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The Cinematologists Podcast — 224 episodes
Sinners, Warfare and One to One: John and Yoko
American Animals w/dir. Bart Layton
Best films of 2025 and our final podcast.
The Clinical Trials of David Cronenberg w/Violet Lucca
Taxonomy of the Lone Killer
Bonus Episode - Evoking The Cinematic in Sorry, Baby and Nickel Boys
Culture & Creativity w/ Gwenno
David Lynch's Lost Highway (featuring director Mark Jenkin)
London Film Festival 2025
Don't Look Now and Then (w/Justin John Doherty)
PTA's latest, Redford reflections and some big podcast news
The Cinematologists Present: Students on Screen
Terrence Malick (w/John Bleasdale)
Pavements (& Videoheaven w/Alex Ross Perry)
On being Audio-Viewers: A response to FilmStack Challenge #4
The Learned and The Learner
Ryan Gilbey (It Used to be Witches)
Tornado (w/director John Maclean)
Crime, Genre, Class, Race, Gender
The Doors & Val Kilmer (w/filmmaker Mark Jenkin)
Polish Filmmaker Wojciech Has w/Michael Brooke
Rod Stoneman on Artistic Forms of Thought
Mario and Mandela Van Peebles in conversation
BFI Chantal Akerman Retrospective
Small Things Like These (w/director Tim Mielants)
2024 Review - Dario and Neil's top five films of the year.
Club Zero (w/ Jessica Hausner) & Rumours (w/ Guy Maddin, Evan & Galen Johnson)
Professor Vivian Sobchack, in Conversation
Author: The JT Leroy Story @ Falmouth Book Festival 2024 (w/Colin Midson)
BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Episode 2
BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Episode 1
Music Films
Life, Work and Cinema - Season 20 is here
Thinking Through Physical Media (w/Scott Tanner Jones)
Thinking Through British Cinema (w/Dr. Katerina Flint-Nicol
Eno (w/director Gary Hustwit)
Pat Kelman (606 Distribution & Pat's Film Club)
The Beast (w/writer-director Bertrand Bonello)
Big Wednesday (w/filmmaker Mark Jenkin)
Recent 2024 Releases (w/Dario!)
Sometimes I Think About Dying (w/director Rachel Lambert)
Professor Alison Peirse (Doing Women's Global Horror Film History)
Pouring Water on Troubled Oil (w/director Nariman Massoumi)
Your Fat Friend (w/ director Jeanie Finlay)
Our Cinematic 2023
On New Release Apathy
BONUS: Toby Amies in the Court of the Crimson King
BONUS: Prof. Neil Fox on Film Practice and Pedagogy
Film Podcasting w/ Rico Gagliano from The Mubi Podcast
Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed (w/ Dir. Stephen Kijak)
Apocalypse Clown (w/Producer James Dean)
London Film Festival 2023
A Year in a Field (w/director Christopher Morris and producer Denzil Monk)
On Cinematic Pleasure
Laura Mulvey (Falmouth Film Weekend: 1978 Revisited)
Plan 75
Boys and Men in Close and Godland
Demons of the Mind: Cinema and Psychiatry in the Long 1960s
The Films of Alice Diop
Long Way Back(w/Brett and Simon Harvey)
T.L.C (Tender Loving Care for Trans-Led/Trans-Loved Cinema) w/ So Mayer and Lillian Crawford
Berlinale Dispatches Trailer
Husband (w/Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum)
Enys Men (w/ Dir. Mark Jenkin)
2022 Review (w/critic Clarisse Loughrey)
Blood Simple (w/ Producer James Dean)
Film Curation (Beyond Interpretation w/Chris Cassingham)
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (Part 2)
Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (Part 1)
Irma Vep (w/ Dr Catherine Wheatley)
Censor (w/ Sarah Cleaver)
London Film Festival - Part 2
London Film Festival - Part 1
Licence to Queer (w/ David Lowbridge-Ellis)
Jonah who will be 25 in the Year 2000 (w/ Caroline Catz and James Dean)
Cape Fear (live @TheGardenCinema)
Top Gun: Maverick; Hustle; Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (and more)
Cannes 2022
Hannah Strong on Sofia Coppola
Nightmare Alley, The Northman and more
Boiling Point (w/dir. Philip Barantini)
Tyler Taormina (Ham on Rye, Happer’s Comet)
Cherish Oteka & The Black Cop
Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Michel Chion, in Conversation (Part 2)
Michel Chion, in conversation (Part 1)
(Repost) Ep106 Peter Bogdanovich (from Sept 2020)
2021 review
Jodorowsky‘s Dune (w/ director Frank Pavich)
Raising Films and Recent Films (w/So Mayer)
Dr Alison Peirse - Women Make Horror
London Film Festival 2021: Part 2
London Film Festival 2021: Part 1
Independent Magazines
Rose Plays Julie (w/Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor)
Season 13 Finale
Nicolas Rapold
Kala Azar (w/ dir. Janis Rafa)
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes (w/dir. Caroline Catz)
Radio On (w/ Mark Jenkin)
Ep122 - Projections Podcast (w/Mary Wild and Sarah Cleaver)
Ep121 - Wilderness (w/Justin Doherty and Neil Fox [obvs])
Ep120 Western (w/ Dr Hannah Paveck)
Andrew Dominik (Crossover Ep w/Silver Screen Video Podcast)
Conversations About Cinema (w/ Mark Cosgrove and Francesco Tava)
Romanian Cinema (w/Film Critic Andrei Gorzo)
Sex and the Cinema (w/Film Critic Beatrice Loayza)
Simon Stephenson (Set My Heart To Five)
Concert Films (Stop Making Sense and American Utopia)
So Long 2020
The Cinema of Walter Murch (w/ Dir. Jon Lefkovitz)
British Social Realism Now! (w/Sarah Gavron & Henry Blake)
(Repost) Ep 6 Goodbye Dragon Inn
Ang Lee (w/Ellen Cheshire & Francesco Signorello)
Sport Documentaries - w/ Dir. Finlay Pretsell (Time Trial)
Walkabout (w/Luc Roeg and Andrew Peirce)
Studying Film in 2020 (w/Freya Billington & Dr Catherine Wheatley)
Peter Bogdanovich and The Great Buster
Tokyo Story
Film Editing with Katie Bryer
Sometimes Always Never
The Uncertain Kingdom
Women Make Film (Mark Cousins)
5 Years & 100 Episodes
Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions)
The Cinematic Voice
Berlinale 2020 Part 2
Berlinale Reminiscence (+ 2020 festival episode part 1)
Adam Mars-Jones
Filmstock Extra - Kieran Evans
Filmstock Extra - M.R. Carey
Filmstock Extra - Jeanie Finlay
2019 review
BFI Musicals Pt. 2 / Funny Girl
Ep94a BFI Musicals
Filmstock12
The Lobster (w/ Solem Quartet Live Score)
At Filmstock with Mark Jenkin
Speed
Making Waves (w/ dir. Midge Costin)
London Film Festival 2019
Film-Philosophy Conference 2019 (part 2)
Film-Philosophy Conference 2019 (part 1)
(Repost) Bronco's House w/ director Mark Jenkin
Sweet Country
Canons & Cinephilia (w/ So Mayer & Girish Shambu)
Sleep Has Her House (w/ Scott Barley)
California Typewriter (w/ dir. Doug Nichol)
Children of Men
Dr Racquel Gates
BFI Comedy Genius Finale
Berlinale 2019 Part 3
Berlinale 2019 Part 2
Berlinale 2019 Part 1
Clueless w/Ryan Gilbey (in association with the BFI Comedy Genius Season)
2018 review
Duck Soup (in association with the BFI Comedy Genius Season)
Her (live from the University of Chichester)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (w/ director Julien Temple)
A Ghost Story - FilmStack Challenge #6
London Film Festival 2018 w/Filmmaker and Critic Marbelle
The Piano (w/ Ellen Cheshire)
Film-Philosophy Conference 2018
Steve McQueen
Lek and the Dogs (w/ Dir. Andew Kötting)
Unsocial Audiences
The Islands and the Whales (W/ dir. Mike Day)
Juice (w/ film critic & podcaster Leslie Pitt)
Claire Denis (with Dr. Felicity Gee)
Right Now Film Festival / Brexitannia (+filmmaker Daisy Asquith)
In a Lonely Place (w/ Prof. Julie Grossman)
Dark River (with Clio Barnard and Andrew Kötting)
Phantom Thread
Contemporary Film Criticism
Post-Weinstein (plus an interview with Dr. Tamsyn Dent.)
La Notte (featuring film critic Robert Koehler)
(Bonus) Alex Barrett & London Symphony
(Bonus) Brighton CineCity Co-Director Tim Brown
A New Leaf (w/ The Ballad of Shirley Collins filmmakers)
(Bonus) Blade Runner 2049
Crossings 2017
(Bonus) Social Realism?
(Reposting) Ep1 Repo Man
Screenplay Film Festival (With Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams)
Season 6 Trailer
Ask Us Anything
B. Ruby Rich (also with Club Des Femmes and Yance Ford)
The Levelling (with Hope Dickson Leach & Corrina Antrobus)
The Other Side of Hope (with academic Jaakko Seppälä)
Close-up (with Mania Akbari)
Taxi Driver
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (with director Juho Kuosmanen)
Professor Richard Dyer
Ben Wheatley
Victim (with writer David Blakeslee)
Feminist Surrealism and Film (with Dr Sabina Stent & Dr Felicity Gee)
Eyes Without a Face (with academic Matt Smith)
Robocop
Essay Film Now
2016 review
The Rudolf Scale: Defining a Christmas Film (+ The Cinematologists Gremlins Episode)
The War Room (with filmmaker George Amponsah)
Lost in Translation (with Melody Bridges and Violet Lucca)
Knowing Sounds: Podcasting as Academic Practice
Before Sunrise (with film reviewer Ren Zelen)
Memento
Broken Embraces
Summer Special
Old Joy/I am Belfast (plus an interview with Mark Cousins)
The Last Detail (with film critic Christina Newland)
Ex_Machina
20000 Days on Earth (with director Kieran Evans)
Mad Max
Blue Steel (with director Kim Longinotto)
Le Quai des Brumes
The Hunger (with directors the Blaine brothers)
Bronco’s House (with director Mark Jenkin)
Interview with Professor Murray Pomerance
The Trial (with writer Josh Karp)
Interview with Dr. Catherine Grant
In the Mood for Love
The Hitch-Hiker (with writer Jack Thorne)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (with filmmaker Jeanie Finlay)
Tony Manero (with Prof. Will Brooker)