CINEOPOLIS

The finale of Season One of CINEOPOLIS voyages to the used-future dystopia of Blade Runner, a film that persists as arguably the seminal cinematic urban experience.

The penultimate episode of CINEOPOLIS Season One sets its sights on the films of Sofia Coppola, in an episode that features an interview with TIME magazine film critic Stephanie Zacharek.

Episode 108 of CINEOPOLIS celebrates the films of Michael Mann and dissects exactly what makes the famed director such a singular force in American movies.

Episode 107 of CINEOPOLIS travels to the Garden State to explore and celebrate films and television shows shot in New Jersey with an interview with David Schoner, Associate Director of the NJ Motion Picture and TV Commission.

Episode 106 of CINEOPOLIS invites listeners to buckle up for a Batmobile tour of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy Gotham City.

CINEOPOLOIS explores the Lure of the Lair through an interview with architect and co-author of Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, Chad Oppenheim.

Episode 104 of CINEOPOLIS travels to Boston to explore how Peter Yates' 1973 film The Friends of Eddie Coyle employs icon Beantown locations, and to examine what role architecture plays in a film steadily earning its status as an American classic.

CINEOPOLIS celebrates films and television shows shot on location in Canada, New York City, and Atlanta with award-winning writer and producer, Christopher Moloney. CINEOPOLIS co-host Christian Niedan gets the Ontario-born Moloney's take on Kids in the Hall, SCTV, and David Cronenberg; the NYC history of his cinematic photo-based FILMography project; and thoughts on a burgeoning affection for films and TV shot in his current home city of Atlanta.

Episode 102 of CINEOPOLIS finds your hosts celebrating the films of famed filmmaker George Romero. Without George Romero, the world wouldn’t have zombies. And without Western Pennsylvania, the world wouldn’t have George Romero. The low-budget horror film-slash-social freakout Night of the Living Dead (1968) put Romero on the map. But despite gaining national (and global) recognition over his fifty year career directing films like Martin (1977), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Knightriders (1981), Creepshow (1982), and Bruiser (2000), Romero never strayed far from the industrial landscapes, Rust Belt socioeconomics, or blue-collar people he saw outside his window. On this episode of CINEOPOLIS, co-hosts Christian and Dante dig into the George Romero filmography to dissect how Pittsburgh and the surrounding communities inspired his work — and how his dedication to Western PA turns all his game-changing zombie films into not-so-covert documentaries of a region in flux. Stay scared!

Welcome to CINEOPOLIS, a podcast about movies and the places that made them. Over the 10 episodes that comprise this inaugural season, hosts Christian Niedan and Dante A. Ciampaglia will take you on a journey into the rooms, cities, and architecture where movies are set through deep dives into films and filmmakers.

CINEOPOLIS kicks off in the place Christian and Dante call home, New York City, with a joyride through Bruce Willis' third adventure as John McClane, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) — a film that captures a Big Apple in transition, transforming from the grimy mean streets of the 1970s to the 21st century Disneyfied playground for the super-rich. There's no better guide through '90s NYC than one of the cinema's all-time great smart asses, expertly partnered this time out with badmuthafucka Samuel L. Jackson. Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers.