This week we’re excited to present a conversation between film scholars Shana L. Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, and Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor in NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies, as they discuss a double feature of Oscar Micheaux's 1925 silent film Body and Soul and Jordan Peele's 201 ... Show More
Nov 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that rem ... Show More
1h 5m
Jul 2023
Oppenheimer : entre cinéma, sciences et Histoire, on décrypte le film de Christopher Nolan
C’est un nom à la fois connu et mystérieux, une figure majeure du XXe siècle mais qui n’a pas l’aura grand public d’un Einstein, une personnalité qui résonne dans l’Histoire sans pour autant avoir toute sa place dans l’imaginaire collectif : cette semaine, Spotlight décrypte le d ... Show More
47m 37s
Dec 2024
Nosferatu with Robert Eggers and Chris Columbus (Ep. 523)
Director Robert Eggers discusses his new film, Nosferatu, with fellow Director Chris Columbus in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses shooting in the real-world castle from the original story as well as channeling his Production Design team t ... Show More
34m 48s
Dec 2024
‘The Agency’ Series Premiere: Michael Fassbender Is Back on Our TVs, and We’re Better for It
Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney become CIA agents/spies to recap the two-episode premiere of ‘The Agency,’ the Showtime-produced Paramount+ series starring Michael Fassbender. They start by talking about whom the show is for, the stacked cast, and director Joe Wright’s career as ... Show More
47m 39s
Sep 2024
The Rebel's Cinema—Frantz Fanon on Screen #2, with Kazembe Balagun and Brent Hayes Edwards
Last April, Film Comment invited writer Adam Shatz on the Podcast to talk about The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, his new biography of the Martinican writer, psychiatrist, and anti-colonial revolutionary. The Podcast explored Fanon’s lasting impression ... Show More
50m 41s
Oct 2024
‘Disclaimer’ Series Premiere: Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón Are Here for the Prestige Crown
Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney beware of narrative and form to recap the two-episode premiere of ‘Disclaimer,’ the Apple TV+ miniseries starring Cate Blanchett. They discuss Alfonso Cuarón as a filmmaker, his history of loosely adapting works, and the decision to utilize narrati ... Show More
1h 1m
Aug 2020
Waleed Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Dr. Waleed Mahdi’s book, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press) offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue ... Show More
47m 34s
Mar 2023
#554 — Damien Chazelle & Justin Hurwitz, Christopher Landon, Michael B. Jordan
This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees another onslaught of incredible guests, as Ian Freer chats with Babylon's director-composer duo of Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz about their working relationship and long friendship, and Chris Hewitt talks scary VHS covers with ... Show More
1h 46m