Eavesdropping at the Movies

A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass

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429 Episodes

  1. 268 - Small Axe: Alex Wheatle

    Published: 05/01/2021
  2. 267 - Small Axe: Red, White and Blue

    Published: 02/01/2021
  3. 266 - Mank

    Published: 30/12/2020
  4. 265 - The Palm Beach Story

    Published: 27/12/2020
  5. 264 - Small Axe: Lovers Rock

    Published: 18/12/2020
  6. 263 - Small Axe: Mangrove

    Published: 16/12/2020
  7. 262 - A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

    Published: 26/11/2020
  8. 261 - The City Without Jews

    Published: 22/11/2020
  9. 260 - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    Published: 07/11/2020
  10. 259 - Love Me Tonight

    Published: 05/11/2020
  11. 258 - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    Published: 01/11/2020
  12. 257 - Antz

    Published: 31/10/2020
  13. 256 - Playtime

    Published: 23/10/2020
  14. 255 - The Shop Around the Corner and You've Got Mail

    Published: 15/10/2020
  15. 254 - L.A. Confidential

    Published: 14/10/2020
  16. 253 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    Published: 11/10/2020
  17. 252 - Tenet - Second Screening

    Published: 01/09/2020
  18. 251 - Tenet

    Published: 27/08/2020
  19. 250 - What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

    Published: 25/08/2020
  20. 249 - The Old Guard

    Published: 22/08/2020

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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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