The Love Of Cinema

End of 2025 Special | Picturehouse

Sam Clements is joined by the Picturehouse Cinemas’ Podcast Squad: Hope Hopkinson, Lucy Fenwick Elliott, Lara Peters, Simon Ragoonanan and Clare Binns. 

On this bonus episode the Picturehouse team reflect on the year in cinema and go through the top 10 results of the 2025 Picturehouse Members' favourite film ballot.

Read the full details of the Picturehouse Members' poll here.

Films covered on the show: 

10. WEAPONS
9. BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
8. SORRY, BABY
7. THE BRUTALIST
6. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
5. BUGONIA
4. SINNERS 
3. I SWEAR
2. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
1. THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

Check out our previous podcasts here, including interviews with several fillmakers who we cover on today's episode.

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Produced by Stripped Media. Edited by Laura Samulionyte at Enlit Audio. Recorded in London at Soho Radio. 

Listen to more from Sam Clements over at the 90 Minutes Or Less Film Festival Podcast and The Holiday Season Podcast. 

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Sentimental Value with Joachim Trier | Picturehouse

Hope Hopkinson talks to filmmaker Joachim Trier about his new film, Sentimental Value. 

Two adult sisters navigate their emotional wounds and futures when their absentee father returns following the death of their mother. Trier tackles the journey of his characters with the gentle humour and a lived-in reality we’ve come to expect from his cinema. Featuring sumptuous technical credits and sharp scripting, Trier once again excels in conveying the profound with the lightest of touch.

Starring: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning and Anders Danielsen Lie. 

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Rian Johnson and Nia DaCosta in conversation | Picturehouse

Join director Nia DaCosta (Hedda, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple) as she hosts a career in-conversation session with fellow director Rian Johnson on stage at Picturehouse Central recorded live in front of a sold out audience. 

Rian Johnson was in town to premiere his new film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery at the London Film Festival. Whilst in London, he collaborated on a retropsective of his work at Picturehouse Central, showing everything from Brick and Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Knives Out and Glass Onion. 

Rian's new film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is out now both in cinemas and available to watch at home on Netflix. 

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus.

After a seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, eager young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) and local police chief Geraldine Scott (Mila Kunis) join forces with Blanc to unravel a mystery that pushes the boundaries of both faith and reason.

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Eleanor The Great with June Squibb | Picturehouse

Hope Hopkinson talks to the legendary June Squibb about her new film, Eleanor The Great.

Eleanor the Great features a bravura performance from June Squibb in the title role of the spirited 94-year-old who tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Eleanor Morgenstein has always stayed engaged and connected to the people around her.

So, after a devastating loss, she relocates from Florida to New York City to live with her daughter and grandson, hoping to reconnect with her family. Instead, she feels even more adrift and invisible. One day she unknowingly wanders into a support group where she doesn’t quite belong, only to reveal a story that unwittingly brings her a level of attention she did not intend. Eleanor finds herself caught up in the enlivening consequences as a young journalism student pursues her as a friend and mentor. When things go too far, Eleanor must confront the truth.

In her directorial debut, Scarlett Johansson brings together themes of aging, family, loss and what constitutes deceit, as this story of friendship and history turns into a profound tale of complicated humanity.

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Ella McCay with James L. Brooks | Picturehouse

Hope Hopkinson talks to filmmaker James L. Brooks about his new film, Ella McCay. 

An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them. Ella McCay features an all-star cast including Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Rebecca Hall, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joey Brooks with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson. 

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Eternity, It Was Just An Accident and Sentimental Value | Picturehouse

Hosted by Picturehouse’s very own Felicity Beckett, The Love Of Cinema podcast discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.

This month we're joined by guest film critics Helen O'Hara and Amon Warmann to discuss discuss some of the best new films coming to Picturehosue Cinemas, including: Eternity, It Was Just An Accident and Sentimental Value.   

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It Was Just An Accident with Jafar Panahi | Picturehouse

Hope Hopkinson talks to filmmaker Jafar Panahi about his Palme d'Or winning film, It Was Just An Accident. 

The story begins when Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), a mechanic in a Tehran garage, is visited by Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi) whose car has been in an accident. The distinctive squeak of Eghbal’s prosthetic leg makes Vahid suspect the stranger is the sadist who tortured him in prison. Those suspicions are enough for Vahid to take Eghbal captive and dig him a grave in the desert.

What follows is a riveting moral thriller that unflinchingly addresses censorship, authoritarianism and human rights abuses, powered throughout by a relentless momentum and the indelible craft of a master auteur. Yet it is also a film that contrives to be deeply and movingly humane, not least in the way it derives dark humour from its knotty scenario. 

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Eternity with David Freyne | Picturehouse

Freda Cooper talks to director David Freyne about his new film for A24, Eternity, in cinemas right now. 

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

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Pillion with Harry Lighton, Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling | Picturehouse

Felicity Beckett talks to writer and director Harry Lighton and co-stars Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling about their new film Pillion, in cinemas now. 

Wallflower Colin (Harry Melling) leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), a mysterious biker he is soon desperately devoted to. As Colin submits to Ray and enters an exciting new world of desire, he must decide the limits of his devotion.

Hilarious, subversive and sexy, PILLION is the acclaimed and surprisingly tender love story from writer-director Harry Lighton, starring Melling and Skarsgård in fearless performances as a mild young man and his leather-clad lover.

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Zootropolis 2 with Jared Bush and Yvett Merino | Picturehouse

Felicity Beckett talks to two of the creative team behind Zootropolis 2, co-writer and director Jared Bush and producer Yvett Merino. 

Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers.  

ZOOTROPOLIS 2 contains several sequences with flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities. 

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