Cin/Drome

A deep dive on the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with some super engaging friends of mine!

Time to kick off season two of the Fiji based film chat podcast I started during lockdown.

Since season one there has been a pretty interesting uptick in Fijian made films and so this season I talk exclusively to local filmmakers about their favourite movies.

Episode one sees me talking to filmmaker, illustrator and all around good guy Mr Clarence Dass.

This is the extended ramblers cut in which we discuss, in addition to the movie selections, watching horror movies at 4am with the cats, Marvel content, time travel and multiverses, book recommendations from and about Ancient Rome, cultural specificity, Bollywood movies, Marvel vs DC with a super workable theory about how DC films should always be set in the past and much more...

Enjoy!

Time to kick off season two of the Fiji based film chat podcast I started during lockdown.

Since season one there has been a pretty interesting uptick in Fijian made films and so this season I talk exclusively to local filmmakers about their favourite movies.

Episode one sees me talking to filmmaker, illustrator and all around good guy Mr Clarence Dass.

The full 90 minute discussion is available.

Enjoy!

Dan Brown takes a mildly pessimistic walk through his movie memories, washed down with a little whiskey, and we talk expressions of existential dread via zombie films, biopics and science fiction.

Along the way we stop to consider the difference between Russian and Western art, realism and idealism, dystopia and satire, and explore the age old Brits versus the Americans debate between refills.

A little more shambling, with a few more giggles, than usual, but quite endearing for it I think.

Enjoy!

Author Tejaswini Apte Rahm talks to me about the history of cinema in India and walks me through her early childhood memories in Bombay (now Mumbai).

We realise our earliest movie memories were identifications with an elephant and an alien, both of which left us traumatised.

I learn about the difference between Bollywood and Hindi films, and how pot boilers and masala movies give you your money's worth.

We also manage to discuss the importance of stories to an understanding of the world and the construction of a moral code, and grapple with Time's Arrow and the Theory of Relativity.

Pretty good for 90 minutes...

Another fascinating glimpse into my guest's brain via the medium of their film choices.

We learn early that Fernando went to university in Spain to study being a Private Detective and that really sets the scene for a pretty forensic exploration of cinema.

We cover Ernst Lubitsch 1930s Great War drama Broken Lullaby and David Lynch's masterpiece of Hollywood introspection Mulholland Drive, with nods and winks to documentaries from Ross McElwee, the Nouvelle Vague masters Claude Chabrol and Jean Luc Godard, and the Coen Brothers' cult comedy The Big Lebowski along the way.

We start, however, with a bang, in 1990 with a very young boy exploring the cinema itself while Days of Thunder plays in the background.

A great ride from start to finish... enjoy!

Sutapa takes me through a lifetime of film love, reflects on how her cinematic choices are possibly informed by a life of globe trotting and work in the humanitarian sector, and how that itself may have all started with a childhood fascination with one Indiana Jones.

And we have a few laughs on the way, asking questions like was the Indiana Jones Franchise a bit racist? Why is Keanu Reeves at the top of his acting game when baffled? And can zombies run?

Come join us!

In this latest episode of Cin/Drome poet and activist Peter Sipeli takes me through his choices of favourite films, reminisces about seeing movies with his family, and paints an evocative picture of cinema-going in Suva's Phoenix Theatre.

Actually a throwback to when the idea for this podcast was still forming in my mind, but I thought I would wait a while to release it as we go to territory some might find difficult, especially in terms of sexuality.

That said this is still a relaxed chat about film, memory and identity, with no blue language.

Enjoy!

Lover of movies and aspiring filmmaker Taniela Tora takes us through his cinematic memories and shares his favourite films.