Silence! It’s a bad idea for podcasts, but as the BFI are reminding us with their re-release of G. W. Pabst’s pre-talkie classic “Pandora’s Box”, it’s a good idea for movies. So how will this icon of silent cinema (and the decades-old inspiration for the hairstyles of people going to […]
Cinema Eclectica
Cinema Eclectica 161 – Vera Drake in 4DX
Cinema Eclectica 160 – Smurf Bloody Smurf
Cinema Eclectica 159 – When The Dancing Stops … Leave
Our latest Film of the Week, José Padilha’s “Entebbe”, is a tale of crisis, violence, revolution, and the old order breaking down – which is probably why we start off by accidentally junking the running order. Eventually (and with far more discussion of interpretive dance and changing fashions in onscreen […]
Cinema Eclectica 158 – The Best 1980s Sci-Fi Junk Never
Sandwiching two slices of groundbreaking queer cinema in between the bread of gritty revenge drama, this week’s show truly has something for everyone. Maybe he’s just able to relate to the parched atmosphere, but Graham is very taken with Warwick Thornton’s outback western “Sweet Country”, while Aidan is keen to […]
S15E19 – Jesus Has The Best Internet
Cinema Eclectica 157 – The Ingmar Bergman Cinematic Universe
Cinema Eclectica 156 – Existentialism and Pizza, Dude
Cinema Eclectica 155 – The Hills Have Ears
This week’s Off the Shelf sees the films themselves teaching the hosts a thing or two. Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s paranormal horror “Ghost Stories” turns the sceptical Graham into a true believer, while Aidan finds Criterion’s reissue of “La Cage aux Folles” something of a drag. You could say […]