Episodes
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In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone previews the 32nd French Film Festival UK in the company of its co-founder and director Richard Mowe.
Pasquale and Richard look back at the festival's beginnings in the early 1990s before exploring the 2024 programme which includes a diverse range of titles from France, Belgium, Switzerland and beyond. New titles mentioned include Toni (Nathan Ambrosioni), Boléro (Anne Fontaine), The Marching Band (Emmanuel Courcol), One Year, One Night (Isaki Lacuesta) and Dog on Trial (Laetitia Dosch). Also discussed are the shorts and classics strands.
The French Film Festival runs across the UK in various venues throughout November an December. Full information is available on their website www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk. -
In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone previews the 2024 Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival in the company of ESFF founder and director Marian A. Aréchaga and programming assistant Gustavo Herrera Taboada.
Pasquale, Marian and Gustavo discuss the background to ESFF and explore some highlights from the programme, including opening night film, futuristic thriller Artificial Justice and music documentary Soy Rebelde. There is also discussion of the festival's guests and special events.
The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival runs between 2nd and 26th October in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Tranent and Inverness. For more information, please go to www.edinburghspanishfilmfestival.com -
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In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone looks back at some highlights from the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Pasquale talks to writer-director Jack King about his film The Ceremony, the film that won EIFF's inaugural Sir Sean Connery Prize for Excellence in Feature Filmmaking. He also speaks to BAFTA-winning writer-director Daisy-May Hudson about her film Lollipop.
Pasquale offers some thoughts on two of EIFF's In Conversation events, the first featuring Gaspar Noé, the innovative, boundary-pushing director of Irreversible (2002) and Enter the Void (2009), the other featuring Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, best known for her long collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on films such as Raging Bull (1980), Goodfellas (1990) and, most recently, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) -
On this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Dr Sarah Artt (Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University) to discuss her new book Quiet Pictures: Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2024).
In the book, Sarah draws on the work of Lynne Ramsay, Joanna Hogg, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Céline Sciamma to explore the different uses of silence which, according to Sarah, leads to new ways of looking, staring, and gazing.
Sarah and Pasquale discuss the use of silence in film more broadly as well as the idea of silence as a ‘feminist aesthetic’.
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In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone previews the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival in the company of Director Paul Ridd and Producer Emma Boa.
Paul and Emma discuss their vision for EIFF and its position in the wider Film Festival landscape as well as the advantages of staging the event in August.
Other topics covered include the choices of opening and closing night films, the Midnight Madness and Experimental strands as well as the new prizes named after Sean Connery and Thelma Schoonmaker.
The 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival runs from 15th - 21st August 2024 in various venues across the city. For more information, please see their website edfilmfest.org. -
Host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by award-winning poet, author and editor Dr Sarah Stewart to discuss the links between poetry and cinema.
Pasquale and Sarah discuss poems by May Swenson, Sharon Olds, Bill Sherman and Elizabeth Jennings on subjects ranging from James Bond to post-war Polish cinema, Orson Welles to Marilyn Monroe.
The episode also includes recommendations of film-themed poetry by Robin Robertson, Michael Ontdaatje and Margaret Tait as well as an exclusive reading and discussion of Sarah's own film-themed poem 'Opening Scenes of a Never-Made 1980s Thriller'.
Poems discussed:
May Swenson - 'The James Bond Movie' (1978)
Bill Sherman - 'Orson Welles, Are You Listening?' (1966)
Sharon Olds - 'The Death of Marilyn Monroe' (2000)
Elizabeth Jennings - 'Two Deaths' (1961)
Main films discussed:
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
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On this episode of the podcast, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Professor Catherine O’Rawe.
Catherine is Professor of Italian Film and Culture at the University of Bristol. Her books include Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema (2014).
Catherine discusses her latest monograph The Non-Professional Actor: Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond (2023) where she provides detailed, engaging analysis of the role and function of the non-professional actor both during and after the neorealist era. -
In this episode, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Don Boyd, a Scottish-born filmmaker with more than fifty years experience working in both Hollywood and the UK.
As well as directing his own successful features and documentaries, Don produced some of the most bold and boundary-pushing British films of the 70s and 80s - works as diverse as Alan Clarke’s borstal drama Scum (1979) and Derek Jarman’s flamboyant adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1979).
In this fascinating, wide ranging conversation, Don talks to Pasquale about producing the 1987 film Aria.
For this project, Don invited ten internationally acclaimed directors to make a short film based on an operatic aria. The stellar line-up included Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Robert Altman and Jean-Luc Godard.
As well as providing insight into his working relationship with these giants of world cinema, Don reflects on the enduring legacy of Aria and discusses some of the contemporary directors he would approach were he making a modern opera film.
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Host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by MSc Film Studies student Russell Shen to discuss two films by the great Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien: 1987 drama Daughter of the Nile and the director's final film, The Assassin (2015).
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A special edition of the podcast dedicated to Filmhouse, Edinburgh's much-loved independent cinema. Host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Rod White, Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz, Raymah Tariq and David Boyd.
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In this Halloween special, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by current MSc Film Studies student Sebastian Gilling-Ulph to discuss dark filmic fairytales.
Films discussed:
Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) https://edin.ac/47qqP6P
Eyes Without A Face (Georges Franju, 1959) https://edin.ac/47a3c1R -
In this first episode of the new season, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Film Studies colleague Dr Ana Salzberg (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies) to discuss autumn in film.
Main films discussed:
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Jack Clayton, 1983) IMDb: https://edin.ac/45BaHOl
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973) IMDb: https://edin.ac/3PW21w5
Staff pages:
Dr Ana Salzberg https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-ana-salzberg
Dr Pasquale Iannone https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/piannone -
Kat Zabecka speaks to Dr David Sorfa, theprogramme director of the MSc and PhD in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and his colleagues Dr Pasquale Iannone, Dr ChiaraQuaranta and Dr Hoi Lun Law about their personal best of film and television in 2021.
Films and TV mentioned (in order of mention):CelineSciamma – Petite Maman (2021)
Leos Carax –Annette (2021)
David Lean –Brief Encounter (1945)
Kar-Wai Wong- In the Mood for Love (2000)
PaoloSorrentino – Hand of God (2021)
Wes Anderson– The French Dispatch (2021)
MartaKauffman, Howard J. Morris -Grace and Frankie (2015-2022)
PaoloSorrentino - The Young Pope (2016)
Charters andCaldicott (1985)
MikeFlanagan – Midnight Mass (2021)
Larry David –Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-)
Leonardo Fasoli, Stefano Bises, RobertoSaviano - Gomorrah (2014-2021)
Molly SmithMetzler – Maid (2021)
Russell T. Davies – It’s a Sin (2021)
Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi - ReservationDogs (2021)
RyûsukeHamaguchi – Drive My Car (2021)
PeterJackson - The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
PabloLarrain – Spencer (2021)
MichaelCaton-Jones – Our Ladies (2019)
Jane Campion– The Power of the Dog (2021)
ParkChan-wook – The Handmaiden (2016)
AnthonyMinghella - The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
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In early April 2022, Kat Zabecka spoke to University of Edinburgh MSc Film Studies students Niamh Carey-Furness and Yvonne Wang, founders of The Film Dispatch magazine, an exciting student-led initiative.
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Kat Zabecka speaks to Mira Nemcikova and Rici Wenger, former MSc Film Studies students at the University of Edinburgh, about romantic comedies. They discuss You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron 1998), Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Andy Tennant 1998) and The Proposal (Anne Fletcher 2009). Please note this episode includes spoilers.
Sources mentioned:
Ruti, M., 2016. Feminist film theory and Pretty Woman. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
Shreiber, M., 2014. American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Verevis, C., 2006. Film Remakes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Three Wishes for Cinderella (Vorlicek 1973) -
Kat Zabecka speaks to 3 current MSc Film Studies students Nick, Devika and Karen. They discuss their different film viewing experiences during the pandemic and debate the impact of film streaming platforms. (References: Variety; Vox)
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Kat Zabecka talks to Dr Neil Fox, the writer of Wilderness (2017), now available to stream. They discuss the writing process, inspiration for the characters and the timeliness of the digital release of the film. Neil Fox is the co-host of The Cinematologists podcast, senior lecturer at Falmouth University and a screenwriter.
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Kat Zabecka talks to Dr Pasquale Iannone, Senior Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, about film noir. If you want to know how to recognise one or you are simply looking for watchlist inspiration, this episode, packed with examples, is for you.
Some of the films we discuss are:
Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981)Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)Le jour se lève (Marcel Carné, 1939)Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, 1937)Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)The Conformist (Il conformista, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) [There is an interesting video essay on this film by James Mooney here].The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953)The Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes, Marcel Carné, 1938)The Wild Goose Lake (Nanfang chezhan de juhui, Yi'nan Diao)Nicolas Miller's neo-noir photographs of New York are on Instagram. -
Kat Zabecka is joined by Dr Dario Llinares who is Principal Lecturer n the School of Media at the University of Brighton and co-host of the Cinematologists Podcast with Dr Neil Fox. We discuss Dario's latest article Cinema for the Ears: Imagining the Audio-Cinematic Through Podcasting published in the October 2020 issue of Film-Philosophy.
We have an earlier episode about approaches to podcasting and the Cinematologists podcast with Dr Neil Fox, available on Media Hopper and iTunes. -
Kat Zabecka talks to MSc Film Studies student, Elisa Teneggi. Join us for a discussion about Bruno Dumont, Unorthodox, Normal People, Dark, Bad People, The Lunchbox, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Pain and Glory, The Hitch-hiker and much more.
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