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Talking Images — 114 episodes

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1

Interpretation: The Enemy of Art and Joy? (Are We the Problem?!)

2

Did Lois Weber Forget Everything She Learned When Making Suspense?

3

Screw Cinemas: Is Watching Movies From Home Better Than Going to the Theatre?

4

The Early Masterpieces of Chantal Akerman

5

Biopics Bore Us: Is This the Laziest Genre?

6

The 6 Best Obscure Films of All Time?

7

The Brilliance of Buster Keaton: The Films, the Gags, and the Death-Defying Stunts

8

Best Films of 2024: Our Top 10s

9

Top 50 Films of the 2020s (So Far)

10

Evolving Tastes: Do We All Become Film Snobs as We Get Older?

11

Should Everyone Be Forced to Rewatch Showgirls?

12

Quentin Dupieux: The Prince of Weird

13

Is Emilia Perez This Decade's Crash?

14

The 2020s Are Halfway Done: What Will This Decade Be Remembered For?

15

10+ Hidden Gems From the Last 3 Years [ICMFFF2024]

16

We Watched Every Pixar Short, and Now We Will Judge Them

17

What is Horror: Is it Enough to be Scary?

18

What the Hell is Taste (and How Well Do We Know Our Own)?!

19

Worst Movie Ever: What Makes a Film THAT Bad?!

20

Another Big Quiz Show Episode

21

Clint Eastwood Shoots the West

22

A Very Self-Satisfied 100th Episode Celebration: Biggest Regrets and Greatest Moments

23

Tom Hates Documentaries

24

Film Reviews in the TL:DR Generation

25

Should Strategic Voters in Movie Polls Die? (Lauren Thinks So!)

26

Eric Rohmer's Tales of Four Seasons Cycle

27

Best and Worst Movie Lists

28

Best Films of 2023: No Barbie. No Oppenheimer.

29

Is Pixar Mediocre Now?

30

Nothing is Original: Can You Name Any Original Films From the Last 10 Years?

31

Is Censorship Actually a Good Thing?

32

Hiroshi Teshigahara: Beyond Woman in the Dunes

33

We Play Cinephile: A Card Game

34

James Bond: The Best, The Worst & The Future of the Franchise (+ should he be gay?)

35

The Moral Tales Cycle: When Rohmer Became Rohmer

36

10+ Must-See Hidden Gems From the Last 3 Years [ICMFFF2023]

37

The Surreal Nightmares of Wojciech Has

38

Psycho vs Peeping Tom

39

Long Film Bigotry: Fight the Hate

40

Image Quality: Is Anything Under 4K Trash?

41

The Big Quiz Show Episode

42

Beau is Divisive (and a Flop)

43

Best Films of 2022

44

Is Comedy Universal?

45

How Do We Even Begin to Rank Directors?!

46

The Unbelievable Free-Moving Camera of Mikhail Kalatozov

47

Is Film Burnout a Thing + Interview with Man Who Watches 2,000+ Films Per Year

48

Jean-Luc Godard in the 80s: Are the Films Worth Checking Out?

49

Short Film Bigotry: Do You Even Watch Short Films?

50

12 Angry Men: Would We Have Been Henry Fonda?

51

The Cinema of Burkina Faso

52

Stress is Underrated

53

Doubling the Canon: Founder Joins Us to Talk Controversies, Disappointments and the Full Origin Story

54

The Polite and Heartbreaking World of Yasujiro Ozu

55

The Experiments of Michael Snow

56

Is Hype Overhyped?

57

Why Do We Watch Films We Know We Won't Like?

58

How Everything Everywhere All at Once Suddenly Was Everything Everywhere All at Once

59

10+ Brand New Hidden Gems You Should Watch [ICMFFF2022]

60

Our Number 1 Favourite Films of 2021

61

Best Films of 2021: Our Top 10s (with a cliffhanger ... again)

62

IMDb vs Letterboxd

63

Talking Zero Budget Filmmaking with Art School Dropouts

64

Is The Straight Story David Lynch's Strangest Film?

65

Does Hollywood Have an Accent Problem?

66

Is Found Footage the Worst Thing to Happen to Cinema?

67

What's the Deal with Those Chinese Blockbusters?

68

The Disappointment That is Leos Carax' Annette

69

The Rise of Andrey Tarkovsky

70

Sequels That Are Better Than the Original

71

Is Vertigo Really the Greatest Film of All-Time?

72

Being There (featuring Autism Through Cinema)

73

Should We Separate the Art From the Artist?

74

Best Films of 2017 - Part 2 (Our Top 2 Choices)

75

Best Films of 2017, Part I (Our Top 10-3s)

76

Is Dune the Future of Big Budget Blockbusters? (+ Obligatory Lynch Comparisons)

77

INTERVIEW: Like Dogs, or: How to Direct, Produce and Distribute an Indie Horror During a Pandemic

78

We Need to Talk About How Omicron (1963) is Profiting From Covid

79

Claire Denis: From Unspoken Longing to Robert Pattinson in Space

80

Remakes That Are Better Than the Original

81

10+ Brand New Hidden Gems (ICMFFF2021)

82

The Very Best Film of 2020

83

Best Films of 2020: Our Top 10s (with a cliffhanger)

84

Best Movie Endings: What Works and What Doesn't?

85

The Minimalist World of Robert Bresson

86

Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down: Is Rating Films Actually Worthwhile Communication?

87

Interview with Adam Torel, Head of Third Window Films

88

How We Got Into Cinema, Part 2: The Other Hosts

89

Best Films of 2018: Our Top 5s

90

Is Netflix Destroying Cinema?

91

The Dollar Trilogy is Pretty Badass

92

Space Exploration, part 2: When Space Became Reality

93

2001 vs Solaris (Space Exploration, part 1)

94

Single-Take Films: The Incredible Effects of the One Consecutive Shot

95

Studio Ghibli

96

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

97

Single Location Films: Gimmick or Testament to the Power of Cinema?

98

ICMFF2020: Main Slate and Highlights From the Festival

99

Best and Worst Academy Awards Best Picture Winners

100

Interview with Mary Guillermin - author of John Guillermin: The Man, the Myth, the Movies

101

Quentin Tarantino Unchained: Master or Hack

102

What Scares Us

103

WTH Happened to Godard in the 70s

104

Rewatches: Broken Hearts, New Lovers and Lying Memories

105

Best Films of 2019: Our Top 5s

106

Classic Westerns vs Spaghetti Westerns

107

Film Addiction

108

Film Purism: How Extreme Are You

109

The Bizarre Origins of ICMForum.com

110

The Decline of Film Forums: What Caused It?

111

Please Do Disturb: The Most Disturbing Films We Have Seen

112

Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs Cycle, Part 2

113

Contemporary Silent Cinema

114

Mainstream Cinema: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly