ScreenTalks Archive
by Barbican Centre
Welcome to the Barbican's ScreenTalks Archive where we dust off the tapes and release rarely heard recordings of live conversations with some of the world's leading filmmakers and film fans from across the decades. We curate conversations with important voices in the cinema industry and beyond, to learn more about the film and unpack the issues it raises. See upcoming ScreenTalk events at the Barbican: https://www.barbican.org.uk/screentalks
Episodes
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ScreenTalks Archive: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
For our final ScreenTalk of Season 2, we’re talking with the gregarious Richard E Grant and his role in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, for which he received his first (very deserved) Academy Award nomination. Speaking with host Edith Bowman, Grant discusses his role as Jack Hock: an alcoholic charmer...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Disobedience
This week, we’re speaking not to a director, or an actor, but an author: Naomi Alderman, who discusses the film adaptation of her first novel, Disobedience. Set in the Orthodox Jewish world, the film focuses on Ronit (Rachel Weisz), who revisits her community after the death of her Rabbi father,...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Cunningham
This week, New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay, dancer and choreographer, Dame Siobhan Davies, Radiohead drummer and musician Philip Selway, and director Alla Kovgan chat about Kovgan’s amazing 3D documentary, Cunningham. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Shooting The Mafia
This week, documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto speaks to journalist Laurence Topham about her 2019 film Shooting the Mafia. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on:...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Mati Diop on Atlantics
This week, writer, director and artist Mati Diop speaks to poet Be Manzini about her debut feature film, Atlantics. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on: barbican.org.uk/screentalksarchive...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Captain Marvel - Will Women Save The Day?
We switch it up for this week's episode and revisit a panel discussion on female superheroes, which celebrated the release of Captain Marvel in March 2019. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes…
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ScreenTalks Archive: Levin Akin on And Then We Danced
Dancer turned actor and director Levin Akin discusses the stories and meaning behind the critically-acclaimed Georgian drama, And Then We Danced. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more episodes on:...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Roberto Minervini on What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?
This week, a must-listen to anyone interested in documentary filmmaking as director Roberto Minervini discusses his striking 2018 feature, What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media....
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ScreenTalks Archive: Armando Iannuci on The Personal History of David Copperfield
Director Armando Iannucci and producer Kevin Loader are in conversation with Catherine Bray to discuss their superb adaptation of every wise person’s favourite Dickens – David Copperfield. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Josephine Decker on Madeline's Madeline
In this episode, writer-director Josephine Decker and cinematographer, Ashley Connor, discuss the triumphant experimental cinema of 2018’s Madeline’s Madeline. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E Jones and produced by Jane Long for Loftus Media. Listen to more…
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ScreenTalks Archive: Waad and Hamza al-Kataeb on For Sama
In this episode of our ScreenTalks Archive, we revisit a powerful conversation exploring 'For Sama's' intimate and epic journey into the war in Syria with directors Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is presented by Ellen E...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Heather Lenz on Kusama-Infinity
Barbican ScreenTalks Archive is back for a second series. We’re delving into our vast archive to dig out the liveliest conversations from across the decades. First up, documentary filmmaker Heather Lenz discusses 'Kusama-Infinity' with Zing Tseng. The Barbican ScreenTalks Archive podcast is...
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ScreenTalks Archive / Sir Richard Attenborough on Brighton Rock
In the final episode from our ScreenTalks Archive, Sir Richard Attenborough talks to Quentin Falk about the film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, 'Brighton Rock'. He reveals what motivated him to move behind the lens, directing hits like 'Oh What A Lovely War' and 'Gandhi'. And he shares...
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ScreenTalks Archive / Robert Altman on Gosford Park
After a stint as a co-pilot in the US Air Force, Robert Altman moved to California, deciding to enter the world of filmmaking on a whim. Starting as a director-for-hire on film and television in the nineteen fifties, Altman didn’t become a household name until 1970 with the release of Korean War...
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ScreenTalks Archive / B. Ruby Rich on Queer Cinema
New Queer Cinema champion, feminist film critic, educator and agitator, B. Ruby Rich introduces Sara Gomez’s 1974 film, De Cierta Manera, a study of the interplay of race, class and gender. The film also provides a jumping off point for Rich to discuss her developing thoughts on Queer...
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ScreenTalks Archive / Asif Kapadia on Senna
Hackney-born Asif Kapadia started out as the director of critically-lauded art films such as The Warrior and Far North. However, his career really went into overdrive in 2010, when he turned his hand to documentary film-making with Senna. Focusing on the life and death of Brazilian Formula 1…
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ScreenTalks Archive / Kasi Lemmons on Eve's Bayou
Kasi Lemmons began her career playing supporting roles such as Jodie Foster’s roommate in 'Silence Of The Lambs' and Nicolas Cage’s victim in 'Vampire’s Kiss'. Frustrated by the limited opportunities available for black actresses in Hollywood, she started to write, using time between auditions to...
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ScreenTalks Archive: Park Chan-wook
One of the most well-known directors to come out of South Korea, Park Chan Wook made his name internationally with a string of bleak, brutal films released in the early noughties, Sympathy for My Vengeance, Old Boy and Lady Vengeance - dubbed The Vengeance Trilogy by critics. But in this…
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ScreenTalks Archive: Horace Ove
In 1975, Horace Ove became the first black British filmmaker to direct a feature film with Pressure. In this conversation from 2005, Horace Ove talks to his friend, experimental filmmaker, John Akomfrah, about this seminal film, exploring how the issues explored in Pressure are still relevant to...
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ScreenTalks Archive / Carol Morley on The Falling
We hear from one of the freshest and most distinctive voices in British cinema today – Carol Morley. After receiving her first BAFTA nomination in 2002 for the autobiographical film, 'The Alcohol Years', she went on to earn further acclaim for the moving docudrama, 'Dreams of a Life' in 2011. In...
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ScreenTalks Archive / Clint Mansell on Pi
We turn our attention from directors to composers as we look back at Clint Mansell's fascinating ScreenTalk for Darren Aronofsky's Pi, the film that launched their long-standing relationship in film.
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ScreenTalks Archive / Ben Wheatley on High Rise
Aptly surrounded by our own Brutalist towers, Ben Wheatley talks to The Times chief film critic Kate Muir about his adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller.
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ScreenTalk Archive / Joanna Hogg on Exhibition
Filmmaker and artist Joanna Hogg has written and directed a trio of intimate and unsettling family dramas - Unrelated, Archipelago and Exhibition. In this ScreenTalk, Joanna Hogg talks to critic Catherine Bray about her film, Exhibition.
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ScreenTalk Archive / Terry Gilliam on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Perhaps best known for being Monty Python’s animator and director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), widely seen as one of the greatest comedies of all time, Terry Gilliam has since taken us on a series of journeys into stunningly realised alternate worlds such as Twelve Monkeys and…
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ScreenTalk Archive / Amma Asante on Belle
The most high profile black female director working today, Amma Asante made her directorial debut in 2004 with, A Way of Life, winning her 17 international awards including a BAFTA for ‘Outstanding Debut by a British Filmmaker’. More recently, she won the hearts of critics and audiences with her...
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ScreenTalk Archive / Ken Loach on The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Described as ‘the UK’s foremost political filmmaker’, Ken Loach has been using film to explore themes of class, conflict and social change for over 50 years. Here, Ken Loach talks to Time Out’s Film editor, Dave Calhoun about the film that earned him his first Palme D’Or win at Cannes Film Festival.
About this show
Welcome to the Barbican's ScreenTalks Archive where we dust off the tapes and release rarely heard recordings of live conversations with some of the world's leading filmmakers and film fans from across the decades. We curate conversations with important voices in the cinema industry and beyond, to learn more about the film and unpack the issues it raises. See upcoming ScreenTalk events at the Barbican: https://www.barbican.org.uk/screentalks
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Barbican Centre