This week we take a closer look at the writers and actors strikes and what the impact will be for film-making and cinemas. We also pick our must-see movies from the Venice Film Festival.

Donate here to emergency financial assistance writers, performers and people in support roles affected by the strike
Donate here to SAG-AFTRA's emergency fund

References
SAG proposals
WGA proposals
Deadline Strike Talk - podcast by Hollywood strikers about the strikes
'The 2023 Hollywood strikes for dummies' by Jason P Frank for Vulture
'The unions of Hollywood are trying to save it from itself' by Emma Roth for theverge.com
'The Hollywood strike can and must win – for all of us, not just writers and actors' by Hamilton Nolan for The Guardian
'Inside The Shifting Theatrical Release Dates: How Studios Changed Up The Movie Calendar As WGA Strike Clocks 100 Days' by Anthony D'Alessandro and Justin Kroll for Deadline
'‘Barbenheimer’ Fever… and Then What? How Major Film Delays Amid the Strikes Could Damage the Movie Business' by Rebecca Rubin for Variety
AI writing a script

Our Picks from Venice
Aggro Dr1ft trailer
Scene from One From The Heart
Michel Gondry's music video for The Chemical Brothers' Let Forever Be
Michel Gondry's music video for Bjork's Bachelorette
Michel Gondry's Cibo Matto's Sugar Water
Poor Things trailer
Priscilla trailer
Origin trailer

Film Pharmacy
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) dir. by Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) dir. by Wojciech Has

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This week on the podcast we’re trying our hand at the greatest radio format of all time. Lily does her best (very bad) Kirsty Young impression as James' delivers his top 3 Desert Island DVDs. He also, of course, details his preferred AV set-up for shipwrecked screenings - think monkeys in tuxedos.

References
The lowdown on Cargo Cults
'The rise (and Inevitable fall) of Citizen Kane as the Greatest Movie Ever Made' by Bilge Ebiri for vulture.com
'What’s so good about Citizen Kane?' by Nicholas Barber for BBC
Interesting article on the battle for writer’s credit on Citizen Kane by Richard Brody for the New Yorker
'Citizen Kane' a masterpiece at 50', by Roger Ebert
'Realism for Citizen Kane' by Gregg Toland for theasc.com
Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse’s sexy dance routine in Singin’ In the Rain
'Why Singin’ in the Rain Is an Almost Perfect Musical' by Jeanine Basinger for The Atlantic
'Beyond the Frame: Singin’ in the Rain' by David E. Williams for the asc.com
'Shooting In Color Caused Some Problems Behind The Scenes Of Singin' In The Rain' by Whitney Seibold for slashfilm.com
Lucasfilm’s J.W. Rinzler Talks About The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by for Vanity Fair
'The Empire Strikes Back at 40: did the Star Wars saga peak too early?' by Scott Tobias for The Guardian
'In Hindsight, Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner Would’ve Helmed One of the Prequels' by Mike Ryan for Vanity Fair

Film Pharmacy recommendations
Celine & Julie Go Boating (1974) dir. by Jacques Rivette
Showgirls (1995) dir. by Paul Verhoeven

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This week we're discussing directors who have achieved cult status: the ones you can recognise within 24 frames of a film  - the Taratinos,  the Hitchcocks and of course, the Nolans. We come up with rules for achieving cult of director status and question if superstar directors still have power in the era of streaming services.

References
A quick guide to auteur theory by Jax Griffin for filminquiry.com
Pauline Kael's rebuttal to auteur theory
Pauline Kael on Taratino and Pulp Fiction
Christopher Nolan: A Labyrinth of Linkages by David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson - essays looking closely at Nolan's narrative and cinematic style
Wally Pfister's cinematography in Inception by Prachurya Das
Hitchcock's Psycho marketing campaign
Dramatic Tension in North by Northwest by Junming Jiang
The directing and writing style of Greta Gerwig

Film Pharmacy recommendations
Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. by Donald Petrie
20th Century Women (2016) dir. by Mike Mills
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) dir. by Griffin Dunne

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This week James tells the amazing story behind the rise of women editors in cinema and we take a closer look at three of the best: Verna Fields (Jaws), Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull) and Anne V. Coates (Out of Sight).

References
'The Celluloid Ceiling' - stats on behind-the-scenes women in 2022's top grossing films
'Edited By' - an excellent source on women film editors
'"Mother Cutter": Verna Fields Mentors a New Generation of Film Directors in the 1970s'
'Precise Feeling: The Editing of Thelma Schoonmaker'
Editing rules from Anne V. Coates
Criterion on the history of women editors
The bar scene from Out of Sight
Why Tarantino wanted a female editor

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The Great British Summer is letting us down so we’re escaping to Italy for a cinematic holiday special. Stops on the trip include Roman Holiday, Call Me By Your Name and The Great Beauty.

References
Audrey Hepburn’s screen test for Roman Holiday, 1953, YouTube
The making of Roman Holiday, YouTube
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

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This week we contemplate plot twists - what works, what doesn't work and the different purposes they can serve. And apologies, this week is spoiler heavy, so if you can, watch before listening:

Psycho (1960) dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
Atonement (2007) dir. by Joe Wright
Parasite (2019) dir. by Bong Joon-ho

References
The Making of Psycho, YouTube
How Hitchcock got people to watch Psycho, YouTube
James McAvoy on Bryony in Atonement: "may she rot in hell", YouTube
Parasite's noodle dish that shows the class divide, metaflix.com

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Here to ride the zeitgeist as far as it will go, we're kicking off series 3 with a Barbenheimer special, having seen both films at 8:15, 18:00, and 00:20 in the same day - please excuse our zombie-ish state of being.

References
Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Greta Gerwig's interview with Simon Mayo

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Taking inspiration from this month's yesteryear issue of New York Magazine, for our final episode of the series, we look at cinema’s role in creating and cataloging the ‘It’ girl.

Films referenced:
It (1927) dir. by Clarence G. Badger
Mahogany (1975) dir. by Berry Gordy
Kids (1995) dir. by Larry Clark
Factory Girl (2006) dir. by George Hickenlooper
Before Sunrise (1995) dir. by Richard Linklater
After Hours (1985) dir. by Martin Scorsese

Sources and resources:
The New York magazine article on ‘It’ girls by Matthew Schneier
151 New York ‘It’ girls
Watch It here
Clara Bow: the hard-partying jazz-baby airbrushed from Hollywood history by Pamela Hutchinson
Watch Mahogany here
Mahogany remembered at 40 by Simon Doonan

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This week we consider unexpected main character-side character dynamics; the supporting parts that outshine the lead (Rizzo in Grease), characters that are both side and main at once (Pulp Fiction) and what it means when the side character was the protagonist the whole time (Fight Club).

Films referenced:
Grease (1979) dir. by Randal Kleiser
Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. by Quentin Tarantino
Fight Club (1999) dir. by David Fincher
Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. by Buster Keaton
My Neighbor Totoro (1989) dir. by Hayao Miyazaki

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There was one woman who had more influence over the look and style of Hollywood’s Golden Age than anyone else: Edith Head. This week we take a closer look at some of our favourite designs from her huge (1000-film-strong) back catalogue and take pointers from one of her self-help style guides, How To Dress For Success.

Films referenced:
Lady In the Dark (1944) dir. by Mitchell Leisen
This Gun for Hire (1942) dir. by Frank Tuttle
To Catch a Thief (1955) dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) dir. by George Roy Hill
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) dir. by Blake Edwards
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (2010) dir. by Craig Teper
G.I. Jane (1997) dir. by Danielle Alexandra

Sources and resources:
1978 interview with Edith Head and her anecdote about ‘borrowing’ students' drawings
Interview with Edith Head being terrifying
Edith Head - The Most Famous Designer (The Paramount Years) - documentary short
Edith Head talks about Audrey Hepburn
‘How Edith Head gave Hollywood its dress sense’, thejc.com 
Contemporary costume designers on the influence of Edith Head by Jazz Tangcay for Variety
You Must Remember This podcast episode #22 Audrey Hepburn: Sex, Style and Sabrina

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