Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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430 Episodes

  1. 229 - Fedora

    Published: 15/05/2020
  2. 228 - To Be or Not to Be

    Published: 07/05/2020
  3. 227 - Southland Tales

    Published: 01/05/2020
  4. 226 - Twentieth Century

    Published: 29/04/2020
  5. 225 - Stranger on the Third Floor

    Published: 23/04/2020
  6. 224 - Le Cercle rouge

    Published: 17/04/2020
  7. 223 - Army of Shadows

    Published: 12/04/2020
  8. 222 - Le Doulos

    Published: 08/04/2020
  9. 221 - Un flic

    Published: 06/04/2020
  10. 220 - Commando and Predator

    Published: 03/04/2020
  11. 219 - Bacurau

    Published: 31/03/2020
  12. 218 - Contagion

    Published: 26/03/2020
  13. 217 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Published: 10/03/2020
  14. 216 - Dark Waters

    Published: 02/03/2020
  15. 215 - Queen & Slim

    Published: 24/02/2020
  16. 214 - American Factory

    Published: 22/02/2020
  17. 213 - The Lighthouse

    Published: 14/02/2020
  18. 212 - Parasite

    Published: 10/02/2020
  19. 211 - Birds of Prey

    Published: 10/02/2020
  20. 210 - Uncut Gems

    Published: 31/01/2020

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"I have this romantic idea of the movies as a conjunction of place, people and experiences, all different for each of us, a context in which individual and separate beings try to commune, where the individual experience overlaps with the communal and where that overlapping is demarcated by how we measure the differing responses between ourselves and the rest of the audience: do they laugh when we don’t (and what does that mean?); are they moved when we feel like laughing (and what does that say about me or the others) etc. The idea behind this podcast is to satiate the urge I sometimes have when I see a movie alone – to eavesdrop on what others say. What do they think? How does their experience compare to mine? Snippets are overhead as one leaves the cinema and are often food for thought. A longer snippet of such an experience is what I hope to provide: it’s two friends chatting immediately after a movie. It’s unrehearsed, meandering, slightly convoluted, certainly enthusiastic, and well informed, if not necessarily on all aspects a particular work gives rise to, certainly in terms of knowledge of cinema in general and considerable experience of watching different types of movies and watching movies in different types of ways. It’s not a review. It’s a conversation." - José Arroyo. "I just like the sound of my own voice." - Michael Glass.

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