Vague + The World Of Schmutz Cinema
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34m
127
nov 20
Jack of All Trades: How Jack Nicholson Became a Cinema Icon
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57m
126
nov 13
The Smashing Machine, Back To The Future & It Was Just An Accident
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32m
125
nov 6
How The American New Wave Took Over Hollywood
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59m
124
okt 30
What Bugonia Gets Wrong About Conspiracy Theorists + Kelly Reichardt On The Mastermind
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38m
123
okt 23
Mark Cousins On Tilda Swinton And His Story Of A Life In Film
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36m
122
okt 17
Why Luca Guadagnino Is The Master Of Desire
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43m
121
okt 9
How Rietland Put Dutch Cinema Back on the Map w/ Director Sven Bresser
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38m
120
okt 2
Eddington, Rietland and Tilly Norwood
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31m
119
sep 25
One Battle After Another, Yi Yi and Him
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36m
118
sep 18
Make Chick Flicks Great Again….Or Not?
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44m
117
sep 10
Why Agnès Varda is a Cinema Icon
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46m
116
sep 4
The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi
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36m
115
aug 27
Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features
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43m
114
aug 13
Why Everyone is Talking About Weapons and Sorry, Baby
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29m
113
jul 23
Morgan Knibbe on The Garden of Earthly Delights and the Silence Around It
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34m
The Hosts
Film Journalist
Laura Gommans
Writes about film for IFFR, De Filmkrant, and NRC.
00 episodes
Film Critic
Hugo Emmerzael
Senior critic. Specialises in contemporary cinema, discourse, and musical biopics.
00 episodes
Filmmaker
Kiriko Mechanicus
Director working at the intersection of documentary and fiction.
00 episodes
Head of Cinema, LAB111
Tom Ooms
Programmer. Keeper of the LAB111 archive. Brings the historical frame.
00 episodes
Cold Open · Essays
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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?