We’re returning to the pop landscape of the early 2000s this week, a pop landscape that had your host Graham wondering whether there was any point being a pop cartographer any more. The dominant feature of said landscape was TV talent shows, usually run by either Simon Cowell or his […]
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Rene Laloux (Fantastic Planet & Time Masters)
A perfect follow up to Alejandro Jodorowsky, we dip back into the Patreon archive and head to the badlands of European animation with Rene Laloux. Rob is joined by Aidan and Graham to talk about Rene Laloux, best known for “one of the greatest animated films of all time”, Fantastic […]
Barbara Streisand & The Prince of Tides – Pop Screen 61
Pop Screen is going into hardcore auteur territory this week, with a film directed by and starring the one and only Barbara Streisand. A story of hidden family secrets, illicit affairs, licit affairs, quasi-licit affairs – look, there’s a lot of affairs, alright? – it was nominated for Best Picture […]
Alejandro Jodorowsky (Holy Mountain & Santa Sangre)
This week is a brand new episode, featuring a man that you could describe as the king of surrealism – he certainly has the credentials. Alejandro Jodorowsky, A bewildering director to talk about at the best of times, but I was joined by two excellent guests – Jonathan (Kino Lorber […]
Manfred Mann & Privilege – Pop Screen 60
Pop Screen is going a bit off the beaten track this week, but rewardingly so. Peter Watkins is a maverick British director whose previous film The War Game was banned on the instruction of then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson, so when he was hired by Universal to make a teen-focused rock […]
Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow and Dolemite is my Name)
In our latest edition of bobbing for Patreon episodes, we happen upon Craig Brewer our first real flirtation with the more mainstream side of cinema. Rob is joined by Graham (Pop Screen) and Andrew (Behold) to talk about his 2005 hip hop breakout, Hustle and Flow. Following that up is […]
Daft Punk & Interstella 5555 – Pop Screen 59
Can you believe this is Pop Screen’s first animated film? Better late than never, as Gav Smith of My Favourite Film rejoins us to talk about Interstella 5555 – The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. A story as epic as its frankly overlong title, it was created by Daft Punk as […]
Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Switchblade Romance & Crawl)
The effort to make the leap fully of Patreon continues, this time it’s the turn of Alexander Aja. We recorded this before our episode(s) on Wes Craven – so this was technically our first-ever pure Horror Episode. To talk about Aja, Rob is joined by Graham Williamson (of POP SCREEN). Together […]
Cher & Moonstruck – Pop Screen Episode 58
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a-Moonstruck, a film which is not exactly subtle in its depiction of Italian-American culture but is at least witty, well-written and full of heart, thanks to its script by John Patrick Shanley. This week, Pop Screen closes out […]
Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips & Rust and Bone)
The podcast is going through a bit of a change in that we are becoming a 100% free deal. This means we have to increase the releases to weekly until we’ve cleared our backlog. So between now and 1st July, every Friday is Directors Uncut day. This week, Graham (Pop […]