For Cinetopia's March EH-FM broadcast, Amanda Rogers (Co-Founder of  Cinetopia) and Jim Ross (Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine) are joined by Betty Stojnic to review The Assistant and System Crasher, in addition to making their monthly short film recommendations (films recommended are linked below!).

08:32 - The Assistant

24:11 - System Crasher

43:12 - Short Recommendations for Short Films

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Short film recommendations for March:

Jim #1 - Brotherhood - Dir: Meryam Jobbeur - https://vimeo.com/363649438

Amanda & Betty - La Jetée - Dir: Chris Marker - https://www.criterion.com/films/329-la-jet-e

Jim #2 - Laps - Dir: Charlotte Wells - https://vimeo.com/237748768

In a special edition of the podcast, Amanda, Jim, Marc, and Carys look at films screening at the upcoming Glasgow Film Festival, February 26th to March 8th. 

For more information on GFF2020 go to https://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival

3:04 - Bacurau (Mar 3rd & 5th, nationwide/MUBI Mar 13th)

18:18 - True History of The Kelly Gang (Feb 27th/28th, nationwide Feb 28th)

32:16 - Son-Mother (Mar 3rd & 4th, Edinburgh Iranian Mar 6th)

The team will be back for the regular EH-FM on March 18th.

For Cinetopia's February EH-FM broadcast, Paul Bruce of Edinburgh Short Film Festival hosts returning reviewers Amanda Rogers (Co-Founder of Cinetopia), Jim Ross (Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine), Carys Evans (Edinburgh Shorts, EIFF) and Serena Scateni. New reviewers Marc Nelson and Betty Stjonic join the team for a bumper show of award-winning films. The team review Parasite and discuss the Oscar results that saw it crowned Best Picture, Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Little Joe. Amanda speaks with Lili Sandelin about her various roles in the Edinburgh film community, including her work with the upcoming 7th IberoDocs festival. Lastly, the team debut a new segment where they recommend freely available short films in under a minute! (Films recommended are linked below!)

05:12 - Little Joe

17:46 - Parasite

39:38 - Oscars & Cinetopia Ballot Results

42:22 - Interview with Lili Sandelin

57:35 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

1:09:25 - Short Recommendations for Short Films

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Short film recommendations for February:

Amanda - Hair Love - Dir: Matthew A. Cherry - https://youtu.be/kNw8V_Fkw28

Carys - The Fall - Dir: Jonathan Glazer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07rq86b/the-fall

Marc - Blue - Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul - https://youtu.be/8Hk4zepxyoE

Jim - Enough - Dir: Anna Mantzaris - https://vimeo.com/288230647

Paul - Fauve - Dir: Jeremy Comte - https://vimeo.com/293033666

For Cinetopia's January EH-FM broadcast, Amanda Rogers (Co-Founder of Cinetopia), Jim Ross (Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine) are joined by new reviewers Carys Evans (Edinburgh Shorts, EIFF) and freelance critic and journalist Serena Scateni. The team review current Greta Gerwig's Little Women, award-winning 1917 from Sam Mendes, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood directed by Marielle Heller and starring Tom Hanks and Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems from the Safdie brothers. The team also discuss the awards season (before the Oscar nominations were announced!).

04:21 - Little Women

25:01 - 1917

45:05 - Awards season in full swing

54:41 - A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

1:03:04 - Uncut Gems

1:14:08 - Events in the month ahead

For Cinetopia's December end of year special, Amanda Rogers (Co-Founder of Cinetopia), Jim Ross (Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine) , Luka Vukos (Cinetopia), and Paul Bruce (Edinburgh Short Film Festival) review Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story and The Irishman. The team also pick some of their favourite films of the decade.

00:00 - Cinetopia's 2019, the team's highlights, plans for 2020

12:47 - The Irishman

28:36 - Marriage Story

48:04 - Jojo Rabbit

1:02:48 - The team choose their films of the decade

For Cinetopia's November broadcast on EH-FM, Amanda Rogers (Co-Founder of Cinetopia) and Jim Ross (Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine) review Monos, Meeting Gorbachev from Werner Herzog, and The Nightingale. Jim also briefly discusses the release of Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix epic The Irishman and interviews Paul Laverty about his latest collaboration with Ken Loach, Sorry We Missed You.

05:25 - The Irishman & Upcoming Netflix releases

13:42 - Monos

24:40 - Meeting Gorbachev

34:05 - The Nightingale

45:55 - Paul Laverty Interview & Sorry We Missed You

1:07:48 - What’s On & Next Month

For Cinetopia's October broadcast on EH-FM, Amanda Rogers (Cinetopia), Luka Vukos (Cinetopia) and Jim Ross (Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine) review Joker, the new Chris Morris feature The Day Shall Come, Francois Ozon's By the Grace of God, and Olivier Assayas's Non-Fiction. Jim also interviews Tim Courtney: the director of BAFTA-winning short film My Loneliness is Killing Me, which will screen on the opening night of Edinburgh Short Film Festival.

For Cinetopia's September broadcast on EH-FM, Amanda Rogers and Anni Asikainen, co-Founders of Cinetopia, and Jim Ross, Managing Editor of TAKE ONE Magazine, review the recent films, IT Chapter II, The Last Tree and Harry Birrell presents Films of Love and War. Paul Bruce, the Director of Edinburgh Short Film Festival interviews Kuan-Ping Liu from Gaze and Tamara Van Strijthem from Take One Action! Film Festival. 

For Cinetopia's August broadcast on EH-FM, Amanda Rogers, co-Founder Cinetopia, Luka Vukos, and Jim Ross, Managing Editor of TAKEONE Magazine review the recent films, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pain and Glory, and The Souvenir. Jim Ross sits down with Mark Jenkin, Director of the new film, Bait.  Amanda chats with Megan Mitchell and Sean Welsh from Matchbox Cineclub about their upcoming festival, Weird Weekend, as well as their work with Scalarama Scotland. Paul Bruce, Director of Edinburgh Short Film Festival, interviews upcoming programmers for this year's Scalarama Edinburgh including talking to Serena Scateni about her upcoming Cinetopia DOC screening, Inland Sea, as well as  Andy Danet from Cucumber Lodge on his screenings of Young Soul Rebels and Electro Moscow, and Ruby Hahn from Out at the Cameo about her upcoming screening My Beautiful Launderette.

You can find out more about Scalarama and all the events across the country at www.Scalarama.com. 

For Cinetopia's July broadcast on EH-FM, Amanda Rogers is joined by Anni Asikainen, and Jim Ross (Managing Editor, TAKE ONE Magazine) to review the films The Dead Don't Die, Varda by Agnès, and Armstrong . Amanda also interviews Chris Aitken from Short Com Film Festival, and we hear a clip from Jim's interview with Sasha Collington, Director of British comedy, Love Type D, during the Edinburgh International Film Festival. That plus our favourite space films!