Edinburgh Film Podcast

By The University of Edinburgh

Dr Pasquale Iannone (Lecturer in Film Studies) is joined by staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh as well as guests from the world of film and TV to discuss all aspects of screen ... more

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December 22, 2019 EFP 25: Best Films of 2019
Join us for a discussion of the best films from 2019 with Dr David Sorfa and Dr Pasquale Iannone, hosted by Kat Zabecka.

Here is the list of films in the order of mention, all released in 2019 (with a few from 2018):
Once Upon a
Time in… Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
Under the
Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
Climax
(Gaspar Noé)
The
Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh)
Marriage
Story (Noach Baumbach)
The Dead
Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch)
Booksmart (Olivia
Wilde)
The House
That Jack Built (Lars Von Trier)
Styx (Wolfgang
Fischer)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
Mid90s (Jonah Hill)
Dolemite is My Name (Craig Brewer)
Mary Queen of Scots (Josie Rourke)
Jiang hu er nü / Ash is Purest White
(Zhangke Jia)
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (Ben
Wheatley)
Photograph (Ritesh Batra)
Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
Notti Magiche/Magical Nights (Paolo
Virzi)
Loro (Paolo Sorrentino)
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
Joker (Todd Phillips)
Varda par Agnès/Varda by Agnes (Agnès
Varda)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince
Gilligan)
Films we have seen this year but were released prior to 2019:
Killer of Sheep
(Charles Burnett 1978)
Three Colours Blue
(Krzysztof Kieslowski 1993)
Ukigumo/Floating
Clouds (Mikio Naruse 1955)
The Rebel/Call Me
Genius (Robert Day 1961)
Chinatown (Roman
Polanski 1974)
Moon (Duncan Jones
2009)
Summer Stock (Charles
Walters 1950)
L'une chante
l'autre pas/One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda 1977)

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52min
December 11, 2019 EFP 24: Exploring the Moon in Film and Beyond
Kat Zabecka speaks to Dr
Alastair Bruce and Mat Vidmar from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh to
commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon landing. They discuss the role of
the Moon in cinema, space exploration and women's history.
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51min
September 29, 2019 EFP 23: Dr Neil Fox from The Cinematologists Podcast
Kat Zabecka talks to Dr Neil Fox, co-founder and host of the Cinematologists Podcast. They talk Fringe Festival, Dr Fox's film background and approaches to podcasting. They also reflect on the Film-Philosophy Conference that took place in Brighton in July and discuss the accessibility of academia.
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36min
June 16, 2019 EFP 22: Lacan in Scotland
Kat Zabecka speaks to Dr Calum Neill, Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis &
Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University. They discuss Lacan in Scotland, a research group founded by Dr Neill, their work and seminar series they have been running regularly since December 2018. In the second half of the podcast, the discussion steers towards film, Lacan, Freud and psychoanalysis.
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59min
May 26, 2019 EFP 21: On Film Dissertations and Academic Writing
Kat Zabecka is joined by Jessie Taylor and Patrick Callaghan, current MSc Film Studies students. They chat about dissertations, choosing topics, research process and academic writing.
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40min
March 26, 2019 EFP 20: Paris, Texas (1984)
Kat Zabecka is joined by our current MSc Film Students Callum Simpson, Laura Tribaudino and Tina Kandiashvili. They discuss Wim Wenders' iconic Paris, Texas (1984) and explore the film's characters and themes of existentialism. They also touch on the students' film and academic background and discuss why we talk about films in the first place.
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49min
February 15, 2019 EFP 19: Best Films of 2018
In this episode, Kat and Dr David Sorfa are joined by Dr Pasquale Iannone, Teaching Fellow in Film Studies. They look back at 2018 and discuss some of the best films of the year, including The Favourite, Roma, Bumblebee, Apostasy, Cold War and many more.
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1h 11min
January 21, 2019 EFP 18: Film and Mental Illness
Kat Zabecka spoke to Professor Stephen Lawrie, Chair of Psychiatry and Neuro-Imaging and Head of the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, about the portrayal of mental illnesses on film. Kat and Dr David Sorfa discuss some of the most common stereotypes and myths about mental illnesses as well as some films that have done it well.
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39min
December 11, 2018 EFP 17: D. N. Rodowick in Conversation
We were privileged to have Professor D. N. Rodowick come to Edinburgh on 27 November 2018 and he sat down with David Sorfa to discuss his career as an academic in Film Studies and beyond. Along the way, David Rodowick mentioned a new book on Austin film culture (Cinema Texas Notes: The Early Days of Austin Film Culture), George Ellis, Franklin Miller, moving to Paris, Gayatri Spivak, the importance of Jacques Derrida and Rodowick’s role in setting up various film programmes at King's College, Yale and Harvard. We ended by discussing the naming crisis in the contemporary visual arts.
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38min
November 16, 2018 EFP 16: News From Home Film Festival 2018
PhD students Eszter Simor and Chantal Bertalanffy talk to Kat Zabecka and Dr David Sorfa about their new film festival News From Home 2018.

More about the News from Home Festival is available here: http://www.film.llc.ed.ac.uk/news-from-home-film-festival/
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29min

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