Eavesdropping at the Movies
A podcast by Jose Arroyo and Michael Glass
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429 Episodes
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268 - Small Axe: Alex Wheatle
Published: 05/01/2021 -
267 - Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
Published: 02/01/2021 -
266 - Mank
Published: 30/12/2020 -
265 - The Palm Beach Story
Published: 27/12/2020 -
264 - Small Axe: Lovers Rock
Published: 18/12/2020 -
263 - Small Axe: Mangrove
Published: 16/12/2020 -
262 - A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Published: 26/11/2020 -
261 - The City Without Jews
Published: 22/11/2020 -
260 - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Published: 07/11/2020 -
259 - Love Me Tonight
Published: 05/11/2020 -
258 - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Published: 01/11/2020 -
257 - Antz
Published: 31/10/2020 -
256 - Playtime
Published: 23/10/2020 -
255 - The Shop Around the Corner and You've Got Mail
Published: 15/10/2020 -
254 - L.A. Confidential
Published: 14/10/2020 -
253 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Published: 11/10/2020 -
252 - Tenet - Second Screening
Published: 01/09/2020 -
251 - Tenet
Published: 27/08/2020 -
250 - What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Published: 25/08/2020 -
249 - The Old Guard
Published: 22/08/2020
"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.