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On the 60th anniversary of its release, host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Film Studies PhD student Sam Warnock to discuss Japanese writer-director Kobayashi Masaki's extraordinary ghost story anthology Kwaidan.
Shot entirely on studio sets in sumptuous widescreen and lavish, saturated colour, Kwaidan adapts ghost stories by author Lafcadio Hearn and is undoubtedly one of the most visually and aurally striking films of the 1960s. Kobayashi's biographer Steven Prince has described it as the director's 'most overtly and extravagantly stylized film'.
Sam and Pasquale discuss the work of Kobayashi and Hearn more broadly as well as the remarkable contribution of composer Takemitsu Toru. They then move onto a close analysis of the four episodes themselves, discussing elements such as narrative structure, adaptation strategies, use of colour, set design as well as the film's textured soundscape. -
This is the second of two episodes focusing on Film Phenomenologies, a new collection of essays from Edinburgh University Press edited by Dr Kelli Fuery (Chapman University).
Host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by Professor Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London) and Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh) to discuss their essays, both of which explore recent star biopics from phenomenological perspectives.
Lucy discusses her piece 'The Posthumous Phenomenology of the Star Biopic: Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg in Seberg (2019)' while David tells Pasquale about his chapter 'The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe by the Coward Andrew Dominik' which takes a Sartrean approach to the controversial 2022 film Blonde.
While this episode is stand-alone, the previous episode features editor Kelli in conversation with Pasquale. She unpacks the concept behind the collection, provides an overview of all 13 chapters and takes a closer look at her own essay, 'The Khôra-Screen: Responsibility as a Precarious Intimacy in Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977). -
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This is the first of two episodes in which host Dr Pasquale Iannone and guests discuss Film Phenomenologies, a ground-breaking collection of essays from Edinburgh University Press which explores work by filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Agnès Varda, Bill Viola, Alex Garland and Barry Jenkins through a phenomenological lens.
In this first episode, Pasquale is joined by the collection's editor Dr Kelli Fuery (Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at Chapman University, California). Kelli discusses her interest in feminist film-phenomenology, provides an overview of all 13 chapters and then takes a closer look at her own piece - on Agnès Varda’s feminist musical One Sings, The Other Doesn't (1977).
The next episode of Edinburgh Film Podcast (EFP 50) includes conversations with Professor Lucy Bolton and Dr David Sorfa, who discuss their respective chapters. -
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 -
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
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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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