Writers on Film is a podcast that focuses exclusively on film books, featuring interviews with authors who write about cinema. Hosted by author and film critic John Bleasdale, the show covers a range of topics from making-of tomes to biographies and novelizations. It is part of the Film Stories Podcast Network, based in the UK.
Episodes
Illeana Douglas talks Jungle Red: The Making of MGM's The Women
Actress, film historian and writer, Illeana Douglas joins John Bleasdale to discuss her new book Jungle Red: the making of MGM's The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Paulette Godard and Rosalind Russell scrap it out in front of and behind the cameras of George Cukor's classic film.
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The Great UnWatched
David Hughes, Laurence Boyce, Freda Cooper, Carolyn Hinds and Matthew Turner join me to talk about the new anthology of 200 hidden gems of cinema. Chosen by some of the best film critics working today, The Great Unwatched: 200 Must-See Movies You May Have Missed is a collection of recommendations of 200 films across a wide variety of genres, drawn from 100 years of films, that critics believe ar
Andreas Halskov on Milos Forman
Film scholar Andreas Halskov celebrates the work of two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) in this comprehensive and long-overdue tome, which includes original interviews with such entertainment royalty as Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Annette Bening, Woody Harrelson, Stellan Skarsgård, Patton Oswalt
Chris Bujold's Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares
Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares is a cinematic coming-of age memoir told through the films that defined a generation, a life, and a childhood. Bujold writes with the wit of a lifelong cinephile and the vulnerability of someone willing to revisit life’s happiest moments alongside its most painful ones. Whether recounting disastrous family vacations, neighborhood adventures, awkward teenage yea
James Mottram on The Making of The Odyssey
Discover the secrets of The Odyssey: A Film by Christopher Nolan with this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Summer 2026’s most celebrated film.
Filming The Odyssey: Inside the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Modern Epic traces the creation of Nolan’s latest film from script to screen through exclusive interviews with the director and his cast and crew accompanied by electrifying visuals from the
Allyson Nadia Field Talks about Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History
We're at the 45th Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone and I'm talking to American author and academic Allyson Nadia Field about her 20226 book: Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History. Get your copy of the book HERE. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The Pordenone International Silent Film Festival
In its 45 edition, we're at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the international silent film festival in Pordenone, with Mark Fuller -- expert and enthusiast in equal measure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Roddy MacDowall by Samuel Garza Bernstein
Here is the comprehensive, first-ever biography of the award-winning child star, Planet of the Apes movie icon, beloved film legend, and Hollywood renaissance man whose career spanned 60 years.
“This is a beautiful tribute to a very special man. For those who aren’t familiar with Roddy, you’re in for a treat. You will get to know a man who was as kind as he was gifted.” —CAROL BURNETT
The book is
Jon Spira on Mike Hodges: I'll Settle for Nothingness
I'LL SETTLE FOR NOTHINGNESS is a brand new book of conversations with Mike Hodges, the legendary British film director of classics such as GET CARTER, FLASH GORDON and THE CROUPIER. Available HERE.
These conversations were conducted with filmmaker Jon Spira over the last years of Hodges' life. they form a personal and candid view of his work, life and philosophy as he meditates on his declining he
Mark Edlitz on Orson Welles: Maverick in the Machine
Citizen Kane. The Magnificent Ambersons. And the film history forgot.
In July 1939, Orson Welles signed a contract with RKO Pictures granting him complete creative control over his films. Less than three years later, he was thrown off the lot.
At RKO, he made two of the most celebrated films in cinema history. He also made Journey Into Fear, a film that has been debated, dismissed, and misundersto
Venice Film Festival 2
Bilge Ebiri is a film critic writing in New York magazine and Vulture. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Venice Film Festival 1
Nicholas Bell from Eye on Cinema and Fish Jelly YouTube channel joins me to talk Ink, Bucking Fastard and Wild Horse Nine, live from the Venice International Film Festival. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Richard Fleischer Journeyman by Jason Ney
When it came to filmmaking, Richard Fleischer had big shoes to fill. His father, Max, was one of America's most influential animators. However, Richard's own passions led him not to the animator's desk but to the director's chair.
After garnering an Academy Award for Best Documentary with Design for Death (1948), Fleischer became known for an eclectic mix of pictures such as 20,000 Leagues Under t
David Thomson on A Sudden Flicker of Light
From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.
David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career capstone of sorts—a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
KIER-LA JANISSE is an author, critic, film programmer, podcaster, publisher and producer with an emphasis on genre cinema.
Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas referred to her book House of Psychotic Women as one of the 10 “most vital” horror film books of all time, and Ian MacAllister-McDonald of the LA Review of Books called it “the next step in genre theory, as well as the most frightening and heart-rend
A Hard Day's Night with Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer, and BBC broadcaster. She presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC News, and regularly hosts radio documentaries. In 2020, she was named British Broadcasting Press Guild's Audio Presenter of the Year. Ahmed has written for The Guardian, The Independent, and other publications, and she writes a regular column for New Humanist.
Read her blog here.
Samira A
Looking forward to The Odyssey with Ian Nathan
On the eve of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, I talk to author of Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Live from Karlovy Vary with Scott Feinberg
Scott Feinberg is a veteran reporter of The Hollywood Reporter and hosts the Awards Chatter podcast. His work can be found here.
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LIVE from Bologna Cinema Ritrovato
Norwegian film director Truls Krane Meby and John-Kristian Dalseth, programmer for the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) and manager of the Verdensteatret Cinemateket join John Bleasdale to talk about the 40th Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna.
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The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes
Published to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Michael Lehmann's 1991 infamous "turkey shoot", The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of the film that brought Bruce Willis's career crashing to Earth, from the germ of the idea in 1980s New York to the recent revisionist views of the film by critics and commentators. Featuring interviews with co-creat
Trans Cinema by Laura Horak
Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and founder of the award-winning Transgender Media Portal. She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema.
Trans Cinema Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds is an exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more incl
From the Archive: Ed Zwick
Ed Zwick made his film debut with the comedy About Last Night (1986), followed by Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), and Defiance (2008). His later films include Love & Other Drugs (2010), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016).
He is also the co-creator of the ABC family d
Cannes Report 3
Christina Jeurling Birro speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Fjord, directed by Christian Mungiu.
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Cannes 2026 Report 2.
Thomas Schultz speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Minotaur, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
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Cannes 2026 Report 1
Nicolas Bell (Eye On Cinema) and Ed Potton (The Times) join John Bleasdale to talk about the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival.
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Ian Christie talks Powell, Pressburger and more
Ian Christie FBA is a British film scholar whose work on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema has made him one of the most respected film writers today. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and a frequent broadcaster as well as being the Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. Hosted by Simplecast,
J.G. Ballard on Film
In the first episode of a new mini-series, Dr. Brian Baker joins me to discuss the adaptations of J.G. Ballard on film, including Empire of the Sun, Crash and High Rise along with some lesser known films. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Cinema Italia: Salvatore Giuliano
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Robert Kolker David Wyatt Discuss The Film Auteur
Robert Kolker and David Wyatt provide readers with a history of auteur theory, from its initial origins in France in the late 1940s as an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of the French film critics and theorists André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, to the canonizing work of American film critic Andrew Sarris in the 1960s. Available HERE.
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John Rain on ThunderBook and SmershPod
John Rain is the host of the cult podcast Smersh Pod and the author of Thunder Book, SuperBook and Explodobook. Smersh Book is available here.
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Pamela Hutchinson on The Curse of Queen Kelly
One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.
In the late 1920s, at the height of silent cinema’s reckless glamour, three formidable figures set out to make an impossible film. Gloria Swanson, the era’s most dazzling star. Erich von Stroheim, cinema’s most obsessive and uncompromising auteur. And Joseph P. Kennedy, a ruthless financier
Acting and Performance in Hitchcock
Although Alfred Hitchcock was notoriously dismissive of actors, Victoria Lowe (University of Manchester) and Adrian Garvey have edited a collection of essays which argues that acting played a key element of his work. Films discussed include Notorious, Stage Fright and Strangers on a Train. The book provides detailed analysis of some exceptional performances by major stars – from Ivor Novello to Ti
Adrian Martin on Filmmakers Thinking
Filmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere, filmmakers are asked to talk mainly about themselves and their own works. Yet their vocation springs from a deep engagement with the history and possibilities of cinema as a whole. Going beyond the usual,
Stephen Volk on Gothic, GhostWatch and Weird Reality
Stephen Volk is a Welsh screenwriter, who wrote the screenplays for numerous horror films, including Ken Russell's Gothic (1986), The Kiss (1988), and William Friedkin's The Guardian (1990). In 1992, Volk wrote the teleplay for the BBC pseudo-documentary Ghostwatch. Other screenwriting credits include Octane (2003) and The Awakening (2011).
Stephen Volk's website can be visited here.
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Gabriel Byrne on his Memoirs
Irish actor and writer Gabriel Byrne talks about writing his memoir Walking with Ghosts, available here.
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Partially Devoured with Daniel Kraus
DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His latest novel, Angel Down, was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2025. His novel Whalefall won the Alex Award, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he cowrote The Shape of Water, based on the
Adventures in Autuerism with Daniel Kremer
“Most dyed-in-the-wool film buffs nurture their own private lists of movie directors they feel have been underappreciated, neglected, and/or underrated,” Joe Dante writes in this book’s Foreword. “But very few of us are moved to write an entire book about them.” Beyond mere appreciation, however, author Daniel Kremer presents a philosophy and a guiding principle for venerating the undervalued or f
Ashley Clark and The World of Black Film
The World of Black Film is an entertaining, informed, and thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the globe. Available here.
The recommended book is African Cinema: Politics & Culture by Manthia Diawara.
Meanwhile my novel Connery is available here.
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Kristen Lopez on Popcorn Diabilities
As a film critic and disabled person, Kristen Lopez speaks with particular authority on how disability is represented-and too often misrepresented-in movies. Popcorn Disabilities is her impassioned but nonetheless fun and engaging survey of how Hollywood has dealt with disability over the last century.
Buy Kristen's book Here.
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Thomas Golianopoulos talks John Singleton: Boyz N the Hood to Snowfall
Featuring nearly 400 original interviews with close friends, family members, and colleagues, The Life of Singleton is the definitive account of prolific filmmaker John Singleton’s life and times. Get it here.
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Martin Scorsese by Ian Nathan
For over 50 years, Martin Scorsese has been one of cinema’s most celebrated directors. From a Catholic kid in Manhattan to a legendary filmmaker, he’s shaped Hollywood with masterpieces such as Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Irishman.
But what makes a Scorsese film unique? His stories explore power, morality, and human nature, blending raw emotion with intellectual depth. Whether reinventing noir
Sir Christopher Frayling on The Hollywood History of Art
Ever since the dawn of the sound era, Hollywood and friends have made a series of elaborate feature films about the lives of the great artists: the cast of colorful characters includes Fredric March as Cellini, Charles Laughton as Rembrandt, George Sanders as Gauguin, José Ferrer as Toulouse-Lautrec, Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, Charlton Heston as Michelangelo, Mel Ferrer as El Greco—and, more recent
Greta Gerwig by Laura Venning
Icons of Cinema: Greta Gerwig explores the career of one of the world's most celebrated movie directors and is available here.
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Hurricane Billy: The Life of William Friedkin with Nat Segaloff
Here are links to the books we talk about
Hurricane Billy: https://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Billy-Stormy-William-Friedkin/dp/B0G13YSCVB/ref=sr_1_1?s=books
Mosby Confidential: https://www.amazon.com/Moseby-Confidential-Arthur-Penns-Neo-Noir/dp/0986377082/ref=sr_1_1?s=books
William Friedkin (Thomas Clagett): https://www.amazon.com/William-Friedkin-Aberration-Obsession-Reality-ebook/dp/B0F2S9WMVH/ref
Don't Look Now (and then) with Justin John Doherty
Reflecting on Nicolas Roeg’s seminal film, Justin John Doherty's new book DON’T LOOK NOW AND THEN features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs and documents, offering a fresh glimpse into the making of a masterpiece. The ultimate love letter to “Don’t Look Now”, with contributions from those who made it and those who it changed forever.
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Tom Shone: Best Movies of 2025
Tom Shone author of The Greengrass Papers talks about his best films of 2025 and biggest disappointment as well as his unique insight into the new Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg films which await us in 2026. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
2025 Writers on Film Round Up
I talk about 2025. The books, the films, the festivals and the guests.
I talk about writing Darkness Visible The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer and look forward to the publication of Connery the Novel as well as the writing of Connery the Biography. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
John Waters: Michelle E. Moore Praises the Pope of Trash
I speak to Michelle E. Moore who along with Brian Brems has edited the first collected volume of work on cult film director and icon John Waters, which offers a comprehensive study of his work as an important filmmaker and cultural force. Includes chapters covering important themes in Waters’s work, stylistic tendencies, his relationship to the art world, and interviews reflecting on the impact o
Mike Miley on David Lynch
How are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones?
By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes beyond cinema and visual art to explore how Lynch's work engages with literary and musical works that have s
Joseph McBride talks I Loved Movies But...
Joseph McBride has been a veteran critic, a teacher, the screenwriter of (among others) Rock n Roll High School. He's acted for Orson Welles and campaigned for John F Kennedy. A fearsome intellect and a great film scholar, this is a mammoth episode for a legendary man. His new memoir/interview book with Danny Peary I Loved Movies But... is available here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.
The Death of Cinema? with Thomas Flight
YouTuber Thomas Flight has amassed over 1 Million subscribers to his YouTube Channel and offers in depth visual essays on everything cinematic. He is also a documentary filmmaker and writes for many publications including his own Substack Seeing Through Film is available here.
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The History of the Western Movie with Jem Duducu
The western in all its forms is the subject of Jem Duducu's new fascinating book.
Even while the frontiers of the Wild West were being fought over, its myth was being forged. Sometimes this was in the form of incredibly popular pulp novels, on others the likes of the hugely successful Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show that even toured Europe and delighted monarchs. By the turn of the 20th Century, jus
Tom Shone on The Greengrass Papers
Top author and friend of the podcast Tom Shone returns to talk about his new book The Greengrass Papers which gets up close and personal with one of the most influential film directors of our time Paul Greengrass. From The Murder of Stephen Lawrence through the Bourne films and Captain Phillips to his latest The Last Bus, we go through it all.
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David Hughes on Night Moves by Alan Sharp
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arthur Penn's neo-noir thriller Night Moves, starring the late Gene Hackman, Alan Sharp's novel based on his original screenplay – out of print since its first publication in 1975 – is presented here in a stunning new paperback edition, with exclusive cover art by the legendary Tony Stella, an introduction by Matthew Asprey Gear (author of Moseby Confidential)
Ellen E Jones on Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World
Another chance to hear the episode on the Kraszna- Krausz Moving Image Book Award Winning Screen Deep by Ellen E Jones. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Ellen E Jones on the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award
Today I talk to Ellen E Jones the winner of the Kraszna- Krausz Moving Image Book Awards 2025.
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The Pordenone Silent Film Festival with James Harrison and Neil Brand
Though it was not to acquire its definitive name and identity until the following year, the Giornate del Cinema Muto can date its first edition to 9 to 11 September 1982. Jay Weissberg is the current director of the festival. I spoke with James Harrison from South West Silents. And musician, dramatist and expert Neil Brand.
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Rear Window with Jennifer O'Callaghan
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The definitive, in-depth look inside the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window—the all-time classic of voyeurism, paranoia, and murder that became one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements and turned generations of viewers into “a race of Peeping Toms.” . . .Before the internet and social media offered voyeuristic glimpses into the lives of others, the acclaimed Master of Sus
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The Malick Hours: BADLANDS
I talk with Tom Shone about Terrence Malick's first film Badlands (1973), a true crime drama that introduces a new talent and vision to seventies cinema and the world. You can buy the biography of Terrence Malick hereThe music is Camille Saint Saens - The Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium and is performed bypianos: Neil and Nancy O'Doan and orchestra: Seattle Youth Symphony, conducted by Vilem Sok
Julie Seabaugh on Roast Battles and Marc Maron
Julia Seabaugh is a writer who has covered the comedy scene for years. She has written A Tight Twenty and Ringside at Roast Battle and has produced a new documentary on Marc Maron, of WTF Podcast fame called "Are We Good?"
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Single and Psycho: with Caroline Young
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The Blurb:
From the single ladies of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift songs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent television series Fleabag (2016–2019) to as far back as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, the stereotype of the damaged single woman has long pervaded music, books, television, and Hollywood movies. Spinster tropes, witch burnings, and nineteenth-century diagnoses
Making Monsters with Marshall Julius and Howard Berger
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Explore behind the scenes of the greatest monster movies ever made!
What makes a great movie monster? Academy Award-winning make-up effects artist Howard Berger and acclaimed journalist Marshall Julius have spoken to dozens of film industry legends to find out.
A celebration of monsters, monster movies and monster movie makers, Making Monsters delivers an illuminating, entertain
Will Sloan on Ed Wood Jr: Made in Hollywood
For generations, Ed Wood has been known as “the worst director of all time.” This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work challenges the boundary between “bad” and “good.” The subject of a Tim Burton biopic, Will Sloan reappraises Wood as a more interesting and disruptive figure.
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Venice Film Festival Part Two
One of my favourite film critics Bilge Ebiri from Vulture joins me to talk about Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin, Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite, and Kaouther ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Venice Film Festival Part One
Nicholas Bell from IONCINEMA joins me to run down the films we've watched so far at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. We talk La Grazia, Frankenstein, After the Hunt, Bugonia, No Other Choice and The Smashing Machine. We probably talk about even more in this bumper Lido fuelled edition. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of perso
Screaming and Conjuring with Clark Collis
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Blockbuster box office. Critical acclaim and Oscars recognition. From Get Out and M3GAN to The Substance and Sinners, the horror genre is enjoying a glorious–and gory–golden age.
Screaming and Conjuring details the films and frights that led to this extraordinary renaissance, from the release of the groundbreaking Scream in 1996 to the arrival of 2013’s The Conjuring, which spawne
The Zone of Interest
New book Darkness Visible, available from Sticking Place Books.
Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin and the chilling banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, his films blend surreal intensity with razor-sharp formal control. But Glazer’s world doesn
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers author Roger Lewis
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'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits.But shadowing his phe
Visible Darkness: UNDER THE SKIN
Maureen Foster's book on Under the Skin was an inspiration for Visible Darkness: The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer and so I'm republished this episode which was originally broadcast two years ago.
Darkness Visible is available from Sticking Place books at a discount for the UK and US here.
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Film Critic Xan Brooks on his novel The Catchers
Xan Brooks has been a film critic and journalist for decades, hosting the ground-breaking Film Weekly for The Guardian along with Jason Solomons. He's now a novelist with The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times and his new book The Catchers, available here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adv
Birth: David Thomson talks Jonathan Glazer's second film
A podcast to accompany the release of my book Darkness Visible: the Cinema of Jonathan Glazer, available HERE
Jonathan Glazer has created some of the most unforgettable images in twenty-first-century cinema. From the dreamlike menace of Sexy Beast to the haunting abstractions of Under the Skin and the chilling banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, his films blend surreal intensity with razo
Shawn Levy talks CLINT
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New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far"
"This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." — Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio Leone
From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint
Sexy Beast
To celebrate the publication of Darkness Visible The Cinema of Jonathan Glazer I talk with Kaleem Aftab about Glazer's feature film debut Sexy Beast.
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A Bollywood State of Mind with Sunny Singh
Novelist and film academic Sunny Singh introduces us to the world of Bollywood. From its origins in theatre and the silent era to the present day blockbusters, we discuss how Bollywood has responded to changes in India and the world and the context in which it is best enjoyed. Noisy, with lots of friends, family and interaction.
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Rob Spera talks about his Film and TV Director's Field Manual
For anyone aspiring to direct, or actually direct, or simply interested in the process of direction and production of films and TV, Rob Spera's Field Manual is an indispensable book. A pocket full of seventy maxims which will open your eyes and gladden the heart with its observations on the art and ethics of filmmaking. Rob has directed dozens of features and TV shows. Check out his website here,
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Wrap with Laurence Boyce
We talk about the Czech film festival, the prize winners, including Miro Remo's Better Go Mad in the Wild, Bidad, Broken Voices and many others. we also pay our respects to the festival community and our lost colleague Ásgeir H Ingólfsson whose words can be found here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for a
From the Archive: Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone
This is a classic episode from way back at the start of Writers on Film. It features Tom Shone talking about his book The Nolan Variations and refusing my suggestion to change the title to The Nolan Twisters Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
D Harlan Wilson Takes Us into Strangelove Country
D. Harlan Wilson’s Strangelove Country is a deft, innovative study of Stanley Kubrick’s relationship with science fiction that explores how the genre shaped his cinematic identity and how that identity reshaped the genre. Focusing on Kubrick’s futurist trilogy—Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange—as well as his collaboration with Steven Spielberg on A.I. Artificial Intell
Jarett Kobek invokes his Demon Brother
Novelist and writer Jarett Kobek talks about his book on Kenneth Anger's seminal art film Invocation of My Demon Brother.
The film can be seen here.
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