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Celebrating Cinema — 168 episodes
Did Terminator 2 Ruin How We Imagine The End Of The World?
Why Is Cinema Just Like My Mother?
Cine Of The Times: Did No Country For Old Men Predict Trump’s America?
Can Cinema Teach Us How to Pay Attention? — What Playtime, Ikiru & After Hours Asks Of Us
When Does A Film Become Camp?
Why Black Girl Still Matters 60 Years Later w/ Djeneba Saccoh
Who Really Was the Father Of African Cinema? — Ousmane Sembène, By His Son Alain
Is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Just 6 Great Scenes?
Has Letterboxd Changed The Way We Watch Films?
The Watermelon Woman at 30: Cheryl Dunye's Queer Cinema Landmark
Did Movies Invent Alien Encounters?
Is Disclosure Day Spielberg's Most Hopeful Film Or His Most Naive?
Fast & Furious: How the Franchise Remade Hollywood (w/ Dan Hassler-Forest)
The Backrooms, Explained: Kane Parsons & the A24 Feature
Cannes 2026 Dispatch With Peter Bradshaw
Autobiographical Cinema: Why We Love to Film Ourselves
Cinema Obsession: Why Films Grip Us (Vertigo, Peeping Tom)
Amadeus: Is It Really About Mediocrity?
The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss?
Truly Naked: Can a Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?
Musical Biopics: Can You Still Make a Good One? (Re-Release)
A-List Actors Gone Weird (Borgli's The Drama)
Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce
The Skarsgårds' Year: Pillion, Dead Man's Wire & The History of Sound
Il Conformista: Why Bertolucci's Fascist Aesthetic Still Matters
David Bowie's Life in Cinema: The Man Who Fell to Screen
Frankenstein's Monster: Why Is It Always Ugly? (Shelley to The Bride)
Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn't Political. These Films Disagree.
Sirāt as a Rave: Kangding Ray on Scoring the Film
Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype?
How Brokeback Mountain Changed Queer Storytelling—and Should Straight Actors Still Play Queer Roles? w/ Esje Seigfried
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Is A Brutal Take On Capitalism
Films by Bad People: Can We Still Watch Them?
Hamnet and Movies That Are Secret Shakespeare Plays
2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films
Children of Men: The Most Realistic Dystopian Film?
Ranking the Most Talked About Films of 2025
Sentimental Value: Why It Should Win Big at the Oscars
Christmas Movies: What Makes a Film Festive?
How Sex And The City Maps The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire
Die My Love, Splitsville, Nouvelle Vague + The World Of Schmutz Cinema
Jack Nicholson: How He Became a Cinema Icon
The Smashing Machine, Back To The Future & It Was Just An Accident
The American New Wave: How It Took Over Hollywood
What Bugonia Gets Wrong About Conspiracy Theorists + Kelly Reichardt On The Mastermind
Mark Cousins On Tilda Swinton And His Story Of A Life In Film
Luca Guadagnino: The Master of Desire
How Rietland Put Dutch Cinema Back on the Map w/ Director Sven Bresser
Eddington, Rietland and Tilly Norwood
One Battle After Another, Yi Yi and Him
Chick Flicks: Can the Genre Come Back?
Agnès Varda: Why She's a Cinema Icon
The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi
Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features
Weapons & Sorry, Baby: The Films Everyone's Talking About
Morgan Knibbe on The Garden of Earthly Delights and the Silence Around It
Plein Soleil and the Art of the Summer Movie
Akira Kurosawa: What He Taught Us About Movies & Morality
Zombie Movies: Why the Genre Refuses to Die (28 Years Later)
Dogme 95, The Phoenician Scheme, Twin Peaks: Why Wes Anderson Should Try Dogme-Style Filmmaking
Dispatch from Cannes (2025)
Wes Anderson: Every Movie Ranked
Persepolis: Growing Up in a Revolution
Hiroshima Mon Amour: How Do You Film the Atomic Bomb?
Is Alex Garland's Warfare an Anti-War Movie?
Hollywood Comebacks: The Substance, The Last Showgirl & Why We Love Them
De Propagandist: Dutch History's Most Controversial Filmmaker (Luuk Bouwman)
Why Short Films Matter w/ Go Short Film Festival
The Room: The Best Worst Movie Ever Made?
Bong Joon-ho's Bloody Brilliance and the Rise of Korean Cinema
Mickey 17: Do Two Pattinsons Make It Twice the Fun?
Is 'The Monkey' Better Than 'Longlegs'?
Musical Biopics: Can You Still Make a Good One?
Does AI in The Brutalist Even Matter?
How Ernest R. Dickerson Discovered Tupac For Juice
Jeroen Houben on Torch Song (2025)
Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)
Vampire Movies: From Dracula to Twilight (Nosferatu's Return)
Why No Other Land is the Most Important Film of 2025
Megalopolis & Cinema's Great Passion Projects
Mati Diop on Dahomey (2024)
Shiori Ito on Black Box Diaries (2024)
Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap (2024)
Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire & the Road Movie
Knight of Cups (Malick): The Video Essay, w/ Like Stories of Old
Tarsem Singh on The Fall (2006)
Kevin Boitelle on Trip-Tych (2024)
Female Stereotypes in Cinema We Love (Femme Fatale to Manic Pixie)
Laura Hermanides on Witte Flits (2024)
Orson Welles: Truth, Trickery & The Third Man
David Hinton on Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (2024)
Henry Selick on Coraline (2009)
Romcoms: What Happened to Them? (with Laura Gommans)
Lukas Moodysson on Fucking Åmål (1998)
Dutch Cinema: The Directors Worth Celebrating (Verhoeven, Sluizer)
The Ross Brothers on Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
The Art of Acting: From Brando to Now (with Mike Gomez)
Sean Price Williams and Talia Ryder on The Sweet East (2023)
Bertrand Bonello on The Beast (2024)
Baloji on Augure (2023)
AI in Cinema: Will It Take Over? (Sora to Mickey 17)
Nicolas Cage: The Actor Behind the Memes
Molly Manning Walker on How To Have Sex (2023)
Sex in Cinema: Where Did It Go? (with Laura Gommans)
Sofia Coppola: Her Films, From Virgin Suicides to Priscilla
Studio Ghibli & Miyazaki: Why the Magic Feels So Real
Ken Loach on Solidarity and Hope in The Old Oak (2023)
The Battle of Algiers: Oppression, Revolution & Resistance
Future Frames: A Conversation with Bram Ruiter
Future Frames: A Conversation with Rafik Opti
Passages (2023): A Conversation with Ira Sachs
David Fincher: His Films & Curious Obsessions
Martin Scorsese: His Films, Faith & Redemption
Barbie: The Billion-Dollar Movie Phenomenon
How to Save a Dead Friend (2022): A Conversation with Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Tom Cruise: Can He Save Cinema?
Werner Herzog: The Ecstatic Truth & His Films
Witches in Cinema: Recasting a Feminist Icon (with Helena Castro)
Future Frames: A Conversation with Razan Hassan
Future Frames: A Conversation with Amira Duynhouwer
Return to Seoul (2022): A Conversation with Davy Chou
Future Frames: A Conversation with Stefanie Kolk
Future Frames: A Conversation with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux
Future Frames: A Conversation with Ashley Röttjers
Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Alchemy of His Cinema
Twilight: The Cult Phenomenon (Live Audience)
Twilight (2008): A Conversation with Catherine Hardwicke
David Lynch: Extreme Violence, Bizarre Comedy & Strange Beauty
Film Noir: Tales From Nightmare Alley
El Planeta (2021): A Conversation with Amalia Ulman
Vortex (2021): A Conversation with Gaspar Noé
Jean-Luc Godard & the Nouvelle Vague: A Tribute
Narcosis (2022): A Conversation with Martijn de Jong
Un Beau Matin (2022): A Conversation with Mia Hansen-Løve
Nobu, Baba & Henk (2022): A Conversation with Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno
Horror Films: Nightmares & Nostalgia Pt.2 (Imagine Festival)
Pink Moon (2022): A Conversation with Floor van der Meulen
Are Ridley & Tony Scott The Last of Their Kind? (with Scout Tafoya)
Speak No Evil (2022): A Conversation with Christian Tafdrup
Fire of Love (2022): A Conversation with Sara Dosa
Splendid Isolation (2022): A Conversation with Urszula Antoniak
Tilda Swinton: Renaissance Woman, Chameleon & Muse
Nowhere Special (2020): A Conversation with Uberto Pasolini
Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2022
The World of David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future (2022)
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021): A Conversation with Björn Andrésen
Hatching (2022): A Conversation with Hanna Bergholm
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - An Exploration
Paul Thomas Anderson: Boogie Nights, Fuck Boys & Co-Dependent Relationships
Transcendental Style in Film (with Viktor van der Valk)
Christmas Movies: Our Comfort-Film Favourites
Guilty Pleasure Movies (with Basje Boer)
Gagarine (2020): A Conversation with Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh
Clint Eastwood & (The Fall of) The American Hero
Japanese Cinema, Expanded (with Julian Ross)
The Summer Blockbuster: A History
Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2021
Food in Film: Framing Foods & Tomatophilia (Joost Broeren-Huitenga)
Cinemas Reopen: Back in Business (Summer 2021)
The Male Gaze & Female Desire in Cinema (with Basje Boer)
Wong Kar-Wai & Representation in Cinema (with Pete Wu)
WWII in Cinema: Global Perspectives (with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux)
Horror Films: Nightmares & Nostalgia
The Oscars: Our XL Awards Special
Documentary Ethics (with Miriam Guttmann)
Reality, Fiction, and The Truman Show (1998)
Why Should We Celebrate Cinema?
Welcome to Celebrating Cinema: A Film Podcast