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Celebrating Cinema — 161 episodes

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Is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey Just 6 Great Scenes?

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Has Letterboxd Changed The Way We Watch Films?

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The Watermelon Woman at 30: Cheryl Dunye's Queer Cinema Landmark

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Did Movies Invent Alien Encounters?

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Is Disclosure Day Spielberg's Most Hopeful Film Or His Most Naive?

6

Fast & Furious: How the Franchise Remade Hollywood (w/ Dan Hassler-Forest)

7

The Backrooms, Explained: Kane Parsons & the A24 Feature

8

Cannes 2026 Dispatch With Peter Bradshaw

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Autobiographical Cinema: Why We Love to Film Ourselves

10

Cinema Obsession: Why Films Grip Us (Vertigo, Peeping Tom)

11

Amadeus: Is It Really About Mediocrity?

12

The Devil Wears Prada 2: Is Miranda Priestly A Feminist Icon Or A Toxic Boss?

13

Truly Naked: Can a Film Be More Intimate Than Porn?

14

Musical Biopics: Can You Still Make a Good One? (Re-Release)

15

A-List Actors Gone Weird (Borgli's The Drama)

16

Mees Peijnenburg On A Family, Dutch Cinema, And The Emotional Architecture of Divorce

17

The Skarsgårds' Year: Pillion, Dead Man's Wire & The History of Sound

18

Il Conformista: Why Bertolucci's Fascist Aesthetic Still Matters

19

David Bowie's Life in Cinema: The Man Who Fell to Screen

20

Frankenstein's Monster: Why Is It Always Ugly? (Shelley to The Bride)

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Wim Wenders Says Cinema Isn't Political. These Films Disagree.

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Sirāt as a Rave: Kangding Ray on Scoring the Film

23

Are Marty Supreme and Wuthering Heights Worth The Hype?

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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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Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Is A Brutal Take On Capitalism

26

Films by Bad People: Can We Still Watch Them?

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Hamnet and Movies That Are Secret Shakespeare Plays

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2000 Metres To Andriivka And Why We Need Documentary Films

29

Children of Men: The Most Realistic Dystopian Film?

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Ranking the Most Talked About Films of 2025

31

Sentimental Value: Why It Should Win Big at the Oscars

32

Christmas Movies: What Makes a Film Festive?

33

How Sex And The City Maps The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire

34

Die My Love, Splitsville, Nouvelle Vague + The World Of Schmutz Cinema

35

Jack Nicholson: How He Became a Cinema Icon

36

The Smashing Machine, Back To The Future & It Was Just An Accident

37

The American New Wave: How It Took Over Hollywood

38

What Bugonia Gets Wrong About Conspiracy Theorists + Kelly Reichardt On The Mastermind

39

Mark Cousins On Tilda Swinton And His Story Of A Life In Film

40

Luca Guadagnino: The Master of Desire

41

How Rietland Put Dutch Cinema Back on the Map w/ Director Sven Bresser

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Eddington, Rietland and Tilly Norwood

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One Battle After Another, Yi Yi and Him

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Chick Flicks: Can the Genre Come Back?

45

Agnès Varda: Why She's a Cinema Icon

46

The Deadly Reality of Filming in Gaza: Fatima Hassouna’s Story w/ Sepideh Farsi

47

Jaws: The Birth of the Summer Blockbuster & the History of Creature Features

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Weapons & Sorry, Baby: The Films Everyone's Talking About

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Morgan Knibbe on The Garden of Earthly Delights and the Silence Around It

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Plein Soleil and the Art of the Summer Movie

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Akira Kurosawa: What He Taught Us About Movies & Morality

52

Zombie Movies: Why the Genre Refuses to Die (28 Years Later)

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Dogme 95, The Phoenician Scheme, Twin Peaks: Why Wes Anderson Should Try Dogme-Style Filmmaking

54

Dispatch from Cannes (2025)

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Wes Anderson: Every Movie Ranked

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Persepolis: Growing Up in a Revolution

57

Hiroshima Mon Amour: How Do You Film the Atomic Bomb?

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Is Alex Garland's Warfare an Anti-War Movie?

59

Hollywood Comebacks: The Substance, The Last Showgirl & Why We Love Them

60

De Propagandist: Dutch History's Most Controversial Filmmaker (Luuk Bouwman)

61

Why Short Films Matter w/ Go Short Film Festival

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The Room: The Best Worst Movie Ever Made?

63

Bong Joon-ho's Bloody Brilliance and the Rise of Korean Cinema

64

Mickey 17: Do Two Pattinsons Make It Twice the Fun?

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Is 'The Monkey' Better Than 'Longlegs'?

66

Musical Biopics: Can You Still Make a Good One?

67

Does AI in The Brutalist Even Matter?

68

How Ernest R. Dickerson Discovered Tupac For Juice

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Jeroen Houben on Torch Song (2025)

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Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2025)

71

Vampire Movies: From Dracula to Twilight (Nosferatu's Return)

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Why No Other Land is the Most Important Film of 2025

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Megalopolis & Cinema's Great Passion Projects

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Mati Diop on Dahomey (2024)

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Shiori Ito on Black Box Diaries (2024)

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Rich Peppiatt on Kneecap (2024)

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Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire & the Road Movie

78

Knight of Cups (Malick): The Video Essay, w/ Like Stories of Old

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Tarsem Singh on The Fall (2006)

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Kevin Boitelle on Trip-Tych (2024)

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Female Stereotypes in Cinema We Love (Femme Fatale to Manic Pixie)

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Laura Hermanides on Witte Flits (2024)

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Orson Welles: Truth, Trickery & The Third Man

84

David Hinton on Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger (2024)

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Henry Selick on Coraline (2009)

86

Romcoms: What Happened to Them? (with Laura Gommans)

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Lukas Moodysson on Fucking Åmål (1998)

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Dutch Cinema: The Directors Worth Celebrating (Verhoeven, Sluizer)

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The Ross Brothers on Gasoline Rainbow (2023)

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The Art of Acting: From Brando to Now (with Mike Gomez)

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Sean Price Williams and Talia Ryder on The Sweet East (2023)

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Bertrand Bonello on The Beast (2024)

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Baloji on Augure (2023)

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AI in Cinema: Will It Take Over? (Sora to Mickey 17)

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Nicolas Cage: The Actor Behind the Memes

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Molly Manning Walker on How To Have Sex (2023)

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Sex in Cinema: Where Did It Go? (with Laura Gommans)

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Sofia Coppola: Her Films, From Virgin Suicides to Priscilla

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Studio Ghibli & Miyazaki: Why the Magic Feels So Real

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Ken Loach on Solidarity and Hope in The Old Oak (2023)

101

The Battle of Algiers: Oppression, Revolution & Resistance

102

Future Frames: A Conversation with Bram Ruiter

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Future Frames: A Conversation with Rafik Opti

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Passages (2023): A Conversation with Ira Sachs

105

David Fincher: His Films & Curious Obsessions

106

Martin Scorsese: His Films, Faith & Redemption

107

Barbie: The Billion-Dollar Movie Phenomenon

108

How to Save a Dead Friend (2022): A Conversation with Marusya Syroechkovskaya

109

Tom Cruise: Can He Save Cinema?

110

Werner Herzog: The Ecstatic Truth & His Films

111

Witches in Cinema: Recasting a Feminist Icon (with Helena Castro)

112

Future Frames: A Conversation with Razan Hassan

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Future Frames: A Conversation with Amira Duynhouwer

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Return to Seoul (2022): A Conversation with Davy Chou

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Future Frames: A Conversation with Stefanie Kolk

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Future Frames: A Conversation with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux

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Future Frames: A Conversation with Ashley Röttjers

118

Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Alchemy of His Cinema

119

Twilight: The Cult Phenomenon (Live Audience)

120

Twilight (2008): A Conversation with Catherine Hardwicke

121

David Lynch: Extreme Violence, Bizarre Comedy & Strange Beauty

122

Film Noir: Tales From Nightmare Alley

123

El Planeta (2021): A Conversation with Amalia Ulman

124

Vortex (2021): A Conversation with Gaspar Noé

125

Jean-Luc Godard & the Nouvelle Vague: A Tribute

126

Narcosis (2022): A Conversation with Martijn de Jong

127

Un Beau Matin (2022): A Conversation with Mia Hansen-Løve

128

Nobu, Baba & Henk (2022): A Conversation with Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno

129

Horror Films: Nightmares & Nostalgia Pt.2 (Imagine Festival)

130

Pink Moon (2022): A Conversation with Floor van der Meulen

131

Are Ridley & Tony Scott The Last of Their Kind? (with Scout Tafoya)

132

Speak No Evil (2022): A Conversation with Christian Tafdrup

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Fire of Love (2022): A Conversation with Sara Dosa

134

Splendid Isolation (2022): A Conversation with Urszula Antoniak

135

Tilda Swinton: Renaissance Woman, Chameleon & Muse

136

Nowhere Special (2020): A Conversation with Uberto Pasolini

137

Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2022

138

The World of David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future (2022)

139

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021): A Conversation with Björn Andrésen

140

Hatching (2022): A Conversation with Hanna Bergholm

141

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - An Exploration

142

Paul Thomas Anderson: Boogie Nights, Fuck Boys & Co-Dependent Relationships

143

Transcendental Style in Film (with Viktor van der Valk)

144

Christmas Movies: Our Comfort-Film Favourites

145

Guilty Pleasure Movies (with Basje Boer)

146

Gagarine (2020): A Conversation with Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh

147

Clint Eastwood & (The Fall of) The American Hero

148

Japanese Cinema, Expanded (with Julian Ross)

149

The Summer Blockbuster: A History

150

Dispatch: Cannes Film Festival 2021

151

Food in Film: Framing Foods & Tomatophilia (Joost Broeren-Huitenga)

152

Cinemas Reopen: Back in Business (Summer 2021)

153

The Male Gaze & Female Desire in Cinema (with Basje Boer)

154

Wong Kar-Wai & Representation in Cinema (with Pete Wu)

155

WWII in Cinema: Global Perspectives (with Kim Kokosky Deforchaux)

156

Horror Films: Nightmares & Nostalgia

157

The Oscars: Our XL Awards Special

158

Documentary Ethics (with Miriam Guttmann)

159

Reality, Fiction, and The Truman Show (1998)

160

Why Should We Celebrate Cinema?

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Welcome to Celebrating Cinema: A Film Podcast