Cinema Blindspot

For Tara to choose the film The Tree of Wooden Clogs for Ti at first makes it look like she is becoming a parody of herself. Or is she deliberately trying to upset him.

Featuring real farmers and locals, Ermanno Olmi's film follows the daily concerns of Lombard peasants in 19th century Italian. Will the film's illicit strawberry-growing and clog-making intrigue Ti? Is it ever ok to kill animals on screen for cinematic accuracy? Does this look at the early Italian neorealist movement deserve to be the winner of fourteen awards including the Palme d'or at Cannes and the César Award for Best Foreign Film? Listen now to find out.

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Cinema Blindspot - The Eighth Wonder of the World - is back!

In time for Cinema Rediscovered in Bristol this month, Ti and Tara talk about the classic monster movie King Kong (1933).

Discussing everything from the film's ground-breaking stop motion animation to the 2005 Peter Jackson remake, the Cinema Blindspot team muse whether beauty really did kill the beast.

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CINEMA BLINDSPOT IS BACK!

It's only been nine months, but Ti and Tara are back for a new season of Cinema Blindspot where the two film fans will once again be introducing films to one another that they have no earthly interest in seeing or that have just passed them by.

 

To kick off the new season with a suitable bang, Tara has picked... Mike Leigh's Bleak Moments following the tortured, semi-articulated anguish' of Sylvia and her search for love and meaning. 

 

Needless to say, Ti was overjoyed at the prospect of watching this.

 

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Cinema Blindspot is edited and produced by Peter Walsh @soylent_grey.

Ti and Tara watch Neil Marshall's Doomsday (2008)!

If you were expecting an episode of El Topo (1970)... things have gone awry.

Instead, we're skipping to one of Ti's choices - Neil Marshall's Doomsday. Depending on how you look at it, this is a fun homage/ blatant rip-off of classic John Carpenter and George Miller films from the 80s.

During this episode, Ti and Tara will discuss female action heroes, the UK film industry's lack of imagination, classic 80s action films and when you should just switch off your brain and embrace cinematic madness.

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Ti and Tara are back and are discussing that most problematic of genres - The Western.

This week, Ti gets Tara to watch the 1993 western Tombstone, which tells the legendary story of Wyatt Earp and the shootout at the OK Corral. With its all-star cast including Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Val Kilmer and Bill Paxton and its cinematic re-telling of an infamous story of the Old West, will this be enough to entertain Tara despite the genre's problematic constants of casual racism, sexism and gun crime?

Please note that going forward, episodes of Cinema Blindspot will be released every two weeks! Our editor needed a rest!

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We're back! 

After a couple of weeks off, which saw Tara jet off to the Bologna Film Festival and Ti drift around the Balkans, Cinema Blindspot is jumping straight into the deep end with Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972).

As a card-carrying sci-fi nerd, the odds are that Ti will love this cinematic epic, but will its ponderous themes and lack of spectacle leave him cold? Meanwhile, Tara educates Ti about the importance of Soviet cinema and Tarkovsky's unique style.

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Cinema Blindspot is edited and produced by Peter Walsh @soylent_grey.

This week Ti takes Tara back to the 1980s when gender stereotypes were used for comedy and heart. Starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, The Sure Thing is 1980s rom-com at its high school narrative best. Will Rob Reiner melt Tara's heart or will she spend thirty-two minutes yelling at Ti in complete exasperation?

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It's a return to the works of Jean-Luc Godard this week as Tara recommends the director's first feature-length film - A Bout De Souffle.

Godard's acclaimed masterpiece, with its long takes and rapid-cut editing, remains a startling example of the French new wave and frequently makes cinephile's top 10 lists - but will Ti appreciate it or will it leave him breathless in exasperation?

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It's time for submarines, Hans Zimmer and the greatness that is Denzel Washington as Ti and Tara discuss the late Tony Scott's Crimson Tide (1995).

Things get heated this week as Tara watches the Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson-produced submarine thriller and takes issue with the levels of bombast - both in the music, story, acting and... well, everything. 

Meanwhile, Ti waxes lyrically about his love for Denzel Washington, Hans Zimmer and how he is happy to be emotionally manipulated by composers. 

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Ti can't remember if he's seen The Greatest Movie Ever Made (as voted by numerous publications over the years), but is pretty sure he knows the basics, so Tara sits him down to watch Orson Welles' finest hour - Citizen Kane.

Ti and Tara discuss the film's legacy, its groundbreaking cinematography and all the facts, fiction and legends surrounding its talented creator.

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Cinema Blindspot is edited and produced by Peter Walsh.