Film at 11

Parties and sinking ships on Film at 11 for Friday, 10 May, 2024

Jeff Godsil discusses the romance from History is Made at Night. Then W. C. Fields in It's a Gift.  We look at the latest BFI Screen Classics book on Visconti's The Leopard.     __________________________________________________________         Back in the 1920s, the...

For Friday May 3, Film at 11 surveys more films, books, and streaming old and new

Mona returns to discus more TV shows, movies, and a new book. • Film The Fall Guy   • Film Abigale   • TV show  Mary & George   • TV show Dead Boy Detectives   • Book Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions

For Friday, 26 April, 2024, we get some details look at two films from Jeff, and at Rushmore

• Jeff on Ghost World.   • Jeff on The Fog of War.   • The new British Film Institute monograph on Wes Anderson's Rushmore.   ________________________________________________________     Famously, film writer David Thomson dismissed Wes Anderson in one short se...

For Friday April the 19th, 2024, more TV shows on streaming and essentials

Mona Bowen joins us to reflect on five new TV series: • Apples Never Fall, a family drama • Ripley, the new Patricia Highsmith adaptation • Sugar, a private eye pastiche with Colin Farrell • Dinosaur, a Glasgow-set comedy • Loot, a Maya Rudolph sit-com

Film at 11 on 04/12/24

Matthew of KBOO's monthly Gremlin Time joins Lisa Neville of Cortland University to discuss the early '50s comedy It Should Happen to You, with Judy Holiday and Jack Lemmon.

More new reviews on Film at 11 for 04/05/24

• Jeff Godsil on The Magnificent Seven.    • Mona Bowen on Extraordinary and The 3-Body Problem.    •  The British Film Institute's new monograph on Point Blank.      -–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-     There is a certain kind of writer who sta...

Jeff favors us with two Essentials of Cinema for 22 March 2024

• We discuss the Criterion release Blast of Silence.  • Jeff revisits two essentials of cinema, The Lost Weekend, and The Witches of Eastwick.  • And Matthew of KBOO's monthly Gremlin Time, reflects on Jean-Pierre Melville's thriller Le Circle Rouge.

For Friday March 15th, 2024, Matthew and Lisa return to discuss Wenders's Perfect Days

For Friday March 15th, 2024, Matthew and Lisa return to discuss Wenders's Perfect Days.

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Film at 11 dips into the past for Friday 23 Feb., 2024

More films with a travel theme, begining with Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, and including Britta Gordon on The Dark Divide, about butterfly expert Robert Michael Pyle Jeff Godsil on Blake Edwards's international comedy  The Pink Panther, Matthew on M. Hulot's Vacation,  ...

For 16 Feb, 2024, a suite of reviews

This week the Film at 11 crew talk about Ghost World (Jeff Godsil), Three Outlaw Samurai and Dragon Inn (Gremlin Time's Matthew), and reviews of I am Greta, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, the new documentary from Werner Herzog, and the Criterion Collection release o...

Film at 11 on 02/09/24 more blasts from the past

For Film at 11, Feb. 2, 2024, a survey of the westerns of Randolph Scott directed by Budd Boetticher

This week, the full episode of Film at 11 is dedicated to a survey of the suite of westerns directed by Budd Boetticher with Randolph Scott, released in the mid-'50s, and often written by Burt Kennedy. The opportunity to do...

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For Friday, 26 January. 2024, a report of our special episode on Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

In another very special edition of Film at 11, Lisa Neville, who teaches Film at Cortland University, Cortland New York, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time, join us for a half hour discussion of the film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, from 1942. We trace...

Film at 11 for 19 January, 2024, looks at some old and new films

Today,  we are joined by Matthew of KBOO’s Gremlin Time to reach into the past and look again at The Rocketteer, based on the distinctive comic book, followed by a compare and contrast with the recent animated Spider-Man: Across the...

Film at 11, for Friday, Jan., 12, 2024, with a double dose of Jeff Godsil on some film essentials

This week we look at three recent classics. • First, Jeff Godsil re-assesses Diabolique, Henri-Georges's Hitchcockian thriller from 1955. • Next, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time of the film de look classic from 1981, Diva. • Finally,  Jeff re-visits Eternal Sunshine of ...

We return to the world of James Bond for Friday, 5 January, on Film at 11

This week we are joined by Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time for a full episode to discuss the second James Bond film, From Russia With Love, on the occasion of the British Film Institiute's recent monograph on the film, published on October 6, 2022

For Friday, Dec., 29, we are airing our special episode on Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood, given the nature of the times

Lisa and Matthew join is in this reprise of our show dedicated to Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood.

For Friday, 22 December, and in keeping with the holiday spirit, we air an improved version of last's show on The Bishop's Wife"

Lisa Neville of Cortland University in New York, and Matthew of KBOO’s Gremlin Time join us to discuss a great yet ambiguous Cary Grant film, The Bishop's Wife, an improved repeat from last week, and in keeping with the holiday spirit.

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Our Los Angeles correspondent returns with three looks a essential films, for Friday, December 8, 2023

It's an All-Jeff episode as we re-air our recent episode with our own Jeff Godsil, who looks at Wuthering Heights, and then revisits Raging Bull. But first, Jeff explains how he tracks down his pictures.

Film at 11 returns to normal with some reviews of recent films, for Friday, 1 December 2023

Film at 11 returns to normal with some reviews of recent films, for Friday, 1 December 2023: • Matthew of KBOO's story book program looks at Hollywood in the Fifties • Our Los Angeles correspondent contemplates Straight Time

Another repeat, for post-Thanksgiving, 24 November, 2023

in another repeat, due to illness, we revive  a vast mix of titles. DKH discusses a few recent streaming films, and later reviews a new BFI Film Classic on Touch of Evil. Jeff Godsil revives an interest in the Wall Street thriller, Boiler Room, while Matthew of KBOO's Grem...

Due to illness, another repeat, this time from two years ago, now for 17 November 2023

In this repeat from 9 April, 2021, we look at two new Franchise movies, Godzilla vs. Kong and Zack Snyder's Justice League, while Jeff Godsil considers Being John Malkovich​, Matthew of Gremlin Time talks up Sorry to Bother You, and Marc Mohan joins us to discuss Mark Harri...

A reprise of our WHITE ZOMBIE episode for Friday, 3 November, 2023

This week we reprise our popular  deeper dive into the 1932 horror film, White Zombie, which Matthew reviewed earlier.

Film at 11 continues to scare you with more horror options for Friday, 27 October. 2023

This week we include: • The new Criterion Blu-ray of Don't Look Now. • Matthew on some classics by Mario Bava, Planet of the Vampires and Hercules in the Underworld. • Jeff Godsil on Murder by the Clock and The Vampire Bat

Film at 11 keeps up its Halloween "treat cred" with this episode for Friday 20 October 2023

This week we take a deeper dive into the 1932 horror film, White Zombie, which matthew reviewed last week.

Film at 11 welcomes Friday the 13th with another look at some horror films and new releases for Friday 13 October 2023

Film at 11 welcomes Friday the 13th with another look at some horror films and new releases. More in the way of horror from:  Jeff Godsil on Fellini's segment, "Toby Dammit," from Spirits of the Dead Matthew on White Zombie, from 1932, with Bela...

A month of Hallowe'en commences at Film at 11 for Friday, 6 October, 2023

Matthew and Lisa Neville revisit Hitchcock's autumnal Shadow of a Doubt.

Another blast from the past as Film at 11 rebroadcasts it's 29 October 29, 2021 episode today, for 29 September, 2023

*Jeff Godsil on The Fly (1986) * Stephen Hood on Last Night in Soho * Reviews go Halloween Kills, and others * Britta Gordon on Bergman Island * Matthew on High and Low

Some new and Some Old on Film at 11 for Friday, 22 September, 2023

This week, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time, looks at the new, third Hercule Poirot - Kenneth Branagh thriller, A Haunting in Venice,  while Jeff Godsil revisits To Be or Not to Be, the Lubitsch comedy from 1942, and in our...

Now it is time for our long awaited survey of films by Douglas Sirk and Rock Hudson, on Film at 11 for Friday, September 15, 2023

One of the great Hollywood collaborations was that between Douglas Sirk and Rock Hudson at Universal, which we examine today with glances at two documentaries Rock Hudson's Home Movies, and Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed, plus Written on the Wind, the BFI film...

More Jeff Godsil on Film at 11 for Friday 8 September, 2023

This week Jeff revisits the comedy Where's Poppa?, from 1970, and Roman Polanski's The Pianist, his Academy Award winner from 2002. Meanwhile, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time considers Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and / or, the new Jackie Chan film.

The Kube Man is the subject of this week's film at 11, in a special repeat of Film at 11 for 1 September, 2023

School's back so this week we revisit  an interview with Marat Grinberg of Reed College, here to discuss Kubrick and Jewishness, as well as  Jeff Godsil on Al Pacino in  Cruising, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time on The Dam Busters with Michael Redgrave and directed by Michae...

Friends and family is the theme for this week's Film at 11 for Friday, 25 August, 2023

This week Jeff Godsil discusses Kubrick's Barry Lyndon from 1970, and Matthew of KBOO's, Gremlin Time reviews My Salinger Years, but we also take the listener through some of the new shows that are hitting streaming services.

Nuclear matters and some surprises on Film at 11, for Friday, 18 August, 2023

Jeff Godsil turns laser like attention to the complex hit film Oppenheimer, while the rest of the gang has some surprises in store.

Technical difficulties give us a chance to re-air our special Jeff Godsil episode of film at 11 for Friday 11 August 2023

It's an All-Jeff episode as we re-air our recent episode with our own Jeff Godsil, who looks at Wuthering Heights, and then revisits Raging Bull. But first, Jeff explains how he tracks down his pictures.

Much to discuss on today's Film at 11, for August 4, 2023

Today, we have another quick survey of recent releases, including Barbie, The Beanie Bubble, and You Hurt my Feelings, followed by Jeff Godsil on the Max Ophuls masterpiece from 1950, La ronde. But first, Jeff revisits the Stephen King adaptation from 1990, Misery.

More of the past on this week's Film at 11 for Friday, 28 July, 2023

Today,  Matthew of KBOO’s Gremlin Time, and Lisa Neville of Cortland University in New York State, wrap up their discussion, comparing Kurosawa’s Ikiru  with the recent remake Living.

All Jeff All the Time in this episode of Film at 11 for Friday, 21 July

It's an All-Jeff episode as our own Jeff Godsil looks at Wuthering Heights, and then revisits Raging Bull. But first, Jeff explains how he tracks down his pictures.

Technical difficulties, once again for Film at 11 for Friday, 14 July 2023

Due to technical difficulties, we reprise our episode from April 14th of this year: Gun Crazy, My Young Auntie, and Undine.

Film at 11 goes to new heights for Friday 7 July, 2023

Lisa Neville, and Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time compare and contrast Kurosawa's Ikiru and its recent remake in English, Living.

Film at 11 sees out the month with new movies for Friday, 30 June 2023

A series of quick reviews, then Jeff Godsil on The Last Detail, and Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time covers the new sequel Extraction 2.

Nostalgia for '70s cinema today on Film at 11 for Friday, June 23, 2023

After a quick tour of recent releases, Jeff Godsil revists Mishima, and Matthew revisits A Run For Your Money.

Film at 11 revives its most popular episode for Friday, 16 June 2023

We return to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, in case you missed it the first time around.

Film at 11 takes on contemporary issues this week on Friday 9 June, 2023

Jeff Godsil on the play adaptation Proof, from 2005, Natalie Lasko on The Happening, and in the DVD corner, the new Criterion Blu-ray of Targets, Peter Bogdanovich's thriller with Boris Karloff, from 1968.   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-   Targets Crit...

Once again, Film at 11 becomes medieval for Friday, 2 June 2023

This week, we have Jeff Godsil on Orson Welles's Macbeth, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time on Full River Red, Britta Gordon on Dark Divide, and we revisit Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal via the new Criterion Blu-Ray of the film.    ---------------------------------------...

Film at 11 goes all Medieval this week, for Friday 26 May, 2023

This week, Jeff Godsil takes a fresh look at Midnight Cowboy, while Britta Gordon revists Paris Calligrammes, and Matthrew of KBOO's Gremlin Time takes on the recent WWII thriller Sisu.