The Love Of Cinema

Hope Hopkinson talks to Neil Alock, film critic and author of Hitchology, and Rose Butler, Picturehouse Film Programmer, about the new blockbuster ReDiscover season: Hitchcock, coming to your local Picturehouse this autumn. 

Whether you're new to Alfred Hitchcock, or a big enough fan to know your Sabotage from your Saboteur, a season of his movies on the big screen is an unmissable event for film fans.

There's nothing like the action of North By Northwest unfolding on a grand canvas, or the Psycho score screeching out at high volume, to demonstrate Hitchcock's uncanny ability to manipulate sound and images to create unforgettable cinematic experiences.

Picturehouse's Hitchcock season boasts seven stone-cold classics from the director's American period at all our cinemas, plus three of his best British bangers at selected sites… 

Find out more: picturehouses.com/hitchcock

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Hope Hopkinson talks to director Nadia Latif, plus actors Willem Dafoe, Corey Hawkins and Anna Diop about their new film The Man In My Basement. 

In the African American neighbourhood of Sag Harbor, New York, Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins) is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home.A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe), brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good.Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it, race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.

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Hosted by Picturehouse’s very own Sam Clements, 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 Leila Latif and Rafa Sales Ross to discuss some of the best films and events coming to Picturehouse Cinemas in September, including: Honey Don't, The Long Walk, The Golden Spurtle and a 10th anniversary cinema release of the hit Broadway show, Hamilton.

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Hope Hopkinson talks to director Darren Aronofsky about his new film, Caught Stealing. 

Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant.

When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…

Caught Stealing is directed by Academy Award® nominee Darren Aronofsky, screenplay by Charlie Huston, based on his book of the same name. The film stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martínez Ocasio, and Carol Kane.

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Sam Clements talks to director Jay Roach about his new film, The Roses. 

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. 

But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

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Hope Hopkinson talks to writer, director and star of Sorry, Baby Eva Victor about making their feature directorial debut. 

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.

Blending heartache, humour and healing, SORRY, BABY is the stunning and star-making debut from director, writer and actor Eva Victor, also starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges. 

As sharp as it is tender, SORRY, BABY is a quietly powerful tale of seizing back your footing after pain, and of the friendships that sustain you along the way. An authentic, bitingly funny drama that marks the arrival of a brilliant new voice in cinema.

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Sam Clements speaks to director Ari Aster about his new film Eddington, in UK cinemas now after it's world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. 

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

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Sam Clements speaks to director Chris Columbus about his work directing the much aniticpated adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, produced by Steven Spielberg. 

Based on Richard Osman’s international bestselling novel of the same name, The Thursday Murder Club follows four irrepressible retirees - Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ron (Pierce Brosnan), Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley) and Joyce (Celia Imrie) - who spend their time solving cold case murders for fun.

But when an unexplained death occurs on their own doorstep, their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn as they find themselves with a real whodunnit on their hands. 

The Thursday Murder Club is out NOW, find your nearest cinema here. 

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Sam Clements speaks to actors Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor about working on Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck, adapted from the Stephen King story of the same name. 

THE LIFE OF CHUCK is a life-affirming, genre-bending story, based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz.

Adapted for the screen and directed by regular King collaborator Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep), THE LIFE OF CHUCK stars Tom Hiddleston as Chuck alongside a stellar ensemble cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillian and Mark Hamill, ably supported by Jacob Tremblay, Matthew Lillard, Mia Sara and Nick Offerman.

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Sam Clements speaks to writer and director Celine Song about her new film Materialists, recorded live on stage at Picturehouse Central. Please note, this episode was recorded in front of an audience who had just watched Materialists and contains some plot spoilers. 

From Celine Song, the Academy Award-nominated writer and director of Past Lives, comes Materialists: the story of a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is the star matchmaker at a boutique New York agency, and believes love is a numbers game. Her beliefs are put to the test when two potential suitors for her come along at once.

One is Harry (Pedro Pascal), a suave, wealthy bachelor who's perfect on paper, and can offer her the lifestyle she covets. The other is her ex: John (Chris Evans), a struggling actor working as a cater-waiter, whose messy lifestyle is her biggest hindrance. But how do you choose between the life you want and the love you need?

Materialists is on at Picturehouse Cinemas now. 

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