Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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430 Episodes

  1. 389 - Empire of Light

    Published: 15/02/2023
  2. 388 - The Fabelmans

    Published: 08/02/2023
  3. 387 - Babylon

    Published: 06/02/2023
  4. 386 - Tár

    Published: 19/01/2023
  5. 385 - Till

    Published: 18/01/2023
  6. 384 - Avatar: The Way of Water - Second Screening

    Published: 07/01/2023
  7. 383 - Matilda the Musical

    Published: 06/01/2023
  8. 382 - Corsage

    Published: 03/01/2023
  9. 381 - Avatar: The Way of Water

    Published: 31/12/2022
  10. 380 - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

    Published: 09/12/2022
  11. 379 - The Old Dark House

    Published: 05/12/2022
  12. 378 - The Menu

    Published: 25/11/2022
  13. 377 - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Published: 14/11/2022
  14. 376 - Bros

    Published: 03/11/2022
  15. 375 - The Banshees of Inisherin

    Published: 27/10/2022
  16. 374 - Amsterdam

    Published: 25/10/2022
  17. 373 - Smile

    Published: 21/10/2022
  18. 372 - Don't Worry Darling

    Published: 13/10/2022
  19. 371 - Beast

    Published: 07/09/2022
  20. 370 - Nope

    Published: 18/08/2022

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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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