Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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429 Episodes

  1. 288 - The Father

    Published: 11/04/2021
  2. 287 - Minari

    Published: 08/04/2021
  3. 286 - Zack Snyder's Justice League

    Published: 06/04/2021
  4. 285 - Nomadland

    Published: 03/04/2021
  5. 284 - Judas and the Black Messiah

    Published: 28/03/2021
  6. 283 - Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    Published: 25/03/2021
  7. 282 - Lapsis

    Published: 21/03/2021
  8. 281 - The Day of the Locust

    Published: 14/03/2021
  9. 280 - A Sun

    Published: 04/03/2021
  10. 279 - Rocky - Part II: The Rocky series

    Published: 28/02/2021
  11. 278 - Rocky - Part I: Rocky

    Published: 27/02/2021
  12. 277 - News of the World

    Published: 19/02/2021
  13. 276 - The Birdcage

    Published: 18/02/2021
  14. 275 - The Garment Jungle

    Published: 16/02/2021
  15. 274 - Citadel

    Published: 15/02/2021
  16. 273 - Suzaki Paradise: Akashingō

    Published: 31/01/2021
  17. 272 - Cool Hand Luke

    Published: 27/01/2021
  18. 271 - Soul

    Published: 20/01/2021
  19. 270 - Wonder Woman 1984

    Published: 12/01/2021
  20. 269 - Small Axe: Education

    Published: 10/01/2021

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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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