José Arroyo
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Teacher, critic; interested in all things film.
Jennifer Lawrence is the Marlon Brando of her generation, and this is further proof:
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465 – Die My Love
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Jennifer Lawrence gives a career-best performance as a new mother struggling with depression and a rocky relationshi…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/18/465-die-my-love/
7 days ago
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At the Mockingbird this evening at 8:00 and a must-see for anyone interested in action cinema.. Chow Yun Fat is a star for the ages, and it has some of the most thrilling action scenes ever filmed. It's where Tarantino learned. @mockbirdcinema
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#cityonfire
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#tarantino
9 days ago
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Lovely day at the BFI, hearing about melodrama.
9 days ago
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A mean, nasty, cruel and heartless criminal; breaking laws of man AND God; and voted in by pious Christians. Tax churches.
11 days ago
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I enjoyed being in Lanthimos' world for a few hours. The conversation can be listened in on the post below:
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464 – Bugonia
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Yorgos Lanthimos’ fourth collaboration with Emma Stone yields a darkly comedic thriller about two conspiracy t…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/13/464-bugonia/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOCej1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3d7sfI-7IG8BlO3hMYHo85y6FZq5eXGPDxgVm6dNXFyZnrU3kdqIfDRk1us_aem_HCGhCInP8FN8wYrAXDiSHw
12 days ago
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A podcast I'm eager to listen to:
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14 days ago
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A film that has already sparked some of the oldest and dumbest conversations on film: praising or decrying the movie to the degree that it is found to be faithful to the novel:
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463 – Frankenstein (2025)
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Another classic Gothic horror is remade for the modern age: first we saw Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, and now Gui…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/09/463-frankenstein-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN9_fVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBek5bhL7ILSPjNFRby5Ys8y3Q220KTjSzpw49MVkrZUdTWU6UCCVhmJE-Ao_aem_sGtcIJWTSxRdIpBfTN4ThA
15 days ago
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Bruce F. Singer
18 days ago
Meanwhile in the U.S.A.
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Lawrence Napper
17 days ago
If you have an interest in any aspect of film culture in the UK before 1930 consider sharing it at our groovy geeky event!
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British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 (Call for Papers)
The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. As usual, this one day event will feature a range of papers of original rese…
http://atthepictures.photo.blog/2025/11/07/british-silent-film-festival-symposium-2016-call-for-papers/
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Wish
@bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social
would listen, learn and finally start doing something for its citizens. Real estate development means nothing if people have no facilities.
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Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1VXVABW3o
17 days ago
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Great turnout for the 'Big Screen, Bigger Emotions' screening of Almodóvar's Volver tonight at the Warwick Arts Centre.
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An overview of this year's Film Noir Fest UK; and reasons to go next year: My favourite weekender fest:
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Report on Film Noir Fest UK, 2025, Weston-Super-Mare
Film Noir Fest UK 2025 Weston-Super-Mare is the perfect setting for a film festival on noir; gorgeous views of the sea, a seedy centre full of nail bars and affordable pubs; a fantastic cinema – …
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/report-on-film-noir-fest-uk-2025-weston-super-mare/
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I shall be introducing Volver at the Warwick Arts Centre tomorrow This is a podcast Richard and I did on the film
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Thinking Aloud About Film: Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
Richard and I return to discuss VOLVER (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006), interesting to see always but particularly for Richard now having seen WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS (1984) and his earlier films,…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/11/29/thinking-aloud-about-film-volver-pedro-almodovar-2006/
20 days ago
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My report on the brilliant Film Noir Fest UK 2025, direct from Weston-Super-Mare:
notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/03/r...
21 days ago
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I'm delighted to collaborate with Julia Scrive-Loyer and Simulacro to deliver a series of lectures --five, one one a day, in Spanish -- on Warwick-style film studies to students in Latin America:
26 days ago
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It doesn't quite cohere though who cares? It looks amazing and we had fun watching it. One of those films that make you think if you're not watching it on a big screen with an audience why bother watching at all?
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462 – Tron: Ares
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Far from an outstanding film, but amazing to look at and too much fun not to recommend, we had a great time in Tron:…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/28/462-tron-ares/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNtX69leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhyDLXBPwTMuo654VxM0bDBqXs1yMVcoxFbgXPodFEOO53KC4-UeFrl8Q_hM_aem_RV8B0W_HkFdmhevRadK7lg
28 days ago
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29 days ago
10/27/55: Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause w/James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo + Dennis Hopper Ray & Dean soar, but v much of its moment More: Eva Güimil:
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Kashner:
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Hollywood’s First Gay Teenager and His Two Tragic Endings
This week’s ‘Little Gold Men’ podcast kicks off a Pride Month series of Oscar flashbacks with ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and the sad story of Sal Mineo.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/06/little-gold-men-podcast-flashback-rebel-without-a-cause
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about 1 month ago
I'm not gonna go try to find out myself, because I'm sure it would make me want to throw up, but I wonder what the hallowed keepers of conservative thought in American journalism think of the president destroying a third of the White House
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Our second podcast on the film, this time with Stephen Glass, who seems to know PTA's filmography backkwards and forwards.
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461 – One Battle After Another – Second Screening
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Listen to our first podcast on One Battle After Another here. We’re joined by our resident Paul Thomas Anderso…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/23/461-one-battle-after-another-second-screening/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNmlT5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFOM0lnSEp0VnAxcmdtb0p4AR6tv_DUs6AsHKVhI0Z9HZ8RHZN9dQkiThEdWH92AZbGx_DOpo-6nA0lXgikLw_aem_mkPpBIxSnyh2plRgh6KvfQ
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome.
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460 – The Smashing Machine
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike isn’t impressed with The Rock’s attempt to take on a dramatic role in an intimate biopic after deca…
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What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy, Cinema Programmer at the Warwick Arts Centre to fid out:
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José Arroyo in Conversation with James McEvoy on Film Programming at the Warwick Arts Centre
What does a Film Programmer do? I talk to James McEvoy to find out what programming the Warwick Arts Centre cinema, a three-screen cinema, based on a university campus but also serving a local and …
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/10/20/jose-arroyo-in-conversation-with-james-mcevoy-on-film-programming-at-the-warwick-arts-centre/
about 1 month ago
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Steve Walter #FBPE🌻🇨🇦🎾
about 1 month ago
Visit the US? I mean, c'mon, who would be that stupid!!
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A Kogonada film. Flawed but worth seeing and discussing:
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459 – A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, directed by former video essayist Kogonada, is beautiful to look at and very likeable,…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/14/459-a-big-bold-beautiful-journey/
about 1 month ago
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Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic
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458 – The Long Walk
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic, The Long Walk is a throwback to the days of the B-movie. In its …
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/06/458-the-long-walk/
about 2 months ago
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I love this. Will see it again. And the podcast is surely the first of many discussions:
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457 – One Battle After Another
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. By far Paul Thomas Anderson’s most expensive film, with a budget some four or five times what he’s used …
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/10/03/457-one-battle-after-another/
about 2 months ago
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Dr Ian McCormick
2 months ago
King Trump state visit to the UK: New photo released.
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een it twice now; didn't think much of it the first time but thought I might have been in the wrong mood; now, I'm more convinced the faults are with the fim.
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453 – The Shrouds
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A psychosexual thriller that’s neither psychosexual nor thrilling enough, The Shrouds is a disappointment. The…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/453-the-shrouds/
3 months ago
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A discussion of Willi Forst's marvellous Maskerade:
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3 months ago
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MidCenturyCinema
3 months ago
8/28/69 John Frankenheimer curio The Gypsy Moths w/Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman + Sheree North More
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Illeana Douglas:
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Madeleine Probst
3 months ago
London Friends! Not to be missed at Ciné Lumière Sun 7 - Thu 18 Sept presented by Cinema Mentiré
www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/nobod...
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I gather Tim Key isn't as well-loved by others as he is by Mike. I'd never heard of him, hadn't seen him in anything, and was completely charmed.. One of those uneven films that provide more depth, feeling, and humour than some of the more polished ones:
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452 – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike loves Tim Key. This much has been true for some time, and he’s thrilled to discover that the comic poet&#…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/26/452-the-ballad-of-wallis-island/?fbclid=IwY2xjawManwBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgTKqNSuO2fxqgYE5fqXiDGF_8WcBQ77K4DzavwwzFl4VWKvP0LZCgrnXqCe_aem_kp4qq1elW-aLf8BXE0flbQ
3 months ago
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I was very taken with was the effervescence, energy and brilliance of Amina Ferley Yael and Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha who introduced the Maria Luisa Bemberg programme Cinema Rediscovered. This podcast is the result of wanting to know more
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José Arroyo in Conversation with Cinema Mentiré on Maria Luisa Bemberg
I was lucky enough to see Maria Luisa Bemberg’s SEÑORA DE NADIE (NOBODY’S WIFE, 1982)and YO, LA PEOR DE TODAS (I, THE WORST OF ALL, 1990) at this year’s CINEMA REDISCOVERED in Bri…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/08/24/jose-arroyo-in-conversation-with-cinema-mentire/
3 months ago
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All these new comedies starring comedians I'd never heard of that are uneven but have depth and are funny. I'm liking the shift from all the bros improvs of yesteryear.
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451 – Friendship
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. We talk adult male friendships, stress and surreality in our discussion of Friendship, in which oddball everyman Tim…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/22/451-friendship/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMVVx1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuQzMOqBrz0yR7_GeIM8u_cRcIzd3o7hfuJLYSkWaa3WWNRIZvWD2pecRFyc_aem_Sdzr-GRugtNxe_Shal3BFw
3 months ago
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Sometimes you read a new book and love it so much you want to speak to its author and find out more. This is what happened to me in relation to Ryan Gilbey’s IT USED TO BE WITCHES: UNDER THE SPELL OF QUEER CINEMA.
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3 months ago
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Frank Collins
3 months ago
Signed up. I couldn’t have written my Black Archive books on Kinda and Warriors’ Gate without the access to the Written Archive. So many other researchers and writers depend on this too and so many books about television and radio culture would be poorer without it.
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3 months ago
Whilst JD Vance comes to the UK & lectures us about freedom, his administration seems to be intent on turning the US into a police state.
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So Mayer
3 months ago
Enjoy your Insta & WhatsApp & FB with turbocharged hate speech & conspiracy.
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It has some laughs and Pamela Anderson but even so we couldn't understand why people are liking it so much and spend most of the podcast trying to like it and finding fault.
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450 – The Naked Gun (2025)
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. The Naked Gun is rebooted with Liam Neeson in the part that was once Leslie Nielsen’s, and he shows just how h…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/13/450-the-naked-gun-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMJP6VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFVb2RtTDl5V1RuZ1AwU0MzAR63eXM_S2aRgzsqiQ1vpYO3373otI_ioujU6RyouKlVd0X2RHalRKnD7jfkQw_aem_70aT2At6JX8G_f_WjI8KOA
3 months ago
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4 months ago
Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her
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Richard and I compare two versions of The Killers (with a sideline to a third, Tarkovsky's student film):
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Thinking Aloud About Film: The Killers (1946 & 1964)
In the podcast we compare the two films, a noir and a neo-noir, the 46 version made stars of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. We then compare both to the Tarkovsky 1956 student version of the…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/07/14/thinking-aloud-about-film-the-killers-1946-1964/
4 months ago
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MidCenturyCinema
4 months ago
BOTD
#FilmNoir
maestro Robert Siodmak!! MCCT5 5)Cry/City 4)File on Thelma J 3)Criss Cross 2)Phantom Lady 1)Killers More
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Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary
A retrospective dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most enduringly influential yet too-little-celebrated Film Noir helmers, featuring an assortment of new 4K digital restorations of his signature films.
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/robert-siodmak-dark-visionary/
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Martin Murray
4 months ago
Good. Defamatory lying on social media is the aggressive business model of the 21st Century - pioneered by Alex Jones and copied by Candace Owen. It’s like a hostile takeover bid on a personal level. Horrible, disturbed and disturbing.
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French president and wife sue rightwing US commentator Candace Owens for defamation
Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIA
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-lawsuit-defamation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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There were times near the beginning where I was tempted to walk out of this one. Why I didn't is discussed in the podcast.
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449 – Bring Her Back
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. YouTubers-turned-directors Danny and Michael Philippou demonstrate a real eye for visual design and an ability to cr…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/08/02/449-bring-her-back/?fbclid=IwY2xjawL6uipleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvM0PjfrdqOoe64sJGWHAdHi0Q8DXvmzTQyPO4SR51K64pjF_57bWXiaBPkJ_aem_AqBOKXm2juQG_AHJFxX3NA
4 months ago
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.
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4 months ago
I've listened to a few podcasts about Chantal Akerman's JEANNE DIELMAN… since I saw it earlier this year, but particularly enjoyed listening to
@josearroyo.bsky.social
& Richard Layne discussing it on their "Notes on Film"
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
The BFI’s screenings of JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES were all sold out. Luckily, we were both able to see it on a big screen elsewhere. In this podcast we discuss why this is…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/03/18/jeanne-dielman-23-commerce-quay-1080-bruxelles-chantal-ackerman-1975/
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Cinema Rediscovered
4 months ago
The
#CineRedis25
UK & Ireland wide tour is available Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 supported by BFI awarding funds from
#NationalLottery
More info on all the films touring & those being released by partner distributors + support available can be found here:
www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...
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If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw:
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THINKING ALOUD ABOUT CINEMA: CINEMA REDISCOVERED 2025 WRAP-UP
If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw. We are once again full of praise for the org…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/30/thinking-aloud-about-cinema-cinema-rediscovered-2025-wrap-up/
4 months ago
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A clear illustration of governments against the people.
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