Hosted by Picturehouse’s Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast goes deep on the best of the week’s new releases, with a little help from some quality film critics and the filmmakers themselves!
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
On this bumper special Academy Awards themed episode, The Love of Cinema's Sam Clements is joined by colleagues from across the Picturehouse office -Chris Harris, Issy MacLeod, Lara Peters, Hope Hopkinson, Freyja Pakarinen, Lucy Fenwick Elliott and Felicity Beckett - to discuss this year's batch of Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards: Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, A Complete Unknown, Dune Part II, Emilia Perez, The Substance, Nickel Boys, I'm Still Here and Wicked.
Stay tuned to the end for the team's own Best Picture winner too!
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Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Issy Macleod talks to director Walter Salles about his Academy Award-nominated film, I'm Still Here.
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir in which his mother is forced into activism when her husband was captured by a military regime in Brazil, 1964.
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Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Micallar Walker talks to Jasmine Njie host and narrator of #ClimateScam?
#ClimateScam? - With increasingly devastating climate disasters all over the news, why do so many people believe that the climate crisis is a hoax? Join Jaz, a social media savvy member of the TikTok generation, as she explores a web of misinformation that could threaten efforts to tackle the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. A Cornwall Climate Care Film.
Dark Matter - An inclusive marketing agency that connects Black audiences with culture and the arts.
Green Screen is a community-led space to discuss environmentally-focused cinema, with expert panels and friendly post-screening discussions. Everyone is welcome to 'continue the conversation' after the film in your cinema's meeting space where you can enjoy a free tea or filter coffee when you bring a keep cup!
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Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Felicity Beckett talks to filmmaker Adam Elliot about his new film, the Academy Award-nominated Memoir of a Snail.
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books.
At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst.
Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.
From Academy Award® winning animation writer and director Adam Elliot, MEMOIR OF A SNAIL is a poignant, heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.
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Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Hope Hopkinson talks to director Mohammad Rasoulof about his new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran.
When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
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Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today.
Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage.
Through this lens, "September 5" provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.
At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. As narratives shift, time ticks away, and conflicting rumors spread, with the hostages' lives hanging in the balance, Geoff grapples with tough decisions while confronting his own moral compass.
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Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
Wednesday Feb 05, 2025
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Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Hope Hopkinson speaks to director Jason Reitman about his new film, Saturday Night.
At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever.
Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.
Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…
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Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Hope Hopkinson speaks to Academy Award nominees Felicty Jones and Guy Pearce about their work on Brady Corbet's momumental new film, The Brutalist.
Nominated for 10 awards, including Best Picture at this year's Oscars and in cinemas now (including 70mm presentations at Picturehouse Central in London).
Escaping post-war Europe in 1947, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, Toth settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognises his talent. Van Buren enlists Toth to build a monumental new project – but creative power comes with a dark cost, as the architect sacrifices more and more of himself to complete his exacting vision.
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Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
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