Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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430 Episodes

  1. 209 - Bombshell

    Published: 26/01/2020
  2. 208 - 1917

    Published: 21/01/2020
  3. 207 - Long Day's Journey into Night

    Published: 19/01/2020
  4. 206 - The Gentlemen

    Published: 17/01/2020
  5. 205 - Jojo Rabbit

    Published: 09/01/2020
  6. 204 - Little Women (2019)

    Published: 07/01/2020
  7. 203 - Star Wars Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

    Published: 05/01/2020
  8. 202 - Cats

    Published: 22/12/2019
  9. 201 - Marriage Story

    Published: 21/12/2019
  10. 199 - The Report

    Published: 17/12/2019
  11. 198 - Harriet

    Published: 16/12/2019
  12. 197 - Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

    Published: 14/12/2019
  13. 200 – Luis Ospina on MUBI – The Vampires of Poverty, A Paper Tiger, and It All Started at the End

    Published: 13/12/2019
  14. 196 - Knives Out

    Published: 11/12/2019
  15. 195 - Le Mans '66

    Published: 27/11/2019
  16. 194 - Permission

    Published: 24/11/2019
  17. 193 - The Irishman

    Published: 22/11/2019
  18. 192 - Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

    Published: 21/11/2019
  19. 191 - Monos

    Published: 20/11/2019
  20. 190 - Sorry We Missed You

    Published: 05/11/2019

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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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