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EP 166 · Aug 13
Cine Of The Times: Did No Country For Old Men Predict Trump’s America?
In 2007, the Coen Brothers made a thriller set in 1980 that somehow captured an American dread that hadn’t fully a…
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EP 144 · Mar 19
Il Conformista: Why Bertolucci’s Fascist Aesthetic Still Matters
When the White House posts a montage of Hollywood blockbusters cut against US drone strikes on Iran, it raises a questio…
46m
EP 141 · Feb 27
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn’t Political. These Films Disagree.
At this year's Berlinale Film Festival, Wim Wenders declared that cinema is not political — so hosts Elliot Bloom a…
48m
EP 134 · Jan 15
2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films
2000 Metres to Andriivka is an extraordinary and deeply immersive war documentary. The latest film from Ukrainian direct…
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EP 116 · Sep 4
The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is a film made in the urgency of the present. Composed through a ser…
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EP 106 · Apr 30
Persepolis: Growing Up in a Revolution
In this edition of Review Roundup, host Laura Gommans is joined by Elliot Bloom to dive into the re-release of Persepoli…
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EP 105 · Apr 23
Hiroshima Mon Amour: How Do You Film the Atomic Bomb?
Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) returns to cinemas—a quiet revolution in filmmaking that blends love, loss, a…
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EP 104 · Apr 16
Is Alex Garland’s Warfare an Anti-War Movie?
Did audiences jump the gun on Alex Garland’s Warfare? Before it's release, the brutally realist portrait of America…
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EP 102 · Apr 2
De Propagandist: Dutch History’s Most Controversial Filmmaker (Luuk Bouwman)
Dutch Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen was once one of the most powerful—and now largely forgotten—figures in Dutch cinem…
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EP 92 · Jan 21
Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)
A fearless voice against systemic injustice, Raoul Peck has crafted a body of work that interrogates the legacies of col…
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EP 90 · Jan 9
Why No Other Land is the Most Important Film of 2025
In a village under constant threat of displacement, where homes and schools are torn down and the land is slowly seized,…
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EP 88 · Dec 10
Mati Diop on Dahomey (2024)
When 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey (modern-day Republic of Benin) would finally be returned from France…
23m
EP 87 · Dec 3
Shiori Ito on Black Box Diaries (2024)
Trigger warning: Please be advised that this episode includes discussions about sexual violence. In this powerful episod…
37m
EP 86 · Nov 27
Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap (2024)
In Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt delivers a raw and politically charged origin story about JJ, a Belfast teacher, and two self-…
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EP 62 · Dec 19
Ken Loach on Solidarity and Hope in The Old Oak (2023)
“Hope is political. If you have hope then you have confidence you can change things” After 60 years of filmmaking, Briti…
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EP 61 · Dec 14
The Battle of Algiers: Oppression, Revolution & Resistance
Movies have always been a way to understand the world around us, and so, confronted with the brutal horrors of both Hama…
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EP 54 · Sep 8
How to Save a Dead Friend (2022): A Conversation with Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Set against the rise of Russia's authoritarian regime, filmmaker Marusya Syroechkovskaya paints an homage to both a…
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EP 07 · May 20
WWII in Cinema: Global Perspectives (with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux)
The month of May is always a period of remembrance, commemorating all those who lost their lives during the Second World…