January 2020 Cinema Podcast

Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator and Thea Berry, Cinema Producer, plus guests, discuss our upcoming weekend of musicals exploring race, identity and politics – busting the myth that musicals are all just jazz hands and frippery.Mark and Thea also discuss their start of the year highlights including in February the brilliantly cinematic Portrait of a Lady on Fire and the totally unpredictable journey of Parasite.The year starts off though with the the rip roaring salty dog sea tale that is The Lighthouse, Jo Jo Rabbit's brilliantly satirical exploration of nationalism and fascism and Armando Iannucci's Dickens with a contemporary sensibility, in the hilarious The Personal History of David Copperfield.