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The Cinematologists Podcast — 224 episodes

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1

Sinners, Warfare and One to One: John and Yoko

2

American Animals w/dir. Bart Layton

3

Best films of 2025 and our final podcast.

4

The Clinical Trials of David Cronenberg w/Violet Lucca

5

Taxonomy of the Lone Killer

6

Bonus Episode - Evoking The Cinematic in Sorry, Baby and Nickel Boys

7

Culture & Creativity w/ Gwenno

8

David Lynch's Lost Highway (featuring director Mark Jenkin)

9

London Film Festival 2025

10

Don't Look Now and Then (w/Justin John Doherty)

11

PTA's latest, Redford reflections and some big podcast news

12

The Cinematologists Present: Students on Screen

13

Terrence Malick (w/John Bleasdale)

14

Pavements (& Videoheaven w/Alex Ross Perry)

15

On being Audio-Viewers: A response to FilmStack Challenge #4

16

The Learned and The Learner

17

Ryan Gilbey (It Used to be Witches)

18

Tornado (w/director John Maclean)

19

Crime, Genre, Class, Race, Gender

20

The Doors & Val Kilmer (w/filmmaker Mark Jenkin)

21

Polish Filmmaker Wojciech Has w/Michael Brooke

22

Rod Stoneman on Artistic Forms of Thought

23

Mario and Mandela Van Peebles in conversation

24

BFI Chantal Akerman Retrospective

25

Small Things Like These (w/director Tim Mielants)

26

2024 Review - Dario and Neil's top five films of the year.

27

Club Zero (w/ Jessica Hausner) & Rumours (w/ Guy Maddin, Evan & Galen Johnson)

28

Professor Vivian Sobchack, in Conversation

29

Author: The JT Leroy Story @ Falmouth Book Festival 2024 (w/Colin Midson)

30

BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Episode 2

31

BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Episode 1

32

Music Films

33

Life, Work and Cinema - Season 20 is here

34

Thinking Through Physical Media (w/Scott Tanner Jones)

35

Thinking Through British Cinema (w/Dr. Katerina Flint-Nicol

36

Eno (w/director Gary Hustwit)

37

Pat Kelman (606 Distribution & Pat's Film Club)

38

The Beast (w/writer-director Bertrand Bonello)

39

Big Wednesday (w/filmmaker Mark Jenkin)

40

Recent 2024 Releases (w/Dario!)

41

Sometimes I Think About Dying (w/director Rachel Lambert)

42

Professor Alison Peirse (Doing Women's Global Horror Film History)

43

Pouring Water on Troubled Oil (w/director Nariman Massoumi)

44

Your Fat Friend (w/ director Jeanie Finlay)

45

Our Cinematic 2023

46

On New Release Apathy

47

BONUS: Toby Amies in the Court of the Crimson King

48

BONUS: Prof. Neil Fox on Film Practice and Pedagogy

49

Film Podcasting w/ Rico Gagliano from The Mubi Podcast

50

Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed (w/ Dir. Stephen Kijak)

51

Apocalypse Clown (w/Producer James Dean)

52

London Film Festival 2023

53

A Year in a Field (w/director Christopher Morris and producer Denzil Monk)

54

On Cinematic Pleasure

55

Laura Mulvey (Falmouth Film Weekend: 1978 Revisited)

56

Plan 75

57

Boys and Men in Close and Godland

58

Demons of the Mind: Cinema and Psychiatry in the Long 1960s

59

The Films of Alice Diop

60

Long Way Back(w/Brett and Simon Harvey)

61

T.L.C (Tender Loving Care for Trans-Led/Trans-Loved Cinema) w/ So Mayer and Lillian Crawford

62

Berlinale Dispatches Trailer

63

Husband (w/Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum)

64

Enys Men (w/ Dir. Mark Jenkin)

65

2022 Review (w/critic Clarisse Loughrey)

66

Blood Simple (w/ Producer James Dean)

67

Film Curation (Beyond Interpretation w/Chris Cassingham)

68

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (Part 2)

69

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (Part 1)

70

Irma Vep (w/ Dr Catherine Wheatley)

71

Censor (w/ Sarah Cleaver)

72

London Film Festival - Part 2

73

London Film Festival - Part 1

74

Licence to Queer (w/ David Lowbridge-Ellis)

75

Jonah who will be 25 in the Year 2000 (w/ Caroline Catz and James Dean)

76

Cape Fear (live @TheGardenCinema)

77

Top Gun: Maverick; Hustle; Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (and more)

78

Cannes 2022

79

Hannah Strong on Sofia Coppola

80

Nightmare Alley, The Northman and more

81

Boiling Point (w/dir. Philip Barantini)

82

Tyler Taormina (Ham on Rye, Happer’s Comet)

83

Cherish Oteka & The Black Cop

84

Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

85

Michel Chion, in Conversation (Part 2)

86

Michel Chion, in conversation (Part 1)

87

(Repost) Ep106 Peter Bogdanovich (from Sept 2020)

88

2021 review

89

Jodorowsky‘s Dune (w/ director Frank Pavich)

90

Raising Films and Recent Films (w/So Mayer)

91

Dr Alison Peirse - Women Make Horror

92

London Film Festival 2021: Part 2

93

London Film Festival 2021: Part 1

94

Independent Magazines

95

Rose Plays Julie (w/Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor)

96

Season 13 Finale

97

Nicolas Rapold

98

Kala Azar (w/ dir. Janis Rafa)

99

Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes (w/dir. Caroline Catz)

100

Radio On (w/ Mark Jenkin)

101

Ep122 - Projections Podcast (w/Mary Wild and Sarah Cleaver)

102

Ep121 - Wilderness (w/Justin Doherty and Neil Fox [obvs])

103

Ep120 Western (w/ Dr Hannah Paveck)

104

Andrew Dominik (Crossover Ep w/Silver Screen Video Podcast)

105

Conversations About Cinema (w/ Mark Cosgrove and Francesco Tava)

106

Romanian Cinema (w/Film Critic Andrei Gorzo)

107

Sex and the Cinema (w/Film Critic Beatrice Loayza)

108

Simon Stephenson (Set My Heart To Five)

109

Concert Films (Stop Making Sense and American Utopia)

110

So Long 2020

111

The Cinema of Walter Murch (w/ Dir. Jon Lefkovitz)

112

British Social Realism Now! (w/Sarah Gavron & Henry Blake)

113

(Repost) Ep 6 Goodbye Dragon Inn

114

Ang Lee (w/Ellen Cheshire & Francesco Signorello)

115

Sport Documentaries - w/ Dir. Finlay Pretsell (Time Trial)

116

Walkabout (w/Luc Roeg and Andrew Peirce)

117

Studying Film in 2020 (w/Freya Billington & Dr Catherine Wheatley)

118

Peter Bogdanovich and The Great Buster

119

Tokyo Story

120

Film Editing with Katie Bryer

121

Sometimes Always Never

122

The Uncertain Kingdom

123

Women Make Film (Mark Cousins)

124

5 Years & 100 Episodes

125

Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions)

126

The Cinematic Voice

127

Berlinale 2020 Part 2

128

Berlinale Reminiscence (+ 2020 festival episode part 1)

129

Adam Mars-Jones

130

Filmstock Extra - Kieran Evans

131

Filmstock Extra - M.R. Carey

132

Filmstock Extra - Jeanie Finlay

133

2019 review

134

BFI Musicals Pt. 2 / Funny Girl

135

Ep94a BFI Musicals

136

Filmstock12

137

The Lobster (w/ Solem Quartet Live Score)

138

At Filmstock with Mark Jenkin

139

Speed

140

Making Waves (w/ dir. Midge Costin)

141

London Film Festival 2019

142

Film-Philosophy Conference 2019 (part 2)

143

Film-Philosophy Conference 2019 (part 1)

144

(Repost) Bronco's House w/ director Mark Jenkin

145

Sweet Country

146

Canons & Cinephilia (w/ So Mayer & Girish Shambu)

147

Sleep Has Her House (w/ Scott Barley)

148

California Typewriter (w/ dir. Doug Nichol)

149

Children of Men

150

Dr Racquel Gates

151

BFI Comedy Genius Finale

152

Berlinale 2019 Part 3

153

Berlinale 2019 Part 2

154

Berlinale 2019 Part 1

155

Clueless w/Ryan Gilbey (in association with the BFI Comedy Genius Season)

156

2018 review

157

Duck Soup (in association with the BFI Comedy Genius Season)

158

Her (live from the University of Chichester)

159

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (w/ director Julien Temple)

160

A Ghost Story - FilmStack Challenge #6

161

London Film Festival 2018 w/Filmmaker and Critic Marbelle

162

The Piano (w/ Ellen Cheshire)

163

Film-Philosophy Conference 2018

164

Steve McQueen

165

Lek and the Dogs (w/ Dir. Andew Kötting)

166

Unsocial Audiences

167

The Islands and the Whales (W/ dir. Mike Day)

168

Juice (w/ film critic & podcaster Leslie Pitt)

169

Claire Denis (with Dr. Felicity Gee)

170

Right Now Film Festival / Brexitannia (+filmmaker Daisy Asquith)

171

In a Lonely Place (w/ Prof. Julie Grossman)

172

Dark River (with Clio Barnard and Andrew Kötting)

173

Phantom Thread

174

Contemporary Film Criticism

175

Post-Weinstein (plus an interview with Dr. Tamsyn Dent.)

176

La Notte (featuring film critic Robert Koehler)

177

(Bonus) Alex Barrett & London Symphony

178

(Bonus) Brighton CineCity Co-Director Tim Brown

179

A New Leaf (w/ The Ballad of Shirley Collins filmmakers)

180

(Bonus) Blade Runner 2049

181

Crossings 2017

182

(Bonus) Social Realism?

183

(Reposting) Ep1 Repo Man

184

Screenplay Film Festival (With Mark Kermode and Linda Ruth Williams)

185

Season 6 Trailer

186

Ask Us Anything

187

B. Ruby Rich (also with Club Des Femmes and Yance Ford)

188

The Levelling (with Hope Dickson Leach & Corrina Antrobus)

189

The Other Side of Hope (with academic Jaakko Seppälä)

190

Close-up (with Mania Akbari)

191

Taxi Driver

192

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (with director Juho Kuosmanen)

193

Professor Richard Dyer

194

Ben Wheatley

195

Victim (with writer David Blakeslee)

196

Feminist Surrealism and Film (with Dr Sabina Stent & Dr Felicity Gee)

197

Eyes Without a Face (with academic Matt Smith)

198

Robocop

199

Essay Film Now

200

2016 review

201

The Rudolf Scale: Defining a Christmas Film (+ The Cinematologists Gremlins Episode)

202

The War Room (with filmmaker George Amponsah)

203

Lost in Translation (with Melody Bridges and Violet Lucca)

204

Knowing Sounds: Podcasting as Academic Practice

205

Before Sunrise (with film reviewer Ren Zelen)

206

Memento

207

Broken Embraces

208

Summer Special

209

Old Joy/I am Belfast (plus an interview with Mark Cousins)

210

The Last Detail (with film critic Christina Newland)

211

Ex_Machina

212

20000 Days on Earth (with director Kieran Evans)

213

Mad Max

214

Blue Steel (with director Kim Longinotto)

215

Le Quai des Brumes

216

The Hunger (with directors the Blaine brothers)

217

Bronco’s House (with director Mark Jenkin)

218

Interview with Professor Murray Pomerance

219

The Trial (with writer Josh Karp)

220

Interview with Dr. Catherine Grant

221

In the Mood for Love

222

The Hitch-Hiker (with writer Jack Thorne)

223

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (with filmmaker Jeanie Finlay)

224

Tony Manero (with Prof. Will Brooker)