Celebrating Cinema
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A podcast for the love of cinema.
Amsterdam's LAB111 film podcast on the cinema that matters — debates, rankings, and director deep dives, every Thursday. From cult classics to today's most-talked-about releases, Laura Gommans (film journalist), Hugo Emmerzael (film critic), Kiriko Mechanicus (filmmaker) and Tom Ooms (film programmer) take turns asking what films tell us about ourselves, our culture, and the times we live in.
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You can get in touch at celebratingcinema@lab111.nl
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Has Letterboxd Changed The Way We Watch Films?
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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The Watermelon Woman at 30: Cheryl Dunye's Queer Cinema Landmark
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Did Movies Invent Alien Encounters?
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Is Disclosure Day Spielberg's Most Hopeful Film Or His Most Naive?
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Fast & Furious: How the Franchise Remade Hollywood (w/ Dan Hassler-Forest)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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The Backrooms, Explained: Kane Parsons & the A24 Feature
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May 28, 2026 |
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Cannes 2026 Dispatch With Peter Bradshaw
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May 26, 2026 |
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Autobiographical Cinema: Why We Love to Film Ourselves
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May 21, 2026 |
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Cinema Obsession: Why Films Grip Us (Vertigo, Peeping Tom)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Amadeus: Is It Really About Mediocrity?
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May 07, 2026 |
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The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss?
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Truly Naked: Can a Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Musical Biopics: Can You Still Make a Good One? (Re-Release)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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A-List Actors Gone Weird (Borgli's The Drama)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Skarsgårds' Year: Pillion, Dead Man's Wire & The History of Sound
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Il Conformista: Why Bertolucci's Fascist Aesthetic Still Matters
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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David Bowie's Life in Cinema: The Man Who Fell to Screen
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Frankenstein's Monster: Why Is It Always Ugly? (Shelley to The Bride)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn't Political. These Films Disagree.
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Sirāt as a Rave: Kangding Ray on Scoring the Film
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype?
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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How Brokeback Mountain Changed Queer Storytelling—and Should Straight Actors Still Play Queer Roles? w/ Esje Seigfried
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Is A Brutal Take On Capitalism
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Films by Bad People: Can We Still Watch Them?
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Hamnet and Movies That Are Secret Shakespeare Plays
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Children of Men: The Most Realistic Dystopian Film?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Ranking the Most Talked About Films of 2025
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Sentimental Value: Why It Should Win Big at the Oscars
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Christmas Movies: What Makes a Film Festive?
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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How Sex And The City Maps The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Die My Love, Splitsville, Nouvelle Vague + The World Of Schmutz Cinema
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Jack Nicholson: How He Became a Cinema Icon
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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The Smashing Machine, Back To The Future & It Was Just An Accident
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The American New Wave: How It Took Over Hollywood
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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What Bugonia Gets Wrong About Conspiracy Theorists + Kelly Reichardt On The Mastermind
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Mark Cousins On Tilda Swinton And His Story Of A Life In Film
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Luca Guadagnino: The Master of Desire
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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How Rietland Put Dutch Cinema Back on the Map w/ Director Sven Bresser
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Eddington, Rietland and Tilly Norwood
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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One Battle After Another, Yi Yi and Him
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Chick Flicks: Can the Genre Come Back?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Agnès Varda: Why She's a Cinema Icon
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Weapons & Sorry, Baby: The Films Everyone's Talking About
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Morgan Knibbe on The Garden of Earthly Delights and the Silence Around It
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Plein Soleil and the Art of the Summer Movie
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Akira Kurosawa: What He Taught Us About Movies & Morality
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Zombie Movies: Why the Genre Refuses to Die (28 Years Later)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Dogme 95, The Phoenician Scheme, Twin Peaks: Why Wes Anderson Should Try Dogme-Style Filmmaking
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Dispatch from Cannes (2025)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Wes Anderson: Every Movie Ranked
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May 08, 2025 |
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Persepolis: Growing Up in a Revolution
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Hiroshima Mon Amour: How Do You Film the Atomic Bomb?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Is Alex Garland's Warfare an Anti-War Movie?
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Hollywood Comebacks: The Substance, The Last Showgirl & Why We Love Them
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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De Propagandist: Dutch History's Most Controversial Filmmaker (Luuk Bouwman)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Why Short Films Matter w/ Go Short Film Festival
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The Room: The Best Worst Movie Ever Made?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Bong Joon-ho's Bloody Brilliance and the Rise of Korean Cinema
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Mickey 17: Do Two Pattinsons Make It Twice the Fun?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Is 'The Monkey' Better Than 'Longlegs'?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Musical Biopics: Can You Still Make a Good One?
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Does AI in The Brutalist Even Matter?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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How Ernest R. Dickerson Discovered Tupac For Juice
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Jeroen Houben on Torch Song (2025)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Vampire Movies: From Dracula to Twilight (Nosferatu's Return)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Why No Other Land is the Most Important Film of 2025
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Megalopolis & Cinema's Great Passion Projects
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Mati Diop on Dahomey (2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Shiori Ito on Black Box Diaries (2024)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap (2024)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire & the Road Movie
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Knight of Cups (Malick): The Video Essay, w/ Like Stories of Old
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Tarsem Singh on The Fall (2006)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Kevin Boitelle on Trip-Tych (2024)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Female Stereotypes in Cinema We Love (Femme Fatale to Manic Pixie)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Laura Hermanides on Witte Flits (2024)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Orson Welles: Truth, Trickery & The Third Man
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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David Hinton on Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (2024)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Henry Selick on Coraline (2009)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Romcoms: What Happened to Them? (with Laura Gommans)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Lukas Moodysson on Fucking Åmål (1998)
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Dutch Cinema: The Directors Worth Celebrating (Verhoeven, Sluizer)
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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The Ross Brothers on Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Art of Acting: From Brando to Now (with Mike Gomez)
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May 23, 2024 |
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Sean Price Williams and Talia Ryder on The Sweet East (2023)
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May 16, 2024 |
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Bertrand Bonello on The Beast (2024)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Baloji on Augure (2023)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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AI in Cinema: Will It Take Over? (Sora to Mickey 17)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Nicolas Cage: The Actor Behind the Memes
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Molly Manning Walker on How To Have Sex (2023)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Sex in Cinema: Where Did It Go? (with Laura Gommans)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Sofia Coppola: Her Films, From Virgin Suicides to Priscilla
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Studio Ghibli & Miyazaki: Why the Magic Feels So Real
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Ken Loach on Solidarity and Hope in The Old Oak (2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Battle of Algiers: Oppression, Revolution & Resistance
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Bram Ruiter
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Rafik Opti
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Passages (2023): A Conversation with Ira Sachs
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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David Fincher: His Films & Curious Obsessions
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Martin Scorsese: His Films, Faith & Redemption
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Barbie: The Billion-Dollar Movie Phenomenon
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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How to Save a Dead Friend (2022): A Conversation with Marusya Syroechkovskaya
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Tom Cruise: Can He Save Cinema?
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Werner Herzog: The Ecstatic Truth & His Films
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Witches in Cinema: Recasting a Feminist Icon (with Helena Castro)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Razan Hassan
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May 05, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Amira Duynhouwer
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Return to Seoul (2022): A Conversation with Davy Chou
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Stefanie Kolk
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Future Frames: A Conversation with Ashley Röttjers
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Alchemy of His Cinema
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Twilight: The Cult Phenomenon (Live Audience)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Twilight (2008): A Conversation with Catherine Hardwicke
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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David Lynch: Extreme Violence, Bizarre Comedy & Strange Beauty
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Film Noir: Tales From Nightmare Alley
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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El Planeta (2021): A Conversation with Amalia Ulman
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Vortex (2021): A Conversation with Gaspar Noé
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Jean-Luc Godard & the Nouvelle Vague: A Tribute
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Narcosis (2022): A Conversation with Martijn de Jong
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Un Beau Matin (2022): A Conversation with Mia Hansen-Løve
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Nobu, Baba & Henk (2022): A Conversation with Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Horror Films: Nightmares & Nostalgia Pt.2 (Imagine Festival)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Pink Moon (2022): A Conversation with Floor van der Meulen
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Are Ridley & Tony Scott The Last of Their Kind? (with Scout Tafoya)
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Speak No Evil (2022): A Conversation with Christian Tafdrup
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Fire of Love (2022): A Conversation with Sara Dosa
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Splendid Isolation (2022): A Conversation with Urszula Antoniak
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Tilda Swinton: Renaissance Woman, Chameleon & Muse
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Nowhere Special (2020): A Conversation with Uberto Pasolini
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2022
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The World of David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future (2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021): A Conversation with Björn Andrésen
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Hatching (2022): A Conversation with Hanna Bergholm
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - An Exploration
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Paul Thomas Anderson: Boogie Nights, Fuck Boys & Co-Dependent Relationships
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Transcendental Style in Film (with Viktor van der Valk)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Christmas Movies: Our Comfort-Film Favourites
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Guilty Pleasure Movies (with Basje Boer)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Gagarine (2020): A Conversation with Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Clint Eastwood & (The Fall of) The American Hero
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Japanese Cinema, Expanded (with Julian Ross)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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The Summer Blockbuster: A History
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2021
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Food in Film: Framing Foods & Tomatophilia (Joost Broeren-Huitenga)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Cinemas Reopen: Back in Business (Summer 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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The Male Gaze & Female Desire in Cinema (with Basje Boer)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Wong Kar-Wai & Representation in Cinema (with Pete Wu)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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WWII in Cinema: Global Perspectives (with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Horror Films: Nightmares & Nostalgia
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May 06, 2021 |
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The Oscars: Our XL Awards Special
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Documentary Ethics (with Miriam Guttmann)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Reality, Fiction, and The Truman Show (1998)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Why Should We Celebrate Cinema?
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Welcome to Celebrating Cinema: A Film Podcast
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Mar 02, 2021 |