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Writers on Film — 297 episodes

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A Hard Day's Night with Samira Ahmed

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Looking forward to The Odyssey with Ian Nathan

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Live from Karlovy Vary with Scott Feinberg

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LIVE from Bologna Cinema Ritrovato

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The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes

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Trans Cinema by Laura Horak

7

From the Archive: Ed Zwick

8

Cannes Report 3

9

Cannes 2026 Report 2.

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Cannes 2026 Report 1

11

Ian Christie talks Powell, Pressburger and more

12

J.G. Ballard on Film

13

Cinema Italia: Salvatore Giuliano

14

Robert Kolker David Wyatt Discuss The Film Auteur

15

John Rain on ThunderBook and SmershPod

16

Pamela Hutchinson on The Curse of Queen Kelly

17

Acting and Performance in Hitchcock

18

Adrian Martin on Filmmakers Thinking

19

Stephen Volk on Gothic, GhostWatch and Weird Reality

20

Gabriel Byrne on his Memoirs

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Partially Devoured with Daniel Kraus

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Adventures in Autuerism with Daniel Kremer

23

Ashley Clark and The World of Black Film

24

Kristen Lopez on Popcorn Diabilities

25

Thomas Golianopoulos talks John Singleton: Boyz N the Hood to Snowfall

26

Martin Scorsese by Ian Nathan

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Sir Christopher Frayling on The Hollywood History of Art

28

Greta Gerwig by Laura Venning

29

Hurricane Billy: The Life of William Friedkin with Nat Segaloff

30

Don't Look Now (and then) with Justin John Doherty

31

Tom Shone: Best Movies of 2025

32

2025 Writers on Film Round Up

33

John Waters: Michelle E. Moore Praises the Pope of Trash

34

Mike Miley on David Lynch

35

Joseph McBride talks I Loved Movies But...

36

The Death of Cinema? with Thomas Flight

37

The History of the Western Movie with Jem Duducu

38

Tom Shone on The Greengrass Papers

39

David Hughes on Night Moves by Alan Sharp

40

Ellen E Jones on Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World

41

Ellen E Jones on the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award

42

The Pordenone Silent Film Festival with James Harrison and Neil Brand

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Rear Window with Jennifer O'Callaghan

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Jonathan Demme by David M. Stewart

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The Malick Hours: BADLANDS

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Julie Seabaugh on Roast Battles and Marc Maron

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Single and Psycho: with Caroline Young

48

Making Monsters with Marshall Julius and Howard Berger

49

Will Sloan on Ed Wood Jr: Made in Hollywood

50

Venice Film Festival Part Two

51

Venice Film Festival Part One

52

Screaming and Conjuring with Clark Collis

53

The Zone of Interest

54

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers author Roger Lewis

55

Visible Darkness: UNDER THE SKIN

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Film Critic Xan Brooks on his novel The Catchers

57

Birth: David Thomson talks Jonathan Glazer's second film

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Shawn Levy talks CLINT

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Sexy Beast

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A Bollywood State of Mind with Sunny Singh

61

Rob Spera talks about his Film and TV Director's Field Manual

62

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Wrap with Laurence Boyce

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From the Archive: Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone

64

D Harlan Wilson Takes Us into Strangelove Country

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Jarett Kobek invokes his Demon Brother

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Cannes Wrap Report with Christina Birro

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Writers On Cannes 5 with Savina Petkova and Maja Korbeka

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Writers on Cannes 4 with Thomas Flight

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Writers on Cannes 3: M. Sellers Johnson talks Wes Anderson and Kristen Stewart

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Writers in Cannes 2: Die My Love with Nicholas Bell

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Writers in Cannes: Sound of Falling and Sirat

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Walter Murch on Suddenly Something Clicked

73

Jason Bailey on James Gandolfini

74

Alan Dean Foster, the Poet Laureate of Novelisations

75

Jonathan Rosenbaum Travels in the Cities of Cinema

76

The Malick Hour: Carlo Hintermann on Terrence Malick

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Eelco Wijdicks talks Neuropsychiatry and Cinema

78

Alissa Wilkinson talks Joan Didion

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The Malick Hour: THE VOYAGE OF TIME

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Patrick McGilligan on writing his biography of Woody Allen

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Ian Cooper on Charles Manson and Sam Peckinpah

82

Marya E Gates talks Cinema Her Way

83

Barry Forshaw on the British Gothic Horror

84

Christopher Frayling on Sergio Leone

85

The Malick Hour: A HIDDEN LIFE with Matt Zoller Seitz

86

Andrew Buss talks Superbad

87

Geoff Dyer on Stalker and Where Eagles Dare

88

Robert Sellers Searches for James Bond

89

The Malick Hour: SONG TO SONG

90

David Thomson on the Joy of Watching Movies

91

Tom Shone and David Lynch

92

Live from the Tromsø international film festival with Neil Young

93

Sandy Lieberson on Hollywood on the Tiber

94

The Malick Hour and Writers on Film: Martin Woessner talks KNIGHT OF CUPS

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Revolution in 35mm: from Arthouse to Grindhouse

96

The Malick Hour: Jack Fisk Interview (Part 2)

97

End of Year and Walter Chaw on Walter Hill from the Archives

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The Malick Hour: Bilge Ebiri on TO THE WONDER

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The Malick Hour: Shane Hazen talks THE TREE OF LIFE

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Brian Abrams on Die Hard: an Oral History

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The Malick Hours: THE NEW WORLD

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Joseph McBride on George Cukor

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The Malick Hours: THE THIN RED LINE

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John Bleasdale on The Magic Hours

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The Malick Hours: Jack Fisk Interview Part 1.

106

Tim Robey talks Box Office Poison

107

The Malick Hours: DAYS OF HEAVEN

108

Anna Bogustkaya talks Feeding the Monster

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The Malick Hours: BADLANDS

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Sheri Chinen Biesen talks Through a Noir Lens

111

Texas Chainsaw Massacre with James Rose

112

Steven Cohan on Audrey Hepburn

113

Jie Li talks Cinematic Guerillas

114

Adam Woodward on The Worlds of Wes Anderson

115

Benjamin Halligan talks Hotbeds of Licentiousness

116

A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

117

Jason Solomons on Film Weekly, Woody Allen and becoming a Film Producer

118

Jez Conolly on The Thing

119

From the Archives: Adam Nayman's Masterworks

120

Venice Film Festival Final Round Up

121

Venice Film festival Report 4: Joker: Folie à Deux

122

Venice Film Festival Report 3. Queer, The Room Next Door and The Brutalist

123

Venice Film Festival: Report 2. Babygirl and Maria

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Venice Film Festival: Report 1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

125

Comedian and actor Chris Calogero on comedy, horror and movie clichés

126

From the Archives: Michael Benson on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey

127

100 Years of Columbia Pictures: from Locarno

128

Brett Davies talks Lawrence Kasdan

129

Julie Salamon and the Devil's Candy

130

Mark Harris on Mike Nichols and others

131

Movies Go Fourth

132

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024

133

Bologna: Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

134

Roger Lewis talks Carry Ons and Charles Hawtrey

135

Ramsey Campbell talks the 3 Stooges, Horror films and Cinephilia

136

Ian Christie talks Powell, Pressburger, Scorsese and Cinema

137

Cannes Report 9: Anora, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

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Cannes Report 8: Indian cinema on the Croisette

139

Cannes Report 7: Trends and Titans

140

Cannes Report 6: Horizon: an American Saga

141

Cannes Report 5: The Substance

142

Cannes Report 4: Limonov: the Ballad

143

Cannes Report 3: Furiosa, Megalopolis and Emilia Perez

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Cannes Report 2: Kinds of Kindness

145

Cannes Report 1: Wild Diamond

146

Glenn Kenny talks Al Pacino, Brian DePalma and the greatest gangster movie of the 80s

147

Maureen Foster talks Jonathan Glazer and Under the Skin

148

Roger Lewis talks Erotic Vagrancy

149

Paul Duncan on Dr. No

150

Ed Zwick on Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions

151

Robert P Kolker and Marsha Gordon talk Film, Form and Culture

152

Neil Alcock talks Hitchcock and Hitchology

153

Oscar Winning Screenwriter Bruce Rubin talks about his Life

154

Christian Esquevin talks Designing Hollywood

155

Tom Shone on the Oscars and Dune Part 2

156

Stephen Lee Naish on Dennis Hopper, film director

157

Kubrick: an Odyssey

158

Ellen E. Jones on Screen Deep

159

Michael Schulman on the Oscar Wars

160

From the Archives: Ti Singh is Born to Be Bad

161

The Beatles v James Bond

162

From the Tromsø International Film Festival

163

The Last Action Heroes

164

Sam Wasson talks Francis Ford Coppola

165

Bonus Episode: Cinema Italia

166

From the Archives: Tales from Development Hell with David Hughes

167

Happy Christmas Movies, Jeremy Arnold

168

Connery - a novel

169

From the Archives: Paul Cronin's Guide for the Perplexed

170

Cai Ross talks The Prisoner and Connery

171

Jem Duducu talks Napoleon

172

From the Archive: Talking memoirs with Gabriel Byrne

173

Mark Wheeler on Sorcerer

174

Pamela Hutchinson talks The Red Shoes

175

Nancy Schoenberger talks Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

176

Tom Shone talks the return of the auteur blockbusters

177

Carol Baum on Creative Producing

178

Robert Sellers on the Greatest Year in Cinema History

179

Demetrios Matheou talks Means Streets at 50

180

Clint Eastwood by Ian Nathan

181

Chris Yogerst talks The Warner Brothers

182

Jem Duducu talks Hollywood and History

183

In conversation with Lawrence Grobel

184

Molly Haskell talks film criticism, feminism and cinephilia

185

James Peaty on Summer Blockbusters and Oppenheimer

186

Jeanine Basinger talks film history, Hollywood and the Star Machine

187

Josh Winning Burns the Negative

188

Jason Isralowitz and Hitchcock's Wrong Man

189

Warren Buckland asks: Who wrote Citizen Kane?

190

Sarah Welch-Larson talks Becoming Alien

191

Kaleem Aftab Does the Right Thing

192

Matt Pais talks '90s with Me

193

Karlovy Vary Film Festival Report 2

194

William J Mann on Bogie and Bacall

195

Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Part I

196

Alan Dean Foster: the Poet Laureate of the Novelisation

197

Joseph McBride talks Billy Wilder

198

Kyle Turner talks The Queer Film Guide

199

Joseph Aisenberg on Brian De Palma's Carrie

200

Writers on Cannes

201

Steven DeLay goes Above the Clouds

202

Jim Colvill talks Film Desk Books

203

Al Clark talks producing Priscilla, Chopper and the Oz Film Industry

204

Non-Super Hero Comic Book Movies: 1. John Wagner

205

Melanie Williams on A Taste of Honey

206

Ethan Warren on Paul Thomas Anderson

207

Adrian Martin on Criticism, Leone, Malick and Bertolucci

208

Al Clark on Time Flies

209

Matt Zoller Seitz talks Books and Film

210

George Stevens Jr returns to talk Hollywood and Washington Legends

211

Crooked but Never Common

212

Graham Skipper Vs Godzilla

213

Will Scheibel talks Gene Tierney and Hollywood Stardom

214

Thomas Puhr talks Fate and Film

215

Rahul Desai Talks Hollywood, Bollywood and Tollywood

216

Charles Bramesco talks Colors of Film

217

Paul Williams talks Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen and Holy Men

218

Hannah Strong on Sofia Coppola: Forever Young

219

From the Archive: Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan

220

We Are The Mutants

221

Anthony Marra Presents his new novel: Mercury Studio Presents

222

Caroline Young on Crazy Old Ladies

223

Hollywood Hates Hitler by Chris Yogerst

224

Walter Chaw on Walter Hill

225

Paul Hirsch: A long time ago in a Cutting Room far far away

226

Rachel Abramowitz has a Gun in her Pocket

227

Sam Wasson's Hooray for Hollywood

228

The Ghiblioteheque Guide to Anime

229

Mark Searby on the Deliriously Funny Eddie Murphy

230

AJ Black Talks the Cinematic Connery

231

David Hughes turns on the Heat 2

232

Alistair Owen Smokes in Bed

233

LIVE from the 79th Venice Film Festival

234

Hanna Flint is a Strong Female Character

235

Stephen Bradley's Shooting and Cutting

236

Meg Gardiner turns up the HEAT 2

237

David Koenig Shoots Columbo

238

Live from the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival

239

Dario Llinares talks movies, podcasts and Cinematology

240

Live from Locarno Film Festival 75th Edition

241

Tony Bill Talks Movie Speak

242

Dan Mirvish talks his new film 18 1/2

243

Paul Fischer and the Man who Invented Motion Pictures

244

Mike Medavoy: You're Only as Good as Your Last One

245

DC and 2000AD writer James Peaty on Thor and More

246

Alison Macor on The Best Days of Our Lives

247

Live from Cannes

248

Sean Hogan is Screaming

249

Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton

250

Neil Fox on Screenwriting and Screenwriters

251

Kyle Buchanan on Blood Sweat and Chrome

252

George Stevens Jr finds his Place in the Sun

253

Keith Phipps celebrates the Age of Cage

254

Talking Cinema with the legendary Michel Ciment

255

Matthew Page Gets Biblical

256

Leon Hunt is slayed by Mario Bava

257

Charles Elton talks Michael Cimino

258

Sydney Ladensohn Stern talks the Brothers Mankiewicz

259

Kim Newman has Nightmares

260

Jonathan Rigby goes Gothic

261

Peter Bradshaw on the Films that Made Him

262

Joseph McBride's The Whole Durn Coen Brothers Comedy

263

Isaac Butler Employs The Method

264

J Blake Fichera is SCORED TO DEATH

265

Ben Slater on Saint Jack

266

Philip Gwynne Jones talks Vintage Horror and a Tromsø round up

267

John Rosenthal on Ted K

268

Matt Glasby's Book of Horror

269

Noah Isenberg: We'll Always Have Casablanca

270

Jay Glennie goes Trainspotting

271

Patrick McGilligan's Lives and Legends

272

Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham on Ghibliotheque

273

Jonathan Melville on the Making of Highlander

274

Clark Collis on Shaun of the Dead

275

Anna Cale Talks the Real Diana Dors

276

Ian Nathan talks Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle Earth

277

Glenn Frankel talks Midnight Cowboy, High Noon and The Searchers

278

Tom Shone talks Blockbusters

279

Hoo-Ah!: Mark Searby on Al Pacino

280

Jason Bailey talks Fun City Cinema, New York and the Movies that Made it

281

Amy Raphael on Mike Leigh

282

Lynne Sachs: Portrait of a Filmmaker Who

283

Sam Wasson gives Chinatown The Big Goodbye

284

No Time to Die with Paul Duncan

285

The Ian Nathan Vault

286

Wendy Mitchell talks dogs on film

287

Rob Young's Magic Box

288

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The Novelisation

289

Night Moves, Neo Noir and Loneliness with Matthew Asprey Gear

290

The Paul Duncan Archives

291

Pamela Hutchinson and Silent Cinema

292

The making of Performance, Deer Hunter and Raging Bull

293

Jason Wood talks Mexican Cinema

294

Women Vs Hollywood: an Interview with Helen O'Hara

295

Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas: an Interview with Glenn Kenny

296

Wild and Crazy Guys: an Interview with Nick de Semlyen

297

The Nolan Twisters: an Interview with Tom Shone