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Film Graze
by Phil Graves
Film Graze, hosted and produced by Emmett and Sam from Phil Graves, is a podcast where we ruminate on new films and rep cinema.
Episodes
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045 - Sight And Sound And Fury
Join us as we take a look at this decade's version of the BFI Sight & Sound official canon, which saw 1600 critics submitting their top ten films. This year's pair of lists - hundreds of directors are polled separately - sees some surprise reshuffles, old favourites make their debuts, some losers...
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044 - Where You Been
This episode takes the form of a trip around all the corners of London (besides the West), revisiting the highlights of 2022’s calendar of rep screenings, film clubs, retrospectives, festivals and rescorings in an attempt to prove we haven’t not been participating in film culture while the…
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043 - A Guzman is Hard to Find
For the first in an end-of-year extravaganza of episodes, we're back to discuss the work of legendary Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzman. Active since the early '70s, Guzman started out as a chronicler of the Allende years, capturing the right-wing backlash and subsequent coup on…
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042 - The Cow, the Pig, the Goats and their Shepherd
We’re not the only ones grazing for this episode as we take a look at an intriguing new trend in cinema: the proliferance of feature-length ‘observational’ documentaries about livestock. Victor Kossakovsky’s GUNDA (2021) and Andrea Arnold’s COW (2021) wring tension, drama and political impetus…
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041 - Kicking the Machine: the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong ‘Joe’ Weerasethekul’s new film MEMORIA is the latest piece of an absolutely essential filmography, one that walks in multiple realities, exploring national and personal memory with distinct humour, poetry and a truly transcendental style. It’s also his first feature shot outside his...
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Film Graze 040 - Paul Thomas Anderson
With 'Licorice Pizza' out in cinemas and being met with a resolutely split-down-the-middle audience reception, we look at the career of one of the most significant American filmmakers of our lifetimes - Paul Thomas Anderson - featuring several absolute classics like The Master, Magnolia and...
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Film Graze 039 - 2021 Lightning Round
We’re back with another historical episode, this time casting our gaze back onto the distant cinema of 2021... Yes, this is the one where we get to talk about everything we didn’t get the chance to last year (as well as revisiting some things we did), in a chat which stretches from Tsai Ming...
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Film Graze 038 - 100 Years Ago (Part 3)
For our final episode of 2021 we're going back to 1921 one more time for a look at American cinema 100 years ago! We discuss enduring classics like Charlie Chaplin's THE KID alongside other key comedies by the likes of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Max Linder, films by D.W. Griffith (ORPHANS OF...
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Film Graze 037 – Second Run DVD’s Mehelli Modi
We’re delighted to be joined this episode by Mehelli Modi, founder of legendary arthouse label Second Run DVD, for a wide-ranging conversation about the love of film. We chat about some recent and upcoming Second Run releases, including such gems as Zbyněk Brynych’s …AND THE FIFTH HORSEMAN IS…
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Film Graze 036 - Four Film Festivals
This week we catch up on some festival viewings over the last couple of months and get to graze on the work of some of our favourite filmmakers. From the London Film Festival, we discuss the presentation of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson's EUROPA (1931), an extraordinary Polish avant-garde short...
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Film Graze 035 - Censor Working Overtime
We’re back, grazing on a pair of films about films. We get things underway with a chat about Prano Bailey-Bond’s stylised, period tribute to the ‘video nasty’ genre, CENSOR (2021) and the state of British cinema. Then, following on from our last episode on the work of Robert Altman, we’re…
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Film Graze 034 - Altmen
Following the recent Robert Altman retrospective at the BFI, we’re back with a survey of his work ranging from early corporate films like the ‘The Dirty Look’ (1954) up to his 2006 swansong, A Prairie Home Companion, via a glut of bona fide classics of American cinema and one or two legendary…
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Film Graze 033 - Painter in Your Podcast (with Louis Bennett)
This episode we’re thrilled to be joined by friend of the show Louis Bennett (insta @louisben1995) for a special on painters on screen. We discuss some old favourites, some new discoveries, a couple of real stinkers and much more in a wide-ranging discussion about screen representations of...
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Film Graze 032 - Petz At Home
With the release of his latest film, Undine, we’re back with a special episode on the films of Christian Petzold, master of the back-of-head portrait and poet of the Eurozone. With discussions about every feature film (and some shorts too), we trace his near three-decade career as one of the key...
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Film Graze 031 - 100 Years Ago (Part Two)
For the second part of our ongoing series on films from exactly one century ago, we're looking at some serious classics and rediscovered gems from Weimar Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. With chats about the first abstract films, the impact of film expressionism, the Kammerspielfilm, works by...
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Film Graze 030 - Oscar Fever
In advance of the 91st Academy Awards (and the 8th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special) this Sunday, we dabbled in Proper Film Journalism and reviewed the 8 best pictures nominated for Hollywood’s biggest prize. Running order: MINARI (Lee Isaac Chung) THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Aaron Sorkin) JUDAS…
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Film Graze 029 - 100 Years Ago (Part One)
Join us for this first part of a continuous series of Grazes wherein we look at extant popcorn classics from a whole century ago. For this episode, we examined the fascinating cinematic output of Japan, Scandinavia, Italy, France and the Soviet Union in 1921, as well as giving a precis of the...
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Film Graze 028 - Pictures (and News) of the Old World
This week we discuss Dušan Hanák’s PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD (1972), a remarkable document of rural Slovakian life in the twentieth century, before grazing on Paul Greengrass’s new Netflix-distributed western, NEWS OF THE WORLD (2021). Featuring covers of the Modern Lovers’ ‘The Old World’, the...
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Film Graze 027 - Maximum Reichardt
We’re back for a deep dive into the filmography of one of America’s finest working filmmakers, KELLY REICHARDT. We get things rolling with chats about her delightful latest feature FIRST COW and her classic wagon-trail western MEEK’S CUTOFF (2010), before discussing her debut feature RIVER OF…
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Film Graze 026 - 2020
to close out (and exorcise) 2020, we've trawled through our film diaries and letterboxd accounts to put together our top 10s of the year! we also discuss some of our favourite first time watches over the last twelve lockdown-y months, from OUT 1 to CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS via the Guided by Voices...
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Film Graze 025 - Grazin' Kane
for our penultimate episode of 2020, be prepared to hear the phrases "greatest film of all time" and "pauline kael" too many times as we reflect on sam's first viewing of CITIZEN KANE at the PCC and netflix's MANK renders emmett considerably upset. we also approached fragments of o. welles'...
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Film Graze 024 - King Andersson
With the release of his sixth feature film, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (back in UK cinemas while they're open!), we're grazing on the filmography of one of the most singular filmmakers of our time: Roy Andersson. It's a deep dive, encompassing his first two features (A SWEDISH LOVE STORY (1970) and GILIAP...
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Film Graze 023 - A Vue with Room
We're back with an episode recorded back in October to extol recent repertory programming at Vue cinemas and discuss trips to their hallowed screens to see such little-known gems as PSYCHO (1960), ROCKY (1976) and PULP FICTION (1994). We also do a round-up of film club selections picked over the...
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Film Graze 022 - Kaufmanic Depression
Following the Netflix release of Charlie Kaufman’s latest film, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, and the publication of his debut novel, ANTKIND, we look back over the career of a certified Film Graze fave. The discussion encompasses his collaborations with Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH,...
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Film Graze 021 - TEИET
This week we're back to discuss one of the most vital and hotly-anticipated films being displayed in UK cinemas this month: Sergei Eistenstein's legendary BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. We also cast our eye over two curios of Soviet film, Eisenstein's uncompleted QUE VIVA MEXICO! and Mikhail Kalatozov's...
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Film Graze 020 - Ford Fiesta
On this bumper edition of Film Graze, we’re chawin’ on the films of one of the greats of American cinema: John Ford. With the introduction of FORT APACHE, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON and WAGON MASTER to BBC iPlayer, we take the chance to look over a career which straddled the history of American…
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Film Graze 019 - New .MP4s
We’re back, after a short absence, to discuss three recent digital releases: EUROVISION: THE STORY OF FIRESAGA, FANNY LYE DELIVER’D and - the main feature - Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS. There's also a round-up of our lockdown film club viewings, including Apitchatpong Weerasethakul’s beautiful…
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Film Graze 018 - Le'go MUBI
This week we’re back with a survey of recent programming from digital streaming service MUBI, including films by Jean Renoir and Joseph Losey, Richard Kelly’s SOUTHLAND TALES (2007), Brian de Palma’s SISTERS (1972), and the digital premiere of Pablo Larrain’s new film, EMA, plus loads more! We…
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Film Graze 017 - Kleber Mendonca Filho-philia
This week we’re grazing on the stellar filmography of Kleber Mendonca Filho, including the narrative features NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS (2013), AQUARIUS (2016) and BACURAU (2019, co-written and directed by Juliano Dornelles) and a number of short films including the fantastic RECIFE FRIO aka COLD…
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Film Graze 016 - Watching from Home
this week we're grazing remotely with some recommended quarantine viewing including Jean-Luc Godard’s apocalyptic WEEKEND, Jacques Rivette's anti-epic OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE and Robert Altman's classic ensemble piece NASHVILLE. we also touch on the addition of the STUDIO GHIBLI back catalogue to...
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Film Graze 015 - Hits from the Bong
this week we’re celebrating the filmography of South Korean auteur BONG JOON-HO, discussing all of his films, from his lauded student work INCOHERENCE (1994) to the huge cultural sensation that is PARASITE (2019), via BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE (2000), MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003), THE HOST (2006) and...
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Film Graze 014 - Satantango
this week we graze on a true classic, the longest great film and greatest long film ever: bela tarr and agnes hranitzky's SATANTANGO, back in cinemas before its upcoming blu-ray release. this episode includes covers from mihaly vig's freaky soundtrack. twitter.com/FilmGraze...
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Film Graze 013 - BFI-Sight to the Blind
this week, we're recapping some of the BFI's most recent reissues, restorations and programming more broadly - a panoply of film treasures including TOMMY, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG and EYES WIDE SHUT. we also take a look at the recently departed peter wollen's seminal film...
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Film Graze 012 - BAFTA Bait
This week we’ve ‘got the Oscar Fever (and hope you’ve got it too’ etc), with an episode focusing on some of the big awards contenders (and omissions) this year including THE TWO POPES, LITTLE WOMEN, MARRIAGE STORY, KNIVES OUT, 1917, JOJO RABBIT and plenty more! Featuring covers of 'Oscar Fever'…
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Film Graze 011 - Safdies Nutz
owing to the recent release of UNCUT GEMS, we have a look at the entire filmography of new york's Josh and Benny Safdie from their debut feature THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED, through DADDY LONG LEGS, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT, GOOD TIME and of course the aforementioned GEMS... the soundtrack features…
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Film Graze 010 - 2019 (with Jack Frayne-Reid)
we were joined by podcasting legend & top comrade Jack (from Reel Politik @reelpolitikpodcast)to discuss our favourite films of 2019. we each did a top five, should have done a top ten but we still had plenty to discuss. topics include THE IRISHMAN, I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS...
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Film Graze 009 - Who Is America: Joker, The Irishman or Mister America?
for our penultimate episode of 2019 we talk about some recent big films depicting villainy in the USA: todd phillips' JOKER, martin scorsese & netflix's collab THE IRISHMAN and MISTER AMERICA, the latest instalment in tim heidecker's on cinema at the cinema extended universe. this episode also...
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Film Graze 008 - Henriad Problems
We're back for another one, grazing on a trio of films inspired by Shakespeare's Henriad: David Michod's THE KING (2019), Laurence Olivier's HENRY V (1944) and Orson Welles' CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965). We also discuss the Andrei Tarkovsky Exhibition at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Jonas Mekas...
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Film Graze 007 - Goin' Loco (with Durrell)
we were joined by our mate Durrell (a fully fledged train driver) for our most thorough discussion yet; a deep dive into the history of trains in and on film, covering over 120 years of cinema history from the lumiere brothers and edison films, buster keaton's legendary THE GENERAL, NIGHT MAIL…
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Film Graze 006 - The Rutles, Ad Astra, Peter Watkins
this week's films covered include james gray's AD ASTRA and THE LOST CITY OF Z, classic spoof THE RUTLES: ALL YOU NEED IS CASH (screening at the BFI Southbank as part of their monty python retrospective) and several by peter watkins (CULLODEN, THE WAR GAME, PUNISHMENT PARK and LA COMMUNE)...
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Film Graze 005 - Rojo & Z
we talk about benjamin naishtat's excellent new film ROJO, costa-gavras' Z - which is screening as part of the cine lumiere's season 'in the eyes of the law' - and round up all the best feature films currently worth streaming for free on BBC iPlayer http://twitter.com/FilmGraze...
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Film Graze 004 - The LFF Programme, The Souvenir, Pain & Glory
this week we look at the programme for the 63rd BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (starting on the 2nd of october), as well as reviewing PAIN AND GLORY, THE SOUVENIR and MRS. LOWRY AND SON. "stay till the credits" for chat about jacques tati's JOUR DE FETE and WE JAM ECONO: THE STORY OF THE MINUTEMEN....
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Film Graze 003 - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Notorious
we compare takes on quentin tarantino's latest, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, and a recent reissue of hitchcock's NOTORIOUS - part of the cary grant retrospective at the bfi southbank - as well as touching on peter greenway's NIGHTWATCHING, lech majewsky's THE MILL AND THE CROSS and robert...
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Film Graze 002 - Midsommar & Une Femme Douce
emmett and sam from phil graves discuss ari aster's MIDSOMMAR and the recent restoration of robert bresson's UNE FEMME DOUCE screened at the ica, as well as other bresson films screened at the anthology film archives. also features brief appraisals of the documentary THE GREAT HACK and the…
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Film Graze 001 - In Fabric, Beats and Straub-Huillet's History Lessons
emmett and sam from phil graves return for a new installment of film graze, where we're discussing peter strickland's IN FABRIC, a scottish ode to the rave, BEATS, and the film-making partnership straub-huillet's 1972 feature, HISTORY LESSONS. co-produced by emmett cruddas and sam storey
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Film Graze 000 - Vox Lux, Mirror, The Last Laugh, Nuts in May
emmett and sam from phil, on philm (plus about 10 seconds of new phil graves music) - topics discussed include brady corbet's Vox Lux, the stanley kubrick exhibition at the design museum, the weimar germany programme at the BFI southbank and mike leigh's Nuts In May - the greatest film ever made...
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