Episodes

  • Experimental film-making was the friends we made along the way - Last Days in a Lonely Place - Phil Solomon (2007)
    Oct 12 2024

    A mediation on mortality and friendship inspires a mediation on friendship and form.


    You can see 'Last Days in a Lonely Place' here:

    https://youtu.be/eoSI9_I3sO8?si=tYlblCyqp9Z0egL2


    Alex Cox's Introduction to Film:

    ALEX COX'S INTRODUCTION TO FILM | KAMERA BOOKS Kickstarter for Alex Cox's Last Film:

    MY LAST MOVIE by Alex Cox — Kickstarter


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    28 mins
  • (A) demanding simplicity. Sheridan Seraphin on Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
    Aug 20 2024

    Sheridan Seraphin is a film-maker from London. In this episode we discuss Robert Bresson's masterpiece Au Hasard Balthazar from 1966.

    We speak about the relationships a film-maker has with place and time (and finance- personal and professional), the legacy of Bresson's famous ideas of cinematography, ans lots more.

    Find Sheridan's work at:

    HOME - home, homepage,blue sera films, videographer london, cinematic, Enjoy, JL

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Winter Sun 1- Crime and Punishment - Aki Kaurasmaki
    Jul 16 2024

    The first in a series on one of my favourites, Aki Kaurismaki.

    I look at his first feature - Crime and Punishment - a bold statement of intent and a minefield of names to horribly mis-pronounce.

    Resources:

    https://youtu.be/0CW6z3r4Xr4?si=SijbjbP0EWSyIM2K

    https://youtu.be/d9tp8rAaTsE?si=1BfH_BDsOIYOOy2W

    https://youtu.be/GRbrzDZBlqg?si=Ah7mjzdxkliHqYZ0


    If you have the means and the inclination a contribution here would be much appreciated:

    https://ko-fi.com/mypicturehouse

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    30 mins
  • Three coats of Blood. The passion of John Rambo in three coats with David O'Sullivan
    Jun 4 2024

    In this episode I am joined by my old friend David O'Sullivan of Dyehouse films. We discuss the 1982 film First Blood and the way in which its use of three coats retells the passion of Christ.

    Dyehouse films- Dyehouse Films

    Moore Street Masala- https://youtu.be/_1taXkpCx88?si=bf5gHelP9Koiqb-8

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    41 mins
  • 'a never-failing source of wonder to me' - Ian White on 'if....' and 'Mutiny in Heaven'
    Apr 30 2024

    In this episode I am joined by the film-maker Ian White. We talk about his choice of film – ‘if….’ By Lindsey Anderson (1968) and his own new documentary ‘Mutiny in Heaven’ (2023) that chronicles the fascinating history of The Birthday Party, one of the most influential, brilliant, violent and possessed bands of the 1980s.

    We talk about matching form to subject, things that don’t exist anymore, the pleasures and pains of the digital and pre-digital worlds, the potential beauty of nihilism

    For more information on where to see ‘Mutiny in Heaven’ in the cinema, streaming or to buy the DVD-

    Birthday Party Movie - Mutiny in Heaven | documentary

    Mutiny in Heaven — Cargo Film & Releasing (cargofilm-releasing.com)


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    52 mins
  • Litton on Lynch on 'Lynch on Lynch' plus evil
    Apr 9 2024

    Anthony Litton returns to talk about Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and all things David Lynch.

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    53 mins
  • Evil - Thoughts on Twin Peaks, Lynch and more
    Mar 21 2024

    Thinking about Evil watching David Lynch and reading Flannery O'Connor.

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    23 mins
  • Francis -Faoladh
    Mar 1 2024

    For a long time I have intended to make a film, this film, Francis, based on my feelings in relation to George Romero’s Martin. Martin is a vampire movie without a vampire but with a deep and deeply disquieting examination of religion, sex and culture. I loved Martin at first sight and instantly thought (felt) that the idea would make something wonderful about being Irish - and also a great werewolf movie.

    This is my version of that film. I spent a long time thinking I just would never have the resources to make it, except as a short story and that is indeed how it started, until I suddenly had the idea ‘Why not La Jetée the thing?’ I am not sure if ‘to La Jetée’ will catch on as a verb in English but let’s give it a try.

    It was made for basically nothing and I want those limitations to be part of the atmosphere – how else to capture that strange and intoxicating feeling of 70’s and 80’s exploitation cinema.

    It is the story of a young man who has a miserable life, a violent early death, and seems to be having at least as bad a time of it in the afterlife. But in the answer to the question of why this is all so horrible there is possibly something beautiful and rather life affirming…but you’ll need to dig that out for yourself.

    https://youtu.be/jmK6ryxsHOo


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    5 mins