José Arroyo
@josearroyo.bsky.social
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Teacher, critic; interested in all things film.
So we are ranked below Brett Goldstein, who is at number 1; and Christopher Holliday Fantasy/ Animation podcast at no. 16, which as they are both former students brings me no end of pleasure, but above Mark Kermode, who is at No 25:
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Best 60 Movie Podcasts in the UK
Best Movie Podcasts to Listen to ⋅ 1. Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein ⋅ 2. The Evolution of Horror ⋅ 3. Hack or Slash - A Horror Movie Review Podcast
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Gail BK
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Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
21 days ago
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.
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The USA has been flouting international law since — well, forever. But with this there is no pretext at all. This is Genghis Khan level politics and Xi and Putin are delighted. Ukraine and Taiwan are in genuine trouble. Greenland and Canada might be worried. Chuck Schumer will write a stern letter
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Kat Abughazaleh
21 days ago
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The film seems to run entirely on mood -- loneliness, frailty, vulnerability, alienation in a cold climate. A fluid dexterity of original story-telling and tone. We discuss all this and much more in the podcast below:
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Playing nationwide this afternoon:
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It’s A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, USA, 1946)
James Stewart is so great in It’s a Wonderful Life: the repressed fury, frustration, the dashed hopes sometimes relieved by an evident yearning, the bitterness, all dazzlingly displayed by th…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2014/12/19/its-a-wonderful-life-frank-capra-usa-1946/
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I just…..
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An extraordinary achievement of tone:
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468 – Pillion
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Possibly the sweetest and lightest gay BDSM biker film ever made, Pillion opens up conversations on power dynamics, …
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/12/17/468-pillion/
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A great film, funny and suspenseful, that unfurls into a philosophical discussion of morality and ethics:
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467 – It Was Just an Accident
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. One of Iran’s most celebrated filmmakers, Jafar Panahi, has spent the last quarter of a century in conflict wi…
https://eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/12/15/467-it-was-just-an-accident/
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The rapidity with which the USA has become a tinpot dictatorship with no regard for law or for the sanctity of life, dizzying levels of corruption, and even a secret police...it makes my head spin.
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Interviewed by The Boar:
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about 2 months ago
"We are aware that some AI chatbots may generate incorrect or fabricated archival references...They generate new content based on statistical patterns, and may therefore produce invented catalogue numbers, descriptions of documents, or even references to platforms that have never existed."
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A treat to talk to the marvellous Glyn Davis on his handsome new book, the ‘BFI Classic’ on Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955).
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This looks amazing and I shall be there, at least for the first part as I don't know if I can manage 300 minutes on a school night when I'm teaching first thing tomorrow:
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Zia Yusuf is in the right party. What a loudmouth, arrogant, bully; speaking over everyone and not listening to a word anyone else says.
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Exciting. On next Monday at the Warwick Arts Centre.
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This was the first video essay I made, when I still didn't quite have a handle on editing software -- not that I'm much better now -- but I still like it, and will probably show it to students later today.
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Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross: a noir hero, desiring
In Criss Cross Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home to LA after 8 months of wondering around working odd jobs and trying to forget his ex — Ana (Yvonne…
https://vimeo.com/426581272
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James Cullen, articulate, knowledgeable, brilliant: on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues:
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James Cullen on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: The Gus Van Sant Podcast No. 7
I wanted to talk to James Cullen on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues because of his untrammelled love for the film, his enthusiasm, and the wide array of references he brings to this very intelligent ap…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2025/11/28/james-cullen-on-even-cowgirls-get-the-blues-the-gus-van-sant-podcast-no-7/
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a great performance in a mediocre but 'important' film:
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466 – Nuremberg
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Russell Crowe shines in Nuremberg as Hermann Göring, who became the face of the Nazi Party following Hitler’s …
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The Gus Van Sant Podcast No. 4: Lisa Purse on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Lisa Purse on EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (Gus Van Sant, 1993) I was truly delighted when Lisa Purse agreed to talk to me about EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES. Lisa is a Professor of Film Studies at t…
https://notesonfilm1.com/2024/10/28/the-gus-van-sant-podcast-no-4-lisa-purse-on-even-cowgirls-get-the-blues-1993/
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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/
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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
#chowynfat
#cityonfire
#mockingbird
#tarantino
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Lovely day at the BFI, hearing about melodrama.
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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.
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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…
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A podcast I'm eager to listen to:
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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
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3 months ago
Meanwhile in the U.S.A.
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3 months 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
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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/
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My report on the brilliant Film Noir Fest UK 2025, direct from Weston-Super-Mare:
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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:
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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:…
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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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@kateyrich.bsky.social
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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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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…
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3 months 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/
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Steve Walter #FBPE🌻🇨🇦🎾
3 months 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/
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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/
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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/
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4 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/
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